# What's the dumbest thing you've seen on a product? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907 "2003-01-21T00:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907/61 "2003-01-25T01:25:17Z")
I have a packet of… something I bought at an asian grocery. It’s labeled “Indispensable Condiment”. I’m afraid to open it. Similarly, I have “Lemon Solid Drink” and “Sheep Soul”. I’m very afraid to open the “Sheep Soul” for fear of ghostly ewes and rams wandering my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![TyrC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@TyrC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TyrC)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907/62 "2003-01-25T02:40:43Z")
You ever really read the back of a jug of Antifreeze? It warns you that it’s not intended for drinking! I believe this is something all intelligent people should already know! If you have to be told not to buy your refreshing beverages at the local auto parts store then I have no sympathy for you. TyrC! ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907/63 "2003-01-25T03:02:32Z")
- Posted by racekarl \* > [@](#): > > My wife bought a package of those long fireplace matches that had a sticker annoucing “Matches are extremely flammable!” I kinda see the sense behind this one. Given the right conditions, matches can spontaneously combust. At the museum in which I work, we have to remove all of the matches from the matchbooks before we store them to prevent this. - Posted by Smashed Ice Cream: \* > [@](#): > > “Remove the last tampon you use at the end of your menstrual cycle.” This was an honest-to-god problem at one time, (granted, it was years and years ago) but women would actually leave the last tampon in place and then get horrible infections as a result. The book I read this in did not say whether they had simply forgotten to remove it, or had left it in for a reason, but the warning was added as a result, and the company must figure it’s “better safe than sorry” and have never removed it. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907/64 "2003-01-25T20:00:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by martin\_ibn\_martin \* > \*\*My wife has this thingy for doing hair. kind of a foot long plastic hair pin. I believe it’s meant to do some kinda fancy braids. > > It somes in a paper sleeve, like chopsticks. The sleeve bears the helpful warning “For external use only” She brought it to a Douglas Adams book signing in Seattle and got his sig. > > He said, “You’re a very sick woman.” and “Americans.” in an exhasperated voice as she walked away. > > hehe \*\* Heh, I loved Wonko The Sane too… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907/65 "2003-01-30T11:37:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phnord Prephect \* > \*\*Cover the ones you love with cheese. \*\* I can just see myself bringing a pot of melted cheese into the bedroom: “Okay, sweetie, I think it’s cooled off enough now…You might want to take your glasses off before I start!” ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907/66 "2003-01-30T12:00:19Z")
On a package of screws I bought, it said in big red letters “SCREWS”. Yeah, like I wouldn’t recognize a screw when I saw one. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907/67 "2003-01-30T12:09:35Z")
On Johnson’s Baby Bar: **Safety Tip:** Keep out of reach of children. Um. Is this ordinance or something? It IS supposed to be safe for kids use. So why the **Safety Tip**? Unless they’re trying to hide something more _sinister_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-seen-on-a-product/149907.md?page=3)