BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 04:39 PM

Well before hand-held radar guns etc, a speed trap would be a policeman timing you over a set distance, from the top of the hill to that tree, or something of that order. Calling a man with a watch a detection device is a bit over the top....

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Becca72
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 12:50 PM

I visited a friend in Georgia years ago and saw signs everywhere warning "Speed detected by detection device".

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 07:59 AM

Sign on our office toilet door:
'WET FLOOR WHEN CLEANING!'

Suitable responses: 'I always do, it seems to get cleaner that way!' Or maybe, 'If I didn't wet the floor, it wouldn.t need cleaning!'

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 04:44 AM

So maybe I should start wearing a warning label, especially when in Les Barker or Spooky Men gigs....?

Suggestions anyone?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 12:20 PM

from yesterday's Washington Post :

"WARNING: Do not read this newspaper while driving a motor vehicle, operating machinery or piloting an aircraft. Do not read newspaper over an open flame. Do not hold newspaper close to face while smoking a cigar the size of a billy club. Do not use newspaper as a flotation device. Newspaper may be harmful if taken internally. Reading newspaper articles may cause irritation, nausea, drowsiness, uncontrollable laughter, weeping, cynicism, confusion, depression or existential despair. Keep out of reach of children.

Okay, you've been warned. Now we can proceed to the article at hand, which is about warning labels."


clicky

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 08:53 AM

I try, but they keep following me.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Happy
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 07:18 AM

Good advice included on warning label on cigarette lighter:

'keep away from children'!

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 10:12 PM

It is also 'better English' as I was taught in school... :-)

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 12:28 PM

or even instructions: .............

But if we are being pedantic (and never let it be said I was not), it would be more instructive to have read

Keep these instructions

it is shorter and more precise.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:52 PM

That should read

"Intstructions: do not throw away."

:-)

And they say Punctuation is not important!

'Ceaser entered on his head'...

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:20 AM

electric blanket instruction

Intstructions, do not throw away.

(OK OK we know what they mean but it ain't plain (english) English.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Bert
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 12:51 AM

Roller mechanism gets to end of the clean roll... Kinda like that song "When you come to the end of a lollipop"

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 09:42 PM

Roller towel scenario:

Roller mechanism gets to end of the clean roll, and won't move any more. The last-used portion is still exposed, of course, and others come along and use the still-wet and maybe infected dirty cloth towel. The careless user gets whatever it is.   Improper use, surely.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 09:14 PM

I think, Charmion, your last question merits a thread on its own!

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,Charmion at work
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 07:28 PM

In New York and Pennsylvania, I have visited public washrooms that featured linen roller towels with the most extravagant warning signs I have ever seen for an object made of cloth: "Improper use could potentially lead to injury and/or death."

Some questions:

1. How do you injure (let alone kill) yourself with a linen towel that is rolled up inside a metal box so you can get your hands on only about 18 inches of it?

2. Does the tautology "could potentially" make the warning powerful enough to forestall "improper use"?

3. What are the improper uses of a linen roller towel?

Charmion

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 03:04 AM

I had a Pal [Johnny, now deceased] who took impish delight in suggesting to tourists in the Highlands that we had dangerous sabre-tooth sheep on the high moors. He added weight to his assertions by pointing out the roadside notices--"Beware of the Sheep". Can't be sure that too many were fear-stricken, mind you----

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Happy
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 11:42 AM

Seen on Gents toilet wall at recent festival, 'WET FLOOR'

Don't know if this was warning or instruction!

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: LadyJean
Date: 01 Jun 04 - 12:56 AM

From the "Squirting Spouting Dolphin" I gave my sister several Chritmasses ago, "After playing the dolphin the batteries must be removed out." I bought the thing, partly for the instructions.

From the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, for their annual sale:
Whatever the Date
Is whatever you save
On everything
But Burma Shave

Written, of course, on a series of small, brown, signs. I don't think they really sell Burma Shave.

Re. lawsuits. I come from a long line of attorneys. One of the three pieces of legal advice I give out is, Next time your dog bites somebody, you can sue them for trying to poison your dog. Good luck finding a lawyer who will take your case, and a judge who won't throw it out of court, but you can try.
Some years back a lady claimed that an elderly cat at a local stationary store had scratched her, and she would require plastic surgery. The case was tossed out after 30 minutes, and the cat's defense fund, to which I was a significant contributer, went to local animal charities. The cat got a write up in "People" and became a celebrity feline.
His successor, Phineas Fogg scratched me. I was tickling his tummy at the time, so the scratch was entirely justified. Besides, I haven't been without a cat scratch, somewhere, since I was 7.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,sethw
Date: 31 May 04 - 01:24 PM

In olympia washington,on the department of information systems (DIS)
building downtown, there is a door upon which is written "THIS IS
NOT A DOOR"   What is it then?

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: JennyO
Date: 30 May 04 - 10:54 PM

On the inside lid of my washing machine, there is a list of "Points to Note". This one is really cosmic, man:

If machine is connected to cold water supply only, all washes and rinses will be cold.

Duhhhh........

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 May 04 - 05:55 AM

Thank you sir Richard Guest

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 23 May 04 - 05:57 PM

those was funny georiansliver

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 May 04 - 03:34 AM

Outside many large Hospitals in the UK there are signs which say "WARNING! Guard Dogs Operating"....Who does the anaesthetics I wonder?.
As you enter the Airport to fly to your Holiday destination...you may be frightened of flying...what is the last sign you see..."TERMINAL"

Oh and when you buy your next pack of toilet rolls...please check to see if they are "100%recycled".......wonder who used the paper before.
Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Pogo
Date: 22 May 04 - 04:57 PM

My personal favorites

Food product must be cooked prior to eating: on a frozen chicken pot pie

And an advertisement I saw for celebrity impersonator. " Only the best are imitated "

{OP

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 May 04 - 02:29 PM

Joe F - Actually, in many US areas, trespassing is a criminal offense, although usually at a fairly minor misdemeanor level. The "hook" in it is that by making the tresspass criminal, the "undesirable things you might do while trespassing can be more easily prosecuted, so any "enforcement" usually hinges more on what you do there than on just being there.

Mr Happy - Some years ago we got a ZIP drive to add to a PC. The thing came with a complete installation, operation, and service manual - on a ZIP disk that you couldn't read until you completed the installation. The only other instruction was a card that said "See Manual for Installation."

In the "prevailing ignorance" category, the ubiquitous and irritating

"Express Line, 12 Items or Less"

was pleasantly relieved by the one grocery chain that diplayed a correct

"Express Line, 12 Items or Fewer."

The chain has been merged, and on my recent visit I note that it's now

"Express Line, About 12 Items."

Mustn't offend. But what do they want me to know about those twelve items?

John

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 May 04 - 11:26 AM

I have read in a reliable place that it is usually incorrect to put up signs that say "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted". Tresspassing is ordinarily a civil rather than a criminal offense; the signs should say "Trespassers Will Be Sued".

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Happy
Date: 22 May 04 - 09:18 AM

We recently had a new washing machine delivered.

On the outside, the machine had a warning label saying ' Do not connect to mains power or operate before reading instructions!'

There weren't any instructions in the packaging but I could see through the glass door some direction leaflets.

I couldn't get the door open, so I phoned the retailer for advice, gaining the response, 'you have to plug it in to open the door!'

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: rangeroger
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 10:49 PM

In a port-potty, "Please remain seated while bowels are in motion".

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Amos
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 10:46 PM

Seems to me I could have used that line in dealing with certain partners in ages past, Rapaire!! LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 10:03 PM

In the manual of a chainsaw:
Do not attempt to stop the blade with your hand.

Stamped on the barrel of a .22 calibre rifle:
Warning: Misuse may cause injury or death.

Instructions for an electric thermometer:
Do not use orally after using rectally.

I particularily like the last one.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 04:09 PM

My mother always liked the roads with a center lane with curved arrows, and the signs announcing "Left Turn Only Both Directions."

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Phot
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 04:02 PM

On reading the instruction manual for my latest Nikon camera, "Do not place neck strap around neck, it may cause strangulation".

"Hai omi san"!

Chris:)

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: DMcG
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 01:35 PM

My daughter recently borrowed a book from the library in which the main character came into conflict with the [real-life] Kray twins. Naturally the book carried the disclaimer that any resemblance to real persons living or dead was purely coincidental. ("Yes, I did describe a character called Ronald Kray as a London gangster in the late sixties purely by chance" ...)

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: The O'Meara
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 12:22 PM

Many years ago I was shopping for a shirt at a discount store in Minneapolis and I ran across one with a label that read

65% recycled fibers
20% unknown fibers
10% miscellanouus
5% other

I was afraid to touch the shirt after that so I didn't buy it, but I did swipe that label.

O'Meara

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 04:07 AM

talking of omnibuses, there's an open topped double decker city tour bus in my town.

boldly displayed on the outside of is the instruction 'Hop on-Hop Off' .

does this mean you can only board or depart the bus by standing on one leg & jumping?

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Gareth
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 07:14 PM

And whatever happened to that British Legal Maxim

The test was - "The man on the Clapham Ominbus "

BTW ( UK Catters )- No Ron jokes !!!

Gareth - from Caerphilly.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 07:01 PM

I once had a bag of nuts with the warning: "If salted, contains salt."

Many years ago, the office I worked in bought a microfilm reader. We opened the carton, gingerly removed various delicate-looking components and spread them on a table, and then, at the bottom of the box, found a list of Instructions for Unpacking. The first instruction was to turn the carton upside down and open the bottom. There were no such instructions on the outside of the carton. The Silly Sixties evidently infected even Eastman Kodak!

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 04:04 AM

i'm a keen gardener & grow lots of stuff from seed.

instructions on seed packets are often ambiguous 'when seedlings are 1 inch high, stand outside for a few days'.

how long do i have to stand outside? can i sit down?

any more?

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 08:30 PM

LOL..no, John hates things that whirr and grind, That's the problem!....he'd prefer scotch tape and glue.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 08:26 PM

Well, Rapaire, I can see jOhn9 using a router for dental work.....

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Amos
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 08:18 PM

Thank god something finally superseded them!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,dept. of CYWAP
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 07:40 PM

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Always remember this valuable maxim:
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This supersedes all previous notices.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Ghirotondo
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 07:04 PM

There was a signpost on a T intersection near Siena, Italy, with an arrow pointing to the left saying "ALL DIRECTIONS" and the other, pointing to the right, saying "OTHER DIRECTIONS".
You'll never know... you could find yourself in the twilight zone!

Ghiro

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,cittern
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 02:12 PM

I seem to remember a sign on a rural post office saying:

"Please do not lean bicycles, cars or camels against this window"

Imagine that .... a rural post office.

Best regards
John Robinson
http://www.JulieEllison.co.uk

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 08:18 AM

There was a wood router that contained a warning that it was not to be used for medical or dental procedures.

And in a public toilet a warning appeared against drinking the water in the toilet bowls.

Many
exist. It makes you wonder, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 07:23 AM

A man who had in March ordered a Credit Card was surprised to received a bill for his unused card stating that he owed £0.00. He ignored it and threw it away.

In April he received another and threw that one away too. The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them £0.00 by return of post. He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer error and told him they'd take care of it.

The following month he decided that it was about time that he tried out the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous predicament. However, in the first store that he produced his credit card in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been cancelled. He called the credit card company who apologised for the computer error once again and said that they would take care of it.

The next day he got a bill for £0.00 stating that payment was now overdue. Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only the previous day the latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it, trusting that the company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out.

The next month he got a bill for £0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt.

Finally giving in, he thought he would play the company at their own game and mailed them a cheque for £0.00. The computer duly processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the credit card company nothing at all.

A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing writing a cheque for £0.00. After a lengthy explanation the bank replied that the £0.00 cheque had caused their cheque processing software to fail. The bank could not now process ANY cheques from ANY of their customers that day because the cheque for £0.00 was causing the computer to crash.

The following month the man received a letter from the credit card company claiming that his cheque had bounced and that he now owed them £0.00 and unless he sent a cheque by return of post they would be taking steps to recover the debt. True!

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Sibelius
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 06:05 AM

There's a notice frequently seen on petrol pumps (in the UK at least -guess they'd be gas pumps 'over there') which says:

"SWITCH OFF ALL MOBILE PHONES"

Well, don't own one myself, but hang on for a few years while I run round switching off everyone else's...

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: Genie
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 02:45 AM

LMAO, Mooman! Thanks for posting those.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 11:21 PM

I have carefully avoided drinking the ink in my printer refills thanks to the label warning. BUT finally understand why a teaspoon of instant coffee turns microwave boiled water into a volcano. Damn! I could have sued.

Subject: RE: BS: Ridiculous Warnings and Announcements
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 07:59 PM

Whether "Just Say No to Drugs" in itself is ridiculous or not can be argued, I suppose, but whether you think it helps or doesn't, I have always felt that the perforated rubber mat that keeps people from flushing ciggie butts et al down public urinals is an EXTREMELY (wrong thread, sorry) weird place to put that admonition. Did some psychiatrist determine that people are more open to suggestion when urinating, or did some marketing guru in the pay of a urinal-mat maker decide that he could up sales by killing two birds with one piece of rubber? Bizarre.

CC