Product Warnings Just Kill Me!

abigailnus abigailnus at yahoo.com
Tue May 13 15:44:55 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc" <pengolodh_sc at y...> 
> On an American Airlines packet of nuts:
> "Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts."
> (Step 3: maybe, uh... fly another airline?)

This reminds me of the scene in Douglas Adams's So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish in 
which the heroes go to visit a famous recluse, who has built himself a house that is 
inside out - all the furniture is outdoors and the garden is inside.  When they ask him 
about it, he explains that the entire world is a mental asylum, and he and his wife live 
outside it.  He further says that he realised the entire world was insane upon reading 
instructions on a package of dental floss.

Sad to think that this is yet another thing that Adams didn't make up.

Abigail





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