RE: New TECHWR-L Question

[Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>]

Barry Kieffer <Barry -dot- Kieffer -at- worldwidepackets -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Most of the notes, cautions, and warnings I have been asked to put in
> manuals were silly at best:
>
>  Do not stick your fingers into the fan.
>  Do not insert a Zipp disk into the floppy disk drive.
>  Do not ride on the instrumentation while in transport.
>  This plastic bag is not a toy.
>

To see warnings taken to their illogical extreme, check out 
"A Call for More Scientific Truth in Product Warning Labels," 
by Susan Hewitt and Edward Subitzky from the gone-but-not-forgotten 
_Journal of Irreproducible Results_, at 

http://www.physics.uwo.ca/~harwood/humor14.html

Really, if you've never run across this, do treat yourself.

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