At this very moment, the digital thermometer in the hall reads 1 degree F.
Hee.
The Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch (M-LAW) holds an annual Wacky Warning Labels contest as a way of underscoring the heights of silliness to which lawsuit worries have driven us. They usually come up with some pretty funny entries, but to me, this one takes the cake for CYA (but really, would this even be legally defensible?):
Found on a bottle of drain cleaner: "If you do not understand, or cannot read, all directions, cautions and warnings, do not use this product."
HA.
From Reuter's newswire today:
(http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4111495)
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A Truly, Truly Bizarre Story
Mon January 12, 2004 10:19 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts.
The store replaced the computer free of charge but became suspicious when he returned a short time later with another potato-filled computer casing, police in the western city of Kaiserslautern said Monday.
"The second time he said he didn't need a computer any more and asked for his money back in cash," a police spokesman said.
Police are now investigating the man for fraud.
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Potato *clocks*, okay, but potato computers...? Wait! Pomme de terre... maybe he was trying to pass it off as an "Apple" knockoff? ::grin::
Greetings from Mars, wish you were here! The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has sent its very first hi-res *color* shots back from Mars... vacation postcards from another planet! I don't quite know why this is so thrilling to me... I mean, I'm not there (thank goodness, it's cold enough *here*, thanks), and it's just a big, red, rubbly desert... but it's a big, red, rubbly desert on *Mars*! It's one thing to see that reddish twinkle on the horizon, and another entirely to look at its surface up close. The most amusing aspect of this, though, is how they sent 3D images of the surface... they're stereo 3D, so today there were rooms full of reporters and noted scientists wearing funky red-and-blue glasses in cheap paper frames.
