The wire service reports on this year’s M-LAW competition (see Jan. 4) (David N. Goodman, “Keep People Out of Wash, Label Warns”, AP/MyWay.com, Jan. 5). Aside from the ones mentioned by Ted the other day, a notable entry was the second-prize winner, found on a personal watercraft, “Never use a lit match or open flame to check fuel level”. Burma-Shave got there decades earlier:
He lit a match/
To check gas tank/
That’s why/
They call him/
Skinless Frank
Bob Dorigo Jones’ new book Remove Child Before Folding is here.
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I have seen several ridiculous warning labels, one on a ROUTER: NOT TO BE USED AS DENTAL TOOL and a ROTARY SNOW BLOWER: DO NOT USE ON ROOF