From Instagram user godspeedjc, who asks: Was this notice written by their legal department?
Posts Tagged ‘wacky warnings’
Honesty in labeling: “It’s vinegar and peppers, for God’s sake.”
A refreshingly candid label on Gringo Bandito sauce: “Hot Sauce really doesn’t have nutritional value. It’s vinegar and peppers, for God’s sake. What did you expect? Why are you even trying to determine the nutritional value of hot sauce? Just enjoy it!” [via Google Images and Hot Sauce Blog, which transcribes the whole “warning”] (& welcome Investor’s Business Daily readers)
Great moments in warnings
From the United Kingdom:
Big thanks to @BekoUK for the useful advice pic.twitter.com/skGeNiiqt5
— Katie Martin (@KMartUK) December 3, 2014
It may already be too late
[John Farrier, “Alarming Signs from the Dresden Public Art Show,” Neatorama, more]
Speaking of warnings, Ted Frank’s observation on this…. exotic Hallowe’en costume is, “The warning is critical.”
Steps
Thanks to Australia’s Tortylicious Facebook stream for this warning sign. As commenter Alexander Cohen notes, the “Sign” sign is missing.
More: Lowering the Bar (“The similar sign at the top is just slightly less ridiculous, because gravity.”)
A warning sign
Making the rounds, from Reddit: “Please do not enter the dangerous area beyond this gate! You quite possibly will be hurt, then you will sue. … [This sign] will be ‘Exhibit 1’.”
“Get rid of children”
Bob Dorigo Jones has a winner in his 2014 Wacky Warning Labels Contest. [Let’s Be Fair!, earlier] My own favorite of this year’s entrants, a warning that peel-and-stick sports decals do not themselves provide protection against injury, placed third.
Don’t drink the ink; also, sports decals don’t provide safety protection
Bob Dorigo Jones’s 2014 Wacky Warning Labels Contest has its five finalists.
“The Disclosure Debates: Food and Product Labeling”
Last fall the editors of the Vermont Law Review were kind enough to invite me to participate in a discussion on food and product labeling, part of a day-long conference “The Disclosure Debates” with panels on environmental, financial, and campaign disclosure. Other panelists included Christine DeLorme of the Federal Trade Commission, Division of Advertising Practices; Brian Dunkiel, Dunkiel Saunders; George Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety; and David Zuckerman, Vermont State Senator and Farmer, Full Moon Farm.
Aside from my own segment above, you can find links to the other segments here. Plus: Environmental Health (VLS) summary of above panel.
On a computer case
An amusing guarantee/waiver, via @fourgreenis on Twitter.