Re: accuracy in packaging

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>]

Sanjay Srikonda wrote:
> 
> um, has anyone read a container (box) of toothpicks and the instructions
> "Insert flat end in mouth and use"
> 
> I'm very glad they pointed this out to me, until I chose to read the
> instructions I kept sticking the things into my eye, now well, the mystery
> is all cleared up.
> 
> Of course, nothing gets to me more than "New and Improved"  which always
> leads me to the question was the previous version "Old and Crappy"?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emru Townsend [mailto:etownsen -at- Softimage -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 1:27 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: accuracy in packaging
> 
> Mandy,
> 
> You'll find that on any chocolate or peanut-based confection now -- even
> cans of peanuts.  It's overkill, but then there's no underestimating
> stupidity, is there?
> <snip>


Better yet. Suppository packaging reminds you to remove the suppository
from the wrapper before insertion. (That reminder grew out of a lawsuit
from someone who was injured when they did not first remove it from the
tin foil wrapping. The theory of liability was improper instructions.) 

-- 
Peter

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved
promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, 
by either suicide, a bag of gold, 
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night. 
Ernest Bramah (Kai Lung stories)