Dave,

and if the judges would convict lawyers and their clients for "stupid, no-
common-sense" law-suits, they wouldn't happen and maybe people would start
using whats usually inside their head. Its called a brain. If they don't
tough luck.

Michael



On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:36:26 -0800, Dave Oksner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Just a couple of complains about this entry (not that you wrote it; I've
>seen most of these before; it's even mentioned on snopes.com).
>
>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:20:26PM -0500, Michael Baier wrote:
>> In Honor of Stupid People
><snip>
>>
>> On Boot's Children Cough Medicine -- "Do not drive a car or operate
>> machinery after taking this medication."
>> (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of constru ction accidents if we
>> could just get those 5-year-olds with head-colds off those forklifts.)
>
>Yeah, well, just because it says that it's for Children doesn't prevent
>adults from taking it.  And if you don't have the warnings, the lawsuits
>will follow...
>
>> On Sainsbury's peanuts -- "Warning: contains nuts."
>> (talk about a news flash)
>
>Except that peanuts aren't nuts.  They're legumes.  So if you're alergic
>to nuts, but not peanuts, this is potentially life-saving information.
>
>The reverse is true of the Costco jar of "Extra Fancy Mixed Nuts."  It
proudly
>proclaimed "no peanuts" on the front, but on the back, the ingredients
>listed peanut oil (for the roasting).  Someone alergic to peanuts might
>not realize that the info on the front was to indicate quality ("no cheap
>peanuts were used as filler") and think that it was alergy info.  This
>is no longer a part of the packaging and specific alergy info has been
>added to the back.
>
>Dave
>
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