Re: accuracy in packaging

[Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>]

In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com writes:
>| My favorite is the instructions on a box of Q-Tips (R) that tell you to
>| not stick one in your ear.  That had to have been written by someone in
>| the legal department.
>| 
>| From:	Sanjay Srikonda [SMTP:SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com]
>| 
>| um, has anyone read a container (box) of toothpicks and the instructions
>| "Insert flat end in mouth and use"
>| 
>

In Douglas Adams' _So Long and Thanks for All the Fish_, 
one of the characters explains that he decided to become 
a hermit and became convinced that he was the only one 
"outside the Asylum" when he read the following:

"Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in 
mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle 
in-out motion."

"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that 
had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed 
instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a 
civilization in which I could live and stay sane."

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