Warning: This Column Might Give You Something to Think About: a review of the book Remove Child Before Folding (via JunkScience.com)A new book of real-life product labels reveals that the possibility of satire is, alas, vanishing.
If you order a drink at a dockside bar, it may come with a little cocktail napkin printed with a map of the local harbor. A friend recently passed along one of these on which was emblazoned the stern warning, “Not to Be Used for Navigation.” I can only say that if you are trying to land your dory or skiff with the aid of a cocktail napkin in the first place, you are probably far beyond the reach of any warning from the rest of us.
I still laugh every time I seem the omni-present signs, "In case of fire, do not use elevators. Use stairs." In the University of Alabama biology building, someone scratched out "stairs" and wrote in "water."
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