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  • LCHIEN
    Internet Fact Checker
    • Dec 2002
    • 21071
    • Katy, TX, USA.
    • BT3000 vintage 1999

    Product warnings

    this has been around a few times (not here) but its one of my favorites:

    Physics product warnings - what lawyers would write if they understood quantum physics.


    WARNING: This product warps space and time in its vicinity.
    WARNING: This product attracts every other piece if matter in the universe, including the products of other manufacturers, with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them.
    CAUTION: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
    HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE: This product contains minute electrically charged particles moving at velocities in excess of five hundred million miles per hour.
    CONSUMER NOTICE: Because of the ``uncertainty principle,'' it is impossible for the consumer to find out at the same time both precisely where this product is and how fast it is moving.
    ADVISORY: There is an extremely small but nonzero chance that, through a process known as ``tunneling,'' this product may spontaneously disappear from its present location and reappear at any random place in the universe, including your neighbor's domicile. The manufacturer will not be responsible for any damages or inconveniences that may result.
    READ THIS BEFORE OPENING PACKAGE: According to certain suggested versions of the Grand Unified Theory, the primary particles constituting this product may decay to nothingness within the next four hundred million years.
    THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the unlikely event that this merchandise should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic explosion will result.
    PUBLIC NOTICE AS REQUIRED BY LAW: Any use of this product, in any manner whatsoever, will increase the amount of disorder in the universe. Although no liability is implied herein, the consumer is warned that this process will ultimately lead to the heat death of the universe.
    NOTE: The most fundamental particles in this product are held together by a ``gluing'' force about which little is currently known and whose adhesive power can therefore not be permanently guaranteed.
    ATTENTION: Despite any other listing of product contents found herein, the consumer is advised that, in actuality, this product consists of 99.9999999999% empty space.
    NEW GRAND UNIFIED THEORY DISCLAIMER: The manufacturer may technically be entitled to claim that this product is ten-dimensional. However, the consumer is reminded that this confers no legal rights above and beyond those applicable to three-dimensional objects, since the seven new dimensions are ``rolled up'' into such a small ``area'' that they cannot be detected.
    PLEASE NOTE: Some quantum physics theories suggest that when the consumer is not directly observing this product, it may cease to exist or will exist only in a vague and undetermined state.
    COMPONENT EQUIVALENCY NOTICE: The subatomic particles (electrons, protons, etc.) comprising this product are exactly the same in every measurable respect as those used in the products of other manufacturers, and no claim to the contrary may legitimately be expressed or implied.
    HEALTH WARNING: Care should be taken when lifting this product, since its mass, and thus its weight, is dependent on its velocity relative to the user. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PURCHASERS: The entire physical universe, including this product, may one day collapse back into an infinitesimally small space. Should another universe subsequently re-emerge, the existence of this product in that universe cannot be guaranteed.
    Loring in Katy, TX USA
    If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
    BT3 FAQ - https://www.sawdustzone.org/forum/di...sked-questions
  • just4funsies
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2005
    • 843
    • Florida.
    • BT3000

    #2
    That reminds me of a manufacturer's product recall notice I got one day when I was doing electronic repair work. The problem with the product was that a diode in the power supply circuit was rated too low, and when shorted, it would feed AC current, rather than DC, to a C-Cell sized capacitor, which would immediately EXPLODE. By the time the manufacturer's lawyers finished with the recall notice, the word "explode" had been replaced with "fail with great malice".
    ...eight, nine, TEN! Yep! Still got all my fingers!

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    • jdschulteis
      Established Member
      • Mar 2003
      • 139
      • Muskego, Wisconsin, USA.
      • Ryobi BT3100

      #3
      My favorite real product warning is from my Craftsman-branded Dremel, the manual for which warns that the product is not for dental use.
      Jerry

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      • scorrpio
        Veteran Member
        • Dec 2005
        • 1566
        • Wayne, NJ, USA.

        #4
        Every Dremel (including mine, non-Craftsman) has a 'not for dental work' warning. Funny enough my uncle, who is a dental tech, uses an assortment of Dremels in making of various inlays, crowns, dentures, etc. He does not treat the patients, he just makes the pieces for dentist to install - but it can sill be considered 'dental work'.

        At some point in not so distant future, quantum computers will become available. (scary stuff, btw, these things can crack top modern encryption schemes like peanuts) Will be interesting to see the warnings on those...

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        • ErikS
          Established Member
          • Jan 2003
          • 214
          • Woodbridge, VA, USA.

          #5
          I think my favorite is still the one on decorative lights

          For indoor and outdoor use only

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