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Wearing of This Garment Does Not Enable You to Fly : 101 Real Dumb Warning Labels

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We all know that there is a plethora of items out there with ridiculous warning labels on them. Everything from the hair dryer that warns you not to use it while in the shower to the contraceptive jelly that warns against ingestion. This is the litigious nature of our society. Some of the warnings in this book are truly funny, a few will get a chuckle out of you, but most are just kind of blah. More fun is to go out and find the ludicrous warnings yourself and then try to imagine the person/people to whom these warnings are directed. It will likely make you wonder how the human race has survived this long and just how much longer we can make it.

I brought this book for my reading while on the "porcelain throne" collection. I thought this book would be hilarious. In all actuality its kind of corny. It has 1 warning per page and just overall was a waste of my money. I mean some of them are funny. But out of 101, i skimmed through it in one sitting, laughing at probably 5 at most. I guess i expected too much from this book when i ordered it

I was glad to purchase this book. Condition was great, and I read over it in my class. The students got a kick out of it.

This book offers a few laughs and memorable Warning Labels, but is too short to really be enjoyable. Some of the Labels are cute, and you can spend time wondering who actaully did some of the ridiculous stuff in there, but the book ends far too soon. You get about 30 good lables out of the 101, that's about it. I read through it in about 20 minutes, then gave it as a gift the next day.

I borrowed this book from the library expecting a lot more. Too much more, maybe. It reads like one of those meditation-a-day style books with a meditation (dumb label) on each page and really isn't very funny. Sure, there were a few good cracks on really dumb labels, but for the mostpart I felt that the authors were far reaching into labels that had every right to be attached to the particular product. I found myself thinking.. "What's wrong with that?" and "I understand why they have that label there".

Who knows.. maybe I've become immune to labels in a country where everyone is suing everyone else!