Little known fact.

One of my deepest small pleasures in life are Warning Labels.

I love to read all the ridiculous things they say. And some of the pictures amuse me to no end. I really wish I could just take pictures of them all. Because seriously ... they make me laugh like no other.

In my mind, I read them out loud with a very DOOMsdayish voice. Like IMPENDING DOOM! Cause there really isnt any other way to read em.

Two old ones come to mind, image-wise.

I knew someone who bought a curling iron. On the instructions, it had an image of someone poking themselves in the eye with a hot curling iron. Yes. poking. in the eye! Who knew that this was not *proper* use of a hot piece of metal? Thanks Guys!

On the green plastic bag for the original XBox. There was a picture of a baby with the bag over its head. This had the slashed-circle graphic (aka NO!) around it. Yes. No Babies with dey Heads Inna BAG!!! (Again, thanks guys.)

I was reminded of this today when I saw the warning label of a blowdryer. It says in all caps:

" 'UNPLUG IT!' DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG! WARN CHILDREN OF THE RISK OF DEATH BY ELECTRIC SHOCK!"

In my mind, I pictured myself running around on a playground, franctically screaming to all the children, "ELECTRIC SHOCK! Warning! Its a RISK!!!! OF DEATH!"

And then I looked at the image. A hairdryer, plugged in, and floating above a tub of water. A big red slash through both. Apparently, levitating hairdryers and bathtubs should be nowhere near each other. Especially if said levitating hairdryer has squiqqly lines around it.

Yes. I am amused.