Seen in Print

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I bet that sign is required by some law or regulation.

More than likely it's by the store's legal office to cover liability....

[AFTP375]

I bet that sign is required by some law or regulation.

More than likely it's by the store's legal office to cover liability....

Mock it as you wish, gentlemen, and I can see the humor.

But as someone who is deathly allergic to those things (multiple trips to ERs over the years) it kinda hits close to home.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I bet that sign is required by some law or regulation.

More than likely it's by the store's legal office to cover liability....

Mock it as you wish, gentlemen, and I can see the humor.
But as someone who is deathly allergic to those things (multiple trips to ERs over the years) it kinda hits close to home.

Can you "see the humor," sir? I'm not sure you do. That is, I am absolutely certain that nobody who made reference to that picture was making light of allergies or mocking any one of them in particular. I am certain the mildly amused responses were focused upon the wording of the sign, i.e. those items (shells) do not simply contain peanuts; rather, they ARE peanuts, including the shells. After all , the title of the thread is, "Seen in print." I suppose it would be analogous to having such a sign on a case of bananas still in their peel/rind/skins.
See?
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I bet that sign is required by some law or regulation.

More than likely it's by the store's legal office to cover liability....

Mock it as you wish, gentlemen, and I can see the humor.

But as someone who is deathly allergic to those things (multiple trips to ERs over the years) it kinda hits close to home.

I had a thought that someone would raise that issue. I guess I could go off on an immunology tirade as to why allergies that were seeming unknown 20 years ago are so prevalent. I guess I could also have a similar tantrum over the immunizations....

But, I'll just move on to the next in print item in a day or 3....

[rogruth]

AFTP,

Did not mean my response to be mocking.
Just pointing out the obvious.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[sarge]

The humour notwithstanding (being someone calling someone an idiot without knowing how perfectly awful the spelling, punctuation, and syntax might be in the telling) I love that sticker!

I can't express how many times I've run an expressway locally, and some van or SUV (usually with "I can Breed" stick-figures in the back window) is tootling up the fast lane at the marked speed or less, and usually with a tag denoting residency in one of the suburban areas to my south.

And who says stereotypes don't have a basis in experience?

I had a girlfriend many years ago who had me to come along on a family trip to see her brother. Now I had been invited to her parents' several times, meals and whatnot. Her mother was the epitome of polite cultured elegance, held forth on the difference between "lie" and "lay", set a table each and every time "fork-plate-knife-spoon", and never was she anything but pleasant yet refined.

During the car ride, though, a wicked sense of humour emerged, after her husband railed on about some moron who had no idea what "yield" and "merge" meant. She turned around and looked at me and proceeded to explain (in the same manner as she would explain the use of "lay" and "lie")the difference between an a$$hole(!) and an idiot (her words too! I was pleasantly shocked, and my girlfriend a bit less pleasantly so.) "An idiot drives slower than you and an a$$hole drives faster than you."

It was certainly the highlight of what was otherwise a (if I'm honest) pretty deadly outing.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The humour notwithstanding (being someone calling someone an idiot without knowing how perfectly awful the spelling, punctuation, and syntax might be in the telling) I love that sticker!

Thought it might appeal to you.

I can't express how many times I've run an expressway locally, and some van or SUV (usually with "I can Breed" stick-figures in the back window) is tootling up the fast lane at the marked speed or less, and usually with a tag denoting residency in one of the suburban areas to my south.

And who says stereotypes don't have a basis in experience?

I think that we can both find a measure of reciprocity on stereotypes in the stickers and tags on the local cars in your county and the adjacent one to the West.

"An idiot drives slower than you and an a$$hole drives faster than you."

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac" -- George Carlin

[E7]

Sarge,

I think she (Mom) pretty much nailed it!

I suppose some of these folks know the difference between "your" possessive and "you're" contraction (you are), but have the need for speed texting and typing (the *ssholes) which differentiates them from those who are just slow (duh) the idiots!

Rich

PS: I wonder if Mom knew George?!!!

[sarge]

I wonder if Mom knew George?!!!

Now, that conjures an absolutely delicious picture!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Points for consistency....

[AG]

AG

[J. S. Bach]

Ya'think?

I have seen that warning on a can of Planters Peanuts, so there just may be a law or a CYA statement.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I must have had a couple of thousand of these last Sept.

[E7]

George Nakashima perhaps??????? Nah, no butterflies!!!!