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RE: Jail for seller of illegal Xbox chips


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: RE: Jail for seller of illegal Xbox chips
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:53:37 +0100
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  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

>
>As an aside, I increasingly see in manuals accompanying products
>warnings not to crush the product together with a pictorial
>representation. Whilst potentially amusing to many at first, I feel it
>is a sad reflection on modern society that not only do people need to
be
>told not to crush something and expect it to work, but require a
picture
>should they be unable to read the few words that ought to be mere
common
>sense.
>


I'm reminded of the scene from the Young Ones:

Mike: "It doesn't say 'Do not chop up your video with an axe, put all
the
bits in a plastic bag, and bung em down the lavatory'..."

Vyvien: "Doesn't it? - maybe *that's* what we're doing wrong..."

Oh if only they'd known!......

Paul G.


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