Another chapter in my weird warning label file...

[Twilight Zone voice:] Submitted for your approval...

One can of Superior (brand, I'm assuming) Super Pen Penetrating Lubricant. (Damn, that sounds dirty just saying that.) Y'know, just spray lubricant, kinda like WD-40, that we use on the presses to loosen them up...sometimes they don't open/close smoothly. Also smells like the Dickens. Anyhoo, the last line on the warning label on the back reads:

"WARNING: This product contains a chemical or chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer."

Gee, thanks California, think you'd like to share that kind of information with us? Or is it that it will only cause cancer to people in California? And it's not like it's a state-specific warning - this product is distributed by Industrial Products Corp. of Springfield, MA.

Reminds me of Sweet N' Low, with the sacchrin that has been known to cause cancer in lab rats. Yeah, if you pump the equivalent of 30 pounds of it into their systems. Like a friend of mine once quipped, "Even water will cause cancer if you drink enough of it."

Maybe I can contact newly elected Governor Ah-nuld about this issue. =P

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More baseball! (Sorry, but it's an exciting time!)

I thought about it, and one of the few possible good things to come from a Sox/Marlins matchup is that throughout the whole series, you know they're going to bring up that one game a few months ago during interleague play when the Red Sox beat the Marlins 25-8, scoring 14 runs in one inning.

And the Sox beat the Spankees in Game 1 tonight. I turned on the radio and caught the game around the 6th inning. I heard the Sox were up 4-0, and I was laughing maniacally for a good long while. So we're up 1-0 on the series >:-)
posted by Tim at 1:54 AM