Friday, April 12, 2013

Do Not Attempt These Maneuvers


Picture this: I'm watching an ad for one of those 4-wheel off-road buggy type thingies.  The ad shows it gaily zipping around in a variety of - big surprise - off-road environments.  Careening around trees through forests, flying over dunes in deserts, steeply climbing huge rocks - the kind of exciting stuff, we presume, you would buy such a vehicle for.

Towards the end of said commercial, as the announcer is intoning the manly nature of the product - speed, power, stability - and as the viewer is getting really pumped up about this fine, fun, safe machine, across the screen appear the words:

"Do not attempt these maneuvers."

So, they're saying "buy this machine, but don't you dare do any of the exciting things we showed it doing."  Good luck with that.

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