I just saw the stupidest commercial disclaimer I have ever seen.

[thelocalkgb]

It was for metamucil and there were tourists at Old Faithful. They people ask how it stays so regular. Cut to the ranger giving the geyser metamucil. Now, this comercial is bad enough, but they give the disclaimer: "Do not do this, abide by park rules." Man, is that funny.

Has anyone else seen this commercial? If not, what are some of your favorite commercial disclaimers?

[AlienGirl]

1. That commercial is so dumb...

It seems to imply that if you take Metamucil you will erupt!

Tucker

[Vittorio]

2. Disclamers are sad.

If commercials don't have them, then people can sue for some fucked up reason. Remember that McDonald's lawsuit a few years back with the old woman and hot coffee?? Sad, huh?

Why do we have to put disclaimers on commen sense stuff these days???

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Maybe because so many people

don't have common sense? :shrug:

[Vittorio]

4. Yeah. That's what I'm guessing.

And you know what's sad...judges usually rule in favor of the common senseless.

[Interrobang]

7. "Common sense" doesn't exist.

"Common" would imply that either "sense" was an abundant trait (it is not), or it was something that the people in general have (it isn't that, either). Hence, the need for stupid disclaimers on commercials, instructions on the back of toothpick boxes, and stuff like that.

[Vittorio]

8. Yeah, it's sad, eh?

[lazarus]

18. Not to start this up again

But, once more, the McDonald's coffee case was a very valid thing.

Go here for more information.

[burrowowl]

5. You will erupt and

clorox could do a follow-through: If you erupt use clorox to clean the toilet and the walls.

[thelocalkgb]

6. Heh

:D

[Maddy McCall]

9. Originally, they didn't have the disclaimer...

but the NPS asked them to do so because they didn't want park visitors to think it was ok to pour any substance into Old Faithful.

I don't blame NPS...the world is full of crazies.

[thelocalkgb]

10. Yeah, I can just see it now

"Let's go soap Old Faithful!"

[Maddy McCall]

11. LOL!

Like I said--crazies...even worse, "Let's go pour quickcrete in old faithful."

[thelocalkgb]

12. Man, that sounds like some weird

Fraternity intiation or something. Are there any major universities near yellowstone?

[Maddy McCall]

15. I don't think so...but distance didn't keep Prescott Bush from

traveling from Yale to the midwest to steal Geronimo's skull, or so the rumor goes. Who knows whether that is true or not. :shrug:

I'm not a Skull and Bones tinfoil hatter like so many conspiracy theorists at DU are. :-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. If we could just designate one year that stupidity is a capital offense

Oh, how that would clean out the system.

[thelocalkgb]

14. Yeah,

but then who would we make fun of?

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. I'd rather have a stupidity and ignorance free society

than have someone to make fun of. :-)

[lcooksey]

19. At least one geyser in Yellowstone

Has been ruined by people throwing crap into it. It no longer erupts because it is clogged up. That's why NPS was so upset about the commercial. I'm sure it never occured to the people making the commercial that anyone would be so stupid as to throw trash into a geyser in a National Park, but they underestimate the American public. Or overestimate, as the case may be.

[ButterflyBlood]

17. Warning: may cause drowsiness. do not use before driving

on a bottle of sleeping pills.

[neebob]

20. I saw a cereal commercial the other day

that cited some study about cholesterol or something, and then at the bottom of the screen it said the study did not include cereals.