Caveat Empty

22 of the world's most absurd warnings and disclaimers

The 10 most ridiculous public service announcements
ever put on a billboard

'Quick, It's Time to Change!'

Randall, it seems, has many pots on the stove ...

Just Kidding

A recent Facebook thread began with this post:

My friend, writing about his son: "Yesterday he went tearing through the women's undergarment section of Target shouting 'boobies!'"

Among the responses:

True story: a couple weeks ago some friends brought over their sweet autistic kid after her First Communion for a pool party. [When] I took off my shirt the little girl looked directly at my chest and screamed "boobies". One can only smile and dive into the pool immediately.

[Our daughter] always yells "look at all the boobs" at any store there is a bra display. The bad parents we are think this is quite hilarious and make no effort to correct her. We just laugh.

I remember being a little kid in a store, and asking my mother like ten thousand times what the red rubber thing was. She finally said, "It's a douchebag. Now you know everything."

If only that had been the last douche bag you had ever met.

My son had a world class temper tantrum in Target when I wouldn't buy him the Hello Kitty handbag.

When I went shopping with my mom I would pinch all the bras and shout "Honk!"

I once went to visit our nanny when she babysat for another family. Their daughter, age two, ran up and presented me with a photo of her slightly overweight father in a bathing suit. She pointed at his chest in the photo and yelled "Daddy's boobies!"

A Touching Parable

Le Livre Sans Titre

Today's Top Story

Huguette Clark, Reclusive Heiress, Dies at 104

... Mrs. Clark lived in the apartment in near solitude, amid a profusion of dollhouses and their occupants. She ate austere lunches of crackers and sardines and watched television, most avidly “The Flintstones.” A housekeeper kept the dolls’ dresses impeccably ironed.

More here. Lots more.

Thanks to Dan, Bruce, Bob, and Riley.

Walflowers

"Work out, rump roast, sailor moon, hairy ghost ..."


People Of Walmart Song

From Laura.

Tuna on Wry

Boobs Radley

Good stuff.

From Terry.

A Lear-y Glance

Nonsense Botany 1871

Phattfacia Stupenda

From Peggy.

The Wisdom of Forrest Gimp

I’m grateful to be alive so many years after diagnosis,
but also a little annoyed.

Roger That

"If I were in this condition at any point before a few cosmological instants ago, I would be as isolated as a hermit. I would be trapped inside my head. Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice and I do not need to scream."

From Julia.