The Warning Label Book: Warning: Reading This Book May Cause Spontaneous, Uncontrollable Laughter

by Joey Green, Tony Dierckins, Tim Nyberg

Warnings-they're everywhere.

On toys. On hair dryers. On compact discs. On take-out coffee cups. Almost everything for sale today comes with a warning. Why? Now, most people have enough common sense not to take a bath with an electric blender, but thanks to a few morons out there who sued big companies and won huge settlements, products now come with warnings that treat consumers like a bunch of slack-jawed yokels.

So here's a collection of more than a hundred of the most ridiculous real warning labels on today's products. For example:

CAUTION: DO NOT ON USE THIS HAMMER TO STRIKE ANY SOLID OBJECT.
Such as, perhaps, the head of the idiot who came up with this warning in the first place?

In addition, the book includes two dozen hilarious peel-off fake warning labels you can stick on real products to keep you, your friends, and your loved ones safe. Just don't read this book while driving a car or operating heavy machinery.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1998

About the author

Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than sixty (yes, sixty) books, including Not So Normal Norbert with James Patterson, Last-Minute Travel Secrets, Last-Minute Survival Secrets, Contrary to Popular Belief, Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!, the best-selling Joey Green's Magic Brands series, The Mad Scientist Handbook series, The Zen of Oz, and You Know You've Reached Middle Age If...—to name just a few.

Joey has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and The View. He has been profiled in the New York Times, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows.

A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University—where he was the political cartoonist on the Cornell Daily Sun and founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic (still publishing to this very day)—Joey lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this book off and on since i bought it. Found on a stroller.. Step 1 Remove baby.:) Its a great book and so funny and entertaining.

[Simon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just the same, really basic knowledge that we humans need to really have already known and got a better concept of things. I at first thought this was going to be good because of the way it was set up and laid out, a real feast for the eyes, but I found it boring and lacking in the humor department as this book so blatantly claimed on it's decked out hot pink cover.

I guess now I know why my town library doesn't have any books by Joey Green...because they are not that good.

[Runa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a truly hilarious book about different [utterly ridiculous] warning labels found on various products. Guaranteed to have you laughing insanely. Includes some amazing fake "caution labels" for some great pranks ;)

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one is sort of on the same level as Here's your sign. I thought it was hilarious. Even has funny/stupid labels included.

[Aymee · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun little book good for a quick laugh.

[Kharm · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another hilarious book. Real warning labels, real stupidity.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book about weird warning labels!