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Just a random moment of life: I got some cookies from Amazon today (...oh, hush). The cookies themselves were packed in these individual cannister things, which were in turn inside a box. On the outside of the box was a hot pink sticker. At the top it said, "SOLD AS ONE". Easy enough to understand; opening the box and selling the individual cannisters was not allowed. The sort of thing you can imagine that you might, for various reasons, actually put on a box of things that could be broken open and sold individually. (Not that it would stop anyone, but you could always point to it and say, "We TOLD them not to do that!")
Underneath that, in smaller mixed-case letters, it said, "For Internal Use Only!" And yes, it was emphatic about that.
...They're cookies. Cookies. What else would you do with them? Why would you need to say that? Has there been a huge outbreak of people appearing in hospitals saying, "But I thought ginger snaps were lotion! That they would make my skin all nice and soft and spicy smelling! Who knew the damage that the crumbling cookie could do?" What on earth have people been doing that someone thought this was necessary?
...OK, offhand I can think of two things. One of them is, very technically speaking, also an internal use. (Wait for it, you'll get it ... good, you got it. Take that anywhere you want; I'm not going there with you.) (Especially not with ginger cookies. Ow.) And, yes, I suppose if you were into unusual applications of food, you could rub them on your skin for whatever reason. (Not going there with you, either.) But I can't imagine that a hot pink warning sticker is going to dissuade anyone so determined. In fact, it might add a little filip of the forbidden: "They told me I couldn't do this, but I did anyway! HA! HA! ... say, where'd all the ants come from?"
Underneath that, in smaller mixed-case letters, it said, "For Internal Use Only!" And yes, it was emphatic about that.
...They're cookies. Cookies. What else would you do with them? Why would you need to say that? Has there been a huge outbreak of people appearing in hospitals saying, "But I thought ginger snaps were lotion! That they would make my skin all nice and soft and spicy smelling! Who knew the damage that the crumbling cookie could do?" What on earth have people been doing that someone thought this was necessary?
...OK, offhand I can think of two things. One of them is, very technically speaking, also an internal use. (Wait for it, you'll get it ... good, you got it. Take that anywhere you want; I'm not going there with you.) (Especially not with ginger cookies. Ow.) And, yes, I suppose if you were into unusual applications of food, you could rub them on your skin for whatever reason. (Not going there with you, either.) But I can't imagine that a hot pink warning sticker is going to dissuade anyone so determined. In fact, it might add a little filip of the forbidden: "They told me I couldn't do this, but I did anyway! HA! HA! ... say, where'd all the ants come from?"