John and I were cracking up about this label for a long time today. I think you have to read it aloud to find it funny. I hope it'll tickly you the way it tickled us. It's also possible that we are delirious with heat exhaustion, but it seems to me that that sentence is funny in so many ways.
The way that John read the word "messy" was enough to get me going but I also thought that "messy" was another item in the list. It sounded like he was saying that you should keep this product away from hair, eyes, messy and skin. Add John's tilted head and raised eyebrows for effect.
But, of course, that's not what he was laughing about because he could see that messy wasn't in the list; it was parenthetical. The reason he cocked his head to read the word "messy" is that it's the only word in that's not all in caps.
We started laughing as soon as he read that word because it just didn't seem like it belonged on the warning label, but we really cracked up when he went on to read the words "and skin" because evidently epoxy is "messy" for the hair and eyes, but not so much for the skin.
Okay, so now I've spent 4 paragraphs describing something funny, I'm sure they advise against that in humor school but I wanted to at least try to share it with you!
I'm laughing still! :)
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