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Huh? What did you say? -- Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo
If Kids Ruled the World: We'd all be eating ice-cream and chocolat cake..

And they'd quit fighting when it got dark and go home.

And they'd put the blanket over their heads in bed and the boogey-man would go away.

Mommy's would hug them and comfort them and kiss it and make it well and Daddy's would protect them and hold their hands to lead them..

-- -- STOP! Don't go further. -- If you don't want a big headache, leave this webpage alone. It was designed to explain 'in simple everyday American English' the meanings of acronyms used 'to simplify and shorten' longer governmental sentences..and in so doing, the rest of us outsiders - are left 'outside the loop' when we think we 'know how' and attempt to read the formal legalese written by our government. --> It's (sort of) like a test: 1. You studied for it. 2. You came prepared to take it. 3. You opened the test to take it. - And you found that every one of the multiple choice answers are (in your mind): [a] All wrong [b] All right [c] In a foreign language [d] In code 4. You now know right then and there that you have failed! And you needed badly to get out of there with a passing grade. --> --> Huh? -- You're still reading? -- O.K. --> you've been warned, -- it's your headache. -->
--> Power of Observation <--
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Tag - You're it!!

-- "Kids Pages" -- -- "PBS Electric Money"
-- "By Kids For Kids, Young Inventors and Kid's: How to Invent" --->> "Invention Convention" --

-- Did you hear about the snail that got beat up by two turtles?
-- At the police station they asked him, "Did you get a good look at the turtles that did this? He said, "No, it all happened so fast."

-- "free halloween games online mah jong, jigsaw puzzles, sokoban, slider and memory puzzle" --

-- "Children as young as five 'using the internet without parental supervision'" --

-- "Video Games Can Play Havoc With Kids' Joints" -- "The younger the child, the more likely the pain, says research led by an 11-year-old" --

-- "Kids watch more than a day of TV each week" --

-- An honest seven-year-old admitted calmly to her parents that Billy Brown had kissed her after class.
-- "How did that happen?" gasped her mother.
-- "It wasn't easy," admitted the young lady, "but three girls helped me catch him." --

-- "EpiPens emerge as life-saving kid accessory - Kids and parenting" --

-- "Inventor of the Week" --

-- I found out why there is so much LEAD PAINT in the toys that are made in China: Originally, the toy company told Chinese manufacturers to paint all the toys RED. Because the Chinese interpreter couldn't pronounce 'R' very well, he re-told the workers to paint all the toys 'Led' and the toys were painted with LEAD PAINT. <-- Just a dumb joke, smile :-)

-- "Trouble in Toyland: U.S. recession jolts China - Economy in Turmoil" -- "Others found ways to cut corners, which is cited as one reason that the problem of Chinese toy safety came to a head last year. Among other things, some Chinese factories started using lead-based paint on their products because it dries faster and thereby speeds production time."

-- "China is pitching in for green week. From now on, all toys from China will be made with recycled lead." - Jay Leno Another dumb joke.

-- Information and analysis on hazards of residential lead exposure for children exposed to deteriorating lead-based paint, lead contaminated dust, and lead contaminated residential --

-- Tell me, you're real sure about this, your dumb"idea," are you? -- Better check-out whether it's really a "CHINDOGU" -- "Huh? What did he say?" -- "He suggested that you should go to the "International Chindogu Society." and Submit that good-dumb idea of yours, right away!" %:-))

-- One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little to her class. She came to the part of the story where Chicken Little tried to warn the farmer. She read, ".... and so Chicken Little went up to the farmer and said, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"

-- The teacher paused then asked the class, "And what do you think that farmer said?"

-- One little girl raised her hand and said, "I think he said: 'Holy Mackerel! A talking chicken!'"

-- The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.

-- "10 free iPhone and iPod touch apps - Tips and Advice for Parents and Families - The Kim Komando Radio Show" --

-- "Invent Now | Programs | Inspiring Invention" --> ---> ----> ----> ------> -------> --------> ------>
-- Leonardo DaVinci -- "Leonardo's Mysterious Machinery"

-- "I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." --
-- Isaac Newton

-- "kids fly swatter play-station" --

-- "Camp Invention" --

-- "Amazon.com: Accidents May Happen (50 Inventions Discovered By Mistake)" --

-- "Muzz.com > Charlie Chaplin" --

-- "Emily, Jacob most popular baby names" --

-- "Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids" --

-- Invention Mysteries are based on Paul Niemann's syndicated newspaper column which has appeared in more than 80 newspapers. Please visit www.inventionmysteries.com today to see a few samples and place your order.

-- "Video games are good for children - EU report"

-- "Parental controls for video game systems - Tips and Advice for Parents and Families - The Kim Komando Radio Show" --
-- "Is your child's school any good? - Tips and Advice for Parents and Families" --

-- -- " National Museum of Education" "The National Gallery for America's Young Inventors™ is the only nationally recognized HALL OF FAME FOR STUDENT INVENTORS, established in 1993 and given permission by the adult National Inventors Hall of Fame Board in Washington, D.C. to archive and enshrine great student inventions and inventors K-12."

-- "Edmund Scientific: educational toys, gifts, hobby supplies & science equipment" --

-- A kindergarten teacher handed out a coloring page to her class. On it was a picture of a duck holding an umbrella. The teacher told her class to color the duck in yellow and the umbrella green, however, Bobby, the class rebel, colored the duck in a bright fire truck red. After seeing this, the teacher asked him: "Bobby, how many times have you seen a red duck?" Young Bobby replied with "The same number of times I've seen a duck holding an umbrella."

-- "Thinking Fountain: Theme Clusters" --

-- "How to Make a Kool Aid Purse" --

-- "Kid inventors get creative with Bubble Wrap - Innovation - MSNBC.com" --

-- Student Financial Aid Bill Signed Includes debt-forgiveness program for public-sector employees, including NPOs

President Bush signed into law on a federal student aid program which some have labeled the most significant higher education initiative since the G.I. Bill.

The College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, which won overwhelming majorities in the House and via conference report to the Senate, provides for three major actions: increasing the maximum Pell grant award; capping the loan repayment terms at 15% of discretionary income; and creating a debt-forgiveness program for public-sector employees, including those working for nonprofit organizations.

-- "St. Louis University High School - Inventors'/ Robotics Club" --

-- "Bird receives national honor | Spokesman.com Jan 17, 2009" -- “The biggest deficit (in education) is that kids are not learning enough about the sciences,” said Bird. “There are sharp people all over the world. We just have to expose them to more of the sciences and math. Math is the basis for almost anything you do in life.”

Never let it be said:

"As a Grown-up, You are a Day Late and a Dollar Short"

--> You might find out that you are smarter than you think you are?? Ha! --> Oh, really!? Then do this one: --> It will tell you who you really are and what you've been hiding: --> {:-8

--> Or much dumber? --> Do it only after reading Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo - for you are being lead down the Primrose Path. --
I warn you, don't even think that you can understand the statements within "WAIS DOCUMENT RETRIEVEL" - and
"ANNALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH" @ --> AIR

--> Relaxed enough? Then take our sweet pre-quizz and have a bite from a candybar: -- go to: --> Umm Good

-- One day a man is walking down the street when he sees an old man with a nice looking dog. He goes over to the man and asks, "Does your dog bite?"
-- The old man replies, "No never."
-- When the man bends down to stroke the dog it immediately takes a snap at his hand.
-- The man says, "I thought you said your dog did not bite!"
-- "I did,"
replies the old man, "but this isn't my dog!"

-- Now to: --> A page of Mumbo Jumbo <-- THIS IS YOUR TEST. NOW TAKE IT! See if you can decode it after reading Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo.

>--> REMEMBER: -- IDEA -- RESEARCH -- DEVELOPMENT -- FORTUNE --> YOUR FUTURE
>>> --> Jellybread Patent Information --

DR. GERTRUDE ELION: Because I'm very interested in teaching people about what science has done for them and what it can do. Without an educated populace, there will be no support for basic research. People tend not to support what they don't understand. I particularly want to reach out to young people. In fact, I am out talking to them constantly, trying to make them realize how thrilling science can be and how fulfilling it is to be able to cure sick people. I don't think anyone tells them that. I think we need to.

-- "Made For Mom (home of The Snack-Trap) Parent Invented Products" --

-- "6 Ways to Develop Early Math Skill" --

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-- -- Thought of the day --

-- "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." -- Albert Einstein
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-- "Technology reshapes America's classrooms | Reuters" --

-- "Social websites harm children's brains: --
-- > > Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist" -- "A study by the Broadcaster Audience Research Board found teenagers now spend seven-and-a-half hours a day in front of a screen."

-- An inventor is persistent and never gives up. ;-) Go to: www.InventNet.com

-- "In 1951, Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on television."

-- "Slumdog Millionaire was a great movie. --> Here's additional clip videos:

-- "7 video games kids should not play - Tips and Advice for Parents and Families" --

-- "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance." -- H. Jackson Brown, Author of Life's Little Instruction Book

-- -- Financial Future Challenge -


-- "BKFK Competition - The NYSE Financial Future Challenge, sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange Foundation and K12 - Kids Inventing Financial Solutions" --
-- "Learn How to Enter [NYSE Financial Future for Say It] at Idea Locker BKFK" --

-- "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- John F. Kennedy

-- -- Thought of the day --

-- "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." --

Thomas Huxley 1825-1895, Biologist and Educator

-- "An Easy Way to Donate Unwanted Gift Cards to Schools" -- "DonorsChoose.org: An online charity connecting you to classrooms in need"

-- "Deseret News | Universities will be 'irrelevant' by 2020, Y. professor says" --

-- "MBA Exam Tester Tosses Scores Over Web Cheating" --

-- "Wireless services add more parental controls - Back to School - ]MSNBC.com" --

-- "My Way News - No texting at dinner! Parenting in the digital era" --

-- -- Writing Home --

Dear Dad,

$chool i$ really great. I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can't think of anything I need, $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a card, a$ I would love to hear from you.

Love,

Your $on

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The Reply:
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Dear Son,

I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh.

-- "Komando.com, Website for The Kim Komando Radio Show, Komando Kids" --

-->> "Entrepreneurship"

--> "Fast Track Derby Homestead" --> -->

~ A nursery school driver was delivering a van full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog’s duties.
~ ‘They use him to keep crowds back,’ said Tommy.
~ ‘No,’ said Billy, ‘he’s just for good luck.’
~ Peter brought the argument to a close. ‘They use the dogs, he said firmly, to find the fire hydrants….'

--> Had enough yet? -- Give up? --> O.K. -- Read, "Galileo"

-- Did you hear about the midget that was thrown out of the Nudist Colony?

He kept sticking his nose into everybody's business!!

--> You're tough! Yes you are. I visualize you as a smart and profitable inventor -- O.K., so you're crazy -- Even your friends won't tell you!! -- Soyouwanna.com teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school.

-- "The Official Billy-Bob Teeth, Inc. Website"

-- You will have suffered enough taking the above test. --> Welcome to Our Club. You'll give the lecture on what you think you have found out at an upcoming meeting.

-- -- "No pressure, no diamonds." -- Mary Case

Ha ha Gotcha -- Riddle: This well known invention was named for nothing when it was invented in 1907. What is it?

-- -- "Celebrating the Spirit of Innovation at The Great Idea Finder"

-- -- To get our readers to read much further, -- we FIRST have to get their attention. --

-- "Black History Inventors - Black History Month - African American Inventors"

-- "Chicago 1st Black Inventors Entrepreneurs Organziation, NFP" --

--- Current Events --
Teacher: President Barack Obama will be the first Afro-American to serve as U.S. President.
Little Jimmy raises his hand.
Teacher: Yes, Jimmy..
Jimmy (smiling): He'll be the second one. President George Washington was Black!
Teacher: Now Jimmy, you know better than that. George Washington was a White man.
Jimmy: Well, every Washington I've come to know and played with was Black!!

-- "Obama, McCain stretch facts in debate - The Debates - MSNBC.com" --

--> > > "Palintology | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine" - Sarah Palin, who was John McCain's Vice president pick, is an interesting case..."

-- -- Barach Obama Speech --

"But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America. And to support that innovation, we will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America."

-- "NYT: McCain, Obama differ on innovation - The New York Times - MSNBC.com" -- 'Among other things, it proposed that the government finance 10,000 scholarships for math and science teaching careers and 30,000 scholarships for college-level study of science, math and engineering; increase the basic research budget by 10 percent a year for seven years; and establish programs to make broadband available nationwide at low cost.'

-- "McCain Proposes a $300 Million Prize for a Next-Generation Car Battery - NYTimes.com"

-- "We don't work for each other, We work with each other." - Unknown

-- "Toys -- and More -- for the 21st Century Make Use of Mind Control Over Matter" --

-- Outer Space is where it's at. Look to the Heavens.

-- "Never wait in line at the museum again - Destinations - MSNBC.com" --

-- -- "WHTour : The UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Panography and Virtual Reality Tours"

-- -- The expression "The sky's the limit" was first said in Don Quixote, by Cervantes. [Coast to Coast]

-- "Right now I'm not having an out-of-body experience, I'm having an out of money experience."

-- "Leaving The Body Behind" --

-- "Probe photos of Apollo landing sites reveal man DID walk on the Moon" --

-- "Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to? -- :-)

-- "Subject: Why the world will NOT end in 2012: Nasa scientist debunks internet rumours" --

-- "Journal of Applied Treknology - Index"

-- "HamiltonBook.com - New Books at Bargain Prices! - Scientific Research & Technology" --
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-- "Get a world-class education for free - Cool Sites from The Kim Komando Radio Show? & Web site" --

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong." -- Bill Vaughn --> A Philadelphia Patent Attorney helping you -- then getting his Statement! ;-)

Someday you may get lonely and discouraged? Think of this and Cheer Up --
-- "The Rocket Car Legend" ~<8^)-

How I learned to mind my own business :

I was walking past the mental hospital the other day, and all the patients were shouting, '13....13....13.'

The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see what was going on.....

Some idiot poked me in the eye with a stick!

Then they all started shouting '14....14....14'....

-- Thought of the day: --
-- "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." -- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor

--> "Inventing Trivia" --> Forgo the naysayers -- Go to: --> "Nay" "Nay" I say.
--> "Inventing Trivia" --> "Inventing, Fun, Facts and Trivia"

>--> "origin of terms.doc" --

-- "What Will We Look Like in 2050?" ----> "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future --------------------------------------------------------> >

-- "A magic remote control that changes the channel with a flick of the wrist" --

-- "Online Conversion - Fun and Interesting Conversions" --

-- Keeping Up with the Kids -- "Videogames may do the aging brain good."

-- "Home - James Randi Educational Foundation" --

"Flops - They Almost Changed the World" - Many innovations flopped before they could get to market. Some ideas should never have been tried. But the inventive spirit refuses to give up.

-- Crazy Inventions? -- Perpetual Motion

-- Perpetual Motion is a true scientific puzzle, with set rules. - The device, once completed, has to move and continue forever or until parts were out without any assistance except from gravity, buoyancy, or magnetism. This rules out the schemes to use the daily variations in temperature and air pressure, or the constant motion of waves and tides. If the machine can do useful work, so much the better, but the machine does not have to be useful - it just has to keep going.

-- "Perpetual motion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" --

-- -- "You don't have to be crazy to be an inventor, but it helps." :-)

-- Fun Facts:
-- "Knock-knock Jokes, although relatively unheard of, were not heard until the invention of the door." -- David Letterman

-- "The name Disney is so covered with pixie dust that people often focus on the "the magic of Disney" part and forget the business side, but we have more in common with you than you might realize."

-- -- "The Stories of George the Hamster"

Additional Notes:

By the way...

Be sure to shut the lights on your way out --

Your Mommy doesn't work here

-- --> This is a major reason for you to join the Inventors Association of St. Louis: -->
We honestly help you to understand the language of the Intellectual Property system. We try to locate the best and easier to understand websites for you to read.-- For instance, go to: --> "Icons of Innovation" --> and then to: --> "General Treaties" and The American Museum of Natural History

-- "Scientists create digital models of World Heritage sites" --

-- Rook, we're not perfect, sometimes Mumbo Jumbo does srip through. --
:-) ..porease no-lead --> Ha-So

-- "Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18, Bible

-- FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY

In Florida , an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter and Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews and observances of their holy days.

The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days.

The case was brought before a judge.

After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring, "Case dismissed!"

The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, "Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays."

The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you do. Your client, counsel, is woefully ignorant."

The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists."

The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day. Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.'

Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that if your client says there is no God, then he is a fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day.

Court is adjourned.

You gotta love a Judge that knows his scripture!

--> All you kids, look at the lighter side: --
--> "If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through." -- Chinese Proverb

--> It could always get better: --> "NCIIA Accepting Proposals to Fund Student Inventions and Faculty Courses in Innovation" --> "Grants" -- NCIIA
-- Swanson Center for Product Innovation

-- "Banks go back to school with credit cards - Personal Finance - MSNBC.com" --

-- And to: --> "Eight Reasons Why No Student Should Go Through High School Without Taking Physics"

-- "The Casimir effect: a force from nothing (September 2002) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb" --

--> "Great Moments in Physics"

-- --> "Shortcomings of High School Physics Classes" -- --> "Science and Physics Related Careers"

-- Old Riddle: "What grows bigger the more you take from it?" - Answer: "A hole." -- Newer Answer: "The wellspring of ones knowledge."

"Education. People aren't dumb, but in a world as big and complicated as ours is, why are we still so routinely surprised by people's failure to grasp the basic mechanics of that world? The Jewish tradition champions education, and it's not just because literacy is a prerequisite for Torah study. Judaism understood earlier than most that an educated, informed population was better able to chart its best course. We understood that to allow somebody to remain uneducated wasn't an act of politeness, it was an egregious crime against that person. Why would any ethical human being allow another human being to live in ignorance and likely suffer from their ignorance?" -- Brad Pilcher
No, nobody understands the tax code
by: Brad Pilcher
Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 11:48:41 AM EST

-- "Maimonides' Eight Degrees of Charity" --

WARNING !!

You'll have to admit that you are dumber than a 5th Grader

A Test For Smart People ... -

This is a test for Smart People.....I have determined that you qualify. -

The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional. Scroll down for each answer. The questions are NOT that difficult. But don't scroll down UNTIL you have answered the question! -

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Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities. -

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According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four-year-old. -

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Send this out to frustrate all of your smart friends.
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CONSUMER NOTICE: Because of the "Uncertainty Principle," It Is Impossible for the Consumer to Find Out at the Same Time Both Precisely Where This Product Is and How Fast It Is Moving. (Note: This one is optional on the grounds that Heisenburg was never quite sure that his principle was correct)

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