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Subject:Poodles. Was: avoiding disaster From:John -dot- Cornellier -at- PARIS -dot- IE -dot- PHILIPS -dot- COM Date:Thu, 29 May 1997 15:39:07 +0200
"someone used a microwave cooker to dry out a poodle ... the manufacturer was
found negligent because he had not stated, in the instructions, that the device
was not to be used for such purposes...."
<snip>
And the sewers of Paris are teeming with giant blind albino alligators. (People
flush their pets down the bog & they've mutated....)
Seriously though, assuming all of the above is true: even in the litigious US
how could "cooker" or "oven" be considered ambiguous? If you put your noodles or
your poodles in a cooker they gets cooked. How much more unambiguous can ya get?
John -dot- Cornellier -at- paris -dot- ie -dot- philips -dot- com
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