The Instructions Found In A Box For A Satellite Dish...

IMPORTANT! READ THIS BEFORE USING YOUR NEW DEVICE:

Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that should give you thousands of years of trouble-free service, except that you undoubtedly will destroy it via some typical bonehead consumer maneuver.

Which is why we ask you to: Please, for God's sake, read this owner's manual carefully before you unpack the device...
You already unpacked it, didn't you ? You unpacked it and plugged it in and turned it on and fiddle with the knobs, didn't you ? And now your child, the same one who once shoved a Polish Sausage into your Video Cassette Recorder and set it to 'Fast Forward' is also fiddling with the knobs, right ? Shoot, we might as well just break these stupid things before we ship them out, you know that ?

Sorry! We just get a little crazy sometimes because we're always getting back 'defective' merchandize where it turns out that the consumer inadvertently bathed the device in Iced Tea for six days. So, in writing these instructions, we naturally tend to assume that your skull is filled with dead insects, but we mean nothing by it. OK? Now let's talk about:

1. UNPACKING THE DEVICE

The device is encased in foam to protect it from the Shipping People, who like nothing more than to jab spears into outgoing boxes. Please inspect the contents carefully for evidence of spear jabs or bottle caps, pull tabs, candy wrappers and Lord knows what else.

WARNING: Do not ever, as long as you live, throw away the box or any of the pieces of styrofoam, especially the ones shaped like peanuts. If you attempt to return the device to the store, and you are missing one single peanut, the store personnel will laugh in the chilling manner exhibited by Joseph Stalin just after he enslaved Eastern Europe.

Besides the device, the box should contain:
* Eight little rectangular snippets of paper that say 'WARNING' * A little plastic packet containing four 5/17 inch pilfer grommets * Two club-ended 6/93 inch boxcar prawns
You will need to supply: a matrix wrench and 60,000 feet of tram cable.

If anything is damaged or missing: You immediately should turn to your spouse and say 'Margaret, you know why this country can't make a car that can get all the way through the drive-through at Burger King without a major transmission overhaul? Because nobody cares, that's why.'

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret. And not something else.

2. PLUGGING IN THE DEVICE

The plug on this device represents the latest thinking of the electrical industry's Plug Mutation Group, which, in a continuing effort to prevent consumers from causing hazardous electrical current to flow through their appliances, developed the Three-Pronged Plug, then the Plug Where One Prong is Bigger Than the Other. Your device is equipped with the revolutionary new Plug Whose Prongs Consist of Six Small Religious Figurines Made of Chocolate. Adapters are sold separately and require 16 weeks for delivery.
Please call 1-900-YOU-FOOL for current pricing. (You must be 18 or older to call; $17.95/minute. Average call duration: 3 hours)

Do not try to plug it in! Lay it gently on the floor near an outlet, but out of direct sunlight, and clean it first with a damp handkerchief. Then, give us a call.

3. OPERATION OF THE DEVICE

WARNING: We manufacture only the attractive designer case. The actual working parts are manufactured in Japan. The instructions were translated by Mrs. Shirley Peltwater of accounts receivable, who has never actually been to Japan (or anywhere else for that matter), but has a second cousin who once was.

INSTRUCTIONS: For results that can be the finest, we advising that: NEVER to hold these buttons two times!! Except the battery. Next taking the (something) earth section may cause a large occurrence! However. If this is not a trouble, such rotation is a very maintenance action, as a kindly (something) virepoint from Drawing B.

4. WARRANTY

Be it hereby known that this device, together with (but not excluding) all those certain parts thereunto, shall be warranted against all defects, failures and malfunctions as shall occur between now and next Thursday afternoon and shall be repaired/replaced at no cost to the owner. After that time, a slight service and shipping charge shall apply.
Information on this extended warranty is available from Mr. Lance Haskill of the Last National Bank's Third Mortgage Department in Last Gasp, Wyoming.
This warranty does not cover the attractive designer case.