c|net is reporting that Nintendo is advising Wii owners "when waving the controller, use the wrist strap, keep your palms dry and, whatever you do, don't let go." I had to laugh at the last sentence of this recent posting on Cnet. The blatantly obvious must consistently be spelled out for the consumer.

Of course it could be that the realism of the action in the sports games built for the Wii are taping into people's muscle memory.

I am afraid that is true all too often. I have read of Gillette getting calls saying their disposable razors don't work. The Gillette person would ask if they took the plastic cover off the blades. Long pause...Oh.

When I was at AOL, I have had someone ask me (being serious) where the 'any' key was on the keyboard, in reference to "Press any key to continue".

My stick antiperspirant/deodorant has a warning "For external use only". You know that's sad because they would only put that there if someone wrote to them and said "Your solid mouthwash sure tastes terrible and made me kinda sick but now my breath has that wonderful 'Cool Wave' scent!"

Reminds me those strange, dumb laws. In Minnesota, it is illegal for someone to enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head. Ok, so that must have happened at least once with some outcome so terrible a law had to be enacted preventing it from ever happening again.

But on topic, I have not yet experienced the wiimote-throwing that many have reported on the internet. The again I have never played Wii Sports drunk....yet.

Well said examples. I concur that intelligence and logic "do not come universally" to the human race...since there has been one too many examples than end with the exclamation: "Doh".

Here's another. I vaguely remember while installing Quest for Glory III, the game came with interesting stories/trivia while you were waiting for the game to install.

One of the stories mentioned by the developers was an incident where a customer called saying about a defective disk or something, since after the first disk, the setup said, "Please insert disk #2". Which he did. Literally. He got 2 disks stuck in the floppy drive.

*applaudes IQ*

Good masturbatory advice