Re: Looking for an old, humorous warning sign

[SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM]

Hi all:

I remember seeing a sign with a mock-German warning, like that asked about by Tosh Ushino,  from touring Brookhaven National Lab as a high school student back in the 1960s. All I could recollect was the phrase "nicht finger-poken" so a google search on those words turned up:



Diese Machine ist for Science-Experimenten und nicht for Finger-Poken und Button-

> Button-Pushen und Knobben-Turnen. Venn diese Rubber-Necken- Dummkopf-Sight-Zeers gepoken und gepushen und geturnen, zenn geht die Machine KAPUTT. Just relaxen und gelooken zu die Blinken-Lights. 



Stewart Farber

email: SAFarberMSPH@cs.com

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In a message dated 4/16/02 11:10:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  writes:



> RADSAFERS,
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> When I was a student (a long time ago but seems like
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> only last year), I used to see a humorous warning sign
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> in labs written in fake German telling visitors to not
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> touch any equipment. I think it was titled, "Achtung
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> Der Lookenspeepers" or something like that. I find
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> that humor is often more effective than stern
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> impersonal warnings.
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> Does anyone still have a copy of that warning sign? If
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> so, can you send me the text of it?