Thursday, June 21, 2007

What the what?

Ok, you may be asking yourself...what is that a picture of and what is it supposed to mean? Well, join the club. I finally broke down and bought a laptop after many months of saving and debating and finding the best deal to come along in awhile. So when I opened the box from Dell and peered in at my laptop, it was wrapped in a very thin layer of sort-of bubble plastic wrap and it had this picture on it. Usually when you see some sort of warning sign, especially without any words be they in English or of a foreign tongue, you can figure out what it means or at least have a close guess that you're confident of. So, let's break down this image. First, we know it's a warning since it has that circle with a slash through it. We must assume it's advising us "not" to do whatever is portrayed in the middle of the circle. Now, this is where it gets tricky. It's obviously a person. And we can clearly see that it's said person's torso with his right hand up to his chin area. And now, I'm done. There's a person's face...but is it the torso's head? It could be his, as it's in the right area, however, it seems to be in some sort of box or on a piece of paper. Is the torso holding up a mask on his way to a Halloween masquerade ball after buying a laptop and Dell is trying to warn me that that is highly unadvised? Dell wants all of it's new owners to stay in and start using the laptop right away? And what is going on with the face that the head is making? Is he a contestant on American Idol, singing for joy after buying his new Dell laptop, only to no avail, since he forgot to put a microphone in his cupped hand? Dell is warning highly against doing that on accident. Well, I have to be honest. I really didn't know what the heck that warning sign was supposed to mean until I started writing this post. While I kept looking at it and trying to think of funny things that could be garnished from the image, I think I figured out the real meaning of it. Don't read any further if you want to try to figure it out yourself. What I'm pretty sure that it means is....don't put this plastic bag over your head, because then you won't be able to breathe, and then you'll grab your throat as you're choking and grasping with your mouth wide open. Then you would die and sue us here at Dell. A picture is worth a thousand words.

2 comments:

krkgoo said...

So you got a lap top, any reason why???

Unknown said...

That makes a lot of sense now that you've figured it out. Good going honey :)