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 ? Hell, we might as
well just break these damn things before we ship them out, you know that?
Sorry! We just get a little crazy sometimes because we're always getting
back 'defective' merchandise 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 
   * 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.