Note for the common-sense impaired: Toilet brushes are not to be used for personal hygiene.

I love stupid consumer warnings! I just read on Yahoo News that an anti-lawsuit group, Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, sponsors an annual contest to find the most ridiculous consumer warning. This year's winner is a warning found on a toilet brush: "Do not use for personal hygiene."

Well now, to call that warning ridiculous is just very intolerant! What about those people who have a mental affliction that makes them think that they are toilets? Might they consider a toilet brush a personal hygiene item? Are you telling me that you don't care if they poke themselves in the eye? How insensitive.

Anyway, there are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes as well. From Associated Press writer David Goodman:

The $500 first prize went to Ed Gyetvai, of Oldcastle, Ontario, who submitted the toilet-brush label. A $250 second prize went to Matt Johnson, of Naperville, Ill., for a label on a children's scooter that said, "This product moves when used."

A $100 third prize went to Ann Marie Taylor, of Camden, S.C., who submitted a warning from a digital thermometer that said, "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally."

The entire article is here.

And while we're on the subject of stupid, here's a ridiculous lawsuit: NBC's 'Fear Factor' Sued for Rat-Eating Episode:

Watching contestants eat dead rats on NBC's gross-out stunt show "Fear Factor" so disgusted a Cleveland man that he has sued NBC for $2.5 million, saying he could not stomach what he saw.

Maybe I can sue for mental anguish I suffered watching Carmen Rasmussen's pole-less pole dance from the American Idol 2 finale. Ack.