The warning labels on some aerial fireworks boxes read like poetry. Here are a few of my favorites from this past New Year’s Eve.
Warning
Shoots flaming balls and reports
Carefully read cautions on side panel
Performance
Panoramic red, green and blue
bursts, accented by sizzling streams
of crackling extending out in all
directions.
Performance Description
This 500-gram cake is a giga-gorgeous show of white tails
to white glitter alternating with golden comet tails to golden
glittering willows. The finale is quickened whistling tails to delayed
sparkling and red and green crackling palms. 38 shots.
Hee, I’ll have to remember “giga-gorgeous”!
Also, there is something about the combination of “Shoots flaming balls and reports” that reminds one of “eats shoots and leaves,” don’t you think? Combined with the picture on the box, the associations could be quite upsetting.
Are those legal in Hawaii???