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What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:11 pm
by brothers
Just a typo, but still makes one stop and think for a moment. Can you see it? Maybe it's just a joke, but probably not. Anyway I just spotted it yesterday and thought maybe you guys would get a smile out of it. This stuff is a strong menthol, pretty much unscented.

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Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:22 am
by kronos9
Methanol? Do I win?

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:29 pm
by EL Alamein
kronos9 wrote:Methanol? Do I win?
Winner, winner! Chicken dinner! :)

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:54 pm
by brothers
Now if anyone begins questioning why a given shaving product is causing a problem, and there is interest in the ingredients, we can testify that what's in the product is really not guaranteed to be what's printed in the list of ingredients and vice versa. I had read this very short and inexpensive list of ingredients more than once before I "read" it the last time.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:16 am
by TheMonk
Never did try Snake Bite, but I do like the performance of some of Fine's aftershaves.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 7:54 am
by Squire
In view of the stiff fines and penalties involved a manufacturer would be very foolish to falsely list ingredients on the label. In order to protect proprietary formulas they don't have to list specific percentages but they do have to accurately state what's in there.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:36 am
by brothers
That's what I was thinking. A typographical error could turn into a legal problem.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:45 pm
by mikey
Well, lookee here.

It appears Taylor has made the same error.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:21 pm
by Squire
Done on purpose I'm sure. Methanol is the primary additive used to denature the other alcohol in the cologne making the whole unfit for human consumption.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:19 pm
by brothers
Maybe Fine's label is correct to a point, in the event theirs actually does contain methanol for a reason, and it may be that the error, if any, is that they omitted the menthol.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:48 pm
by Squire
The reasons are financial, or more specifically taxes. The industrial grade alcohol used in cologne/aftershaves is pretty clean stuff so a denaturing agent such as methonal is added so it cannot be consumed. Of course no one is going to pay $60.00 for a bottle of cologne then drink it, that amount of money buys a lot of cheap booze, but if it could be theoretically consumed then the contents can be classified as liquor and taxed at a much higher rate.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:48 am
by mrscruff
I have three Fines, think they're pretty good. Enjoy them.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:23 pm
by blantyre
It was probably "autocorrected" by the typesetting program - you need to sue Microsoft not fines!

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:55 pm
by brothers
blantyre wrote:It was probably "autocorrected" by the typesetting program - you need to sue Microsoft not fines!
The autocorrect scenario sounds very plausible.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:29 pm
by brothers
brothers wrote:Maybe Fine's label is correct to a point, in the event theirs actually does contain methanol for a reason, and it may be that the error, if any, is that they omitted the menthol.
For those of us who tend to follow up with trivia --- the current label on Fine Snake Bite says "menthol" instead of methanol. It was just as we all thought, a typo. Happens to everyone, doesn't it. :)

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:22 pm
by Squire
I'm not sure I think an over reliance on spell check is necessarily a good thing but it is easy to use.

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 2:52 pm
by JayDee
lol My bottle says pure menthol crystals. It's a bona-fide face-freezer par excellence!