In this month's installment of Selling It:
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Check out more head-shakers.
Easy care
Eventually the khaki pants with this label should be able to stand on their own.
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Drying off? Call a doc.
This warning appeared on this scary and technically complex exercise product, which you use “to improve your grip on the mat.”
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Talk about a shutdown
No doubt the office crams a lot of work into that minute.
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Frankly speaking
This calendar paired an image with each activity listed: a sneaker with a walkathon, for instance. Someone with a quirky sense of humor must have picked the pic for prostate screening.
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Thrilled to pieces
“We decided to pass on this excursion,” wrote a couple from Brooklyn.
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Golden Cocoon Award
The 14 headbands that a reader received from Dick’s Sporting Goods arrived individually or in pairs, she said, “requiring this ungodly amount of packaging.”
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State of confusion
“Call me picky,” said an Indiana reader, “but I don’t think I want to take a professional engineer license-renewal course from a company that cannot tell the difference between Illinois and Indiana.”
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This article appeared in the February 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
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