This was my fav when I lived in San Diego.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&tbs=isch:1

 

CAUTION: People will steal your blindfolded children!

 

Ah Freeway Dancers. We have them too, though I understand California is where it is a major problem.

 

There is always a funny person.

 

One of my long time fav's of this catigory

 

This is the one that I have used in dealing with contract work:

http://www.sixside.com/img/fast-good-cheap.gif

I ask them, "I can do it fast, cheap, and good... which two do you want?"

 

This is the one that I have used in dealing with contract work:

http://www.sixside.com/img/fast-good-cheap.gif

I ask them, "I can do it fast, cheap, and good... which two do you want?"

Very commonly used in the automotive world as well.

 

Warning signs on Korean semi process equipment we are installing.

 

From what I can remember...

 

ha ha! those last two are a riot! i don't know what the one with the cat and the mouse means, and then the last one is so obvious unless someone is color blind.

It reminds me of a company i worked at recently, where we had a color blind person making the connections from a sensor board to the sensor package!

He had to deal with those light blue, blue stripes, green stripes, brown stripes, red stripes, etc, and they all looked like different colors to him!

I was NOT the project manager on that one! Let me just say that I don't think it would be improper discrimination to make sure that someone hooking up color-coded cables is NOT color blind!

 

Years ago ,I thought I would confound a burglar with a sign
( CAUTION-- FALLING BULLETS) Years later the T.V. news
announced that the police stay uncover for the few minutes
after New Years eve because falling bullets can kill you.

 

To laugh at the orange cable label is to be shortsighted enough (pun intended) to forget there are people in the world that are color blind.

 

To laugh at the orange cable label is to be shortsighted enough (pun intended) to forget there are people in the world that are color blind.

It would make more sense not to label it "orange cable" but "video cable", "data cable", or whatever the cable actually does. I think that's the best part, how obvious and useless the information is.

 

tom66, the only reason to label a cable like that is for colour blind people it's that simple. It's perfectly rational and more than likley the true reason the tag being on there.
In bulk wiring situations you wouldn't have cables marked 'video/data' cable, it doesn't work like that and there's a good reason. Specifications can change and it's easier to use colored or numbered wires and then cite the specification for the actual function.

I'm sorry that one particular picture just isn't funny, there's too much that's perfectly logical about it.

 

Personally I always dealt with either functionally labeled or serially numbered cables... color coding runs out fast.
There's also less language variation between numbers as there is with letters so the tag could be smaller

 

Industry doesn't agree though Ghar, every single last UTP communication cable you'll ever find in the real world will be color coded. Do a Google image search for communication cable. Obviously most of them don't have labels but for a larger cable the tag for word identification probably cost a penny to add to the cable, just one of those random 'value added' things that some companies do, like USB cable ends that glow when connected, the smd resistor and led for those probably cost the company an extra dime.

 

As with most things there are standards for fiber cables. and "orange" is one of them.

http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ColCodes.htm

The "UN" label tag did give me a chuckle.

 

Industry doesn't agree though Ghar, every single last UTP communication cable you'll ever find in the real world will be color coded. Do a Google image search for communication cable. Obviously most of them don't have labels but for a larger cable the tag for word identification probably cost a penny to add to the cable, just one of those random 'value added' things that some companies do, like USB cable ends that glow when connected, the smd resistor and led for those probably cost the company an extra dime.

Well yeah, in an actual cable labels are sort of impossible for all sorts of reasons, one being that you manufacture a several thousand foot spool of cable for general usage.

When you get into a single cable with more than a dozen conductors the colors often repeat. One cable that gave me trouble recently was a 15-conductor cable which had only 3 different colors. While terminating it the tech must've blinked and swapped a wire. It's still better than no color but it's awfully limited, I would never rely on it for interconnecting systems.

I've done industrial ethernet/coax/phone installation before, every cable (which had color coded UTP inside of course) needed a unique serial number as they were strung across a multi floor building with hundreds of cables entering a single room.

That 'orange cable' tag is a system level label, not an individual wire identifier.
In that picture you can also see that they labeled at least two cables as 'orange cable'... the only information it's providing is that 'this is cable variety A' for a color blind person, though you can tell that by feeling the thing or just looking at it, I'd say its fiber. Since they did put a massive tag they could've made it say what the thing is and where it goes.

Edit:
Annnd I didn't read nsaspook's post until now. That does justify the tag since the cable variety is an important piece of information and the cables would look/feel identical otherwise (aside from fine print on the jacket I suppose). I haven't worked enough with fiber to run into the variations.