RTQ.
There was this bloke who used to bug us by failing to read that actual 'question' behind "question of the week" once, so we told the daft bugger that if he continued to pick his nose, He'd damage his brain.

Never in our lives did we assume that he'd be so ignorant that he'd actually believe us, but rumour has it that he went to see a DOCTOR to ask about it!!!

(I don't think there was a sub-clause in the question saying "only write something if the particular case of ignorance had potentialy dire concequences")
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Mon 10 Jan 2005, 8:27, Reply)