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http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/thermometer.asp

SNOPES SAYS IT'S FALSE

Much as we dislike killing a perfectly good joke by overanalyzing it, the sheer number of people who have written to us about this item to ask "Is this true?" compels us to say something about
it.

Although many manufacturers have tried to appeal to quality-conscious consumers by indicating their products are individually inspected or tested (remember those "Inspected by No. 3" tags found in packages of underwear and the pockets of shirts and pants?), our survey of thermometers available at the local drug store turned up none advertised as "personally tested." (They typically come in packaging identifying them as having been "calibrated for accuracy," or similar phrasing.)

Regardless, the point that some people are apparently missing is that rectal thermometers aren't tested by using them the very same way end consumers would. The "testing" they're put through is a process which ensures they accurately measure a designated range of temperatures, achieved by calibrating them with known temperatures in carefully-controlled conditions. Personal individual testing of rectal thermometers is too labor-intensive and time-consuming a process for such an inexpensive product, nor would it satisfactorily ensure accuracy because the body temperatures of the "testers" would be too variable (and the manufacturer would have to employ a whole lot of very sick people to test their thermometers across the high and low extremes of human body temperature). Aside from that, there are probably at least a few health regulations that prohibit the resale of items which have previously been inserted into someone's rectum.

You might want to check for typos next time you put up some copypasta. "Johnson & Johnson" is the brand.

I do.

Wake up and smell the coffee, bozo! Anal insertion is a major economic factor of the sexual appliance industry in the good old USA, pal. Don't knock it until you've fallen in love with it, okay? Live long and deeply.

how do you know this? mr destroyer haha

Although many manufacturers have tried to appeal to quality-conscious consumers by indicating their products are individually inspected or tested (remember those "Inspected by No. 3" tags found in packages of underwear and the pockets of shirts and pants?), our survey of thermometers available at the local drug store turned up none advertised as "personally tested." (They typically come in packaging identifying them as having been "calibrated for accuracy," or similar phrasing.)

Regardless, the point that some people are apparently missing is that rectal thermometers aren't tested by using them the very same way end consumers would. The "testing" they're put through is a process which ensures they accurately measure a designated range of temperatures, achieved by calibrating them with known temperatures in carefully-controlled conditions. Personal individual testing of rectal thermometers is too labor-intensive and time-consuming a process for such an inexpensive product, nor would it satisfactorily ensure accuracy because the body temperatures of the "testers" would be too variable (and the manufacturer would have to employ a whole lot of very sick people to test their thermometers across the high and low extremes of human body temperature). Aside from that, there are probably at least a few health regulations that prohibit the resale of items which have previously been inserted into someone's rectum.

It'd be a little more amusing if the brand you required people to buy was a real brand like Johnson & Johnson.

That is really great find.
And
I am so glad I do not work in thermometer quality control at Johson & Johson.

What kind of person would wake up in the morning and think "I am glad I work at Johnson & Johnson?

You just made me appreciate my job SO SO much more!