Studies have shown that using humor with a request or a regulation can improve compliance rates by 5x! So rather than beat people over the head with an authoritarian message, get creative and always look for opportunities to add humor to your signs, rules, regulations, policy directives or nag notes. The London Underground, for example, recently received great press with the following sign displayed in their subway:

Anyone caught without a valid ticket will be told the ending of the new Star Wars Movie (and have to pay a penalty fare).

• Readers of the Valley News may have noticed that we misspelled our own name on the front of yesterday's newspaper. For the record - we feel silly.
• In a recipe we recently published for salsa, one of the ingredients was misstated. The correct ingredient is '2 tsp. of cilantro' instead of '2 tsp. of cement.'
• A French newspaper accidentally used a photo of Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin as an official Sarah Palin photo.
• And from the Ottawa Citizen: In correcting the incorrect statements about Mr. Steyn published Oct. 15, we incorrectly published the incorrect correction. We accept and regret that our original regrets were unacceptable.