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Thread Number: 16389
One more use for your vacuum . . . |
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| Post# 174988 3/27/2012 at 10:08 (4,409 days old) by venson () | ||
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Done the rug and think your cleaning day is is over? Uh-huh. Don't forget the stuffed bear. See following link. CLICK HERE TO GO TO venson's LINK 
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| Post# 174992 , Reply# 2 3/27/2012 at 10:40 (4,409 days old) by Sanifan () | ||
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OK, it is not so bad. A little expensive, but prices for the Museum Vac are in reasonable range for a vacuum. This is a whole new category of vacuums I did not know extisted. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Sanifan's LINK | ||
| Post# 175002 , Reply# 4 3/27/2012 at 12:06 (4,409 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
Sanifan, the UK's preference to call everything a "Hoover" when they mean they are going to clean something with a vacuum cleaner comes right down to the Hoover company themselves and their constant reference to "hoovering." It isn't unusual given that the U.S are probably unique in terming ever day goods with the brand name, rather than the word, proper and correct.
For example, U.S WORDS: Band-Aid = Plaster Scotch Tape = Adhesive tape 'OJ = Orange Juice There are of course tons of British words that the U.S don't "get" like our awful, rather gutteral word for "butt", starts with "A" and rhymes with Farce! But, it's just weird that American's don't get the idea of "hoovering," given the U.S/American origins of the Hoover company. | ||
| Post# 175007 , Reply# 5 3/27/2012 at 12:49 (4,409 days old) by danemodsandy () | ||
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Hoovering:.... ....DOES have a meaning in the U.S. It's just not a polite one - much as the word "shag" does not usually bring up thoughts of carpet in the U.K. | ||
| Post# 175008 , Reply# 6 3/27/2012 at 12:56 (4,409 days old) by danemodsandy () | ||
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You Know the Joke: "Britain and America - two great nations separated by a common language." | ||
| Post# 175012 , Reply# 7 3/27/2012 at 13:28 (4,409 days old) by twocvbloke () | ||
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"Scotch Tape = Adhesive tape" nononononooooooo, if we are to believe Blue Peter, it's "Sticky-Backed plastic"... :P Either that or sticky tape, or Sellotape (brand name), clear tape or just tape... :P | ||
| Post# 175040 , Reply# 12 3/27/2012 at 17:45 (4,409 days old) by venson () | ||
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Points re language all well taken but . . . No one's told us the best way to vacuum a stuffed and mounted bear. And don't say, "Very carefully.":) | ||
| Post# 175053 , Reply# 13 3/27/2012 at 19:55 (4,409 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
I know this thread is going seriously "off-topic", but I too am a bit fascinated by how some brandnames became synonymous with their major product.
One major one in North America is "Kleenex" - I can't think of any time in my life that I ever referred to the item as a "facial tissue"! The other brandname that really became our "Hoover" here in North America is "frigidaire" for refrigerator. Even my European-born grandparents used to refer to their refrigerators as "frigidaires." Another one is "garbarator" - not sure how that term arose for a "garbage disposal", but we used the term all the time. The only brand-name close to it was "In-Sink-Erator" - but to this day, I have no idea which company coined the term "garbarator"! | ||
| Post# 175211 , Reply# 14 3/29/2012 at 06:26 (4,407 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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I dont think Brits even go as far to saying "facial tissue." We use "hankie" or "tissue."
When I was younger, living in a town in Scotland than had Americans staying here, we assumed Americans were just lazy because they couldn't be bothered to use the right term. Certainly from my own experiences where American families persisted to drive cars with an auto-shift, this wrong assumption merely increased because of the way the Americans in the town just wanted things that took the strain out of lifting a finger! What I do realise now, much as I'm older is that the U.S were highly intelligent and probably very much a country that were before their time in inventiveness. We Brits however had to suffer the traditional ways and means of lifestyle products - it didn't do us wrong - but we could have had the same kind of products if we hadn't have been stuck in our conservative ways. | ||
| Post# 175229 , Reply# 15 3/29/2012 at 12:55 (4,407 days old) by trebor () | ||
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GE coined the term.. Disposall with 2 'l' s | ||
Post# 175312 , Reply# 16 3/30/2012 at 01:28 (4,407 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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"Skilsaw" for any handheld portable circular saw-other than those made by Skil. | ||
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