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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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And before that, there were vacuum cleaners.
Everybody called them Hoovers, and Hoover itself became a verb.
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:44, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
before?
I think you'll find Kodak was before that. Kodak started in 1888
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:45, Reply)
Before all cameras were referred to as Kodaks
Unless I have the time slots wrong.

Hot diggidy, this is a boring sub thread.
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:46, Reply)
not at all!
Hoover apparently was 1908. Cameras were call Kodaks mostly around the turn of the century, with the introduction of the box brownie.

I don't know what you mean about boring
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:48, Reply)
Also sellotape

(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:48, Reply)
also
your ass
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:49, Reply)
What did I do?
*innocents*
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:50, Reply)
i don't know
sounded like a good insult, though, right?
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:51, Reply)
I am hurt.
so I suppose it worked.

twice in one thread.
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:58, Reply)
Also Tannoy
which is a trade name. As is heroin.
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:47, Reply)
As is cheese.

(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:49, Reply)
And cheddar
doesn't refer to the place the cheese is made, but the process by which it's made.
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:52, Reply)
which is where you get the verb
"to ched..."
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:53, Reply)
If you're not going to take it seriously, we might as well stop right here.

(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:54, Reply)
but, but it's FACT

(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:55, Reply)
Scientific fact

(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:55, Reply)
Crabs = paedophiles.
FACT.
(, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:57, Reply)

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