"To Hoover" vs. "To Vacuum"

Hilarious!

Brits using an Ancient American Tradename -- perhaps the blokes and

Frank ess...

Idle conversation (after the manner of aue):
Questioneer: What is the most impressive technical accomplishment of
Man?
First observer: Mmm, Space Flight: breaking the bonds of gravity
and...
Second observer: Errr, Any Kind of Flight: braking the bonds ...
Third observer: Hmph, that's easy: the Thermos® bottle.
First and Second observers and Questioneer (chorus): Wha'? What's so
technologically impressive about a Thermos® bottle?
Third observer: Hey, you put something hot in it and it stays hot; put
something cold in it and it stays cold!
F&S & Q: Huh? So?
Third observer: Yeah, but: how does it _know_?

Oleg Lego...

Darn things don't work. I tried one the other day to take a snack for
work... a cuppa coffee and some ice cream.

Grey Satterfield...

It's a miracle! :)

Actually the three most important inventions of the Industrial Age are (1)
sliced bread, (2) canned beer, and (3) the Post-It note.

Grey Satterfield

Peter Jason...

There was a small vignette in Gore Vidal's
'Palimpsest' alluding to the author "writhing
on the bed" all night while being "vacuumed"
by a hunky sailor boy.

Of course my gorge rose in disgust upon
reading this!

Forcing myself to read further, I was
outraged to find that in San Francisco during
WWII, when the fleet was in town, certain
establishments of uncertain repute opened to
cater for stampeding hordes of navy personnel
from admirals to kitchen boys, who, having
eyed off each other all those months at sea,
now took the opportunity to take their
associations to new depths; as it were.

All vestiges of my innocence vanished at this
point, and I am exceedingly suspicious of
that "family coat of arms that ties at the
back" you mention above. What about the whip
and spurs?

boseley...

Not sure of the spelling, but yes you have the correct meaning and I agree.
I thought it was used only in Yorkshire,

blokettes say "Kleenex" too.

Educated Americans prefer to be More Enlightened and Sophisticated -- not
slaves and slavettes to tradenames.

Not only "quaint" but Hilarious!

Paul C...

Personally I dyson (well Mrs C does!)

Far superior to outmoded US technology.

Grey Satterfield...

My mother used "Hoover" both as a noun to describe her carpet sweeper and as
a verb to describe the act of sweeping. Usually the sweeper really was a
Hoover.

Grey Satterfield

Another Sterling Example of Beneficent American Cultural Imperialism and
Good, Old Yankee Know-How civilizing those lesser breeds without the law in
Europe, and elsewhere throughout the World.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Deus Vult