Hoover
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So many people had bought Hoovers that everyone now had a Hoover, and people started selling them off cheaply secondhand, which meant that no one was going into shops and buying new Hoovers, because they were on every street corner. The Observer said, if left uncontrolled, Britain could soon be knee-deep in Hoover TurboMaster uprights.
from 335: No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 at 00:16:08 · read transcript
Other times Hoover came up
Actually, it was Nixon's successor, of course, who was one of the only three presidents, US presidents, who haven't been time person of the old time man of the year since it started. So embarrassing. The first two were very early on. The first two were Coolidge and Hoover. We've talked about how relevant Coolidge was before. I think one of my favorite, Dorothy Parker, quotes, when she was told that he died and she said something like, how can they tell?
No Such Thing As A Crown Of Willie Thornes, 2020-05-22 · listen
This was a drug called Aspiro, and this was devised in 1915. It was called Aspiro because the aspirin name was taken by Bayer. It was the same as aspirin. Aspirin is it's like saying jacuzzi or Hoover. They are technically, yeah, but didn't Bayer lose the copyright to lose the trademark to it because they literally let anyone use it and they never sued anyone. I think they lost it in the Treaty of Versailles.
143: No Such Thing As Chariots in Space, 2016-12-10 · listen
That's like putting it in a sort of bag with a dollar sign on it. It's very impressive, though, to steal a sewage truck, to think of that, because I would have just gone along with a Henry Hoover and tried to take a little bit. I think that would be the great escape level way of doing it, going in as a cleaner every day and just like getting a little bit in your Hoover.
229: No Such Thing As The Great Modesto, 2018-08-10 · listen
Once it gets down to your stomach, there's a magnet placed outside your body that triggers an electric current that melts that little wax pellet. It opens the sack up. Then the sack can hoover up all the mucus in your stomach lining and then it'll carry it out like a little hoover bag. Then you poo it out and you return the hoover bag to the doctor.
No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi, 2020-03-13 · listen
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