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26 Sep 2020, 1:39 pm

"nothing sucks like an Electrolux"



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26 Sep 2020, 1:58 pm

:lol:



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26 Sep 2020, 2:52 pm

What about KISS? :lol:


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26 Sep 2020, 4:06 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
What about KISS? :lol:


Keep it simple, son.

Keep it simple, smartypants.

Keep it short and simple.



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26 Sep 2020, 4:09 pm

Space50 wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
What about KISS? :lol:


Keep it simple, son.

Keep it simple, smartypants.

Keep it short and simple.


Nope, not that KISS.

My dad had two words of wisdom for me when I was growing up. KISS sucks.
I didn't get it until Slipknot came out and I was just a bit too old to get into them and basically just updated the slogan. I've outgrown that specific toxicity, but I get it. :mrgreen:


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26 Sep 2020, 6:50 pm

Space50 wrote:
"nothing sucks like an Electrolux"


Actually, the phrase is “Nothing sucks like a VAX!” (Both the British Vacuum Cleaner manufacturer, and the former Computer line manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation.



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26 Sep 2020, 7:40 pm

Electrolux is a Swedish vacuum cleaner company. They said "nothing sucks like an Electrolux". A myth is that they didn't know that if something sucks in English that means it's bad when they made the phrase, but in reality the pun was intentional.



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26 Sep 2020, 8:04 pm

Space50 wrote:
Electrolux is a Swedish vacuum cleaner company. They said "nothing sucks like an Electrolux". A myth is that they didn't know that if something sucks in English that means it's bad when they made the phrase, but in reality the pun was intentional.


I was trying to point out the phrase was used many decades ago by the Manufacturer of the VAX Vacuum cleaner based in Birmingham, UK.

Can I help it some smart ass stole the phrase to describe how they felt about Digital Equipment Corp line of mini computers that used Virtual Addressing eXtended architecture?