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And young children (and occasionally their parents jocularly imitating them) talk about "hooving" the carpet, because a "hoover" is obviously a machine for "hoo
by bloak 6y ago
And young children (and occasionally their parents jocularly imitating them) talk about "hooving" the carpet, because a "hoover" is obviously a machine for "hooving", right?
- dane-pgp 6y agoIt behooves those parents to teach them the proper verb.
- linksnapzz 6y ago“Is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after multiple murders?!!” “Of course. Why do you think it’s run by a man called Hoover?” This was a joke in the ‘80s Clue movie; albeit probably funnier to the English writer and the English actor saying the lines, as Hoover as a generecized trademark for vacuum cleaner is more popular there.
- jkaplowitz 6y agoEven in the US, it's such a well-known brand that the joke still works well, despite Hoover not being so dominant as to have become the generic word for vacuum cleaner.
- chrisdhoover 6y agoTo vacuum, vacuuming, vacuumed