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or more likely the brand of vacuum cleaners :)
by opless 5y ago
or more likely the brand of vacuum cleaners :)
- canadianfella 5y agoYou think more people associate “vax” with a relatively small vacuum cleaner company than vaccines?
- mprovost 5y agoI felt quite old recently when someone at work recommended a Vax carpet cleaner and I mentioned that my first email account was on a Vax... and they had no idea what I was talking about. Had never heard of the platform, or of DEC.
- DonaldFisk 5y agoFun fact: the vacuum cleaner company (https://www.vax.co.uk https://www.vax.co.uk) had "Nothing sucks like a VAX!" as its advertising slogan: http://foldoc.org/vax http://foldoc.org/vax
- dhosek 5y agoI have a vague recollection that “nothing sucks like a vax” was a parody and never the vacuum cleaner’s slogan. A cursory google search doesn’t pull up anything authoritative and it seems like most of the claims that the vacuum cleaner people used it are all worded nearly identically. The photocopied afi saw back in the 80s was too on the nose to be really believable, feeling an awful lot like the mouse balls memo.
- DonaldFisk 5y agoIn that case it may be an urban myth, with its origin in the (apparently real) Electrolux advert shown here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180707150205/http://adland.tv/content/nothing-sucks-ad-myth/#comments https://web.archive.org/web/20180707150205/http://adland.tv/...
- dhosek 5y agoThe ad I remember showed an actual vacuum cleaner. I'd seen the one you linked to in my cursory googling. I'd hoped it would have the same vacuum cleaner picture to make the identification that much easier.