I can't take it anymore. (quote, difference, words)

[Rubi3]

"....people are so bad at drawing right position, diameter, structure of figure or environment when they are not tough!...."

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Retriever

Similarly, many older folks used to refer to all refrigerators as, "The Frigidaire".

I don't think my mother ever stopped calling it an "icebox". Even though my earliest childhood memory, it was electric.

[suzy_q2010]

Originally Posted by Retriever

Similarly, many older folks used to refer to all refrigerators as, "The Frigidaire".

My parents actually had a Frigidaire!

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Sudcaro

I often hear, and even say "Kleenex" for a tissue.
I guess the list of things we call after a brand is endless!

Years ago, Writer's Digest had an article on this (which they've probably had again--they seem to recycle their articles with slight changes/different authors every couple of years). There are a lot of things that are brand names that people use to describe things in a generic manner, such as Kleenex or Bandaid or Rollerblade. You can't do it, legally.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

I don't know if I would have admitted that.

LOL, why not? He was born in 1921. He called the refrigerator "the icebox".

[Gerania]

Did he ever refer to the Philco?

[missik999]

On Fox news: "It makes not one iola of sense."

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

LOL, why not? He was born in 1921. He called the refrigerator "the icebox".

The Victrola wasn't one of those cylinder players, was it?

[Retriever]

Originally Posted by missik999

On Fox news: "It makes not one iola of sense."

I'm not really surprised when you think about the source of that gaffe.

When you consider that one of their local stations came up with the, "scoop", regarding the names of the cabin crew of that Asiana Airlines plane, and managed to be, "punked", by whoever provided the obviously bogus names, clearly you are not dealing with the intelligentsia at that news outlet. In case you didn't see the news coverage of this goof, the Fox newscaster (the obligatory blonde) informed viewers that the cabin crew's names were:

Sum Ting Wong
Wai Tu Lo
Ho Lee "Fook" (I had to alter the name slightly in order to get past C-D's software that screens for obscenities)
and
Bang Ding Ow

I really don't blame the newscaster as much as I blame the news producer and the fact-checkers that they are supposed to employ, but, for something so clearly bogus to be aired, somebody (or, more likely, multiple people) had to be asleep at the switch.

[missik999]

Originally Posted by Retriever

I'm not really surprised when you think about the source of that gaffe.

When you consider that one of their local stations came up with the, "scoop", regarding the names of the cabin crew of that Asiana Airlines plane, and managed to be, "punked", by whoever provided the obviously bogus names, clearly you are not dealing with the intelligentsia at that news outlet. In case you didn't see the news coverage of this goof, the Fox newscaster (the obligatory blonde) informed viewers that the cabin crew's names were:

Sum Ting Wong
Wai Tu Lo
Ho Lee "Fook" (I had to alter the name slightly in order to get past C-D's software that screens for obscenities)
and
Bang Ding Ow

I really don't blame the newscaster as much as I blame the news producer and the fact-checkers that they are supposed to employ, but, for something so clearly bogus to be aired, somebody (or, more likely, multiple people) had to be asleep at the switch.

The station blamed it on an intern, who had "erroneously" verified the names.