#2920

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#2922

sitting at the PC... leaving this window open, posting nothin' when I pass over it each time :)

2923

#2924 ... back to you MT :)

2925.... why thank you... your turn

2926 - I'll go again... gotta walk away for a while....

2927

2928

For those of you who do not know what ESAD means........you'll find it in the Texas dictionary.

2929

Bum- Bum- Bumble Bee

Bumble Bee Tuna

2930 - cursing about my cut finger (broken wine bottle!)... I have a boo-boo!!! grrr....

2931
*kisses your boo-boo*

#2932

thanks Lilith... after about 4 band-aids soaking through it finally stopped bleeding... next time I will need to be more careful with broken glass :)

this leads to my next trend to post here.... things that get refered to as a class of stuff under someone's trademark name...

#2933

Kleenex

#2934

before the term SUV was coined... everything "off road" was a "Jeep"

2935

"Q-tip"

though not universal I noticed this one in Atlanta...

the waitress asked us if we wanted something to drink, she asked if we wanted a "coke" and then proceeded to list the different kinds... "sprite", "orange", etc... must have something to do with the Coca-Cola headquarters being there :)

2936

"band aid"

2937

at the moment I am drawing a blank... I know that there have to be more....

2938

"scotch tape"

2939

2940

a "popsicle" (trademark of Good Humor)

2941

"white out"

although no longer as common,

a "xerox"

2942

a little more modern...

a "post-it"

2943

"styrofoam"

owned by Dow Chemical

2944

"thermos"

2945

"escalator" (Otis Elevator Co.)

2946

"Jell-O"

2947

2948

"hi-liter" (Avery Dennison Corporation)

"walkman" (SONY corp.)

2949

seeing as might have a lot of useless info in my head I could try to take credit for knowing all of those... but, no... I'm just not that bright :) I found a lot of these at http://www.prairienet.org/~rkrause/brands.html, though many I had though of before finding the site :D

2950

here are some more from: http://www.themaxx.com/v/brands/

2951

2952

"cellophane"

"frisbee" (this part is from personal recollection of a story told to me) originates from the Frisbie baking company and the forms that the pies were delivered in, the delivery guys would toss them around... heck, I even found a reference to it: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980218.htm


2953

"laundromat" - apparently owned by Westinghouse

2954

"rollerblade"

2955

2956

"sheetrock"

2957

"ziploc"

2958

"zipper" (B. F. Goodrich Company)

see: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa082497.htm

OK.... I'm done with this trend... :D
2959