Sticky tapes, sellotape, vacuum, hoover..
How many more examples are there of this?
I don't know if these things still work in the States - do you even get sellotape in the States? Maybe thats a seperate question.
Anyway, how many more of these are there where a brand has total monopoly of a name? Yes its Monday morning.
Sticky Tape - Sellotape
Vacuum cleaner - Hoover
Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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cola - Coke
flavoured Milk Drink - Breaka
Pay Tv - austar in my area, its foxtel in the city
thanks,
dizzy
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"It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community"- Niccolò Machiavelli.
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Cola - Coke
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Packaged rubbish : McDonalds...
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Did you know, if you allow a trade mark to become a generic term for, say, a biro, you loose the trademark protection?
The consequence being there are trade mark lawyers who have to spend all day writing letters like "Dear sir, I notice that in "Temporary Constructions Weekly" you refer to a generic modular building system as a "portacabin". Please note that "Portacabin" is in fact a trade mark of our client Sadbastard Ltd, and the correct term is modular building system. Yours Sincerely"
It must be a fate worse than death.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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In our exams in school we were forbidden to use terms like Word, Excel, Access etc. If you used them they were treated as gibberish. You had to say Word Processor Application, Spreadsheet Application, Program that looks like a database but is actually a series of flat files with crazy algorithms etc.
Biro is a good one.
Word Processor - Word
Spreadsheet - Excel
Presentation Software - Powerpoint
Photocopier - Xerox
Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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Operating System - (Mcrosoft)Windows
"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
- Edmund Blackadder
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Minimal intelligence - RTW AI
Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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(UK) Toilet - (US) Bathroom
Originally Posted by Ranika
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Condom-Durex.
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plaster - bandaid
moving staircase - escalator
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Compleate stupidity- BKS lol only mesing mate.
"A lamb goes to the slaughter but a man, he knows when to walk away."
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Teh Ban!!!!111ONE-tibilicus.
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
"Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut
"Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.
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fabric plaster- Elastoplast
Correction Fluid - White out
Headache tablet- Panadol most of the time
i can't remember any more
thanks,
dizzy
{LORE}
"It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community"- Niccolò Machiavelli.
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Ahh, over here its:Correction Fluid - White out
Correction Fluid - Tipex
Nitrous oxide for cars - NOS
Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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