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What makes a vacuum suck

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Do you know how a vacuum is made? Pull up a chair and learn about it the way your 5 year old would.

Did you ever get tired of dragging your old canister vacuum around the house? Well maybe what you need is a central vacuum. A central vacuum is to your handheld what a central air conditioner is to your old window air conditioner. You install a big suction motor and dust canister in your garage. Then add a series of tubes/pipes through your walls into each room. Each room gets an outlet with a suction cap. When you are ready to clean, you bring the vacuum head and attached tube into a room, snap it into the vacuums wall jack and suck it up. Take a look at this video to get a handle on what it looks like:

Famous for Doing Nothing

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He has to be one of the most easily recognized pitchmen on TV. He does nothing. He’s the most bored, lonely guy we know and he’s been missing in action for months. But not any more. He’s back. They found him.

Could it be this guy? I’d pick him just for his creative audition.

Well it’s a big enough deal to make the world news. Check it out:

If these guys don’t heat your clothes, check out this vintage clip with an earlier pitch girl.

Appliance.net, back in February: Whirlpool Seeks New Maytag Repairman

Handheld Vacuum – Video Torture Test

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Popular Mechanics compares with dry flour and wet kitty litter

  1. Black & Decker 18volt Pivoting Nose Cordless Hand Vac
  2. Dirt Devil Kone
  3. Dyson Root 6 DC16 Handheld Vacuum Cleaner – $149 at Amazon

The impatient can order the winner. Seems like the only benefit of the conclusive loser is that you can get it in designer colors.

Hot Fuzz – Killing Refrigerator Magnates With Comedy

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hot fuzz posterFrom the makers of “Shaun of the Dead” comes this weekend’s hot buzz movie release “Hot Fuzz”.

In a parody of American cop movies “Bad Boys”, the posters for this movie read “They’re bad boys. They’re die hards. They’re lethal weapons. They are… HOT FUZZ”.

What on EARTH does this movie have to do with kitchen or home appliances? Cereal murder, maybe? Nah.

Apparently one of the victims is a “refrigerator magnate”.

Which got me thinking… in what movies or TV shows have home appliances played a prominent role, or at least a funny line?

I’ll start this off…

  • Lilo & Stitch:
    Nani: You are so finished when I get in there! I’m gonna stuff you in the blender, push “puree,” then bake you into a pie and feed it to the social worker! And when he says, “Mmmm, this is great, what’s your secret?” I’m gonna say…
    [Mr. Bubbles hooks his foot around hers and pulls her away from the dog-door]
    Nani: …Love… and… nurturing…
  • ALF:
    Alf: The cat won’t fit in the toaster. Never mind, I’ll make a peanut butter sandwich, where’s the blender?
  • The Simpsons
    Marge Simpson:     Ooh, the toaster takes bagels. How ritzy.
  • Kate & Leopold
    Leopold: Why is it called a toaster when it produces no toast, but simply warm bread, and inserting it two times produces charcoal? The ideal toaster would have one and a half insertions to produce the correct toast.

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