Re: Dust-sucker [Was: Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages]

On Jun 25, 5:16 am, "Reinhold (Rey) Aman" <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Nothing sucks like an Electrolux."

In the 1960s, the Swedish Electrolux company successfully marketed
vacuums in the United Kingdom with the slogan "Nothing sucks like an
Electrolux." British consumers took the slogan literally because
"sucks" as a term of disparagement is strictly an Americanism.

In the 1960s??

I associate "that sucks" with the 00s or maybe the 90s.

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