Posted on 01/20/2019 7:03:28 AM PST by NOBO2012
Christ, Stinky Cheese is the worst.. that and black licorice.
Anything else I’ll eat.
Maytag had the rights to Hoover vacuums in the UK for a number of years. They ran a promotion for vacuum sweeper buyers that included a drawing for one couple’s free week in a Paris hotel.
The promo was so poorly written that a judge ruled that everyone who bought a new Hoover was due a free week in Paris.
I was a vendor for Maytag for many years.
When natural gas got expensive or was curtailed, Maytag switched to residual oil to make steam at the plant. I delivered the oil in tank cars.
I remember getting a call from the buyer that went, “...remember that oil we bought from you? Would you be interested in buying it back?
The plant closed a few months later—the brand name bought by Whirlpool.
A friend once tried to smuggle unpasteurized brie on an airplane and it seeped through the wrappers. It won’t be stopped.
You should write a book! You REALLY should. The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.....or something like that.
You made me laugh! I smuggled some French cheese back to America for my mother. I declared everything EXCEPT the cheese and when the officer checked my list he looked me in the eye and sniffed the air, saying, “Is that all?” I looked straight back and told the biggest lie of my life. I said, “Yes, that is all.” He hesitated a moment, then grinned a sly grin and waved me through. He must have liked bleu cheese too.
Look up Maytag on Wikipedia.
The Hoover story is listed, along with the “Neptune” disaster.
That is great that he made a harmless exception to the rules. Cops do that all the time, and it isn’t just that they’re avoiding the paperwork. Good story. Shows that people do it a lot.
That was many years ago. I doubt I could get away with it now. He did give me a co-conspirator smile and I’ll never forget his snif-snif over my carryon bag.
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