footbag

[cimorene]

Did you know that Hacky Sack is a brand name? It's actually called a "footbag".

That seems even funnier at 5 am than 5 pm, and it's still pretty damn good right now.

Comments

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered why it's not 'play hacky sack' in the Sims.

Huh. Learn something new every day.

[dunautremonde.livejournal.com]

Yeah it seems like a lot of words in the English language are like that, but tonight I can only think of Kleenex(™!!!)

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Q-tips! I used to wonder about that one. Do they even have a non-brand specific name?

[dunautremonde.livejournal.com]

Not to mention just about every over-the-counter drug - aspirin and tynenol, to name a few.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

They're called cotton swabs.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Google! Heh.

Hoover for vacuum. And in the southeast, "Coke" means any carbonated beverage.

[morningfine]

...I never knew there was a brand name for footbags. Though I think I've heard the brand name somewhere but it didn't register as good clean fun. (I don't know what it registered as but come on, it does sound vaguely compromising!)

[vass]

Was it a brand name first?

I ask because of Elastix(tm), about which I am still furious and bitter.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

It didn't say anything about appropriation in the wikipedia article, so I guess it was.