Velcro

[oxbob]

Since when did velcro become hook and loop fastening system?

 

[willhub]

As long as I can remember it's being like that, so over 10 years, I don't know the exact date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro

1941 it was invented though.

 

[oxbob]

Has somebody slipped me a tab of acid again?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Velcro - what a rip off!!


IGMC

 

[oxbob]

Ok i am a old git, i was browsing cycling jackets and most referred to hook and loop fastening systems. Ffs it is velcro!!

 

[Headgardener]

I believe Velcro is a copyrighted name and other firms make similar products so they can't call it Velcro thus hook and loop fastening. I expect somebody will come along soon and say that all the above is utter tosh.

 

[colly]

I believe Velcro is a copyrighted name and other firms make similar products so they can't call it Velcro thus hook and loop fastening. I expect somebody will come along soon and say that all the above is utter tosh.

Utter TOSH!

But correct anyway.

Velcro is a trade name just like Hoover or Pepsi.

 

[gavintc]

Well I still hoover floor with the Dyson.

 

[colly]

Funny that, so do I.

 

[PaulB]

Well I still hoover floor with the Dyson.

Well I'm gonna wipe the floor with Mike Tyson!

 

[longers]

Someone in Germany has invented metal velcro, possible applications were said to be putting cars together and hanging cladding on buildings.

Sorry, no punchline, it's true.

 

[jonesy]

Portakabin

I believe Velcro is a copyrighted name and other firms make similar products so they can't call it Velcro thus hook and loop fastening. I expect somebody will come along soon and say that all the above is utter tosh.

This is the sort of thing Private Eye has fun with. They once printed a pompous solicitors' letter from Portakabin in their letters page pointing out that it was a copyrighted name and they shouldn't use it as a generic term for prefabricated mobile buildings, so they responded by using the word Portakabin as a heading throughout the letters page, whether relevant or not.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

This is the sort of thing Private Eye has fun with. They once printed a pompous solicitors' letter from Portakabin in their letters page pointing out that it was a copyrighted name and they shouldn't use it as a generic term for prefabricated mobile buildings, so they responded by using the word Portakabin as a heading throughout the letters page, whether relevant or not.

Yes I remember that too - think they strung it out for a few weeks too!

 

[Arch]

I saw on a t-shirt:

Vini, Vedi, Velcro: I came, I saw, I stuck around.


(also spotted Veni, Vidi, Visa: I came, I saw, I went shopping)