Your “izing” posts reminded me of the US-Canadian fur cleaning competitors. Forgive the long cut & paste.
Biff, does your family have any of the blue & orange coat hangers?
“Shinerizing was the trade name of Scientific Fur Cleaning Ltd. . . . a Toronto-based fur cleaning and storage company founded in the early nineteen thirties. The company name was derived from the company owners’ last name (Hyman Shiner and sons Sol and Huck). Shinerizing invented many fur cleaning methods that are now industry standards worldwide, and their fire-engine red delivery vans were easily recognized throughout Ontario. In the early 1990s, the company was sold to a competitor. Their trademark blue and orange coat hangers continue to linger in the closets of Torontonians everywhere.
A comparable process in the US during the 1930s was Hollanderizing (named for Adolph Hollander’s Newark-based company “A. Hollander Fur Dressers and Dyers Ltd.”), giving rise to the now-mysterious lyrics in “Take back your mink” (Guys and Dolls, 1950):
Take back your mink
To from whence it came…
And tell ’em to Hollanderize it for some other dame!”
bfarwell’s been really good about the wisecracks about his name. I think we ought to drop it already- and randi- perhaps you need glasses. Or a personality upgrade.
I ordered a Lenovo laptop this morning, after these past two weeks when my 2002 thinkpad began dying. I can’t wait to get it next week.
Before digital photography, I once Polarized an ex-girlfriend.
“What happens if you get your underwear “Simonized” like at a car wash? Does it come back with that new car scent?”
No, it comes back with a former American Idol judge’s accent.
Your “izing” posts reminded me of the US-Canadian fur cleaning competitors. Forgive the long cut & paste.
Biff, does your family have any of the blue & orange coat hangers?
“Shinerizing was the trade name of Scientific Fur Cleaning Ltd. . . . a Toronto-based fur cleaning and storage company founded in the early nineteen thirties. The company name was derived from the company owners’ last name (Hyman Shiner and sons Sol and Huck). Shinerizing invented many fur cleaning methods that are now industry standards worldwide, and their fire-engine red delivery vans were easily recognized throughout Ontario. In the early 1990s, the company was sold to a competitor. Their trademark blue and orange coat hangers continue to linger in the closets of Torontonians everywhere.
A comparable process in the US during the 1930s was Hollanderizing (named for Adolph Hollander’s Newark-based company “A. Hollander Fur Dressers and Dyers Ltd.”), giving rise to the now-mysterious lyrics in “Take back your mink” (Guys and Dolls, 1950):
Take back your mink
To from whence it came…
And tell ’em to Hollanderize it for some other dame!”
bfarwell’s been really good about the wisecracks about his name. I think we ought to drop it already- and randi- perhaps you need glasses. Or a personality upgrade.
What happens if you get your underwear “Simonized” like at a car wash?
Does it come back with that new car scent?
purple nurple????
Randolph’s in the house!
“does giving another male a purple nurple qualify as
a GOTD or HOTD?”
LOL, Legion. I suppose that could go either way (pun intended).