Date:  Sun, 1 Oct 1995 21:44:33 -0400

From:  Seth Sklarey <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET>

Subject: Re: icebox



From: Seth Sklarey

   Coconut Grove FL

  crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ipof.fla.net



Have been reading ADS-L for several weeks and it is my favorite spot on the

'net,

and I subscribed.



My folks who were born 1901 & 1905 and were raised in Newark, NJ, used to always

it the icebox and eventually evolved to calling it the Fridgidaire or the

Fridge.

There is a word for when brand names become the generic but I forget what it

is.

What is interesting about the iceboxis that my father had a friend, Louis

Ulanet,

an inventor,who was bothered that the melting ice from the icebox would fill

the container beneath the box and overflow to wet the floor. He invented a

bell which

rang when the container was almost full. From this he invented and developed

and

patented the thermostat, which made him millions. Whenever I hear the word

icebox

I think of him. He also invented the nose scissor, those short scissors

with the

rounded tips.



Since you all have been off Mondegreens for a week, I thought I'd offer one

of my

own. "Politics makes strange buffaloes."





Seth Sklarey

Wittgenstein School of the Unwritten Word

Coconut Grove, FL



crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ipof.fla.net



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>b. 1959, Atlanta, GA

>

>like Natalie, I rarely hear either range or icebox here in the South. I don't

>remember any of my relatives saying icebox, though my father might say

>something like that in jest. My grandmother called hers a frigidaire, which it

>took me many years to decipher.

>

>Ellen JOhnson ejohnson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cc.memphis.edu

>

>