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a "popsicle" (trademark of Good Humor)

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"white out"

although no longer as common,

a "xerox"

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a little more modern...

a "post-it"

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"styrofoam"

owned by Dow Chemical

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"thermos"

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"escalator" (Otis Elevator Co.)

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"Jell-O"

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"hi-liter" (Avery Dennison Corporation)

"walkman" (SONY corp.)

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seeing as might have a lot of useless info in my head I could try to take credit for knowing all of those... but, no... I'm just not that bright :) I found a lot of these at http://www.prairienet.org/~rkrause/brands.html, though many I had though of before finding the site :D

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here are some more from: http://www.themaxx.com/v/brands/

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"cellophane"

"frisbee" (this part is from personal recollection of a story told to me) originates from the Frisbie baking company and the forms that the pies were delivered in, the delivery guys would toss them around... heck, I even found a reference to it: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980218.htm


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"laundromat" - apparently owned by Westinghouse

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