Re: [Sorta OT] Dust buster question

"Steve Touchstone" <stouchst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:34:33 +1100, "Yowie"
<yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I had one. It was great for cleaning up small spills - particularly wet
spills. But it was such a cow to clean, it ended up growing a colony of
something gross inside. Thats when it got chucked out.

i wouldn't get another one.

my experience echoes what seems everyone else is saying. The only one
I ever had was battery operated, and it was pretty much useless.

Now, if I could ever get the vacuum cleaner I had when i was a student,
I'd
kill forit. i t was an industrial one, that was effectiley a giant moter
clipped to the top of a 20 litre metal bucket. you could suck up
*anything*
9water included) and it owuld goo into the bucket rather than in the
internals of the vacuum cleaner. it was deafening, but it was a great way
to
clean up spills of anything icky.

I have one of the canister Bissell vacuum/carpet cleaner and it is
great for picking up the small bits out of carpet. I originally got it
to pick up bird seed from around the cockatiel cage, but it works just
as well for kitty litter.

My parents have an ancient Bissel brand carpet sweeper which came with them
when the emigrated from England to Australia. Like quite a few other English
words that never made it to the Australian lexicon, I quickly learned that
saying "Quick, get the bissel" if something dry got spilled was *not* an
understandable phrase in Australian. I also have to remember to say Yo-gurt
and Pro-ject (with the o sounding like 'oe' as in "Hoe") in Australian
rather than how I used to pronounce them, "Yog-urt" "Proj-ect" in English
(with the o sounding like hte o in 'dog').

I lost my English accent years ago (probably within a year of going to
school here) but sometimes I still get caught out saying the wrong word or
pronuncing the right word incorrectly.

Yowie


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