Anyway, the daughter and I are good at chatting and travelling together and it so happens that at the traffic lights, we pulled up behind this van. We glanced at it for some seconds and then, I kid you not...we looked at each other and said to each other 'hmm, that strap line doesn't help at all' and fell about laughing.
Linking this to Annie's Smiles. Gotta love an excuse to share a smile.
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Just brilliant Julia. Surely the whole idea of advertising is that you know what they do? I really don't know whether to ring them or not now :-)
Hugs,
A x
Hehehe I have just looked it up and really still not sure if I could use their services :-)
Hugs,
A x
I might have to google it... Laughed at the parent - when my ex and I used to go to visit my then in-laws, practically the first thing they asked was, when are you leaving!!! Although on balance this may not have been for concern about the journey...
Julia my parents were the same, at least my Dad was, at 3pm he would say 'well clear off then' ha ha he was always worried about me travelling the huge 7 kilometers amongst traffic bless him.
Elaine
Oooh classic, love the dashpots!! I can imagine the hilarity going on behind them! I almost want one just to be able to drop it into conversation... and then the dashpot failed... ;)
Ugh! the thought of overflowing dashpots blocking your actuator!!! (I have no idea either Julia!) Thanks for the giggle. x Jo
Sounds almost Shakespearean
Jakix
I don't have a clue, but no doubt if I ask my husband (the mechanic) he'll know! My Mum is just the same as your parents. I often have to remind her I'm 44 not 4!
Fiona x
I have no idea what this is...actuator sounds terribly important and dashpots.....well this has just made me smile. Thanks for sharing!
You were using an acutator when driving your car, actually your piston is a form of acutator, it converts energy to move you.
Eliza
ah so glad all dashpots an actuators were functioning correctly on your trip to and from Ma and Pa's :D
.. dont you love it when such trivia lighten up a trip..:D like games we played on our eight or more hour car trips as kids going on hols. love Shaz in Oz. x
You do make me smile, Julia. I'm not going to look up Dashpot - much prefer my own definition! And I know exactly how you feel re: the parents. Exactly how grown up do I have to be before they trust me??
Is it similar to a Despot and do trolls actually fit into it somewhere??
OH's parents are unbearable - in many ways. But one is that they treat him and consequently me like children. I have left their company seething on many occasions!
** Kate **
Ok here's a bit of geek for you (I'm secretly an engineer..) In laymans terms a dashpot is used to control liquid, pressure etc - mostly used to control the slamming of a car door..Hence why they are called 'Kinetrol' it's a bad engineering pun - Kinetic control.... Cx
Not sure about the actuator but my old Volvo had a dashpot which I think was something to do with keeping your pistons happy! That sounds bad! It had to be checked weekly and topped up with oil when necessary!
That van will mean something to somebody!
x
I can quite see why it made you smile - dashpots do sound like soemthing from a Dickensian age :) Perhaps it's code, understood only by those in the know! Elizabeth xx
Same age, same relationship with mother and YES same sense of humour - ROFL.
I have no idea and am about to read the other comments to see if anyone has enlightened you - LOL
So glad Hammers explained it all, saves me looking it up but will ask DH later - heck I'll just send your like to him at work - he's an engineer..........
Thanks oh thanks for the laugh and the comments it elicited which made me laugh oh so much more. BJ
I will have pot quiz with DH tonight. he knows everything mechanical and more. I though it was and accounting thing!!!
Love the idea of you sitting there laughing away I would have too :)
I hope you were near home when you saw this or you may have wet yourselves laughing x
Oh! well now you got me wondering if I could have dashpots fitted to all my house doors to stop peeps banging them. Thank you for the smile. xx Flora
Well a big thank you to Hammers for enlightening us! Julia, this was such fun to read though so thank you to you too.....always good to have a giggle. Hugs, Anne x
I like dashpot, it sounds like one of those gentle insult type of words... you know "you silly old dashpot"!! I get the parent thing, apparently when Andrew was in the UK my mam told me she worried about me in our big house on my own! I asked her what the size of the house had to do with it, and she'd worry just the same if I lived in a bedsit!
Hugs
Brenda
Well thanks to you and Brenda, I am now going to call everyone who annoys me in the slightest a "dashpot."
:)
Well if Kinetrol ever looks at their behind the scenes web page numbers they are going to be intrigued by a load of hits suddenly generated by your blog! They might even think they have got their marketing right! ROFL! I too thank Hammers for the laymans terms as the web site was not enlightening!
you are hilarious.
even my handyman didnt know but was striaght on google. I haven't read the other comments .. no doubt others knew before me ... but here it is anyway... dashpot something to do with stopping friction. actuator....coverts energy into motion.... glad we cleared that up.
love the thought of the 2 of you in histerics never mind the pistons
janet
hahaha they are obviously catering for an exclusive market only Engineers will understand so they dont get sticky beaks like us calling up
I grinned too, but I think I guessed all along that it had something to do with engineering (DH is an electrical engineer). But I do prefer all the alternative explanations of "dashpot" and it does sound sooo Dickensian!
I just had to google the company just to be nosy and to learn, of course. I suspect half the men in the country would understand it, but I had to ask for extra explanation. Still, it was good to have such a good giggle on your journey. Have lots more fun this week. xx Maggie
apparently a dashpot is situated next to the fufflevalve.......... thats according to my DH!
brilliant post to start the day
xx
It made me laugh too! I just love to imagine what a dashpot is! I don't want to know the proper meaning cause its such a cool word! xx
Fantastic.
I thought it sounded like something the original Batman and Robin would say (Holy Dashpots Batman!)
Great giggles in this house for that.
Thanks Julia.
I'm with you, have no idea about my dashpots and actuators but I do know it is best if they are in working order.
I've seen a truck here in town advertising "Zebra Exterminating." It always makes me laugh. I didn't know anyone had a zebra problem here in the American Southwest. Good to know if a rogue herd of zebras come through though that I have someone to call.
well i googled....none the wiser!!!!
Oh my garters, Julia, I wouldn't have been able to kinetrol myself either! I'd have piston my pants, never mind trying to make it to the dash pot!!
Fabulous post, fabulous blog, I'm hooked, and I'm going to follow. I think I could spend the rest of the night and all day tomorrow exploring, but what I HAVE to do (now that it's nearly 10:00 and the house still smells like tonight's fish dinner) is go clean the kitchen. I don't want to, the "fragrance" dictates I must. Will be back tomorrow to enjoy more!
Darnell beat me to it as I was going to suggest that the dashpot was to be piston ! I look at things just as you did and this really gave me a chuckle. Now you've just got to ring up and find out what they are all about!
Have a great weekend!
Jo x
There is always google Julia!
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