MrSebSinM to The Far Side · 4 months ago7 January 2025imagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down16
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minus-squareBillibusMaximuslinkfedilinkarrow-up28·4 months agoThere was a series of TV commercials in the 70s for a laundry detergent that focused on “ring around the collar”. So I suspect it’s a spoof of one of those.
minus-squareKernal64linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 months agoThose commercials were pretty common in the 80s (I wanna say it was for Tide), and yes, this is a direct reference to those.
minus-square...m...@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 months ago“Wisk gets ring-around-the-collar and your whole wash clean.”
minus-squareKernal64linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoWisk! I’d entirely forgotten the existence of that detergent
minus-squareRebekahWSD@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months agoMakes sense. It’s a smidge before my time of having a television.
There was a series of TV commercials in the 70s for a laundry detergent that focused on “ring around the collar”. So I suspect it’s a spoof of one of those.
Those commercials were pretty common in the 80s (I wanna say it was for Tide), and yes, this is a direct reference to those.
“Wisk gets ring-around-the-collar and your whole wash clean.”
Wisk! I’d entirely forgotten the existence of that detergent
Makes sense. It’s a smidge before my time of having a television.