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Q: Safe hot tubs ( No Answer,   3 Comments )
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Subject: Safe hot tubs
Category: Family and Home > Home
Asked by: djstahl-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 15 Aug 2004 05:32 PDT
Expires: 14 Sep 2004 05:32 PDT
Question ID: 388083
Several nasty hot-tub incidents were in the news.  See
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5112.html.

Please list the three most dangerous hot tubs, manufacturer and model,
per news reports.  Also please list three safest, by manufacturer and
model.

Tip of $2 each for next three in each category.

Tip of $3 for the term for form by which "Jacuzzi" is used as a
synonym for "hot tub."  (Other than "metonymy.")  Other examples
include Formica, Frigidaire, aspirin, etc.
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Subject: Re: Safe hot tubs
From: pinkfreud-ga on 15 Aug 2004 10:12 PDT
 
Regarding the term for a brand name (such as "Jacuzzi") being used as
a synonym for an entire class of similar items, I suggest
"genericization."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
Subject: Re: Safe hot tubs
From: djstahl-ga on 15 Aug 2004 12:20 PDT
 
"Genericized" sounds okay to me.  Wikipedia suggests that this the
result of excessive "mind share."

If I spin this off as a separate, $3 question, I should state that it
is reserved for pinkfreud.

Do we need any education?  Do we need any thought control? 
(rhetorical questions, not posted for google.answers)
Subject: Re: Safe hot tubs
From: pinkfreud-ga on 15 Aug 2004 14:27 PDT
 
>> Do we need any education?  Do we need any thought control? 

As can be said when a candlelight vigil turns into a street fight:

All in all, it's just another wick in the brawl. ;-)

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