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Merge from Mohawk Brush Company

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I'm proposing a merge into Fuller Brush Company of this basically one-sentence stub. Until the history of the Mohawk Brush Company can be fleshed out, this stub is an unnecessary content fork of that article. --Gyrobo (talk) 14:30, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Until we have something to actually say about Mohawk, this vacant stub should certainly be merged into Fuller. The stub would become information in that context, while alone it is null. The Mohawk page should survive as a redirect to Fuller. --Ornithikos (talk) 13:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably?

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I'm a bit confused by this line?

The song, "Sneakin' Around," from the 1982 movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, mentions "jokes about the Fuller brush man," presumably of a bawdy nature.

The full stanza of the song is "I like lots of cash on hand, and dirty jokes about the Fuller brush man." How does that equate to presumably being about bawdy jokes? Is this the kind of thing which needs an external source? In the realm of jokes and humor, I'd say bawdy and dirty are accepted as synonymous. And even if they weren't, it seems pointless to reword the line to suggest it's open to interpretation. Wouldn't it make more sense to better quote the song?

The song, "Sneakin' Around," from the 1982 movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, mentions "dirty jokes about the Fuller Brush man. CleverTitania (talk) 11:15, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK I see a couple of edits were made to address my concerns. The problem with not including the word Dirty in the original quote, was handled - but leaving in the "presumably of a bawdly nature" made it both a weird statement and entirely redundant. I have removed that part and left the rest of the edit. Hopefully now it's clear with no need for additional definitions of the lyrics intentions. Thanks to those who have been trying to clarify the reference. CleverTitania (talk) 10:27, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know if this would be regarded as "bawdy" or "dirty," but there is an old joke (I heard it some time in the mid-1950's) about the Fuller Brush Company merging with the Schick company to become the "Fuller Schick" company. Perhaps this was what was being referred to? Kostaki mou (talk) 16:47, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"hairbrushes with a lifetime guarantee for which they are famous"

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Is it worth noting in the article that Fuller does not always actually honor that guarantee?

When I was a child, my uncle gave me a new Fuller hairbrush, and told me that it was the only hairbrush I would ever need, because it had a lifetime warranty from Fuller.

After nearly a half-century of use, the hairbrush failed. The plastic handle became so brittle with age that it simply broke in half, during normal use. So I contacted Fuller, and asked them to honor their warranty, but they refused to do so. They will only honor the lifetime warranty on "wooden handled boar bristle brushes." NCdave (talk) 09:30, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, maybe the story I heard was true. (See my comment above.) Kostaki mou (talk) 23:58, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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