MrSebSinM to The Far [email protected] • 4 months ago7 January 2025sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up191
arrow-up191image7 January 2025sh.itjust.worksMrSebSinM to The Far [email protected] • 4 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink28•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-squareKernal64linkfedilinkEnglish12•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...linkfedilink4•edit-24 months ago“Wisk gets ring-around-the-collar and your whole wash clean.”
minus-squareKernal64linkfedilinkEnglish4•4 months agoWisk! I’d entirely forgotten the existence of that detergent
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•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.