MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 3 months ago7 January 2025sh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareBillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 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-squareRebekahWSD@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoMakes sense. It’s a smidge before my time of having a television.
minus-squareKernal64@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 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-up0·edit-23 months ago“Wisk gets ring-around-the-collar and your whole wash clean.”
minus-squareKernal64@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWisk! I’d entirely forgotten the existence of that detergent
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.
Makes sense. It’s a smidge before my time of having a television.
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