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Elwood Senior Enthusiast

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David Oreck spoke at our school today for a business seminar.  (For those who don't know this is the guy who designed and sells the Oreck vacuum cleaners that made him a fortune.)  Anyway, he was talking about how great America is and he said something that I really liked and thought you guys would like too.  He said this......

 

"There are millions of people everywhere in lines waiting to move to America, but there's no lines for people waiting to leave."

Greg Senior Enthusiast

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Wasn't it Alec Baldwin who said he was going to move if George W. Bush was elected?  Did I miss his garage sale??
BlackSilver Senior Enthusiast

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I have an Oreck

I don't have an Oreck, but I saw a traffic sign for an "Oryx Crossing" near Alamagordo, New Mexico.  Does that count?

 

PS:  What's an 'oryx'?  --- sumkinda African critter?   ---  do they make a nice splat if you hit them at 80MPH?  --- what they doin in New Mexico anyhow?  --- sumkinda illegal alien?

k1500chevy97 Senior Enthusiast

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I have an Oreck

I don't have an Oreck, but I saw a traffic sign for an "Oryx Crossing" near Alamagordo, New Mexico.  Does that count?

 

PS:  What's an 'oryx'?  --- sumkinda African critter?   ---  do they make a nice splat if you hit them at 80MPH?  --- what they doin in New Mexico anyhow?  --- sumkinda illegal alien?

:eek:  :cool:  :crackup:

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Wasn't it Alec Baldwin who said he was going to move if George W. Bush was elected?  Did I miss his garage sale??

 

and who would really care if any Baldwin left this country...and who would notice that he left ???

 

 

TOm

Elwood Senior Enthusiast

Elwood

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:cool: I have an Oreck  :eek:

Mom has two.  The XL and the little one you could get free for a while when you ordered the big one.

 

My wife and I talked about getting one, but they're a little too exspensive for us right now.  We'll wait a few years when we have steady jobs before we spend that much on a vacuum cleaner.

HillHound Senior Enthusiast

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My wife ordered an upright sweeper from his website a few months ago.  I'm not a sweeper expert but that thing works better than any upright we've had.  For around $500 she got the sweeper, a hand vac, a rechargeable iron, spare bags and belts and all sorts of attachments etc.  Not a bad deal when you consider those Kirby or Rainbow sweepers cost around 2 grand.
99silveradoz71 Senior Enthusiast

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Kirby

Ah yes, the Kirby, now you're going old school on me.  Ha.  Anyway, grandma has 1 of those around somewhere and that thing has a sound all its own.

MCourson Senior Enthusiast

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I have an Oreck

I don't have an Oreck, but I saw a traffic sign for an "Oryx Crossing" near Alamagordo, New Mexico.  Does that count?

 

PS:  What's an 'oryx'?  --- sumkinda African critter?   ---  do they make a nice splat if you hit them at 80MPH?  --- what they doin in New Mexico anyhow?  --- sumkinda illegal alien?

 

:crackup:  :eek:  :cool:

 

We have the XL and the mini vac too.  My grandma has like 3 or 4 of the old Kirbys.  I always thought that if you got run over by one it would cut a toe off.

HillHound Senior Enthusiast

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I always thought that if you got run over by one it would cut a toe off.

Oh yeah they had the runners on them like a sled! :eek:

 

My mom had one for years.  The hose on that thing was probably a good 3" in diameter!  You could sweep up a baseball with it if you wanted to! :cool:

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