sweeper?

[Nuzzolese]

What do you call those floor cleaner things that you push like a vacuum over carpetting, to pick up dust and lint and hair and stuff, but that don't use electricity and instead use a roller with brush or something that is fixed to the bottom to pull up the debris?

I call it a "sweeper" because that's what I always heard it called. But some other ladies at work laughed when I said that and told me that was old fashioned or something. I can't remember what they called it.

[ms.peachy]

I always called it a Bissel (sp?), because that was the popular brand name. But I'm pretty sure the generic term is carpet sweeper.

edited to add - it does use electricity; it works on electrostatic principles. Like rubbing a balloon on your head and then holding it over rice crispies. Trust me, it's part of standard science-teacher training.

[Documad]

I have my mom's Oreck and it's called a "sweeper" so your ladies are idiots. :)

[Nuzzolese]

Yeah, these crazy midwesterners, calling a plastic bag a "sack"

I still enjoy the satisfaction of being justified after the moment in which I could have defended myself.

[Documad]

I'm a crazy midwesterner, but a sack can't be plastic. :confused:

[CiaoBellaXO]

You mean like a Swifter?

[jabumbo]

i say sweeper

and i say sack for most bags...unless its a crappy plastic grocery bag

[Hal9000]

Always heard it referred to as and referred to it myself as a "Hokie".

[cosmo105]

You mean like a Swifter?
Swifter? you mean Swiffer?


i just realized how silly all these names are.

[Documad]

Ha! It's an Oreck Hoky Sweeper. photo (http://www.improvementscatalog.com/product.asp?product=207687zz&dept_id=16130&cm_ven=Froogle&cm_cat=Floor_Care&cm_pla=Oreck_Hoky_Carpet_Sw&cm_ite=207687zz&code=macs=MP5WFGL)

[mp-seventythree]

I call them sweepers (sweepers that is, not swiffers....that would just be stupid)

[Nuzzolese]

Always heard it referred to as and referred to it myself as a "Hokie".

That's what they called it!

[ms.peachy]

That's what they called it!
They call it a Hokie, and were making fun of you?

That takes some serious chutzpah.

[mickill]

Chutzpah?

We call it presumptuousness here.

[ms.peachy]

Chutzpah?

We call it presumptuousness here.
You don't spend much time around Jews, I'm guessing.

[Nuzzolese]

it takes a lot of gall, and gumption

[cosmo105]

GANAS!

[BeastieLips]

i always called it a sweeper when i worked in a restaurant. but now that i think about it, the managers called it a bissel. idiots.

[Echewta]

Whatever a woman wants to call it is fine by me. As long as she is cleaning.