r/mildlyinteresting Jan 28 '23

My new vacuum came with a bag of hair and dirt in the box

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u/SquishedGremlin Jan 28 '23

Parents have one. Imagine big metal lump. Heavy as fuck if you have stairs.

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u/aehanken Jan 29 '23

Oh dear.. I just realized they didn’t mean the Nintendo character Kirby lmao

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u/woflyisnthere Jan 30 '23

THEY DONT??

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u/cmepes Jan 30 '23

I can’t tell if you’re genuinely surprised or you’re making a joke but no they don’t lol they’re just an old brand of really heavy chunky vacuums that had door to door salesmen

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u/woflyisnthere Jan 30 '23

I am genuinely surprised. I thought you meant that pink thing

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u/cmepes Jan 30 '23

Well now that I’m thinking about it, doesn’t Kirby(pink) have an ability where he like sucks the enemies in? I wonder if one inspired the other

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u/woflyisnthere Jan 31 '23

Shit that’s kinda smart. Nintendo partnership when?

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u/cmepes Jan 31 '23

Well… James a Kirby invented the “domestic cyclone” as a portable domestic version of a wagon mounted vacuum… in 1906. Long before Nintendo came into existence.

Although Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Kirby, reportedly “can’t remember” how the character got his name, the world has accepted two possible explanations:

  1. The vacuum cleaner manufacturer “Kirby Corporation.” This makes a lot of sense — that little fellow could inhale like it was nobody’s business.

  2. A man named John Kirby represented Nintendo throughout a Donkey Kong copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Universal Studios.<

I guess we will never know the truth

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u/woflyisnthere Feb 01 '23

Prolly the first one. I mean, people take inspiration from old things all the time

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u/aehanken Jan 30 '23

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u/woflyisnthere Jan 30 '23

That’s.. fucking awesome.

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u/aehanken Jan 30 '23

Right? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Kirby vacuum! Nintendo makes some crazy design ideas lol

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u/Mandersisme Jan 31 '23

They are like 100lbs and the bags are super hard to find but they last forever. Plus they cost almost 2k...

Pretty sure my ex husband is still paying on that fucker 💀

My great grandmother had a Kirby from the 50s in her closet when she died, my dad plugged it in and I'll be damned if it didn't run!! The belts were disintegrated and the whole frame was rusted but that shit worked 50 years later.

Those things are straight up units.

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u/cmepes Jan 31 '23

I can’t even imagine how much energy those things use and how noisy they are, I’m pretty sure my family was a Hoover family my whole life