Tommy Siegel | Bluesky

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The Jeopardy host stands in front of a puzzle that reads: IS THIS YOUR FL_SHLIGHT?

In the lower right hand corner a Picture-in-Picture view shows a contestant tugging at his collar and sweating over how to answer. His score is $10,000

  • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
    8·
    1 month ago

    Nine times out of ten it’s an electric razor, but every once in a while… it’s a dildo. Of course company policy is never to imply ownership in the case of a dildo. We have to use the indefinite article: a dildo, never your dildo.

    – Fight Club

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 month ago

    That is simple, Fleshlight is a product and would be an uppercase at the start while flashlight is lowercase at the start … simple 👀

    • Tiral@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 month ago

      Not necessarily. Is fleshlight an actual brand or the general name of the product?Because if there’s other brands all labeled as “fleshlight” then it’s lower case.

      Like dildo is lower case because that’s the general name, there’s no Dildo brand Dildo as far as I’ve seen.

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 month ago

        lol I was making a bad joke about how it’s all uppercase regardless so my advice is completely useless

        you do have a point though … we take name brands sometimes and put it into our regular lexicon many times I think xerox is a good example as well.

        • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
          1·
          1 month ago

          Xerox the first aid instructions about putting Vaseline under your Band-Aid and wiping away the excess with a Kleenex before securing with Bubble Wrap. Then you can return to playing Frisbee on your Jet Ski. Remember to bring your Thermos (you can secure it with Velcro and remind yourself with a Post It). Get all the trash to the Dumpster when you’re done.

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    1 month ago

    Um flashlight? That’s what Americans call torches, right? Even though they don’t flash and are usually a constant beam…

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    01·
    1 month ago

    Here I was about to suggest that there might be a water-saving Welsh toilet product spelled “flwshlight”, but they spell “flush” as “fflysi…”, (which is basically a borrowing from English with Welsh orthography) so “flwsh” would be highly non-standard (and frankly smacks of a clueless Saxon aping their language… which is fairly apt as it happens, given this comment.)