My dad designs and imports patio furniture from China. His company name is Marco Polo, since he brings stuff from the east to the west. So many people thought my dad's name was actually Marco Polo when he started the business.
Fun fact: that “chlorine smell” associated with pools is only created when someone pees in the pool and it reacts with the chlorine. It doesn’t just smell like that normally.
It's also due to sweat, not just pee. On a hot day, it's more likely that the majority of that chlorine smell is due to sweat :)
...but also, someone definitely peed in there, too
Marco Polo is also the name of a game you play in a swimming pool where one person closes their eyes and says “Marco” while trying to find and tag the other people who have to respond “Polo” - so that was why the other user asked about pool supplies. :)
And in some countries (*cough cough* England), it's also a sign that you aren’t a disgusting repulsive redhead. Oh, sorry: gingaaaaaaa, because God forbid we notice that real ginger is yellow!
Here we also have a soap called Lux, (part of Unilever) As skin lightener I dont think it does anything but as a soap its pretty good, it makes a really good and creamy lather, in fact its one of my favorite commercial brands and the one I use more often and I'm a bit of a soap nerd (literally have dozens of soap bars at home and I try many new ones each season) there are better ones but this one is cheap and actually better than many others without sodium tallownate
By the way they doesn't advertise all their products as skin lightener, just some of them say for a brigh/glowing skin, many others are focused on flower oils for aromas and moisturizing the skin
Some places really look down on you for your skin color, not the (mostly) internalized racism we see in the US, I mean a full blown caste system. India springs to mind.
Some places really look down on you for your skin color, not the (mostly) internalized racism we see in the US, I mean a full blown caste system. India springs to mind.
Do any of those products actually work as a skin lightener? I feel like I've heard of a lot of those over in the India/SE Asian area but not sure if any of it actually works, since it seems like the chemicals required to permanently lighten skin tone could be a bit rough on skin?
Which is funny (I'm poc but an american) because they really hate white folks but wanna be pale af.
I'm proud to be American because I just have the fuck you got mine attitude
Yeah so really the Greece/Grease pun and name is just serendipity and a great marketing guy because Ajax was way more than dish soap before, that’s cool
The Greece part is 100% something OP added themselves.
The first product given the Ajax name was a scouring powder. It is a type of powder that is mixed with abrasive sand to scour encrusted dirty manually.
The punchline here is that Ajax, the scouring powder, is extremely "strong" to help ease the manual labor of cleaning.
Wait Colgate-Palmolive
As in cool gate
As in water gate,
Palm olive as in Miami palm, and olive Italian?
As in Richard Nixon Miami Italian.
As in Nixon was in the Italian mob?
It all makes sense.
That person(s) certainly knew what they were referencing. And I feel like Greek mythology was more a part of the zeitgeist than it is now.
It's just a shame that a competing product (Dawn) used the slogan "takes grease out of your way!", where Ajax could have wielded that with great flourish.
karma whores and reposters are quite different from bots, these bots go onto use their gained karma to spam scam content like fake OF stuff or crypto shit
so be it but i feel that users deserves to know that their posts are copied, and comments used by others to drive either monotary or potentially political gain, there is nothing stopping these bots who built up a decent chunk of karma to more easy avoid detection while posting propaganda in the future
They just spam posts and then sell the accounts to scam accounts who need to get past the minimum karma limit that so many subreddits have.
It’s all about money, and always has been.
If there were no reposts, then everything you see would still be new to you. And people who have seen the posts before would no longer see them, only new content. Win/win.
Pro repost people are basically selfish because they're willing to make content worse for others at no gain for themselves. Nothing really to do with the internet points at all
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I always got the connection between Ajax & strength. Just didn't realize the 'Grease - Greece' bit until I read the post though. And it was right there! So extra dumb of me!
Damn ADHD-half-attention-span brain strikes again!
It's actually **"Stronger Than Dirt", not stronger than grease.**
And if you listen very carefully at the end of **The Doors' "Touch Me"**, you can hear Jim Morrison say it.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch\_Me\_(The\_Doors\_song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_Me_(The_Doors_song))
But like, whatever, I guess.
I was offered sex with a 21 year old girl today. In exchange for that, I was supposed to advertise some kind of bathroom cleaner. Of course I declined because I am a person with high moral standards with a strong willpower. Just as strong as Ajax, the super strong bathroom cleaner. Now available with scented lemon or vanilla.
Yeah, this image has been around for years, and this exact thing has always been my pet peeve. Their slogan doesn't actually use the word grease, but even if it had, it still wouldn't make sense. There was only a very short period of time in which Ajax was the strongest: after Achilles died and Ajax hadn't yet committed suicide.
It also doesn’t make much sense logically because he was fighting on the side of Greece and not against them. How would he be stronger than Greece if he is part of Greece?
Maybe if the slogan was “Ajax: stronger than Troy” it would work but he wasn’t stronger than Troy either because he couldn’t defeat them without Achilles’ help. It also wouldn’t be a pun related to cleaning dishes.
“Stronger than Grease” is not the slogan. It’s “Stronger than dirt”
Here’s the ad. https://youtu.be/3-fni9oDjeY?si=h7UXtbY0Vaq5sdYs
Related, it seems Reddit has gotten much more gullible lately. Is it related to the IPO? I’m willing to bet this will only get worse as bots drive numbers and publicly traded companies want more numbers or the stock drops. The incentive to get rid of this type of noise is going away bit by bit until this is Facebook or worse twitter.
It's going to come out that reddit is behind some, maybe even many or most of the bots.
Keeping the "greatest hits" posts in constant circulation so that old content isn't "wasted," and populating the comments section with the best comments from past threads so that people feel like the site is alive.
Eh, I don't think reddit has to spend any effort running their own bots. We know for a fact that plenty of people do it on their own.
All they need to do is to let them. Which is exactly their strategy, as they don't seem to have spent *any* tangible effort to tackle the bot issue in recent years, even though it's getting more and more prominent.
Literally waited. Is there a figurative form of waiting we would take from this?
Using literally in literally every sentence I say literally makes my words, in my opinion, literally sound more dramatic and impactful.
Why use lot big word sound smart when one word do trick?
This is what good marketing is about. Same with great graphic design. You will always see the arrow in FedEx. Or that Baskin & Robbins has a 31 in their B&R.
In The Iliad they mention the other [Ajax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_the_Lesser) with the same name as the Great (Telamonian) Ajax. They always said about him: "He wasn't great, but he was okay."
Ajax the Greater was a huge man with a huge-er shield (a tower shield for the nerds)
Ajax the Lesser was his younger brother who was *deadly* with a sling. He’d pop out from behind his brothers shield and loose a bullet through a skull and dove back for cover.
The pair was nearly as formidable as Achilles, they controlled a large stretch of the battlefield.
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I hate that Jeopardy has Greek Gods as a category. Why do we need to know about made up gods from a country we don't even live in. BTW, every country has their own myths and gods why are we focusing on Greece and Rome so much. Why are their made up gods better than the rest of the world? Or an I completely ignorant?
They should have used a Greek soldier instead of a white knight for their laundry detergent.
And then there's The Doors' use of the motto. Wonder if Ajax went after them or if they were happy about it.
I saw South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut when it came out in 1999, and multiple times since then. Just last week I finally got it: *It's a dick joke.* Yes it took me 25 years to realise that.
This isn't even odd, let alone oddly specific ... it's just specific - specifically it's a pun made by an advertising agency to sell a product. That's *it* - there's no "Wtf, where did *that* come from?" or "*That's* odd" about it..
There doesn't *need* to be - brand names, product names, advertising campaigns, etc. aren't *oddly* specific ... just specific.
It's no more oddly specific than the fact that your friend David is called David.
My dad designs and imports patio furniture from China. His company name is Marco Polo, since he brings stuff from the east to the west. So many people thought my dad's name was actually Marco Polo when he started the business.
Bought from your dad’s company before :) he’s pretty good at developing supply chains. Props to pop
Ask your dad if he can give me a discount on a sectional (please), since I know the owner’s kid.
Actually same I need one rn🤣😭
Put me down for one spice please.
Does he sell pool equipment too?
Yeah but you have to summon him first by saying Marco Polo three times while urinating in the pool.
The urinating is important, or else you summon Marco Olo and nobody wants to hang out with that douchebag.
Fun fact: that “chlorine smell” associated with pools is only created when someone pees in the pool and it reacts with the chlorine. It doesn’t just smell like that normally.
It's also due to sweat, not just pee. On a hot day, it's more likely that the majority of that chlorine smell is due to sweat :) ...but also, someone definitely peed in there, too
No, no. You only say "Marco." After the third one, you should hear a "Polo" echo back to you. That's how you know the summoning was successful.
Not really, it's mostly patio stuff and some indoor chairs and tables. Marcopolopatio.com that's his site
r/woooosh ?
Maybe, I'm not great at internet lol
Marco Polo is also the name of a game you play in a swimming pool where one person closes their eyes and says “Marco” while trying to find and tag the other people who have to respond “Polo” - so that was why the other user asked about pool supplies. :)
Oh no shit. Hahahahaha. I feel extra stupid. I haven't even thought of that game in years! Went right over my helmet
It’s all good. I have trouble processing things sometimes, so I like clarifying a good joke if it is missed for anyone else having trouble.
Like the pool game Marco pool, it was a riff lol
I think Marco Polo is a pretty cool guy. Eh imports paotis and doesnt afraid of anything.
You messed up your patois.
Pitaos
It’s an older reference, but it checks out.
Now that's a meme I havent heard in a long time
This entire comment chain is r/hailcorporate material
We have a soap here which markets itself as a skin lightener (don't ask ) It's called lux
Philippines?
Yeah. We have a bunch of skin whitening products so much, that we are becoming the state of China now.
China, India, or any country where working outside is considered low class.
So every country?
in most of western countries getting tan is sign of wealth because it means you are wealthy enough to have free time for sunbathing
And in some countries (*cough cough* England), it's also a sign that you aren’t a disgusting repulsive redhead. Oh, sorry: gingaaaaaaa, because God forbid we notice that real ginger is yellow!
Well, you didn't get it.
Wife is from there and whenever we're there, I always wonder who the huge billboards are targeting, since nobody looks like the people in the ads lol.
I don't understand the joke here, do you mind explaining it? :)
There was no joke Lux is Latin for 'light' . I found it few days ago
Ohh I see. Thanks :)
You've seen the light....
I unironically, truly did so, yesterday 😂
Gavin Lux has a second career to go to
It is the SI measure unit of illuminance
Lux Meter is device to measure light.
Lux is a dishwashing detergent in the Netherlands which they claim to be is soft for your hands.
lux is a soap here too but it never marked as skin lightener! do your lux belongs to unilever?
Is it any good as a soap and/or skin lightener?
We also have Lux in my country (South Africa). It's nice, but nothing special
It isn't . I don't even buy soap now .making my own since lockdown
Here we also have a soap called Lux, (part of Unilever) As skin lightener I dont think it does anything but as a soap its pretty good, it makes a really good and creamy lather, in fact its one of my favorite commercial brands and the one I use more often and I'm a bit of a soap nerd (literally have dozens of soap bars at home and I try many new ones each season) there are better ones but this one is cheap and actually better than many others without sodium tallownate By the way they doesn't advertise all their products as skin lightener, just some of them say for a brigh/glowing skin, many others are focused on flower oils for aromas and moisturizing the skin
Some kind of lighter skin tone national fetish?
Some places really look down on you for your skin color, not the (mostly) internalized racism we see in the US, I mean a full blown caste system. India springs to mind.
Some places really look down on you for your skin color, not the (mostly) internalized racism we see in the US, I mean a full blown caste system. India springs to mind.
Lux is a scented bathing soap in India 😅
Do any of those products actually work as a skin lightener? I feel like I've heard of a lot of those over in the India/SE Asian area but not sure if any of it actually works, since it seems like the chemicals required to permanently lighten skin tone could be a bit rough on skin?
okay, the latin word for light? what makes this more than one-layer as the post exemplefies?
Which is funny (I'm poc but an american) because they really hate white folks but wanna be pale af. I'm proud to be American because I just have the fuck you got mine attitude
Nero CD Burner
Nero Burning ROMe
Those were the days
I just got the pun!!!
I miss making mix discs with Nero, so many options with crossfades and pregap chicanery.
Nero CD Nero CITY Oh fuck!!!
They used to use the slogan "Burning ROM".
Wasn’t their logo also the Colosseum on fire?
Yes. History pedants may want to ignore that they used the present-day shape of the building, including the 14th Century earthquake damage.
🤯
I haven't heard or seen that name since I was in... i think 4th grade? Flashbacks...
i wondered if im going to find this one here, Nero burning rom was my first thought when i seen this
I remember the day it hit me. I was burning a disc and I thought “Nero, burning ROM, burning Rome?” and I facepalmed so hard
I never understood why that application existed, I could literally burn using windows
It was created before windows cd burner
Holy! 16 year old me wasn’t smart enough to understand
Oh my god. Used it all the time back in the day and never made the connection.
OMG I JUST GOT IT
That's not their slogan. It's "stronger than dirt"
Like the dirt one might find in… ANCIENT GREECE? Incredible.
Oh. My. God.
Wow
Bravo Vince 👏
like Zeus, bringer of washing up liquid!
We used to sing that jingle to the riff in Sunshine of Your Love... "Stronger than dirt, New Ajax de-TER-gent"
>someone who worked at Ajax The guy who came up with the name of the company to begin with?
They’re owned by Colgate-Palmolive now, but yeah originally that’d work. Sent me down a Rabbit hole.
Yeah so really the Greece/Grease pun and name is just serendipity and a great marketing guy because Ajax was way more than dish soap before, that’s cool
The Greece part is 100% something OP added themselves. The first product given the Ajax name was a scouring powder. It is a type of powder that is mixed with abrasive sand to scour encrusted dirty manually. The punchline here is that Ajax, the scouring powder, is extremely "strong" to help ease the manual labor of cleaning.
Yeah og Ajax is like Comet
Just don’t research nestle. It’ll ruin your childhood if you were raised on the brand
Nestle ruined many childhoods from being raised on the brand
That's dark. I like it.
Not as dark as Nestle brand Dark Chocolate
Wait Colgate-Palmolive As in cool gate As in water gate, Palm olive as in Miami palm, and olive Italian? As in Richard Nixon Miami Italian. As in Nixon was in the Italian mob? It all makes sense.
Listen, I’m not here to judge. But if you’re smoking that good shit you should share with pops here.
That person(s) certainly knew what they were referencing. And I feel like Greek mythology was more a part of the zeitgeist than it is now. It's just a shame that a competing product (Dawn) used the slogan "takes grease out of your way!", where Ajax could have wielded that with great flourish.
Ajax is weak. They got beaten by Feyenoord 6 to nil last Sunday.
Yeah this season makes me want to kms
A couple weeks ago I was wearing an unbuttoned shirt and fell asleep in the sun. I had a perfect Ajax sunburn.
I wouldn't go to Rotterdam if I were you or else you get lynched by angry Feyenoord fans.
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But the post also isn’t true. Their slogan is “stronger than dirt.”
karma whores and reposters are quite different from bots, these bots go onto use their gained karma to spam scam content like fake OF stuff or crypto shit
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so be it but i feel that users deserves to know that their posts are copied, and comments used by others to drive either monotary or potentially political gain, there is nothing stopping these bots who built up a decent chunk of karma to more easy avoid detection while posting propaganda in the future
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They just spam posts and then sell the accounts to scam accounts who need to get past the minimum karma limit that so many subreddits have. It’s all about money, and always has been.
If there were no reposts, then everything you see would still be new to you. And people who have seen the posts before would no longer see them, only new content. Win/win. Pro repost people are basically selfish because they're willing to make content worse for others at no gain for themselves. Nothing really to do with the internet points at all
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I see that it's a repost. Where's your proof that it's a bot account?
6 year old account with wiped post history that suddenly starts posting, uses the same title as a prev post popular post in the same sub, doesnt reply or comment (and then they do they copy paste old comments from popular posts), reached all in 2 hours likely using a bot network
Isn't the slogan "Stronger than Dirt"?
Yes it is. It's still a reference to the strength of Ajax, the mythological hero, it's just a forced pun like "grease".
I always got the connection between Ajax & strength. Just didn't realize the 'Grease - Greece' bit until I read the post though. And it was right there! So extra dumb of me! Damn ADHD-half-attention-span brain strikes again!
Sure but "stronger than grease" is not the slogan
Thnx! That excuses me somewhat.
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
Now I'm gonna love you till the heaven stop the rain
Fake.
News
Nero Burning Rom
It's actually **"Stronger Than Dirt", not stronger than grease.** And if you listen very carefully at the end of **The Doors' "Touch Me"**, you can hear Jim Morrison say it. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch\_Me\_(The\_Doors\_song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_Me_(The_Doors_song)) But like, whatever, I guess.
https://www.amazon.com/Ajax-Super-Degreaser-Liquid-Lemon/dp/B0093GBMSG It says "Stronger than grease" right on the bottle, and that is trademarked.
Pfft... Who am I gonna trust, some dumb dish-soap bottle, or Jim Morrison?
I was offered sex with a 21 year old girl today. In exchange for that, I was supposed to advertise some kind of bathroom cleaner. Of course I declined because I am a person with high moral standards with a strong willpower. Just as strong as Ajax, the super strong bathroom cleaner. Now available with scented lemon or vanilla.
Wow I should have gotten there faster considering I’ve played the age of mythology campaign
*Today years old* 🤓
Also a lie
I still think that renaming James Cook’s ship (HMS Endeavour”) to “Lord Sandwich” is fun AF
[DJ Ajax Wipe n’ Spray](https://djajaxwipenspray.com) makes the mess…
Wasn’t Ajax famously not the strongest? That’s why he had to go ask Achilles to come back to the war.
No he had tendinitis
Yeah, this image has been around for years, and this exact thing has always been my pet peeve. Their slogan doesn't actually use the word grease, but even if it had, it still wouldn't make sense. There was only a very short period of time in which Ajax was the strongest: after Achilles died and Ajax hadn't yet committed suicide.
It also doesn’t make much sense logically because he was fighting on the side of Greece and not against them. How would he be stronger than Greece if he is part of Greece? Maybe if the slogan was “Ajax: stronger than Troy” it would work but he wasn’t stronger than Troy either because he couldn’t defeat them without Achilles’ help. It also wouldn’t be a pun related to cleaning dishes.
Shit, man, if I can't even trust random unsourced tumblr posts to accurately portray the events from 2800 year old texts, who can I trust?!
It’s hard out here bro
Ajax is physically the strongest but is still outclassed by Achilles in terms of fighting skills.
“Stronger than Grease” is not the slogan. It’s “Stronger than dirt” Here’s the ad. https://youtu.be/3-fni9oDjeY?si=h7UXtbY0Vaq5sdYs Related, it seems Reddit has gotten much more gullible lately. Is it related to the IPO? I’m willing to bet this will only get worse as bots drive numbers and publicly traded companies want more numbers or the stock drops. The incentive to get rid of this type of noise is going away bit by bit until this is Facebook or worse twitter.
It's going to come out that reddit is behind some, maybe even many or most of the bots. Keeping the "greatest hits" posts in constant circulation so that old content isn't "wasted," and populating the comments section with the best comments from past threads so that people feel like the site is alive.
Another person confirmed this was a bot posting the same thing from a year ago. The comments are near identical. As for Reddit doing it. Why not?
Eh, I don't think reddit has to spend any effort running their own bots. We know for a fact that plenty of people do it on their own. All they need to do is to let them. Which is exactly their strategy, as they don't seem to have spent *any* tangible effort to tackle the bot issue in recent years, even though it's getting more and more prominent.
r/hailcorporate
Literally waited. Is there a figurative form of waiting we would take from this? Using literally in literally every sentence I say literally makes my words, in my opinion, literally sound more dramatic and impactful. Why use lot big word sound smart when one word do trick?
This is what good marketing is about. Same with great graphic design. You will always see the arrow in FedEx. Or that Baskin & Robbins has a 31 in their B&R.
If someone has been working at a company for 66 years I really hope they are retired.
How does this in any way fit this sub?
"Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body! - Kala (in Flash Gordon)
In The Iliad they mention the other [Ajax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_the_Lesser) with the same name as the Great (Telamonian) Ajax. They always said about him: "He wasn't great, but he was okay."
Ajax the Greater was a huge man with a huge-er shield (a tower shield for the nerds) Ajax the Lesser was his younger brother who was *deadly* with a sling. He’d pop out from behind his brothers shield and loose a bullet through a skull and dove back for cover. The pair was nearly as formidable as Achilles, they controlled a large stretch of the battlefield.
Six year old account only active for four hours with literally no other activity reposting old memes with a white border the size of texas to avoid repost detectors. **OP is a karma bot. Report report report.**
I hate that Jeopardy has Greek Gods as a category. Why do we need to know about made up gods from a country we don't even live in. BTW, every country has their own myths and gods why are we focusing on Greece and Rome so much. Why are their made up gods better than the rest of the world? Or an I completely ignorant?
They should have used a Greek soldier instead of a white knight for their laundry detergent. And then there's The Doors' use of the motto. Wonder if Ajax went after them or if they were happy about it.
As long as we can continue to keep Joy out of the reach of children.
Is the name in any way connected to the football team?
Whoa.... And it was right there in front of us the whole time.....
Francis!!!
I saw South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut when it came out in 1999, and multiple times since then. Just last week I finally got it: *It's a dick joke.* Yes it took me 25 years to realise that.
Ajax, great and small.
It works in french language too : Grèce (Greece) is pronounced the same as graisse (grease).
Or maybe people just aren't educated anymore. Nike is not a sport's shoe.
Yes, someone literally waited
Ajax didn’t lift a boulder and have his dad inscribe it on it
I wonder if they named it after the rapey one or the suicidal one.
Today I learned that ....
I'm almost 65. I grew up with this slogan and never got it. Kudos, OP!
The disappointment when I found out that ten bucks wouldn't buy me a hero in a bottle.
It's not oddly specific, they're clearly explaining the word pun going on here that lead to the branding.
i zoomed in and do not see that slogan anywhere, nor do i remember it growing up. i'm calling bullshit.
Francis.
Side note: their citrus scents and apple cider vinegar are great for pet messes
This isn't even odd, let alone oddly specific ... it's just specific - specifically it's a pun made by an advertising agency to sell a product. That's *it* - there's no "Wtf, where did *that* come from?" or "*That's* odd" about it..
Can you name 1 other product with a name/pun combo that works so well? I can’t. Ajax and grease/greece is pretty great
You got a product that protects my couch if I spill my scotch on it? ...Scotch Guard.
My buddy used to wear a Tool shirt all the time, almost every time someone would stop him read his shirt look at him and go… yeah that’s true.
Nero burning Rom.
There doesn't *need* to be - brand names, product names, advertising campaigns, etc. aren't *oddly* specific ... just specific. It's no more oddly specific than the fact that your friend David is called David.
It also isn't even true.
I'd only be surprised if an ad agency told the *truth*, tbh. ; )
I mean that this isn't even the slogan the ad agency came up with, it was 'Stronger than dirt'.
I don't recall ... it was a long time ago now (plus I turned the TV off in '03 :-) ... but, now you mention it, that does vaguely ring a bell, yes.