Product Origins
Originally a surgical antiseptic, it was marketed as a floor cleaner and even a treatment for gonorrhea. These days it sticks to combating halitosis.
What is Listerine?
DVD
What is Digital Video (or Versitile) Disc?
As a surname, it's Top-5 in the US. As a hair color, it's #1.
What is Brown?
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 fighter's official designation includes this (fittingly patriotic) raptor.
What is Eagle?
Cosplay
What is "Costume" and "Roleplay"?
Developed by Norm Larson at the Rocket Chemical Company, this product was first used as a rust-prevention solvent for the Atlas Missile.
What is WD-40?
LP
What is "Long Play"?
Added to Crayola's palette in a 1993 contest, this vibrant orange has been described as "warm" and "creamy". No blue box required.
What is Macaroni & Cheese?
Though it shares the same name as a 1968 Beatles hit, this reconnaissance aircraft was introduced a full two years prior.
What is the (SR-71) Blackbird?
Hazmat
What is "Hazardous" and "Material"?
Originally a wallpaper cleaner used to combat the soot left behind by coal burning fireplaces. When children were found using it to make Christmas ornaments they changed marketing strategies.
What is "Play-Doh"?
CD-ROM
What is "Compact Disc - Read Only Memory"?
Sourcing its name from a brightly hued French liqueur, this color is better known to teetotalers as that of a tennis ball.
What is Chartreuse?
Combining the features of a helicopter and a fixed wing airplane, this aircraft has an unofficial (and more controversial) nickname "the widowmaker".
What is the (V22) Osprey?
Bollywood
What is "Bombay" and "Hollywood"?
Created to fight the German cholera epidemic in 1889, by the time it reached the US is was advertised as a contraceptive douche. 99.9% of Doctor's don't recommend using it that way today.
What is "Lysol"?
VHS
What is "Video Home System"?
While this rosy tone cannot be found in the visible light spectrum, it is a primary color in the subtractive color model.
What is Magenta?
In production for more than 60 years (though not cumulatively), more of this civilian aircraft have been produced than any other.
What is the (Cessna) Skyhawk?
Motel
What is "Motor" and "Hotel"?
Used as gas mask filters during WWI and known internally under codename "Cheesecloth UGG", Kimberly-Clark chose a catchier name to market this product during cold and flu season.
What are "Kleenex"?
CED
What is "Capacitance Electronic Disc"?
Also a pale purple flower, this color was the first commercial synthetic dye, all the rage in the early 1860's.
What is Mauve (or Mallow)?
The last of the "heavy" observation aircrafts developed for the US Army Air Corps, this aptly named plane was primarily used for spotting submarines.
What is the (O-52) Owl?
Botox