waterless humidifer...who are they fooling!!!

[Cybrvanr]

I saw an ad for a Vicks "waterless vaporizer" device that plugs in like one of those air fresheners and is designed to relieve cold symptoms.

Waterless vaporizer???? That's sort of like attempting to sell de-hydrated water! What you've got there is not a vaporizer, but an aroma generator, air freshener, or the like (if there's a name for that)

 

[knitwits1975]

That's almost as bad as the waterless urinals that were installed at Pike Place Market a few years ago. Excuse me, we need to rinse away the pee for it is creating a foul odor! It's not like we have a water shortage, especially up here.

 

[jmirawm]

Vick's Vapor Rub

It has Vick's vapor rub stuff in it. I would love when my mom would rub Vick's on my chest at night when I was sick. I dont think the plug in thing would have the same effect. That stuff felt warm on the chest. It would certainly open up your sinuses.

 

[jetcone]

Thats as bad as the Banana hooks they sell

at all my local supermarkets! You hang the hook and hang your bunch of Bananas!
-----AND WHAT pray tell do you do when you are down to ONE banana?? HOW do you hang one Banana???

 

[toggleswitch]

One banana can still be hung.

 

[toggleswitch]

6 entries found for vapor.
va·por ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vpr)
n.
Barely visible or cloudy diffused matter, such as mist, fumes, or smoke, suspended in the air.

The state of a substance that exists below its critical temperature and that may be liquefied by application of sufficient pressure.
The gaseous state of a substance that is liquid or solid under ordinary conditions.

The vaporized form of a substance for use in industrial, military, or medical processes.
A mixture of a vapor and air, as the explosive gasoline-air mixture burned in an internal-combustion engine.
Archaic.
Something insubstantial, worthless, or fleeting.
A fantastic or foolish idea.
vapors Archaic.
Exhalations within a bodily organ, especially the stomach, supposed to affect the mental or physical condition. Used with the.
A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. Used with the.

v. va·pored, va·por·ing, va·pors
v. tr.
To vaporize.

v. intr.
To give off vapor.
To evaporate.
To engage in idle, boastful talk.

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[Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin vapor.]
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vapor·er n.

 

[toggleswitch]

Madam has the vapors........

Hmmmmmm

I think I see how they are using the word..to mean an air-bound odor, such as their product diffused into ordianary air.