Inventors concur

Archive, amended from issue 2, January 1995

NEW YORK. A historic agreemnet was reached here today between two of the greatest inventors of the twentieth century.

K. Edgar Hoover (younger brother to J. Edgar Hoover and elder brother to L. Edgar Hoover) and Lazlo Biro amicably agreed to swap tradenames for their respective products.

For years now, Mr Biro has been marketing his ballpoint pen as a ‘Hoover’ because he liked the sound of the name. In an extraordinary coincidence, Mr Hoover had been identifying his vacuum cleaning device as  a ‘Biro’ because he thought it sounded funny.

Now that these household items have been renamed we shall never again have to search for lost Hoovers under the sofa (invented by Stanislav Coffee-Table), nor will we give the Biro a quick run up and down the living room carpet.