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And now for something completely different: The mop. The mop.

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An African-American invented the Mop

EXCERPT: The mop is a patented invention that is part of social history as well as the evolution of house wares. Thomas W. Steward, an African-American inventor, was awarded Patent Number 499,402 on June 13, 1893, for inventing the mop. His creation joined a long list of household equipment invented by African-Americans. The roster includes the eggbeater, yarn holder, ironing board, and bread-kneading machine. Steward's deck mop, made of yarn, quickly became well used for household and industrial cleaning. A wringing mechanism made the process of mopping and cleaning the mop easier and faster....

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A Spaniard invented the Mop

EXCERPT: Mopping is a bit of a national obsession in Spain, so it's just as well that Manuel Corominas, an engineer in the air force, designed a device to get Spanish women off their knees. On a trip to the US in the 1950's, he observed how the Americans washed the floor: with a flat mop that you wrang-out through rollers in a bucket. With the help of his friend, Emilio Bellvis, a mechanic at the Zaragoza air base, he set up the company Rodex and went into mop production.

According to [...other sources...], however, it was Bellvis who designed the mop and bucket as we know them. One night in 1965, he apparently sat bolt upright in bed and said to his wife something along the lines of: I have seen the future of kitchen floors and they are to be washed using a bucket with a slatted funnel and a conical-shaped mop that's much easier to squeeze. In January 2005, the daily online newspaper 20minutos.es printed a series of letters between Corominas and various members of the Bellvis family disputing who was the “real” father of the mop.....

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A woman invented the Mop

EXCERPT: “He recently texted me at I think 4 in the morning, and he was like, ‘I think I want to make a movie about the woman [Joy Mangano] who invented the Mop. You want to do it?’ I was like, “Yeah,’” she recalled. “I can just imagine David looking at somebody mopping and being like, ‘Yeah, that's my next screenplay.’”

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Kevin Smith invented the Mop

EXCERPT (from transcript of Clerks [1994]) ... Dante: "Ma'am, ma'am, I'm sorry! Please wait a second, ma'am..."

The customer is gone. Dante's pursuit stops at the counter. Dante turns on Randal.

Dante: "Why do you do things like that? You know she's going to come back and tell the boss."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mop

EXCERPT: "The Mop" is a novel by Alan Simpson, first published in 2012. Though told in the style of the narrative Great American Novels, this unusual contribution to the world of literature explores one man's journey as a Sex shop clerk in Sydney’s thriving Red-light district. [...] Alan begins his career in Disco Heaven, Sydney’s ultimate gay porn store, where he comes face to face with The Screamer -- a perverted masturbating regular and is taken under the wing by Mike, Disco Heaven’s charming manager. Alan also meets his nemesis -- the #### mop. It is hate at first sight....
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Magical Realist Online
We called them swabs in the Navy. Hence the nickname "swabbies". And true to form, I swabbed me many a deck on ships and in offices. I came to enjoy it after awhile. The sloshiness of the mop in the bucket. The forceful ringing out of every drop of the dirty water. And the joyous application of the wax afterwards, buffed to a mirror-like sheen for all the officers to admire themselves in. I haven't picked up a mop since my discharge though. My kitchen floor looks like the bottom of a dumpster now. lol!


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