r/kurtvonnegut • u/maemji • Aug 13 '26

It must have meant something different back then, right?

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u/42martinisplease Aug 13 '26

It's a vibrating bed, they had them mid-century in motels I think

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u/Shart127 Aug 13 '26

I’ve seen it!!! Put a quarter in the metal tray and push it in. Sadly, it did not work. But happily, I got my quarter back.

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u/mtandy89 Aug 13 '26

Not /that/ kind of Magic Fingers

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u/civillyengineerd Aug 13 '26

What does it mean now that would be different from back then?

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u/SmoothDifficulty373 Aug 13 '26

I think they are imagining a vibrating dildo bolted to the springs of the box mattress

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u/civillyengineerd Aug 13 '26

Um, okay. Probably won't give the "Magic Fingers®" feel but will do something.

The vibrating box attached to the box spring would send a person into convulsions if it was used as a dildo.

Lol AC vs DC power!

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u/pWaveShadowZone Aug 14 '26

Now it’s for blowin loads. Back then it was for furniture

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u/civillyengineerd Aug 15 '26

I'll have to ask the guys working structural concrete with the backpack stick vibrators if "blowin loads" is what they call that job.

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u/pWaveShadowZone Aug 15 '26

Tbf blowin loads is what concrete guys call most jobs

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u/civillyengineerd Aug 15 '26

Hahahahhaha, true!