If you are not cleaning off your phone, keyboard, coffee pot, and other office tools every day, then you are inviting the spread of germs!The telephone sanitizers I mentioned from the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy are back!
Also, according to this site, telephone sanitizer, was originally a euphemism for toilet cleaner.
What's distinguishes the term "telephone sanitizer" among a great many other toilet-related euphemisms is the linguistic disconnect: few Americans seem to know the meaning of this British circumlocution. It shows both the British insistence on preserving a veneer of gentilities and the American willingness to attribute any amount of silliness to the British rather than assume the obvious and mundane.
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