Actually I was wrong. It wasn't Ryobi it was Dewalt. Don't know what I was thinking! I have some Ryobi lawn equipment so maybe that was it... :o)


>I have a Ryobi lawnmower and assumed it was Japanese. Wrong again!
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>>Black and Decker power tools were made right here in Fayetteville, NC until this year. They just closed that factory down. They also make Ryobi tools. It is a U.S. company (or at least it was for years - so many are moving offshore and being bought by foreign companies who knows now. I was offered a job with them back in the late 90s and I toured the facility).
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>>>>>>>Strictly translated, it means "the pale", as the one whose skin is light colored.
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>>>>>>I.e. "bleached"? As in German "bleich"?
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>>>>>>I thought you're related to that guy Dekker Bleken who cuts trees to make decks ;).
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>>>>>Or his South African cousin, Bleken Dekker, who makes the power tools to do it with?
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>>>>Is this another Patrik FitzGerald vs Gerald FitzPatrick situation, eh?
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>>>No, they're a pair of Irish gay guys.
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>>>Surely you've heard of Black & Decker power tools? I think they're Canadian, and in England, second to Bosch in ubiquity.