UHF! Spatula World is easily my all time favorite movie ad, though the apparently real ("go see Cal") ones in Into the Night are a close second. To this day I can't help but call Wheel of Fortune "Wheel of Fish", and I love my wife for getting the reference (among other reasons to love her, I guess)
One of the recurring gags in the newer Ducktales show was a in-universe reality show called Ottoman Empire, where two brothers would make custom ottomans for their clients.
The Dead Milkmen had a song about Rob Petrie from the Dick Van Dyke Show tripping over that ottoman in their living room one too many times, so he murders his family then goes on a killing spree. Good times.
https://youtu.be/uf11zaRcFJ8?si=9N_0cVKLiVBdgtYt
Grew up in southern Missouri saying ice box. In my 30s now and still say it. When I moved to STL and later my current state people give/gave me shit for it all the time
I thought a divan was one of those couch type things that had no back, [like this.](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/784259722617275470/) Not to be confused with a [fainting couch which has a partial back,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_couch#/media/File%3ABernheimerHouseRedCourch.jpg) which I always thought was a settee, but wikipedia tells me settee is just another name for a couch/sofa/loveseat/davenport.
Sometimes I think we have far too many names for everything.
We visited my friend’s parents in rural Idaho once. His mother told us that they had to move the Davenport so it wasn’t blocking the register. That was 30 years ago and it’s still a joke among us.
I called it the passenger seat in my dad's work van because that's what I'd sit on every day on the way to school. No seat belts. It wasn't even affixed to the floor. Wild how times have changed.
I grew up being told it's a "poo-fay". We moved to a less aspirational area and I was mocked immediately. "It's a POOF, you gayboy."
I guess mother was friends with Hyacinth.
We had to stop calling it a pouffe because people started saying it was rude. I know some people who called it a tumpty, I always thought that was just used in the north.
That's crazy, You're so close to me. I'm in Michigan and I've only ever heard it called an ottoman or a footstool. I always find it interesting when places so close use different words.
Grew up on the MI/IN border.......we called it a footstool (Stepdad called it something else when he came home from the bar & fell over it in the dark).
You'd get a cool drink out of the ice box, turn on the television, pull the hassock up to the davenport and kick back with the new TV Guide.
Then get up to change the channel. Move the rabbit ears around to get better reception.
Fuck, we're all old.
I've completely lost it here in front of my screen in laughter, for 49 years I've been calling this a Rococo pillow and a simple google search made me realize I had been wrong all along.
Ottoman.
The last remnant of a once great empire.
Imagine a furniture store that sells nothing but foot stools. Mustafa’s Ottoman Empire.
Would leather conditioner for an ottoman be a stool softener?
Fellow dad, I see. 😆
I have dubbed them mom jokes in my home.
You can dub them whatever you like. They’re dad jokes. And we’re not giving them up. It’s all we have, really.
Nah we still have strapping stuff down, smacking it, and saying “it’s not going anywhere.”
and jar opening
And tucking your bits between your legs and saying “id do me”
We have these wooden stools in the kitchen. I like to ask people who sit on them if they'd like a stool softener (pillow).
We also need a store that sells nothing but spatulas. Spatula City.
Spatula City... Where we sell spatulas .. and that's all!
Com’on down and flip out at Spatula City
What better way to say "I love you" than the gift of a spatula?
If someone found the Perfect Spatula and gifted it to me, I’d be pretty psyched
" Buy 9 spatulas, get the 10th one for just one penny"
Just watched this movie last night!
UHF! Spatula World is easily my all time favorite movie ad, though the apparently real ("go see Cal") ones in Into the Night are a close second. To this day I can't help but call Wheel of Fortune "Wheel of Fish", and I love my wife for getting the reference (among other reasons to love her, I guess)
Although he had done an episode of Cheers, this is the first time I recall seeing Michael Richards. He was great as Stanley!
What better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula
🤦♂️ 🫣 😂
One of the recurring gags in the newer Ducktales show was a in-universe reality show called Ottoman Empire, where two brothers would make custom ottomans for their clients.
And, when they have that big sale in the parking lot under a big awning they put on the advertising: ***"It's In Tents!"***
Right next to Only Fans. Which sells only fans.
Am I this old?
Get an Afghan to throw on that Ottoman.
If your Scottish you would call it a poofie!!
The Dead Milkmen had a song about Rob Petrie from the Dick Van Dyke Show tripping over that ottoman in their living room one too many times, so he murders his family then goes on a killing spree. Good times. https://youtu.be/uf11zaRcFJ8?si=9N_0cVKLiVBdgtYt
Bonus points for reference The Dead Milkmen!
Maury Amsterdam can make a sane man crazy Maury Amsterdam can make a nice guy kill
An ottoman can have storage. A hassock never does.
Ottomans are to be opened. This is a pouffe.
Foot stool//ottoman
Foot stool, ottoman, hassock. My mother (b. 1931) called it all 3. We also had a sofa/couch/Davenport, depending on the day.
I got my oldest grandson saying ice box.
You anarchist!
Grew up in southern Missouri saying ice box. In my 30s now and still say it. When I moved to STL and later my current state people give/gave me shit for it all the time
I remember my grandmother calling the couch a davenport once and I had no gd idea what she was referring to
Mine too, pretty sure it was a brand name.
Did she also refer commonly to the chiffarobe, use baking soda to clean her teeth, and express a wish to return to the time of the Kaiser?
Don't forget divan.
To me a divan was a kind of couch/bed combo
I thought a divan was one of those couch type things that had no back, [like this.](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/784259722617275470/) Not to be confused with a [fainting couch which has a partial back,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_couch#/media/File%3ABernheimerHouseRedCourch.jpg) which I always thought was a settee, but wikipedia tells me settee is just another name for a couch/sofa/loveseat/davenport. Sometimes I think we have far too many names for everything.
My grandparents would say davenport or divan.
We visited my friend’s parents in rural Idaho once. His mother told us that they had to move the Davenport so it wasn’t blocking the register. That was 30 years ago and it’s still a joke among us.
What??? No settee? No divan??? No Chesterfield?
My granny said Davenport. Never heard anyone else say that!
I called it the passenger seat in my dad's work van because that's what I'd sit on every day on the way to school. No seat belts. It wasn't even affixed to the floor. Wild how times have changed.
Pouffe
get you with the fancy spelling! i thought it was just 'poof' but yours is far more oui-oui
Oh contrare bonjour.
Bonnet de douche, Wodders, bonnet de douche
In Norway we call it a puff
Same in Australia
I grew up being told it's a "poo-fay". We moved to a less aspirational area and I was mocked immediately. "It's a POOF, you gayboy." I guess mother was friends with Hyacinth.
As an Australian, my mum would delight in calling it a "POOFay!" I, however, somehow grew up to be relatively normal.
Yeah it’s a poof 100%
Yeah poof means something different here in Australia so pouffe is a bit better imo.
This. Am Australian.
This. Am Kiwi. 1970s.
Yep was Def a pouffe
Second this, originally from northern England.
We had to stop calling it a pouffe because people started saying it was rude. I know some people who called it a tumpty, I always thought that was just used in the north.
We called it a pouffe in London as well
Same, am from the south of England but with a northern dad who called it that
Pardon my French.
Oh thank god. For a second I thought I had to have a word with myself. But I'm not the only one that called it this.
Puff if you're from Donny 😅
Definitely a pouffe and am Irish.
My nan used to call it a poof but once she realised that term had other meanings it became pouffe
We call it that too. In Australia. Didn’t realise it was spelt that way though
This is a footstool. Also known as breakfast table during Saturday morning cartoon festival.
Yes! Haha. I’m not alone!
Hassock
Where are you from that it's called this? I've just never heard that terminology before and I'm curious.
Maine.
Hassock in Toronto in the 70s as well…
Montréal, too.
What we call it in Vermont too.
I grew up in Maine as well and my parents called it a hassock.
Hassock. Grew up in New England
Hassock. Grew up in E. TX. behind the Pine Curtain...both Grans called it a hassock. One was avocado green, one was brown.
>One was avocado green, one was brown. Your grannies?
its what my family called it too, im from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
That's crazy, You're so close to me. I'm in Michigan and I've only ever heard it called an ottoman or a footstool. I always find it interesting when places so close use different words.
My Michigan-raised parents called it a hassock. It might be generational — they were born in the 30s.
That's crazy. I grew up on the other side of the state and didn't know anyone that called this ottoman a hassock.
It was always hassock or ottoman and I’m from the Detroit area.
Grew up on the MI/IN border.......we called it a footstool (Stepdad called it something else when he came home from the bar & fell over it in the dark).
Central PA… hassock is what I grew up hearing, too.
My earliest memory of our hassock was living in Southern California. But my mom grew up in Philly.
Grandparents were from Pittsburgh and this is what we called it as well.
It was Hassock in Philadelphia area when I was growing up. Now I call them ottomans
Philadelphia area here too—let’s hear it for hassocks and hoagies!!
And “wooder” ice!
The Midwest
Same in NYC. Grandparents had one that they called a hassock. Both born in The Bronx in the 1906-1914 timeframe.
Eastern PA same
Central Pennsylvania same.
Massachusetts
Seems to be a north east thing. Im in NH and that is what we called it
I also call it a hassock, from Massachusetts originally.
You'd get a cool drink out of the ice box, turn on the television, pull the hassock up to the davenport and kick back with the new TV Guide. Then get up to change the channel. Move the rabbit ears around to get better reception. Fuck, we're all old.
https://www.homestratosphere.com/hassock-vs-ottoman-vs-pouf-vs-footstool/
I remember my family calling it this too when I was a little kid. Edit to say Im from central PA.
Hassock in Massachusetts!
Foot stool.
This is the correct answer in the midwest U.S.
I've completely lost it here in front of my screen in laughter, for 49 years I've been calling this a Rococo pillow and a simple google search made me realize I had been wrong all along.
But she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a douce, in the middle of the night.
Uh, "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night". However for the majority of my life I would gave argued for your lyrics...
Pretty sure it’s “held up like a loofah by the foreman of the night.”
Pouffe
How do you pronounce this? Poo-fay?
Poof
Hey, there’s no need for unnecessary name calling. All he did was ask how to pronounce a word. /s
Yes or pouff
TV dinner table
Pouffe
Pronounced “poo-fay?”
Footrest
Same - hassock.
Poofy but pretty sure it's spelled pouffe and pronounced like poof
Foot stool.
This. Our was orange.
Hassock
The Stronghold, Devil's Cliff..... (we played with green army men, GI Joe, Hot Wheels...)
A pouffe.
Tuffet
Had to scroll down to finally see this! Haven't thought about the "tuffet" we had growing up!
Ottoman or Hassock
We called it the round green thing
My grandparents had one of those
Moms called it a hassock
Pouffe
Ottoman OR hassock. Basic bitches call it a foot rest. It’s a hassock or you can get the fuck off my landing!
We called it a Pouf.
Poof!
Carl
Footstool. Sometimes hassock. Ottoman in later life.
Hassock. Used to look at it every time Chekov said Cossacks on Star Trek.
Trip hazzard
When I was little, I would turn it on it's side and lay on it rolling back and forth. One of a few memories when I was that young. Same color too!
Pouffe
Pouf..no joke...
That’s a poof
Ottoman
Ottoman
It’s a pouffe
Poof
Humpty.
Glad I found this
All right stop whatcha doin
Whaddya at me ol cock?
Dis is it b’y
Ottoman or pouf
My grandparents had those.
Hassock
It's a poof
Poof
It's a poof
Hassock! We had a brown one.
Hassock. Which has clearly fallen out of style since autocorrect thought I meant haddock. 😂
Tuffet.
Ottoman. I’m not sure I’ve ever even heard the word hassock.
Poof
Poof
Puff
Puffy.
Poofy
A pouffe
It's a pouffe
Poof And we had same exact one. EXACT
Poef
Pouffe
I lost my virginity on one of these...
Pouffes
Poof
Pouf 😂
That's Otto, man!
Poof.
A Poof
A poof. (To rhyme with moo, not puff)
Ottoman. What are these other words? They scare me
Poof
Ottoman. From the empire of the same name.
Ottoman for sure.
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Poef
Called an Ottoman, a reference to the Ottoman Empire, a civilization based on putting your feet up
Ours was brown but yours is such a lovely shade of avocado.
Time out seat!
Hassock
Hassock