Comments | bookishlady: called? part 2

bookishlady

called? part 2

Nov 14, 2006 11:15

okay, now what about this piece of furniture?

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shawnml2 November 14 2006, 17:17:04 UTC

Now that's a "hassock" if I ever saw one! That's what my grandmother always called a foot rest, or Ottoman.... (that's from the Ottoman Empire, by the way...)

bookishlady November 14 2006, 17:38:54 UTC

see, now i always called it an "ottoman" (from the ottoman empire, yes)...but when i call it this, my mother looks at me like i have two heads.

shawnml2 November 14 2006, 17:40:55 UTC

Perhaps she objects to the use of a Muslim term? What would she call it? I think "hassock" sounds much more bizarre than "ottoman"!

bookishlady November 14 2006, 17:43:57 UTC

i think "hassock" or "footstool"

manic966 November 14 2006, 18:06:32 UTC

I think we can all agree to just call it "ugly"

bookishlady November 14 2006, 18:10:13 UTC

lol. definitely.

msparker16 November 15 2006, 01:52:03 UTC

I was going with Otto"man"...and after the posting of the husband pillow and now this, I thought maybe you were going with the "sexism" in furniture theme.

bookishlady November 15 2006, 01:55:20 UTC

no, actually that didn't occur to me! wow...someone else spotted sexism before i did...weird. ever since my mother freaked out on me and told me i "think too much" years ago when i pointed out the insulting absurdity of the "betty crocker knows WHAT GUYS WANT" commercials for instant mashed potatoes, i've had a complex about overreacting--which i ignore, a lot.