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Ear wackers

  • 18-03-2011 1:08am
    #1
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭


    My dad has his own made up names put on ordinary household items eg ear wackers are cotton buds. I was reared thinking that cotton buds were actually called ear wackers and so were the rest of my siblings which one day caused a kerfuffel in the local mini mart when my older brother asked for ear wackers only to be laughed out of the shop. Does your dad or mam have strange names on ordinary household goods?


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  • #2
    Kimono-Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    Digery doo for the remote control, no idea where my granda got that one :D


  • #3
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    zapper was the remote in our house


  • #4
    Kimono-Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    Saila wrote: »
    zapper was the remote in our house

    zappers were bubble gum to me :D


  • #5
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Yeah,we grew up thinking rolls of andrex were called "the sh*t tickets".


  • #6
    starling.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭starling.


    Kimono-Girl wrote: »
    Digery doo for the remote control, no idea where my granda got that one :D
    Saila wrote: »
    zapper was the remote in our house

    My Dad always calls ours the program :confused:

    Which is great, because we can feign ignorance and not give it to him :p


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  • #7
    Kimono-Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    anyone else call Potato's 'Poppies'?


  • #8
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    starling. wrote: »
    My Dad always calls ours the program :confused:

    oh yeah that was the rte guide/radio times in our house :confused:


  • #9
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Kimono-Girl wrote: »
    anyone else call Potato's 'Poppies'?

    folks did yeah, but I never carried it on, theres just something wrong about a guy saying that :p


  • #10
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    The tank in the hotpress. Think everyone calls it the tank though


  • #11
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Emersion :rolleyes:


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  • #12
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    The coal bucket was also called the skutter.


  • #13
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    The coal bucket was also called the skutter.

    close..it was the coal skuttel here


  • #14
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Saila wrote: »
    close..it was the coal skuttel here

    Twas a play on words ;)


  • #15
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Bannister -> Balancester


  • #16
    starling.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭starling.


    Saila wrote: »
    Emersion :rolleyes:


    Same! But I think it actually makes sense really, it's supposed to be 'immersion'. :)


  • #17
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Mother was always called "yer auld wan"....father was called "the dìckhead"...


  • #18
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    The remote was called the clicker. It doesn't even click :confused:


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