Joho the Blog » Coach potatoes in the age of YouTube?

Frank Paynter, on June 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am Said:

David, I think it’s a spelling thing — the query youtube “couch potato” gets a lot of hits.

davidw, on June 29th, 2008 at 11:26 am Said:

Yes, Frank, but I was googling to see how many people had made the “youtuber” joke.

Christina, on June 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pm Said:

It’s even more true in China, where their YouTube equivalent (which looks like a Digg knockoff) is called TuDou, which means…potato. I think you’re on to something…

Frank Paynter, on June 29th, 2008 at 4:46 pm Said:

Oops, I missed making the point entirely by leaving off that “r” in my comment. Much slapping of forehead here…. Indeed I did query youtuber “coach…” and youtuber “couch and could locate no one who had made the “youtuber” joke besides you. In my own elliptical way I was pointing to the difference between coach and couch, wondering if some kind of slant rhymed mondegreen was in play. Perhaps regional variations in pronunciation make “coach” and “couch” homonyms, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of my best friends are homonymic.

Ah well, you say potaytoe, and I say potahtoe.

gianluca_b, on June 29th, 2008 at 7:15 pm Said:

so there must be a connection between
“couch surfing” and french fries too

no ?

Liz Lawley, on June 29th, 2008 at 11:04 pm Said:

If you search for “youtuber potato” you do find a number of people who’ve made the connection.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10766030

http://blog.thetrenchcoat.com/archives/1442-Potato-propaganda-or-YouTuber.html

http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/windows/gazette/2007/20071210_from_couch_potato_to_tuber.htm

http://www.discourse.net/archives/2008/02/youtubers_for_obama.html (one of the comments)

That’s as far as I got before I got bored :)

davidw, on June 30th, 2008 at 6:50 am Said:

Aha! I continued to misread my typo until you pushed my eyeball right up against it.

Coach potatoes in the age of YouTube?