Comments on: Coach potatoes in the age of YouTube? http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: fx http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34820 fx Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:19:46 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34820 fx比較

]]> By: davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34670 davidw Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:50:30 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34670 Aha! I continued to misread my typo until you pushed my eyeball right up against it.

]]> By: Liz Lawley http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34643 Liz Lawley Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:04:37 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34643 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 :)

]]> By: gianluca_b http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34641 gianluca_b Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:15:56 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34641 so there must be a connection between
“couch surfing” and french fries too

no ?

]]> By: Frank Paynter http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34639 Frank Paynter Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:46:40 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34639 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.

]]> By: Christina http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34636 Christina Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:35:18 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34636 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…

]]> By: davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34630 davidw Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:26:07 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34630 Yes, Frank, but I was googling to see how many people had made the “youtuber” joke.

]]> By: Frank Paynter http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-34625 Frank Paynter Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:55:35 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/29/coach-potatoes-in-the-age-of-youtube/#comment-34625 David, I think it’s a spelling thing — the query youtube “couch potato” gets a lot of hits.

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