• no banana@piefed.world
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    I assume I’m too swedish to understand the joke. The chair is called Odger.

    Töskaläd means nothing to me and I can’t see how it is meant to sound like something else lol

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      the vowels are different etc, but the tweet sets it up like it’s supposed to sound a li’l bit like “tossed salad and scrambled eggs”, which is part of the frasier theme tune.

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        Ah, okay that kinda makes sense. I wouldn’t read it like that because of pronunciation but I see what you mean.

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        TY, bc I wasn’t getting it either. My brain somehow read “Töskaläd” like “tossed salad”, which then somehow went to The Wiggles “Fruit Salad.”

        I think my brain needs some tranqs…

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        Oooohhh I was getting mixed up with the Johnny Cash track “I hear the train a comin”.

        I don’t know what Frasier is though, we don’t have that here in the UK.

        Now if you’ll excuse me I need to pull my Cash LPs out suddenly and do nothing for the next hour

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            Sounds like something 9 year old me wouldn’t have watched!

            Now if we’re talkin Star Trek on BBC2 at 6pm after school with my dindins, oh baby!

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      It’s a Frasier reference, listen to the intro of the show. The next line should be tossed salad and scrambled eggs, just similar enough to the chair name to have made someone want to make the meme.

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      Me too brother, me too… i just yapped in a comment a few days about this exact problem, ikea memes just dont work for me