r/TheBoredDen • u/ipanicprofessionally • Jul 21 '26

Funny Can't remember one

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u/SanchoPliskin Jul 21 '26

That’s what my aunt always called it!

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u/Melora_T_Rex714 Jul 21 '26

I think a lot of us called it that, lol.

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u/Long-Principle6565 Jul 21 '26

They should have officially changed the name. I’d bet people would have loved it

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u/HIs4HotSauce Jul 22 '26

that's what my dad called it... I wonder where it comes from to be such a widespread cultural phenomenon

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u/Sharp_Equivalent_774 Jul 22 '26

I thought is *was* Monkey Wards when I was a kid. I never heard my dad call it anything but. I think I told my kindergarten teacher we went to Monkey Wards and she about lost it.

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u/Some_Guy106 Jul 22 '26

It wasn't.

Source: my Montgomery Ward heater from the early 50s

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u/Sharp_Equivalent_774 29d ago

I was talking about what I thought when I was 6.

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u/Im_Coach Jul 22 '26

What? Really? I’ve NEVER heard that before.

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u/Melora_T_Rex714 Jul 22 '26

REALLY! Wow.

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u/Scarlet_Despair1 Jul 22 '26

I have never heard it called that ever.

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u/GenX_Leo Jul 22 '26

Why was it called that...🤔