Talk:mouse potato

Good grief! This is actually a 'real' word at least on the internet, misspellings and all! I found about 20 or 30 hits on Google. There are far more hits on 'mouse potato' though...


 * Surely this should redirect to mouse potato as it is a misspeel. Ditto couch potato. -- SGB

"Eating ... a computer"???? Eclecticology 04:18 Mar 11, 2003 (UTC)

It's in the Oxford English Dictionary, its my fault for the miss-spolling :-) I will change it. -fonzy

Interesting post from the ADS-L mailing list,

Someone wrote to me about the origins of the term "mouse potato." I thought I might as well share the response to the list:

I got it from Steve Cisler, who at the time, was Apple's librarian. He posted it on the Well BBS (in the Wired Conference's "Jargon Watch" topic). Here's the original post:

Topic 21:  Jargon Watch
 * 190: Steve Cisler (sac)     Sat, Sep 11, '93  (05:23)       2 lines

I really like Alice Kahn's term for the staff and readers of Wired: mouse potatoes.

Then Kevin Kelly wrote:

Topic 21:  Jargon Watch
 * 192: Kevin Kelly (kk)     Sat, Sep 11, '93  (08:10)       2 lines

Mouse potatoes is nice. If its Alice's coinage we should use it and credit her. (She apparently coined the word hippies, yes?)

--Imran 23:16 May 9, 2003 (UTC)