'What was that thing with ears you sat on?'

“What did you call those things with ears you used to sit on...?” says Joe in Loughinisland.
“I haven’t a notion.” Sean says.
“The thing with ears that you used to sit on is a wingback chair,” says Hugh in Bangor.
“Tell Hugh he's taking nonsense!” say Bangor’s Posing Painters. “Joe means a Space Hopper, big orange ball with ears as handles!”
“I remember it now,” says Sean. “But we didn’t have one. We were too poor.”
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