I rarely have coffee on my coffee table

In answer to your last question, Central Intelligence Agency leaps to mind. But as to coffee tables, they were once a place for people to set their coffees when entertaining. Once upon a time, when people served coffee after dinner, they lived up to their names. Now, they're just places for magazines to sit and remotes to get lost.

Some people call it tea table, because they put some tea pot on it. how much is your coffee table? can you take a picture? and where are you? we are a furniture factory in China, coffee table is one of our main products.

So true Sisi!! Our coffee tables are being used for keeping flowers and my father's documents and a little space is used by him to keep his tea cup in the morning when he reads his newspapers and does office.

I rarely have tables in my coffee either, so it all makes perfect sense to me. Seeing as the Superbowl has just finished, I wanna know why they call it a "touchdown"?? It never looks like anyone's touching down anything really. It's more like a slam, crash or smash down of the ball followed by a GET down dance! What's up with that??

[i]Hi Anne, I also don't know why they are called coffee table and for us, we have a lot of stuff there, magazines, coins, etc! I need to clean it up! LOL! We rarely have coffee also in our table! odd! LOL![/i]

Well there is the one thing that Jessica Simpson made famous... "Why do they call it chicken of sea, is it really chicken?"

We don't have a coffee table but if we did I'm sure it would be piled with junk.

I use mine for coffee table books and, when we have company, I put the serving tray on there which contains coffee. :-) Sometimes we'll have dinner on our coffee table while watching movie. My fiance's uncle made ours a long time ago (he made it before I met my fiance), so it's a treasured piece that we try to take good care of.

I found this on dictionary.com: coffee table –noun a low table, usually placed in front of a sofa, for holding ashtrays, snack bowls, glasses, magazines, etc. The name certainly doesn't fit. Also says they are sometimes called cocktail tables. Ewww that is worse!lol Don't really know why they call them coffee tables. Maybe you could try looking on craigs list in your area. I have found some wonderful deals.

I guess 'multifunction living room table' just didn't have the same ring to it!

Most of the people are not using the coffee table for the intended purpose. They use it to keep books, put on their foots while watching television and so on. Hope you don't do the same. There are variety of coffee tables available in the market. I bought mine from malaysia.