[Above My Pay Grade]

That is interesting. I always thought it was because they spent too much time on their sofas, with their feet up. :-)

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"I always thought it was because they spent too much time on their sofas, with their feet up. :-)"

That's a similar joke that Jerry Seinfeld did. So what's with this Ottoman Empire? An empire based on furniture?