| Futon mattress - 04.26.04 |
| submitter: | Erin |
| location: | Montreal |
| Do futons count? |
| category: | Sleepable |
| comments: | 13 |
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| Rebecca commented on 05.06.04 | | I'm afraid Camels do indeed count, against you that is. As for futons, they say, "ichi ni san...roku juu nana, roku juu hachi...yon hyaku go juu, yon hyaku go juu ichi..." |
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| wim commented on 05.06.04 | | (a bad joke, I know, but it goes back to my days as what British named "a courrier", and the Italians " capo gruppo" )The brand "Camel" had the slogan "it is the tobacco that counts" And Erin asked "Do futons count ?" |
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| FOD40UK commented on 05.05.04 | | I'm with you on that one Rebecca,tho i'm sure Wim will enlighten us(perhaps it lost a little in translation) |
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| Rebecca commented on 05.05.04 | | I don't think I understand this joke. The cigarettes were counting? |
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| wim commented on 05.05.04 | | reminds me of an ald joke about an arabian prince, walking in the desert, with his wives, camel and sigarets, hearing a whispering 1/2/3/4......5668/5669/5670. He asks his wives to stop counting. 5671/5672/5673...He shoots his wives. 5833/5834..he shoots the camel..6915/6116/6917... he blows his own head of... 7912/7913... |
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| Erin commented on 05.04.04 | | Hm... you might be on to something there! Ah, no- that would be true, but they aren't selling. Tricky bastards. |
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| wim commented on 05.04.04 | | Paying a loan at $1000 a month, for let us say 20 years at 3.5% on an annuity basis, would that not allow you to buy? |
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| Erin commented on 05.03.04 | | Renting. It's incredible how much these places cost! They're divided usually into 3 apartments, and each one costs at least $1000 a month to rent. So if you have the money for that, you can certainly buy a new bed when your old futon is still perfect like this one. |
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| Erin commented on 05.03.04 | | Renting. It's incredible how much these places cost! They're divided usually into 3 apartments, and each one costs at least $1000 a month to rent. So if you have the money for that, you can certainly buy a new bed when your old futon is still perfect like this one. |
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| Rebecca commented on 04.30.04 | I can tell you exactly what a futon is. The word describes Japanese bedding consisting of a thick, stuffed mat laid on the floor to sleep upon, with another resembling a thick comforter laid over the top to sleep under. In the morning it is folded up and put away in a closet.
However, in America a "futon" is a thick, stuffed mat that is put on a frame to form a couch. This contraption may be folded out to make a bed. This is not Japanese bedding at all, and is pronounced "foo-tawn." I have one in my front room for movie nights. |
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| wim commented on 04.29.04 | | from what I see by Tikifish, canadian architecture is somewhat similar to Belgian brickery, but we gave up that kind of windows in the late 50's of the past century.Doyou talk renting or bying ? |
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| Erin commented on 04.29.04 | | I'm not really clear on what a futon IS either, though I do have one. I think it's just a mattress that looks like this one does, and then you can get a frame for it so it can convert into a couch. And that is, in fact, a 3-dimensional facade. Montreal architecture is one of the world's most facinating things, I've found. And it can be yours for only $1500 a month! No word on the curtain though... |
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| wim commented on 04.27.04 | | Will someone please explain to me the correct definition of a "futon", being a nonenglish-aboriginal, and a noncanadianfrench-native I do not understand.I do like the lini,g in tyhe brickwork, do those bricks have other dimensions ? AQnd is this a real curtain or a huge "antimacassar" |
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