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Furniture Designers Are Dead Serious About Coffins For The Living
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 6/19/02
| Kevin Fagan
Posted on 06/19/2002 11:58:12 AM PDT by marshmallow
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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In these days of downsizings and wallet crimpings, some folks with an eye on the bottom line are joining a hot (or perhaps cold) new trend: buying coffins and using them as furniture.
That is, using them as furniture before the time comes to actually be laid inside the boxes for the big sleep.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
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To: marshmallow
It isn't at all about death in this box -- not yet, that is. Only silence and rest, the noneternal kind. And . . . "ah, heck," Wiener, 27, said with a big grin as he sat in the thing one evening in his upscale Fremont apartment before lights-out, "I may as well just say it -- it's cool to sleep in.Vampires walk among us.
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posted on
06/19/2002 12:00:27 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: marshmallow
Had one in my college apartment. Fun stuff.
To: marshmallow
So vampires are real( you know it may be possible to genetically engineer a hemoglobin deficient race which is allergic to sunlight that doesn't age in a few years the ricky part would be giving them the ability to turn into a bat).
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posted on
06/19/2002 12:04:13 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: marshmallow
www.casketfurniture.comThe Jefferson - Casket Cigar Box
Price: $199.00 USD
Bill Clinton has nothing on this cigar box.
For the politically corrupt aficionado. Made
With Birch, With Velvet Bedding.
Dimesions: 12" x 4" x 5"
I like this company!
To: marshmallow
Sounds like it could be a great bar - with lots of storage for booze.
Hey, maybe I could convince my wife to bury me with my bourbon!
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posted on
06/19/2002 12:28:51 PM PDT
by
aShepard
To: marshmallow
about $1,000 for your basic pine modelI built mine for about $200. I store antenna parts in it currently. Be darned if I'll make the family pay out big bucks for a stupid box. Besides, mine looks better than most.
/john
To: Darth Reagan
Bump
To: Lazamataz
I notice this is in San Francisco. You know there are a lot of suckers there.
To: aShepard
Hey, maybe I could convince my wife to bury me with my bourbon!You could even sneak a sip or two while you are down there.
To: Phantom Lord
A friend of mine used to have an old caddie hearse. I always wanted to get a coffin to convert into a cooler for the back.
To: Britton J Wingfield
A friend of mine and fellow swim team member in HS had a hurse too. He had a stop light in the back and the cops gave him hell about it.
To: Britton J Wingfield
Man, I gotta learn to type. He had a hearse and it had a strobe light in it.
To: Phantom Lord
Ever watch the show
Jackass?
They have a gag where they dressed as morticians and parked a hearse on various steep hills, so the coffin would fall out the back and horrify onlookers.
To: Britton J Wingfield
Johnny Knoxville Rules!
To: Britton J Wingfield
I really liked the one where they kidnapped Brad Pitt right off the sidewalk from a line to get into a movie theater.
Poo Cocktail was good too.
I don't know how they dont get hurt more often, especially seriously hurt.
To: Britton J Wingfield
Better yet, have a fake arm hanging out of it and park it at a mall
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