Amazon Amusement - Page 3

zelda_pinwheel · 12-30-2008, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

The Chesterfields I know look like this:

oh, pffff, obviously... i even have a friend who smokes those sometimes. i had a hole in my memory i guess.

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

You asked for it.

ha ! excellent !!

Nate the great · 12-30-2008, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

You asked for it.

:gigglesmadlywhilejumpingupanddownandclappinghands together:

zelda_pinwheel · 12-30-2008, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Nate the great

:gigglesmadlywhilejumpingupanddownandclappinghands together:

wow, i don't think i've ever seen nate that extremely amused !!! nice job, wetdogeared !!! (yet another one who's going to need a shorter nickname soon)

GeoffC · 12-31-2008, 05:38 AM

A thread full of Amazons - that's what I wuz expecting !....

RickyMaveety · 12-31-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Marks and Spencers had a lovely love seat that would make an ideal reading chair for one person

So does Pottery Barn ... they call it a "chair and a half."

RickyMaveety · 12-31-2008, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

We used the word chesterfield when we were young, seldom used now except by my mum.

I remember calling a sofa a "Davenport." I suppose it must have had something to do with the style of the thing. But, that's what the folks of my mom's generation called them in the part of the country I grew up in.

lilac_jive · 12-31-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

So does Pottery Barn ... they call it a "chair and a half."

I think I need that chair!

zelda_pinwheel · 12-31-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

So does Pottery Barn ... they call it a "chair and a half."

hm, "a chair and a half" seems pretty accurate, i don't see how anybody could imagine that thing is made for two people. most sofas around here are 2-person sofas (small appartments, and all that) but they're still bigger than that thing !!

vivaldirules · 12-31-2008, 10:13 AM

Sofa, couch, divan (what I was raised to call them), Chesterfield, settee, davenport, chaise lounge, love seat. Any other names?

And scoot over, will ya? It's getting crowded on this thing.

RickyMaveety · 12-31-2008, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

hm, "a chair and a half" seems pretty accurate, i don't see how anybody could imagine that thing is made for two people. most sofas around here are 2-person sofas (small appartments, and all that) but they're still bigger than that thing !!

Oh no no no .... that is intended for one person. That's not a love seat. That's a reading chair. Just a chair. Just a lovely, oversized, comfy chair. I was really thinking more of the part of the quote that said "lovely reading chair for one person."

RickyMaveety · 12-31-2008, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Sofa, couch, divan (what I was raised to call them), Chesterfield, settee, davenport, chaise lounge, love seat. Any other names?

And scoot over, will ya? It's getting crowded on this thing.

Only a man could consider a chaise lounge a sofa.

zelda_pinwheel · 12-31-2008, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Oh no no no .... that is intended for one person. That's not a love seat. That's a reading chair. Just a chair. Just a lovely, oversized, comfy chair. I was really thinking more of the part of the quote that said "lovely reading chair for one person."

ah, okay ! that makes more sense.

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Only a man could consider a chaise lounge a sofa.

(absently fingering the pendant of pedantry) --ahem-- say it with me : chaise longue. it means, rather aptly, a "long chair."

RickyMaveety · 12-31-2008, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

ah, okay ! that makes more sense.

(absently fingering the pendant of pedantry) --ahem-- say it with me : chaise longue. it means, rather aptly, a "long chair."

Something that has been horribly corrupted in the English. We actually say (and write) chaise lounge .... meaning a chaise that you lounge on.

Strange, but true.

zelda_pinwheel · 12-31-2008, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Something that has been horribly corrupted in the English. We actually say (and write) chaise lounge .... meaning a chaise that you lounge on.

Strange, but true.

philistines.

oh well, i guess that's what they mean when they talk about living languages, right ?

RickyMaveety · 12-31-2008, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

philistines.

oh well, i guess that's what they mean when they talk about living languages, right ?

Guess so.

Ricky (citizen of the Philistine States of America .... because to call us "United" is just wrong).

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GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	A thread full of Amazons - that's what I wuz expecting !....

12-31-2008, 10:13 AM	#39
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Sofa, couch, divan (what I was raised to call them), Chesterfield, settee, davenport, chaise lounge, love seat. Any other names? And scoot over, will ya? It's getting crowded on this thing.