# Help! My apartment looks like a prison cell! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 13, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-apartment-looks-like-a-prison-cell/264226 "2004-09-13T07:18:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-apartment-looks-like-a-prison-cell/264226/21 "2004-09-14T15:37:35Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > Even cheaper than using sheets for curtains, my sister ripped open the side and top seams of burlap feed sacks, hand washed the sacks and hung them from the curtain rods. Surprisingly (to me), it looked classy, in a rural, post-industrial kind of way. Ayup. Klassy with a capital “K”. Y’all sound like a girl from hyarbouts. Do y’all look like [THIS?](http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/2411_6413_1.jpg) If so, how _you_ doin’ **cornflakes**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-apartment-looks-like-a-prison-cell/264226/22 "2004-09-14T15:57:33Z")
**Bosda** , there’s an interesting point in there somewhere. It think it has something to do with that teams of engineers around the world have dedicated lifetimes of work developing the personal computers, servers communications equipment, protocols &c, &c and the like so that two schmucks from Dogpatch and Bubbaville can debate whether putting feed sacks on windows is classy! I think that the ideals that we were striving for have been lost. I concede the point so that we may move on to bigger and better things. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-apartment-looks-like-a-prison-cell/264226/23 "2004-09-14T16:06:52Z")
**cornflakes** –somewhere in between our two posts a great point has been lost. Sadly, I don’t think either of us are profound enough to take it home. ☹ Magnificient missed opportunity, I suppose. So…_do_ you look like Daisy Mae? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-apartment-looks-like-a-prison-cell/264226/24 "2004-09-14T16:43:00Z")
Internet message boards do a poor job of communicating some of the more subtle parts of human communication. Beyond that, I don’t do humor well, and it’s a pretty dry humor when I am funny. Woe unto me for calling burlap classy. :smack: You called me on it; I laughed and I offered a retort. I think my so called joke fell flat. Speaking of the internet and wrong impressions, I look a lot more like Willie Nelson than I look like Daisy Mae. Sorry if I led you astray there. Trust me, this one also wasn’t intended. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-apartment-looks-like-a-prison-cell/264226/25 "2004-09-14T17:21:04Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > Internet message boards do a poor job of communicating some of the more subtle parts of human communication. Beyond that, I don’t do humor well, and it’s a pretty dry humor when I am funny. Woe unto me for calling burlap classy. :smack: You called me on it; I laughed and I offered a retort. I think my so called joke fell flat. > > Speaking of the internet and wrong impressions, I look a lot more like Willie Nelson than I look like Daisy Mae. Sorry if I led you astray there. Trust me, this one also wasn’t intended. No, your joke was fun & fine. Well delivered. And to me, you’ll always be Daisy Mae on the inside. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-apartment-looks-like-a-prison-cell/264226.md?page=1)