# Show us Something Cool About Your Place **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832 "2025-05-26T23:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/81 "2025-06-04T16:50:55Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > That is one ugly couch @ParallelLines Yeah, we’ve had it a loooong time, and it was my mother-in-laws before that. It’s one of those “they don’t make them like this anymore” in terms of sturdiness, but also hideousness. We’ve considered a couch cover, but they’re either so pricey as to be a significant part of the replacement / reupholster cost, or so ill-fitting that it’s just a _different_ sort of fugly. Still, it’s not well enough made or of sufficient value to justify a real major effort to save it, so it’ll probably be replaced with a moderately priced model in a year or so. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/82 "2025-06-04T18:03:46Z")
I have for many years been an admirer of native British orchids. Now: I say that orchids are like dogs - they know when someone is friendly. So they moved into our front yard. Here’s a picture of most of them, which I took a few minutes ago. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczMcTn8ns-TGkYELse09egnMT0zbF_E66c5-mQUs_cTnFNd9h12B_5x3qw_fKkXgxzZIbbWnSVPwjPYIVsVYSxqseKUb8bHrRrlkuKHFW5xVq5umSjU=w600-h315-p-k "New photo · Wednesday, Jun 4 📸") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/M7HmBGaWjJwJym1SA) Around this time of year, if we’re working out front, passers by will often comment or ask about them. (I should explain that I took he photo with my back to the road - the wall is to give us some privacy when we’re in the back yard.) They’re common spotted orchids, so not rare at all, but still an unusual and spectacular show for a couple of weeks of the year. j ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/83 "2025-06-04T18:14:07Z")
Not as cool as a mountain or a Great Lake, but I get to look at my Muppet Wall every day while I work. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/XTdoens.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/XTdoens) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/84 "2025-06-04T18:30:55Z")
👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌 Love the muppet wall. Very rad, hip, cool, riz. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/85 "2025-06-04T18:59:14Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Yeah, we’ve had it a loooong time, and it was my mother-in-laws before that. It’s one of those “they don’t make them like this anymore” in terms of sturdiness, but also hideousness. We’ve considered a couch cover, but they’re either so pricey as to be a significant part of the replacement / reupholster cost, or so ill-fitting that it’s just a _different_ sort of fugly. I did the couch cover thing a couple of times. Where you are talking to your spouse and say, that looks… ok. And neither one of you agree. Sometimes ya gotta try though. My wife and I like our two Amish rocking chairs. We set them up next to a coffee table. One on either side. Chess board is on the table. In the chairs you can rock forward to get a good look at the game, make your move and then rock back and raise your eyebrow ominously. It’s great. Yes, we are rather strange. But we earned it dammit. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/86 "2025-06-04T19:24:35Z")
I have that same talking Super Grover! I also still have the Super Grover my Mom bought me when I was in single digits. Bah. I miss my apartment and all the cool stuff in it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/87 "2025-06-08T00:35:51Z")
Nice Kermit phone! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/88 "2025-06-11T23:03:20Z")
We bought our first house last November, it has a lot of things to fix but it also has a lot of cool things: Now I have a den: [![](https://i.imgur.com/qxifC7c.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/qxifC7c.jpeg) The fireplace is very cool, even if it’s gas powered. [![](https://i.imgur.com/ibgSKZ3.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ibgSKZ3.jpeg) This may be the coolest part though, my wife learned to make asado: [![](https://i.imgur.com/6swX5v7.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/6swX5v7.jpeg) With delicious results: [![](https://i.imgur.com/qF9jWBG.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/qF9jWBG.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/89 "2025-06-11T23:09:06Z")
Cozy cat, cozy dog. That’s a den alright. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/90 "2025-06-11T23:16:21Z")
Your cat is very nice: got the big Jug? shoved over juuust shy of tipping it off. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/91 "2025-06-11T23:29:13Z")
Diana is evil but now that she’s older she almost never tips things off. Now that winter has come we’ve started using the fireplace, and nobody loves it more than she does: [![](https://i.imgur.com/rCrSwq5.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/rCrSwq5.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/uL5c24H.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/uL5c24H.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/92 "2025-06-11T23:31:40Z")
Where do you live that it’s winter now? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/93 "2025-06-11T23:32:08Z")
Greater Buenos Aires. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/94 "2025-06-11T23:34:41Z")
That’s right, I remember. Lovely home. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/95 "2025-06-12T03:01:40Z")
Truly, a roaring fire (wood or gas) is a cat magnet during cold weather. My cats love it, though I normally only bother when we have guests around new years since it’s darn inefficient at actual _heating_. Can’t beat the atmosphere though. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/96 "2025-06-12T22:46:57Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Truly, a roaring fire (wood or gas) is a cat magnet during cold weather. I have an electric artificial fire log thing in my fireplace - it just projects the image of a fire. No heat. My cat has never even seen a real fire. But she immediately goes and sits by the fireplace whenever I turn it on. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/97 "2025-06-13T02:03:22Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > We call the party Billy Rust Day and the cocktail always pay homage to them: the garnish will include a capsized canoe (orange peel, mint leaf etc.) and two berries to represent the drowned lovers. At the end of the night someone drinks a bud lite to commemorate how they died because a bud light is a lot like sex in a canoe: fucking close to water. I wish to subscribe to your religion. > [@Procrustus](#): > > Our greenhouse And I’d like to be your caretaker. Stunning. … In about a decade, this will be 100 years old. [![](https://i.ibb.co/hxqNXxDj/IMG-2032.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/hxqNXxDj/IMG-2032.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/98 "2025-06-13T09:33:29Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I wish to subscribe to your religion. We just had the party last weekend and it was a pretty good time. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/99 "2025-06-13T10:15:08Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Truly, a roaring fire (wood or gas) is a cat magnet during cold weather. Cat magnet indeed. You’ve seen photos of the Gettysburg battlefield? In the middle of winter, our four cats would just splotch out in front of the fireplace. We called it “Kittysburg.” ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/100 "2025-06-13T16:45:55Z")
Mental images like that make me wish for more than the two we have. Then again, shrieks for attention while trying to sleep make me love the snakes who largely make no noise or fuss 24/7. 'Tis a cruel world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832.md?page=6)