Who is waiting for a joke rug for $12,960?

Cafe Society
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If that’s your thing, you might want to see this.
http://dangolden.com/rugmenu.html

Personally, I can’t imagine wanting a joke on my floor except for a pool party.
So my price limit would be about $12.96 for a joke beach towel.

But it did remind me of the time I made a quick rug for the children’s room with
a cartoon picture of Kermit.
There was some sort of “yarn punch machine”. You’d nail some embroidery mesh in a wooden stretcher frame and then just punch up and down and it would fill an area on the bottom side with a color. The punch machine made all the loops the same height. Took only an hour, as I recall. The catch was that since the yarn wasn’t knotted at each punch, it was subject to raveling.

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I can’t imagine who would want such poorly drawn cartoons displayed so prominently as on a rug. I’m normally a defender of badly drawn but witty cartoons, but those just look ugly for being home decoration.

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I clicked on one - said rugs are $120/sq foot.

That is just retarded. You can get REALLY NICE tile or hardwood for a fraction of that. May not be witty, but it will look a hell of a lot better at least.

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I often wonder about people who love a Dilbert comic so much that they order a coffee mug or T-shirt with the strip printed on it, but a rug? All over your floor? There’s no joke so brilliant that it doesn’t get old after a few tellings. Or readings.

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If I’m paying $120 a square foot for rug, there better be a really gorgeous 6-foot hooker attached.

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Wow. Poorly drawn, unfunny, and expensive. Dan hit the trifecta.

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Well, to be fair, you have to expect to pay if you want hand tufted rugs…

…from New Zealand. That’s a long way off, you gotta know the shipping is gonna be a killer!

But I’m with you on the, ‘who would want this’.

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I don’t think you’re going to get a 6-foot tall hooker with any where near a square foot of rug.

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Back in the '70s, maybe, but no, not now. Maybe in North Dakota.

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And it probably wouldn’t even tie the room together…

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If the rug’s were reasonably priced, I’d consider the one about morphine, but at nearly $13K, I’m with Bryan Ekers on this.

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He meant 6-foot wide.

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A actually really like these abstract ones. Especially “tarzan” and “big scoop”. I think that the “joke” ones are intended as attention getters- and more in the realm of a giant fine art print (for which that price really isn’t that unheard of)- whereas the “sherman oaks” collection is truly meant for home decor.