# Who is waiting for a joke rug for $12,960? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799 "2008-03-26T15:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![onions\_without\_tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c37758/32.png) [@onions\_without\_tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/onions_without_tears)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/1 "2008-03-26T15:44:14Z")
If that’s your thing, you might want to see this. [http://dangolden.com/rugmenu.html](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. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/2 "2008-03-26T16:02:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/3 "2008-03-26T16:28:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/4 "2008-03-26T16:34:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/5 "2008-03-26T16:34:40Z")
If I’m paying $120 a square foot for rug, there better be a really gorgeous 6-foot hooker attached. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/6 "2008-03-26T16:45:44Z")
Wow. Poorly drawn, unfunny, _and_ expensive. Dan hit the trifecta. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/7 "2008-03-26T16:52:49Z")
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’. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/8 "2008-03-26T17:14:55Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] If I’m paying $120 a square foot for rug, there better be a really gorgeous 6-foot hooker attached. [/QUOTE] I don’t think you’re going to get a 6-foot tall hooker with any where near a square foot of rug. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/9 "2008-03-26T17:29:12Z")
[QUOTE=Edward The Head] I don’t think you’re going to get a 6-foot tall hooker with any where near a square foot of rug. [/QUOTE] Back in the '70s, maybe, but no, not now. Maybe in North Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/10 "2008-03-26T17:33:59Z")
[QUOTE=ZenBeam] Wow. Poorly drawn, unfunny, _and_ expensive. [/QUOTE] And it probably wouldn’t even tie the room together… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/11 "2008-03-26T18:16:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/12 "2008-03-26T19:20:03Z")
[QUOTE=Edward The Head] I don’t think you’re going to get a 6-foot tall hooker with any where near a square foot of rug. [/QUOTE] He meant 6-foot wide. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-waiting-for-a-joke-rug-for-12-960/442799/13 "2008-03-26T19:29:49Z")
A actually really like [these abstract ones](http://dangolden.com/shermanoaksmenu.html). 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.