Coffin sofa

Posted by David Pescovitz, June 18, 2009 12:59 PM | permalink

Etsy seller VonErickson offers this coffin couch for $3500. It's available in purple, red, or black velvet. The lid closes too. Coffin Couch (Thanks, Patty Trujillo!)

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#1 posted by laderoda, June 18, 2009 1:08 PM

I love it...I think.

Makes me want to start LARP'ing the vampire thing...kinda.

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#2 posted by Roy Trumbull, June 18, 2009 1:17 PM

A piece of black humor by Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp). Through a computer error the advertising manager for a casket company gets 100 times his normal budget and makes death the new cool thing.
The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org.
Reading of same:
http://www.archive.org/download/AndAllTheEarthAGrave/And_All_the_Earth_a_Grave.mp3

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#3 posted by 3.14chan, June 18, 2009 1:28 PM

I wonder how would be the coffe table

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#4 posted by Anonymous, June 18, 2009 1:51 PM

Just the thing you need if you have to deal with driving instructors from Johannesburg.

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#5 posted by Alpha Omicron, June 18, 2009 2:00 PM

Dangit, I thought it was "Coffin soda". Now I'm disappointed.

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#6 posted by Daemon, June 18, 2009 2:04 PM

@Roy Trumbull - The ending of that story is so very awesome.

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#7 posted by Anonymous, June 18, 2009 2:04 PM

So, when you die, can this convert back into a coffin thereby sparing your survivors the expense?

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#8 posted by muteboy, June 18, 2009 2:07 PM

Thank heavens for Habitat Sofa-coffins!

The Young Ones caught a South African vampire in one of these. About 5:15 in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h77FjWsrjBI

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#9 posted by Killer Whale, June 18, 2009 2:09 PM

A sofa-coffin (from Habitat, apparently) featured in the Nasty episode of the Young Ones in the early 'eighties: http://tvtanline.blogspot.com/2007/12/young-ones-nasty-2x03.html

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#10 posted by The Jones Ultimatum, June 18, 2009 2:16 PM

OOOhh bad scary.the model looks a little too undead for comfort.

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#11 posted by nanuq, June 18, 2009 2:21 PM

I think I'd be nervous about taking a nap on that thing for fear that somebody might stake me.

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#12 posted by oasisob1, June 18, 2009 2:26 PM

Couch looks best while wearing 'stitches choker'.

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#13 posted by bearchild, June 18, 2009 2:34 PM

It doesn't look very comfortable...

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#14 posted by Rossy, June 18, 2009 3:57 PM

@ #5- I thought it said "Coffin soda" also. Weird.

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#15 posted by saint_al, June 18, 2009 6:30 PM

Makes any room more Munsters-like.

Release the bats!

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#16 posted by Gillagriene, June 18, 2009 6:59 PM

While it looks very cool (and in purple! ♥), I require furniture that I sit on to be functionally loungable. That looks like it'd be comfortable for about two minutes. Maybe five if I had a sweatshirt on.

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#17 posted by Anonymous, June 18, 2009 7:21 PM

"recycles"

What happened to the corpse?

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#18 posted by Crawford Tillinghast, June 18, 2009 9:23 PM

Oh lord, why am I suddenly having more Young Ones flashbacks..?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasty_(Young_Ones_episode)

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#19 posted by sazzamook, June 19, 2009 1:00 AM

Because The Young Ones were fantastic :D

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