[thechat] Too Much Stuff

[Martin Burns]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 07:24  pm, Luther, Ron wrote:

> It's my dining room set; table, chairs, china hutch.
>
> It's not, (he hastens to add), a 'normal' dining room set. (That just
> wouldn't be *me* now would it?) My wife and ex-wives would add (and
> often _have_ added) a number of expletiginous adjectives in front of
> the phrase 'dining room set'.
>
> I had to place an order to have it built. 'Built' as in 
> hand-constructed by
> a group of monks located in upstate New York. (At this point you 
> probably
> think I'm kidding.)
>
> It's the same group that built King Faisal's dining room table - 
> although
> he did order one a tad larger than mine. (Compensating ...? Never 
> mind.)
>
> Chippendale styling. Solid black walnut construction. (Furniture like 
> this
> is one reason people raise black walnut trees as an investment.) The 
> slab
> for the table top is probably close to 2" thick.  The table expands to
> take three leaves ... each leaf is about 2 foot in width.  Steel 
> I-beams
> are used for the table expansion rails.  It's ... ummmm ... it's heavy.
> Very very pretty. But definitely heavy.
>

Anyone thinking of buying this, I can testify that it's one classy set 
(even better with cuisine du Luther on it). If we had the money and 
space, we'd be in there like a shot.

Cheers
Martin


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