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What is a Chesterfield to a Canadian?

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dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 11 Apr, 2004 08:28 am
Bluddy people should learn to speak English....bah humbug...
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eoe
 
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Reply Sun 11 Apr, 2004 08:35 am
Did anyone mention Chesterfield coats?
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Charli
 
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Reply Sun 11 Apr, 2004 08:47 pm
Post #10
See Post #10 above re: "Chesterfield Coats." :-)[/color]

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littlek
 
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Reply Sun 11 Apr, 2004 08:51 pm
I'm not canadian, but a chesterfield is a smoke to me.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sun 11 Apr, 2004 08:58 pm
Just a large manufacturing town somewhere up north to me. Isn't a Davenport some sort of sofa too? And I know a Canterbury is a magazine rack, though it seems bizarre to give it such a dignified name.
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eoe
 
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Reply Sun 11 Apr, 2004 09:24 pm
thanks Charli.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 12 Apr, 2004 04:45 am
So, this leads me to ask, can anyone state authoritatively whether or not long pieces of living room furniture are referred to as davenports, because they were once manufactured in Davenport, Iowa?

I'm sure i could find this on-line with enough work, but i'm lazy, and need a shower . . .
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 12 Apr, 2004 04:58 am
Rabbits shower? or are you a hare?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 12 Apr, 2004 05:02 am
Jackrabbit, but now that the Easter nonsense is over with, i intend to change all that . . .
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darbyshaw
 
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Reply Tue 13 Apr, 2004 09:02 am
What a fun thread!

My mother had a "rush" delivery and my first place in the world was on a Chesterfield before the EMT
gang showed up. Thanks Lord Chesterfield!!!

Never hear it in the U.S. except in a very "upscale" way or the brand of smokes lol.
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kitchenpete
 
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Reply Tue 13 Apr, 2004 09:44 am
Deb's picture (that's dlowan's, in case you didn't know! Laughing is what we call a Chesterfield in the UK.

As stated above, they can come in chair form as well.

The whole sofa-bed thing is new to me.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 13 Apr, 2004 06:51 pm
a couch or sofa, not a sofa bed to my knowledge
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 13 Apr, 2004 07:08 pm
This whole thread seems couched in mystery to me....
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Joeblow
 
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Reply Tue 13 Apr, 2004 07:13 pm
Cav, That's sofa king funny Smile
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 13 Apr, 2004 07:18 pm
I love sofa king jokes. Laughing
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Clary
 
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Reply Tue 13 Apr, 2004 07:22 pm
kitchenpete wrote:
Deb's picture (that's dlowan's, in case you didn't know! Laughing is what we call a Chesterfield in the UK.

As stated above, they can come in chair form as well.

The whole sofa-bed thing is new to me.


kitchenpete where have you been living? Sofabeds are essential to flat life, or any other really, do you mean youhave whole guest beds ready and waiting? Sofabeds are great! In fact i shall be sleeping on one next week in a friend's flat here in Hong Kong.
All the same, what is a davenport
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kitchenpete
 
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Reply Wed 14 Apr, 2004 04:54 am
Clary

I'm sorry if I confused you. I have slept on sofa-beds, futons and a number of other places which are not beds!

I meant that I'd not heard of Chesterfield as a term applied to sofa-beds. Sorry. Embarrassed

KP
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 14 Apr, 2004 04:59 am
Clary wrote:
All the same, what is a davenport


That is a term for a sofa (which does not fold out into a bed) used commonly in the New Nited States. I think the usage is fading, though. I have been told, and cannot vouch for the accuracy, that at one time a great many sofas were manufacturered in Davenport, Iowa, on the Mississippi river, and shipped all over by river boat. Can't vouch for that at all, although it makes sense . . .
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 14 Apr, 2004 05:01 am
"Chest or field, baby?"

"Just chest tonight, I'm not 'ready' yet."
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farmerman
 
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Reply Wed 14 Apr, 2004 05:13 am
I fondly remember the best Ale made in the US, was (is) a brand named Chesterfield. It was brewed by the Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville Pa. This stuff could knock any other AMerican or Canadian beer off the taste scale.


I miss it, so stop taunting me.
Its a goodam couch
Deal with it.
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