None of them particularly comfortable
Do you remember the world before internet mattresses? Before a podcast would offer you a 20% discount code for a mattress in a box that you could return after 100 days if you weren’t totally satisfied? I’ve slept on a few of them. I was far, far from totally satisfied. SNAKE OIL!
Gale is literally a pushover on this page.
So who else googled “shelby “mattress in a box””? If you didn’t, come on, you know you want to.
Well, I didn’t till now.
John, I think I still live in the world before Internet mattresses – mostly because my household has bought nothing but non-compressible futons for close to 3 decades.
Taking that to the literal extreme, I am in equal parts impressed at the nutritional value of (that your household has at least subsisted for nigh 30 years) and the internet connection capabilities of (that you are able to write replies on an online webcomic comment thread) non-compressible futons!
Indeed, one soaks up nutrients while lying on it, so that’s very efficient. The downside is that they only do 56k dial-up connectivity.
I’ve used an IBM RS/6000 as a mattress. On the one hand, it was self-heating, generated a soothing white noise, and had gigabit connectivity. On the other hand, it was a bit stiff, ran AIX, and I had to subsist on cold pop tarts from the vending machine.
I must be a deranged weirdo then because I tend to prefer futon mattresses laying flat on the floor. Because they seem to be inexplicably better for my back.
They are giddy at the thought of the idea. Or is that from the exertion of wrestling Shelby into the sleeping area…
Hopped up on fumes from the memory foam. It doesn’t affect you unless you’re sensitive to scents, but Lottie has to be at least part Bloodhound.
We bought one of those. Took it out of the box. Opened the windows. Closed the door. “Returned” it after 90 days without ever laying on the stinking thing. It turns out that they don’t actually want it back. They find a local charity to take it. Actually, they may have made me find the local charity because I remember hearing a lot of “we don’t take used mattresses” even after I had just said that it was new and never used.
I thought the catch was that you had to return them in the original wrapper/box. Oh sure let me just get out my industrial foam compressor that I keep around for just such a contingency!
Hmm, guess there’s internet mattresses and internet mattresses. The one I got had good Amazon reviews. It was a real bear to get it up the stairs in its compact but weighty box but once opened and on the springs it’s been fine. No particularly noticeable stink even at the beginning. Of course I once spent a night sleeping literally on a rock so my standards in mattresses are fairly forgiving.
it’s so weird that they prayed for Dean Thompson to be exactly what he is. Sounds so wrong, SO MUCH WRONG! But it’s beautiful seeing Glenn and Lottie so happy ♡. On the mattress, frankly I’ve slept on many things, luckily for me I can adapt to everything.
The Flying Nun? Is Gorgonzola a fan of Sally Field?
Or of the Verlaines, more likely.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Nun_Records
I like Sally better.
Oooooooh! Lottie unleashes the Full Elaine Benes!
Oh thank god. I thought I was going to be the only one to get the Elaine reference. Although there are scarily few.
Now, will she do the “dance”?
I hope she at least had the courtesy to push him in the general direction of the mattress.
That might send a message which could be misinterpreted very easily!
Flying Nun really does prove hes a Kiwi and most likely from Dunedin
I will say this about Internet mattresses: There’s something wonderfully surreal about having one arrive vacuum-sealed, stupidly heavy yet impossibly thin and hard, and then opening it up and FWOOP watching it expand into the real thing.
The odour is no joke, though.
The odor is unfathomable.
In fairness, I probably shouldn’t have bought the Misasma model.
MIASMA. Argh.
I am reminded that earlier in this sequence, Mr. Allison notified us that this strip has ” completely internalised the logic of Seinfeld.”
GET OUT!
Yada, yada, yada…
I’ve been sleeping on the same futon mattress for over 30 years. It was quite expensive when I first got it, with a foam core and slip cover. It’s seen better days. (It’s on top of real box springs, so not as bad as you might think.)
Someday maybe I’ll replace it, but few inner-spring mattresses are firm enough for me to be comfortable on them.
While I know Lottie is a girl of many talents, her expertise with portable mattresses possibly surprises and impresses me the most. Also, que Seinfeld theme last panel.
Will she recognize Dean Thompson’s name and place it correctly?
Mind, you, it’s not THAT uncommon a name, but she knows there are no coincidences
I don’t think Lottie had any encounters with Dean during her visit to Sheffield in Giant Days #35.
Also, Glym, when you say that Dean is everything you prayed for, are you sure that your prayers to the Almighty didn’t get mixed up with Grand Magus Tom Pendennis’s prayers to Baphomet to send us his likely incarnation on Earth to bring forth his dark kingdom?
Or maybe Lottie and Ganon’s prayers intermingled with Billie’s prayers to Baphomet. From what I’ve gathered in the last few days’ comments about Dean, I think this won’t involve anyone’s snoopy even if that’s 100% what they want.
Now you tell me. I bought a Leesa on the recommendation of one of your characters in 2018.
Cue the quirky bass line.
I personally much prefer to sleep on the floor, but my wife will have none of it.
Lottie seems to be channeling Elaine Benes with her Get Out shove.
I love the new dimension of Lottie’s personality that this Elaine joke has revealed. A Seinfeld fan, who knew/of course???
Air mattresses are often nice to sleep on, but have poor durability (they tend to get leaks after several uses.)
Costco sells mattresses in boxes, and they’re halfway decent. They fit in a box because they compress them, and they have to decompress for some time before use…
Sleeping on the floor is ok as long as you can get good elevation for your neck
Does this make Lottie a Shelby Winner?
seinfeld reference FTW!
as for the internet podcast mattress, i think the trick is to also get one of those 3″ memory foam toppers to throw over it
did that with my casper and it’s just fine
If Glem doesn’t SPROING back into frame in the next strip, I will be very disappointed.