Things found in sofas

Dare you put your hand into the mysterious world under your butt?

ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER Karuna Menon was in a friend's living room when he got the urge to stick his hands into the depths of the sofa on which he sat. (I'm never inviting him to my house.) He felt something odd down there. He reached in and yanked whatever it was out. It turned out to be fistfuls of treasure: real jewelry, including gold and diamonds.

His host came back with the tea tray from the kitchen and was astonished at the discovery.
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Sofa cracks are amazing places. I once found a fossilized French fry from the early Jurassic period down the back of mine. The weird thing is that the sofa itself was from the Cretaceous period. Explain that, Stephen Hawking.
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And did you read that recent news report about a nine-year-old cat pulled out of a sofa in Spokane, Washington, by an astonished woman who had been wondering why her couch had been mewing, while the armchairs had been standoffish and taciturn?
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Then there was the boa constrictor found in a couch in Brooklyn, New York. The snake was taken to an animal shelter where she was named Sophie to commemorate the fact she had emerged from that most mysterious source of marvels: the sofa crack.
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Your humble narrator was talking about this with some readers on this site, and Angela, based in Singapore, said she reckoned sofas were portals to “a parallel universe”. This is the most believable explanation of the spate of sofa-crack discovery new reports circulating just now.
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Children are more aware of the magic than adults, frequently taking lucky dips for money and valuables. “My sister and I had lucrative way of raising funds beyond our allowance,” reader Thomas Seifert said. “We called it The Sofa Harvest.”
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Serious treasures have emerged. An unpublished 1836 manuscript from author Hans Christian Anderson was recently found in a sofa. The photographs which made the reputation of E. J. Bellocq, an American photographer active in the 1920s, were found in a couch. Had it not been for the existence of nosy people like Karuna who stick their hands down the cracks of people's settees, these masterpieces could have been lost forever.
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Last year, UK teenager Rebecca Wells found a chocolate bar down the back of her sofa. She was tempted to put it straight into her mouth, but then changed her mind. Good thing too. It turned out to be a Cadbury's Wispa, a discontinued line of chocolate bar that had been wildly popular in the 1980s. She ended up selling it on e-Bay for 1000 pounds.
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Then there was the case in Nigeria where a killer dropped his knife down the back of a sofa, expecting it to disappear for good. Detectives reached into the dark vortex, extracted it and used it as evidence against him.
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What is the biggest thing that has disappeared down the back of the sofa? I’m not sure, but I had a weird great-uncle who vanished mysteriously from a sitting room without anyone seeing him leave. He was last seen 20 years ago on a black leatherette three-seater. He is now probably in a parallel universe. If you reach down the back of your sofa and pull him out, get straight on to the phone. Call anyone but me.

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Comments

[Lia S]

I've been looking for a husband for a looong time. do you think he might be down teh back of someone;s sofa?

[farah]

me any my sister got to dig out stuffs like hair pins, ear rings, combs etc from the crack of the sofa which we thought had lost. apart from that nothing interesting has ever emerged from the sofa butt.

[ABKF]

It's really good that I don't have a sofa in my house !!!

[TS]

"I" before "E" except after "C".

[TS]

Mr. Nury Vittacho
In Denmark we once found an "e" in a sofa, we didn't know what to do with it so we ended up replacing the "o" in the name of one of our national treasures: Hans Christian Andersen.

;-)

[Sham]

4 years after my sister got married, we found an envelope with money in the sofa. Turns out, it was a wedding gift from a relative whom we have been gossiping about and telling everyone how they came, gorged on food & wedding cake and left without giving a gift. Now we cant go back and tell everyone about our find, so our relative will always be known as a miser.

[piya]

Paralell universe supposed to consist of everithing in our own space and time, and that said to be like a mirror image of our universe. That is impossible to cross between these two universes and I suppose thats why its called Paralell Universe.

This leads me to guess Karuna has just triggered open an entrance to a different Universe,which has never been explained before. Another Great finding of the century by an Asian.

Karuna must take immediate action and claim patent before a western "Scientist" pirate the idea.I suggest Karuna's finding must be called "Vertical Space" or "Karuna Space" to honor his finding.

“Vertical Space” also can be used to benefit our lives in some occasions. Once I managed to survive from the world’s noisiest flat mate by sending the TV remote control and few of his favorite DVDs in to the Vertical Space for few months.
With the practical experience I consider myself as qualified to be a research assistant if Karuna is seeking assistance for his future researches. Dear Karuna, pls let me know how to submit my application formally.

[Karuna]

Nury..got your note that this sofa story was discussed on RTHK Radio. That is interesting. How did it go ? Did Hugh Chiverton have a panel discussion :-)
May be, Margaret Chan would soon issue a WHO directive about emerging pandemic of "human sofa virus". And Donald Tsang will quarantine anyone found sitting on sofa for the next 7 days :-)

Piya.. did have a job available at my work place and it just got filled. It is temp job to fill-in one of my staff who is soon to to deliver a child. We interviewed a few people. There was this middle aged lady from Tuen Mun, who has been without a job now for 4 years. Her last company where she worked for 15 years had closed up. Found her smart and capable to take the job. She is in her late 40's. After the interview, asked her about her family. She mentioned that she lived alone. Her father passed away many years ago and her mother passed away couple of years ago.
Middle aged, spinister, mother passed away 2 years ago....I wanted to ask her "Can you sing - I Dreamed a Dream" :-)

[Chamin]

The term "Karuna Space" sounds cool. I can imagine reading that in scientific articles :o)

[piya]

Oh! I would not prefer a boss who might disclose my personal data, specialy, if it is on line.

[Karuna]

you are right..Piya that I should be discreet about personal data of my staff.

the point I was trying to make was people in late 40's find it difficult to find a job in Hong Kong.

.....now you know what happens to your personal data if you decide to work as my research assistant :-)

[Tetrad Degas]

Dude.. I am not much into reading, but somehow I got to read lots of articles on your blog. Its amazing how interesting it is for me to visit you very often.

[James Johnson]

My television remote control got lost in that universe for 5 days. I almost ended up buying a new one until my kid saw it there. Just bought a sofa from http://www.siekaup.com.au/>siekaup I am always reminding the kids not to put toys and other small stuff on top of it less it could get into that parallel universe too.

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