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-SWS wrote:My Vote: If we're going to have a pillow fight then let's do it at a giant sleep-over. We can also tell jokes, have seances, laugh, and make it a point not to get a single wink of sleep.

Then the following morning we can all have buckwheat pancakes!

cool plan, but can somebody else bring the maple syrup? its way to expensive here as we have to import it anyway besides i dont think they would let me bring it on the plane, might leak and too sticky.....

sleepycarol, why are you screaming? It's rude.

greenvelvetdragon wrote:

-SWS wrote:My Vote: If we're going to have a pillow fight then let's do it at a giant sleep-over. We can also tell jokes, have seances, laugh, and make it a point not to get a single wink of sleep.

Then the following morning we can all have buckwheat pancakes!

cool plan, but can somebody else bring the maple syrup? its way to expensive here as we have to import it anyway besides i dont think they would let me bring it on the plane, might leak and too sticky.....

If each person promises to bring no less than five jokes, then I will gladly bring the maple syrup.

...However, I shall first research the aeronautical perils of sticky rudder syndrome.

-SWS wrote:

greenvelvetdragon wrote:

-SWS wrote:My Vote: If we're going to have a pillow fight then let's do it at a giant sleep-over. We can also tell jokes, have seances, laugh, and make it a point not to get a single wink of sleep.

Then the following morning we can all have buckwheat pancakes!

cool plan, but can somebody else bring the maple syrup? its way to expensive here as we have to import it anyway besides i dont think they would let me bring it on the plane, might leak and too sticky.....

If each person promises to bring no less than five jokes, then I will gladly bring the maple syrup.

...However, I shall first research the aeronautical perils of sticky rudder syndrome.

no worries!! and good luck with the research!

-SWS - since when are you from IL,USA? Anyway, no one is sticking buckwheat in a pillow case as it is cruel and buckwheat pancakes with syrup



-you sick bastard . Besides I think he is long gone now - RIP...

Our dear buckwheat has indeed passed on.........
Courtesy of http://www.imdb.com:

Biography for

Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
Date of Birth
12 March 1931, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death
10 October 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name
William Thomas Jr.

Spouse
? (? - ?) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia
Interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, USA.

In 1990 the ABC program "20/20" (1978) was hoaxed into believing that Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas was alive and working as a grocery bagger in Tempe, Arizona. (Thomas actually died in 1980.) A segment broadcast October 5 with narrator Hugh Downs featured an impostor.

Has one son, Billy Jr.

Later worked as a film lab technician at Technicolor in Hollywood for over 20 years.

When introduced at a Little Rascals reunion in 1980, he received a spontaneous standing ovation. He was moved to tears. (He died 3 months later of a heart attack.)

I, for the first time ever, just went and looked at the pur sleep site to review this pillow talk as noted so aptly by SAG:

StillAnotherGuest wrote:Bret's description for his product says

The 4-inch semi-rigid vertical side panels used in the new Regenesis Pillow provide a thick, three-dimensional space

but the website photo looks nothing like that



with the 4 inch height looking totally out of proportion.

However, since the point of the craft project was to provide a good alternative for much less money (so maybe we should just stick with the basic pillow design that's been around like forever), then simply cutting the 20" x 28" K-Mart pillowcase in half and resewing the seam would make the pillow 14" x 20" (vs Bret's 13" x 18") fill it up with b.wheat and we're done.

sleepycarol wrote:If that were the case he would be posting as much on issues that ARE really and truly IMPORTANT such as helping people find solutions to their cpap treatment.

There ya go, $60.00 buckwheat pillow for 15 bucks. What's the next problem?

SAG

and was very surprised by a few things. One being that the pillow is quite small IMO, this fancy shmancy millet hull one i have ordered and has yet to arrive is 20x27 but does not appear to have this gusset thing which seems to be an issue, anyway millet aside i hope to soon see what all the fuss is about, and i hope it lives up to its overpriced lauded benefits.

Moving on, the second thing I noticed and it stuck out rather plainly for me, and I apologise if this has already been noted on this forum somewhere, but can someone please explain to me that a site that is for people needing help with getting used to cpap equipment and offers a range of products for cpapers, why is the lovely picture of the two attractive models in their photo not wearing any type of cpap mask, nor a hint of a hose, zip, nada???? They just appear to lay there very peacefully snoozing sans the stuff we are needing to be "desensitized" to. I just found this odd and somewhat confusing......Now before anybody gets hot under the collar I am NOT trying to defame, start a war, or have any hostile intent, i just am wondering what the intended marketing angle is as most sites selling cpap related products show people in various types of masks/equipemnt rather prominently. Again I state I am just making an observation and asking a question.

greenvelvetdragon wrote:One being that the pillow is quite small IMO

You know, that's a great point there, GVD, and I think really goes to the most basic of questions here:

Do CPAP specialty pillows work, period?

Because when you look at the footprint and/or design of these things (Regenesis, PAPillow, Contour CPAP Pillow), the Area of Effectiveness is quite tiny, and I, quite frankly, remain very skeptical that one could say universally something like

This results in a pocket that holds the buckwheat hulls right in the desired area even during active sleep

although that seems academic anyway, because if you're asleep, who cares. CPAP speciality pillows should perhaps be more aptly classified as Wake or Transitional Adjuncts, or another tool to simply get you to sleep. And maybe that is the area that really needs scrutiny.

As an aside, one alternative-fill pillow that I did note at the time (I believe it was buckwheat, but didn't ask) was about 12 inches wide but like 2 feet long, and that kind of struck me as something that could address "active sleep", or a restless transition period(s).

But if one's present pillow is like 20 years old, maybe the real issue is that you need to get you down to Target and just get yourself a new pillow, cause you're trying to sleep on an envelope.

greenvelvetdragon wrote: Moving on, the second thing I noticed and it stuck out rather plainly for me, and I apologise if this has already been noted on this forum somewhere, but can someone please explain to me that a site that is for people needing help with getting used to cpap equipment and offers a range of products for cpapers, why is the lovely picture of the two attractive models in their photo not wearing any type of cpap mask, nor a hint of a hose, zip, nada????

Y'know, I asked myself that very same question about this site:

The Original Buckwheat Pillows Online Store

As a matter of fact, it seems like I go back and study that image several times a day to ask that question.

OK, maybe a couple dozen times a day.

AWRIGHT I HAVE IT SET AS MY WALLPAPER!!

But it's all the interest of science.

Sorta.

SAG

PS - RG, Barb wasn't there, but David says "Hi".

PPS - I wonder if that model uses "Pad-A-Cheeks".

greenvelvetdragon wrote:I, Moving on, the second thing I noticed and it stuck out rather plainly for me, and I apologise if this has already been noted on this forum somewhere, but can someone please explain to me that a site that is for people needing help with getting used to cpap equipment and offers a range of products for cpapers, why is the lovely picture of the two attractive models in their photo not wearing any type of cpap mask, nor a hint of a hose, zip, nada????

I think that did come up, possibly in the thread from hell, and Bret said it would be far too expensive to get quality photos of people wearing masks.

Maybe someone could photoshop the one he's using to add some masks.

LoQ wrote:

greenvelvetdragon wrote:I, Moving on, the second thing I noticed and it stuck out rather plainly for me, and I apologise if this has already been noted on this forum somewhere, but can someone please explain to me that a site that is for people needing help with getting used to cpap equipment and offers a range of products for cpapers, why is the lovely picture of the two attractive models in their photo not wearing any type of cpap mask, nor a hint of a hose, zip, nada????

I think that did come up, possibly in the thread from hell, and Bret said it would be far too expensive to get quality photos of people wearing masks.

Maybe someone could photoshop the one he's using to add some masks.

What is the thread from hell and so sorry buckwheat died young - heck maybe he had sleep apnea?

LoQ wrote:in the thread from hell...

What?! I'm so offended!

OK, not really.

Surfin' in the airport (another travel day today). Those donut-shaped neck supports caught my eye. I wonder what they'd be like if you filled 'em up with b.wheat or millet.

Or even used "as is".

Whoops, gotta run...

SAG

MrSandman wrote:-SWS - since when are you from IL,USA?

Oh, my... It's been nearly a quarter-of-a-century now. But once again, Mike, you have me laughing and sighing all at the same time! Did you notice how dry Illinois is staying while your home state of Missouri gets quite the soaking there:

New -SWS avatar:


The immediate follow-up avatar posted by MrSandman:


Somehow that brilliantly undercutting humor reminds me sooo much of the initial post in that other thread... Shake a leg, zip up, and stick around, Mike... but behave!

LoQ wrote:

greenvelvetdragon wrote:I, Moving on, the second thing I noticed and it stuck out rather plainly for me, and I apologise if this has already been noted on this forum somewhere, but can someone please explain to me that a site that is for people needing help with getting used to cpap equipment and offers a range of products for cpapers, why is the lovely picture of the two attractive models in their photo not wearing any type of cpap mask, nor a hint of a hose, zip, nada????

I think that did come up, possibly in the thread from hell, and Bret said it would be far too expensive to get quality photos of people wearing masks.

Maybe someone could photoshop the one he's using to add some masks.

Thanks LoQ, I thought perhaps it might be something like that.....the thread from hell eh that must have been a whopper.........

StillAnotherGuest wrote:

LoQ wrote:in the thread from hell...

What?! I'm so offended!

OK, not really.

Surfin' in the airport (another travel day today). Those donut-shaped neck supports caught my eye. I wonder what they'd be like if you filled 'em up with b.wheat or millet.

Or even used "as is".

Whoops, gotta run...

SAG

well SAG you might either get chased by a crazed flock of cockatiels wanting the millet, or an equally crazed mob of people seeking the perfect pancake with spatula in one hand and a gallon jug of maple syrup in the other........

Cheers and happy travelling
GVD

PS what exactly was the thread from hell???

The thread from hell.

At least SAG understood it. Smooch.