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Chabal2 Fear me from Plains of Tolosa Since: Jan, 2010
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#1: Mar 27th 2024 at 11:50:31 PM

Human Furniture Is a Pain in the Tail's description has this line:

This trope also covers when furniture has been visibly modified/designed for lifeforms with nonhuman bodies, and furniture that is made for human bodies—but bodies of abnormal size or shape (see the Real Life section).

Thing is, it has no RL section (it had one, but was deleted), and is even on the NRLE list as Impossible.

This was the RL section:

    Real Life 
  • Joseph "The Elephant Man" Merrick had an armchair built for his unique body shape. He really, really needed a comfortable chair because his disability made it impossible for him to lie down, so he had to sleep in his chair.
  • The house of Charles S. Stratton (aka General Tom Thumb) is notable for the absolutely tiny furniture within. Mr. Stratton stood less than 3 1/2 feet tall and his wife was even shorter.
  • In Alton, Illinois, you can find replicas of chairs that belonged to Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history. These chairs are enormous (Robert himself stood 8'11".)

Should the description be changed, the trope taken off the NRLE section, or what?

Edited by Chabal2 on Mar 27th 2024 at 7:52:07 PM

MorganWick (Elder Troper)
#2: Mar 28th 2024 at 1:14:26 AM

The page was made NRLEP based on a crowner in the Real Life maintenance thread, following discussion here and here. The line in the description you're referring to was added more than a year earlier, but was ignored or overlooked on the thread. That may have been unilaterally added, so you could argue it runs counter to the actual core of the trope, but the original YKTTW did see a real life example added without anyone objecting (though the original sponsor may have abandoned it at that point).

The policy of the thread seems to be that once a trope is declared NRLEP by crowner, that status cannot be removed. It's possible there's an ambiguity in the definition the thread overlooked, but that would probably require TRS to deal with.

Edited by MorganWick on Mar 28th 2024 at 1:16:01 AM

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