We first visited Ikea in 2000 during the first season of Survivor and were tickled to see that Ikea had named a chair after one of the tribes. But we waited almost three years before making the purchase.
Sitting in the Pagong chair last night, I smiled as I thought about the first Surivor season and how we watched with Gil & Becky every week. Maybe I’ll get a Rudy action figure for my birthday.
(Yes, I know that the rest of the world mistakenly calls it the Poäng chair. They’re wrong. If everyone else decided to jump off a bridge, would you do it, too?)
heh,
I got one of those chairs right when IKEA first opened, (significantly before Survivor) It wasn’t called Pagong, but it’s a damn comfy chair, none the less. I had to get rid of it when i got married for all the usual reasons.
Somehow, I’ve always had problems with IKEA being a sponsor for Survivor. Mostly because I don’t think Navy Seals recommend people pack allen wrenches in their survival kits.
Just bought two PO