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Some days, I am just SO proud

flying saucer houseFlying saucer house for sale in Chattanooga. Only $100,000 on eBay.

Built in 1970 to resemble a flying saucer preparing for liftoff, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pushbutton retractable staircase and oodles of charm. Charm. That’s the word, right?

The current owner has only had it four months and won’t say why he’s turning it (right into the teeth of the worst property market evah). I can guess. Can you imagine trying to wedge Grandma’s oak china cabinet into that thing?

And I thought I had real estate woes. Actually, I do have real estate woes: I’ve been living in my own basement for a week and I’ve just discovered my electrical box is sitting in an inch of rusty water.

Still, it could be worse. It could be THIS.

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Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 12:15 pm

I’ve driven past this house countless times — my in-laws live on Signal Mountain.

One of the cutest things in recent memory was riding up the mountain with my 4 year old nephew who said “Take me you your leader!” when he saw the house. No idea where he got that.


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 12:16 pm

you your = to your. There, cuter.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 12:45 pm

Oh! A local!

I spent my first five years on Mocassin Bend.

Work that one out…


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 12:47 pm

The Loony Bend!


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 12:53 pm

I just realized the Loony comment is quite insensitive. You seem fine now, Stoaty!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 12:53 pm

Hey, it was my FIRST five years, not my last five years.


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 12:57 pm

I still feel like a dick and officially apologize.


Comment from doubleplusundead
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:06 pm

This Yankee has no idea what you two are talking about, but is thoroughly entertained nonetheless. 😛


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:12 pm

Hahaha…relax, Cuffy! My dad worked there. We lived nearby.

Sinistar: Moccasin Bend is a bend in the Tennessee River than nearly makes an island. In ancient times, it was an Indian burial ground. Since the sixties, it’s been home to a large mental hospital. When you tell locals that you used to live at Moccasin Bend, they get all polite-like and start to back away from you.

See how well it worked on Cuffy?


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:13 pm

WHEW! Back to making krazee jokes!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:20 pm

I thought the Bend was the happiest place on earth, when I was a kid. I always got icecream when I visited. I got mad and ran away from home when I was, like, four and I headed right for the hospital. Happily, I didn’t get very far.


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:24 pm

I’ve never been out there, but every time we’re coming into town on the interstate across the river I always think “man, that’s a good place to keep psychos — surrounded by water on 3 sides!”
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:29 pm

Ahhhh…for Google Maps, you have to go to the little “link to this page” link in the upper right corner above the map, copy and paste the long-ass link that appears. Thusly.


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:29 pm

Crap, here’s that map.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:29 pm

Thank you for that map of North America.

But it’s hard to see Loony Bend.

Did you know that the Coffeyville Country Club in Coffeyville, Kansas, is the center of all of North America?


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:30 pm

Moccasin, Woodland, Raccoon – were you all Native Americans or hippies?


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:33 pm

Thanks for the map, Cuffy! (Sorry for the snark, Your Grace. I got used to being snarky at The Hostages. I’ll tone it down.)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:36 pm

Heh. Second link. Zoom in. The hospital is that round thing right down in the toe of the moccasin. You can see there are a few houses along the road, and there used to be a farm up where it joins the ‘mainland’.

It was a big Cherokee area. I’m too lazy to look it up, but if I recall correctly, a large band that was spooked away from Nashville when Fort Nashboro was founded ended up settling around Chattanooga.

Signal Mountain is due North of the Bend about five miles.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:38 pm

Oh, snark away. I haven’t read anything in my comment section yet that offended me.

Which, if you think back to some of those conversations, is probably why I never get invited anywhere nice.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:39 pm

Almost all of the buildings are symmetrical. Cool.


Comment from doubleplusundead
Time: March 14, 2008, 1:45 pm

Hey Musli, wanna do a blogroll exchange? I’ll be sure to add you to the latest Moronosphere links!


Comment from mesablue
Time: March 14, 2008, 2:57 pm

Musli isn’t allowed to snark anywhere else. If he knows what’s good for him.


Comment from Kowboy
Time: March 14, 2008, 3:11 pm

Saw this house on a trip to Chattanooga for a state youth bowling tourney. My son, who was about 14 or 15 at the time asked me why anyone would build something like that. All I could say was, “It takes all kinds kid.” lol


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: March 14, 2008, 3:13 pm

Yeah but what are the acoustics for cat bumfluting?


Comment from bmac
Time: March 14, 2008, 3:19 pm

Here’s a spaceship house in L.A.
http://www.johnlautner.org/Malin.html


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 14, 2008, 3:31 pm

You’re blogrolled, doubleplusundead!


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 14, 2008, 3:44 pm

That space-ship house actually looks nice.


Comment from gnus
Time: March 14, 2008, 3:48 pm

Been by there many a time, yer Stoatliness. “Course I was always on my way South to better climes.

Unless I was headed home, that is. Back to worse climes, as it were.

Traffic sure does get funky going down that hill there. And going up, too.


Comment from pajama momma
Time: March 14, 2008, 3:53 pm

They’re in luck, I’ll take it.

Wait, what’s that? It only has 3 bedrooms? Oh that’s too bad. Nevermind then.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 14, 2008, 5:29 pm

Hey, Indoctrinate U is available for download. Ten bucks.

That’s the one about flaming liberalcy on campus. Trailer here.


Comment from porknbean
Time: March 15, 2008, 12:50 am

You going to download it wease? Give us a review?
They should have had it available for download a while back.


Comment from ATNorth
Time: March 15, 2008, 2:56 am

I’ve got the pilver again. Can you talk about Jeremiah Wright please?

Best Regards
A. Truman North


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 15, 2008, 5:30 am

I’m a white woman from Tennessee. NOTHING good happens to me when I talk about race.


Comment from Former Lurker
Time: March 17, 2008, 8:11 am

If I hadn’t missed the auction, I would have bought that house in a heartbeat!

Then rent it out for weekends during the suumer and make a killing!


Comment from Kowboy
Time: March 17, 2008, 7:10 pm

Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 15, 2008, 5:30 am

I’m a white woman from Tennessee. NOTHING good happens to me when I talk about race.

Oh yeah? I’m a white MAN from Tennessee. You got it easy. lol j/k

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