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Big Couch

If you have ever tried to move a couch around a corner in a hallway, you know what a pain it can be, especially if it's heavy. I've done it a couple of times when my kids moved into apartments. We had to stand the couch on end to get it in. I remember a place in Eugene where the entrance door opened onto a hallway that ran sideways, so three feet inside the door was a wall. Turning the couch on end, it was too long to fit through the door, so we had to slide one end through the doorway and then tilt it up while sliding the lower end through the doorway. Now it is standing up on end inside the apartment. Then we turned it 90 degrees in place and reverse the process and slide the lower end through the doorway from the hallway into the living room. Giant pain.

Anyway, once upon a time, some dude wondered what the biggest shape that could be moved around a corner in a hallway. 30 years later a student answered the question with a 120 page paper. It's an entertaining story.

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P. S. The post title comes from this song which includes these lines:

We got to move these refrigerators
We got to move these colour TVs

It comes to mind every time I have to move something big.