Walking by the Food Emporium on 87th Street and Madison Ave I thought I saw an abandoned funky snowboard out of the corner of my eye.  I was disappointed to realize it was an ironing board.

Wouldn’t it be so UNCOOL it’d be COOL to have a snowboard that looked like an old ironing board?

That thought makes me think of the Futurama (one of my all-time favorite TV shows) episode ‘Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch.’  Amy and Kif are expecting a baby (Kif, a male alien, is the one who is pregnant) and Amy’s mom has Amy’s party board converted to an ironing board.

According to Vintage Inspirations blog, in the days before teflon-coated ironing boards, women covered their wooden ironing boards by wrapping them in old bed sheets.  I would like to see an ironing board or a snowboard, whatever, probably an ironing board for me since I haven’t hit the slopes in years, with more recent awesome textile designs.

Maybe something from my favorite latter-20th Century design style, MEMPHIS!

Patterns by Ettore Sottsass, founder of Memphis Milano, via The Ettore Sottsass Museum

In reality I think I’d prefer a solid color ironing board, like BLUE.  Snowboards are COOLER than ironing boards, and therefore should be decorated fabulously to call attention to themselves.  I say this as someone who has only snowboarded twice, and used an iron maybe 50 times.

Taking this train of thought a step further, remember those design-your-own-mugs-and-plates-kits where you did a drawing and mailed it back to the company and they sent it back on a plate?  What about snowboards?  They should just do that for everything.  EVERYTHING.

Here’s one I did at Steph’s house when I was little:

And here are some new developments in ironing boards.

Liika Ironing board via Gizmodo.

IRON MAN Ironing Board

Image via I Want One of Those

I like the name but I find it very annoying that almost every write-up about the Iron Man ironing board includes something like ‘Finally, a way to have a man involved in ironing!’ That’s like something out of a mediocre sitcom.

-End Train of Thought-