barstool

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King Kaufman's Sports Daily: Like talking sports to the guy on the next barstool, if the guy on the next barstool were pretty smart and not drunk. king at salon. com,

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  • Nobody's around from those days, 'cepting us He settled back on his barstool, his feet locked into a rung. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 06 - June 2001
  • He slid his thin frame onto a barstool, nodded at her with a wolfish half-smile, then watched as she registered the expression. —  EQMM,May2007
  • Now in her late hard-faced thirties, she must have been demurely pretty once, but now cold predatory eyes scoured the room as she sat cross-legged on the barstool, a cheap imitation leopard-skin coat cloaked over her shoulders. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
  • The band had just taken their break when Choi Yong-kuang's mother tugged once again on my shirtsleeve This time she didn't pull me off the barstool, but I turned around anyway Everyone watched. —  AHMM, April 2002
  • I dismounted from the barstool, staggered, fell, was helped up by Jimmy, and the two of us stood staring down at all that remained of my nephew -- a T-shirt labeled CONFEDERATE COTTON COMPANY; a torn pair of jeans; loafers without heels; the dirtiest white socks I ever saw; a thin eelskin wallet; thirty-six cents in change; and a brass key that probably gave entry to the Squat. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002
 

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