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  • Hey "Loungers"....even BSNYC knows about this phenomenon.

    Minding the Gap: Performance Equipment BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • BONUS TRACK: The Cheetos-encrusted he-men over at Kate's White Power Tapas Grill and Sports Bar un-recline their Barca-Loungers and put down their Zimas just long enough to join in the fun, but not before very first commenter "Brad" wanders off-course and loses the thread:

    Well, throw down, then, dude! CC 2008

  • BONUS TRACK: The Cheetos-encrusted he-men over at Kate's White Power Tapas Grill and Sports Bar un-recline their Barca-Loungers and put down their Zimas just long enough to join in the fun, but not before very first commenter "Brad" wanders off-course and loses the thread:

    Archive 2008-04-01 Lindsay Stewart 2008

  • It involved "lying uncovered and naked on a bed for an hour, a practice he claimed was good for one's health," writes cultural historian Tom Lutz in Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America.

    Lazy-Ass Nation Windolf, Jim 2007

  • Lutz has a book, "Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America," which I hope is full of stories like that, though there's nothing relevant about coffee -- I learned, from pursuing my curiosity through the ultra-easy "Search Inside the Book" tool at Amazon.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • You would delight in Kensington Gardens, or perhaps you would prefer joining the impertinent Loungers who sit on

    The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

  • Loungers straightened up; every topic was dropped.

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • Loungers and holiday-makers were stirred into mild excitement by our expected departure.

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • Loungers by the harbour, perceiving a disturbance, were running towards the scene of action.

    The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective Louis Tracy 1895

  • Loungers and passers-by looked up and shrugged their Gallic shoulders and exchanged glances of commiseration at sight of a sixteen-year-old boy rushing yelling after a cab.

    A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888

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