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The Flash Mob is an actual historical phenomenon -- more details about this group and Tasmania's other female convicts here: Link meika loofs samorzewski in Tasmania says,

Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives 2006

Athletes (particularly boxers and wrestlers) spit into their loofs before commencing a combat, thinking that by so doing they are more likely to prevail.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

And sure where can you have such good old chimes anywhere, and leave you, as on the Mash and how’tis I would be engaging you with my plovery soft ac-cents and descanting upover the scene beunder me of your loose vines in their hairafall with them two loving loofs braceleting the slims of your ankles and your mouth’s flower rose and sinking ofter the soapstone of silvry speech. c) Nublid.

Finnegans Wake 2006

When she tells her mother, her mother says, “That’s okay, the world needs more loofs.”

Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

When she tells her mother, her mother says, “That’s okay, the world needs more loofs.”

Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

When she tells her mother, her mother says, “That’s okay, the world needs more loofs.”

Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

“I mind it weel,” said the king; “I mind it weel — it was a blessed day, being the nineteen of September, of all days in the year — and it was a blithe sport to see how some of the carles girned as they clapped loofs together.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

"Wi 'that, as if a bee had stang'd her, Tibby cam' to the ither side o 'the table frae whaur I was sittin' -- as it micht be there -- an 'she set her hands on the edge o't wi' the loofs doon (I think I see her noo; she looked awsome bonny), an 'says she --

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

"I mind it weel," said the king; "I mind it weel -- it was a blessed day, being the nineteen of September, of all days in the year -- and it was a blithe sport to see how some of the carles girned as they clapped loofs together.

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801