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It's mid-morning on a workday—time for breakfast—and the most revered chef in the world is tucked into a worn naugahyde booth in a nondescript Uptown restaurant.
Finding the Key to the City's Stomach Andy Battaglia 2011
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The best seats are the naugahyde banquettes in the back room, near the restrooms – you can perch and stalk best there …
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Sam and I found temporal refuge and perceived sanctuary on those Yom Kippurs, scurried away in anonymous naugahyde booths eating treif.
Ali Berlow: Fasting (Or Not) On Yom Kipppur Ali Berlow 2011
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A few tightly placed tables, a lunch counter decked out in chrome and formica and stools with seats covered in red naugahyde are wedged into the narrow space.
Conversation at the Lunch Counter Michael Gillan Maxwell 2012
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The line is, "A yellow Studebaker with a 302 and I see the green naugahyde."
Mike Ragogna: Cameron Crowe Directs Pearl Jam Video, Plus Chatting With The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Primus' Les Claypool Mike Ragogna 2011
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Sam and I found temporal refuge and perceived sanctuary on those Yom Kippurs, scurried away in anonymous naugahyde booths eating treif.
Ali Berlow: Fasting (Or Not) On Yom Kipppur Ali Berlow 2011
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The line is, "A yellow Studebaker with a 302 and I see the green naugahyde."
Mike Ragogna: Cameron Crowe Directs Pearl Jam Video, Plus Chatting With The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Primus' Les Claypool Mike Ragogna 2011
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There was the genuine googly-style diner with the well-maintained teal and orange naugahyde seating.
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This will thrill PETA right out of their naugahyde pumps: doing what no bag of thrown flour could ever hope to accomplish, the recession has caused the average American to cut their meat consumption.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: The Recession Makes People Eat Less Meat, But More Fast Food 2009
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Voting activism is a cause near and dear to my heart: I became the naugahyde-dress lady at the polling place because Dad - a former IBM exec - had taken it upon himself to become a maven of BlackBoxVoting\'dot\'com in the wake of the 01 fiasco.
chained_bear commented on the word naugahyde
"Do you know how many naugas had to die to make you that chair?!"
December 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word naugahyde
They're endangered, you know.
I just learned that this word (a trademark) comes from "Naugatuk," a rubber-making town in Connecticut, and a variant of "hide." The "hide" part is obvious, but I had no idea Naugatuk was related.
December 7, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word naugahyde
REEEEEEEALLY?! *adds it to another list*
December 7, 2007
reesetee commented on the word naugahyde
Ha! I knew that would make you add it to your Trade Names list! (Which, by the way, I love.)
December 7, 2007
mollusque commented on the word naugahyde
Two more signs of Wordie addiction: attempting to trigger listings by other Wordies and Pavlovian responses to stimulating words.
December 7, 2007
reesetee commented on the word naugahyde
Uh oh. Mollusque has the drop on us, chained_bear. ;->
You realize, of course, mollusque, that you just managed to trigger both? Heehee.
December 7, 2007
trivet commented on the word naugahyde
More naugas can be found here. And here.
December 7, 2007
mollusque commented on the word naugahyde
Hee hee hee! Hmm, that's a Triad isn't it? *Googles it. Lists it*.
Wait--reesetee, did you trigger that or did I trigger that?
December 7, 2007
reesetee commented on the word naugahyde
I don't know anymore, mollusque. I'm very confused.
Trivet, we had naugas when we were kids. No, I'm serious. They didn't eat much and were fun to play with. But hardly attractive. ;-)
December 7, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word naugahyde
I didn't know they were real! We had those too! Omigosh. All these years I thought they were some weird doll my mom made. I wonder where those naugas went?
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word naugahyde
My brothers probably took them. ;-)
December 9, 2007