Retro Recliner Gifts

Follow me on Twiddle my thumbs.

"You really need to think about getting glasses."

Before pagers,mobile phones and the internet.

Pre-Television Man Caves

"Nobody listens to me complain quite like you do."

Last night I went over to Lance's house, and he was leaning back in his recliner, drinking a beer, eating a pizza and smoking a cigar. I said, "Tsk! Tsk!" He asked if that was for the recliner, the beer the pizza or the cigar. I explained that I'm quite adept at multi-tsking.

Biliard Enthusiast

"Don't you just love the beach, dear?"

Man about dog relaxing in chair: 'He's a full-blooded recliner.'

Prehistoric bikes and their advanced helmets.

"I love the smell of unemployment in the morning."

'My interest in gardening backfired when I married a couch potato.'

"And this is my husband...he's into energy conservation, mostly his own!"

"Oooo!... Leather! I'd love to shed on that!!"

Pharaoh on the toilet.

The days before television

'The Ben Franklin? What an honor! I see your 'Poor Richard's Almanack' in bathrooms all over the place!'

"You know, I'm beginning to think that I'm not destined for greatness."

'How do you like your new, 'self rising armchair', Mum?'

"This one he can do"

Lady reclining with a glass of wine on a giant loaf of bread.

"I want a reverse mortgage. Take me back to when I didn't have one."

"OK! OK! I get the message! Your recliner, not mine!"

"Looks like a case of Death by Missed Adventure."

American 'Idle'.

'This one only has two positions... 'attention' and 'at ease'.'

'You've heard of a couch potato? Well he's a mouse potato.'

"Of course the best way to lay compost is to get someone else to do it..."

'Well, there's plague in town, everyone will believe you if you pull a sickie...'

New-age traveller and old-age traveller

'Today's electronics won't let a fellow lose himself in the wilderness like we did in the old days.'

"Are you 'Identifying' yourself as Dad, Father, or just a guy who needs a nap?"

"He'll spend hours at a time out there, just gazing at the bird table."

King has Reclining Throne.

"Been nowhere, done nothing, not got the t-shirt."