Nut Job Parade
May 15th, 2008 by SBG
Fringe group says new Starbucks logo "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute." I'm not up on prostitutes, but I didn't realize that they had fish bodies. Do the ones with Walleye bodies get to charge more than the ones with Northern pike bodies? I'd like to know.
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ubelmann replied on May 15, 2008 at 4:10:36 pm
I'm not up on prostitutes, but I didn't realize that they had fish bodies.
LOL.
At any rate, anyone even willing to use the phrase "slutbucks" immediately loses whatever moral high ground they may have been claiming.
brianS replied on May 15, 2008 at 4:15:51 pm
Well, it certainly looks like a Mer-hussy.
and just the thought of a Northern pike hooker makes me tremble with fear. All those nasty teeth.
SBG replied on May 15, 2008 at 9:02:49 pm
Not to mention all the slime.
Moss replied on May 15, 2008 at 5:26:41 pm
Moss, for one, is on board with the boycott.
But that's just because Moss never buys anything from Starbucks anyway.
E-6 replied on May 15, 2008 at 9:25:51 pm
I'll have a Tall brunette. Wait, make that a Venti.
SBG replied on May 15, 2008 at 9:44:47 pm
Up is down, black is white, tall is short.
E-6 replied on May 15, 2008 at 10:16:56 pm
The windmills that some folks choose to tilt at absolutely boggles the mind. I wonder, are these the same nuts that saw the Devil in Proctor and Gamble's logo?
zooomx replied on May 15, 2008 at 10:25:04 pm
If only these crazies knew what we used to do to the Land O Lakes logo on our milk cartons. Hubba Hubba!
SBG replied on May 16, 2008 at 9:33:59 am
I was motivated enough to use The Google and check out the Starbucks naming convention. I don't have a link now, but someone claims that there is an unadvertised, eight-oz. serving available at Starbucks known as "Short".
Short 8Oz
Tall 12Oz
Grande 16Oz
Venti 20Oz
Incidentally, the same source claimed that Venti means 20 in Italian. I think that's correct. So, actual sense can be made of the naming of the sizes. I prefer small, medium, and large. Except that at the coffee shop near my office, Large is the 16 Oz and the 20Oz is, I dunno, "20Oz". Or, I guess, venti.
I pretty much drink coffee made in my office from my baseball adorned mug, which my mother-in-law bought at Starbucks.
zooomx replied on May 16, 2008 at 9:48:47 am
We just got a Dunn brothers in Alexandria. We now have 2 Caribou, Dunn Brothers, 2 local coffee shops and a little trailer-kiosk parked in a random parking lot.
I like the fact that Dunn brothers is roasting their beans on site. I have no idea if that makes the coffee better, since I am a Hazelnut Latte addict, but the roaster looks cool and it smells nice in their shop.
Caribou is like McDonald's to me. You know exactly what you will get. They are consistent. Their shops are clean and tidy, and the staff is always friendly.
The local shops are unique, and I love to shop local when I can. Unfortunately, the service, speed and tidiness is often lacking.
When it comes to just a cup of jo though, that first cup my wife pours for me in the morning is the very best. We grind our own beans and I guess we know exactly how much coffee to use to suit our tastes the best.
At work, we use Bull Run coffee from the Twin Cities. Very tasty cup of coffee too.
Can you tell I just drank a couple cups of coffee??
Rhubarb_Runner replied on May 16, 2008 at 12:46:56 pm
I would prefer "Phil McCracken, Scottish Therapist" sizes - wee, not so wee, and friggin' huge
brianS replied on May 16, 2008 at 2:00:18 pm
Venti, vidi, vici.