OFF: warning this post really is off

[old man from japan]

Yesterday Chock-Full-Of Nuts was my next choice, if needed.....I only
_ask_seriously and get empathy from the workers who know their coffees tend
to be bitter, made too strong according to my friend but not a fault of
their beans...
surely they have tea.......


On 11/12/08, E F <des at efalkmedia.com> wrote:
>
> I enjoy Choc-Full-Of-Nuts and fortunately there are actually two CFON sores
> in my travelling radius.
>
> I have gone in into Starbucks many times and asked for 'a normal medium
> coffee, black and I don;t care what fancy names you call it.'
>
> My 2cents.
>
>  --Eric
>
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> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:50:49 -0500, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
> wrote:
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> On 12 Nov 2008, at 1:13 PM, old man from japan wrote:
>>
>> am I the only one who goes in STARBUCKS and asks very seriously for a cup
>>> of
>>> Maxwell House or Folgers???
>>>
>>
>> I suspect you are.  But, I also suspect you would yield a lot more success
>> there if instead you asked for a cup of Sanka or for them to "fill it to the
>> rim with Brim."
>>
>> (Unless, of course, you are averse to Sanka or Brim, in which case I'd
>> stick to asking for Maxwell House or Folgers.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>>
>> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>>
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> "Until Further Notice I am Unique!"
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