'Bad' Coffee Shop Keeps Its Name

WPLG-TV/DT Miami ^ | 10.6.03

[mhking]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The coffee may be good but the sign is bad.

Officials in Jacksonville, Florida, say they have no grounds to ban the "Bad Ass Coffee Company" sign. A city lawyer says while some may feel the name is offensive or immoral, no court would find it obscene.

Coffee shop owner Richard Cook says the name of the franchise refers to the donkeys that haul coffee from the mountains in Hawaii. He insists they're not trying to offend anyone. Bad Ass Coffee now has 40 locations around the country.

[manic4organic]

I think it's funny. There's beer here in Texas called "Buffalo Butt." Their motto is "What it's cracked up to be" or something like that.

[MineralMan]

"Righto. Now if it is a bock I find it even better, even though a bock is a lager. The traditional English measurements were in butts. Ha'butt, full butt and so on. You get the cookie."

It is a double bock, made by Leinenkugel in Wisconsin. It used to be better than it is now. They reformulated the brew not too long ago.

Sadly, you can't buy a butt of beer anymore. I'd love to try beer from a wooden butt, drawn with a wooden tap. Ah, well, the time is long gone, I suppose.

[alameda]

Well I guess I won't be moving to that town...
I got my Bad Ass baseball cap at that coffee company half way up the volcano in Hawaii. Here in Alameda, not a soul has questioned it...

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Hell, we even have Big Bone Lick Park....

[ArrogantBustard]

[TopQuark]

Hahaha! I love the name. It makes me want to buy their coffee. God bless capitalism.

Yes, it does wonders to the culture that is preoccupied with flatulence and sex and where anyone using the words with more than one syllable is called elitist.

Go ahead, patronize that scummy business. You are a real conservative, steadfastly preserving our culture.

[Mad Dawgg]

"yeah. sure it's all about the DONKEY. right. it's about some weasel trying to make a name for himself by purposefully offending people."

Wow, I've been discusing with a business parter about working up a burger franchise called "Big Ass Burgers" using a large Donkey for the logo.

Damn, that was gonna be a great opportunity too. Looks like someone beat me to the draw. We were gona have Donkey Burgers and Burro burgers and of course the Big Ass Burger which was gonna be a triple decker. Also gonna have tacos and such. Oh man I am so depressed now.

[doodad]

You can get firkins though. And a few English companies provide other sizes. Our local brewpub used to have firkin Fridays with a select brew cask conditioned for the occasion. MMMMMMM.

[MineralMan]

"Go ahead, patronize that scummy business. You are a real conservative, steadfastly preserving our culture."

I'm sure you were smiling when you wrote that, right?

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass..."

Lots of reference to "asses" in the Bible...a couple of dozen, at least.

The Ass is a very useful animal, capable of carrying large burders for long distances.

What's your problem with the word?

[MineralMan]

"You can get firkins though. And a few English companies provide other sizes. Our local brewpub used to have firkin Fridays with a select brew cask conditioned for the occasion. MMMMMMM."

Cool!

[Mad Dawgg]

"Yes, it does wonders to the culture that is preoccupied with flatulence and sex and where anyone using the words with more than one syllable is called elitist."

Whoa man you seem a tad tense...

Here maybe this will help:

[ArrogantBustard]

The Old Dominion Brewing Company ages some of its Stout in oak whiskey barrels. You can't get in Cali, though. In fact you can only get it at the pub. In Virginia.

Good stuff, though.

[TopQuark]

What's your problem with the word?

None whatsoever.

The question is ill-posed however. Your remark is much like, in reply to my anger at someone having been killed with a knife, explaining to me that knives are used for cutting bread and then asking what I have against that object.

The problem is with a deed: the owner's strategy is to gain visibility by shocking the public. We have enough of that, thank you. That is what I have a problem with. The word itself is just a tool.

[TopQuark]

Not really. Watch Jay Leno's monologue next time and count the references to above-mentioned subjects.

[Protagoras]

[Old Professer]

And the picture of the donkey pretty much obliviates any question which way it's meant.

Obviates is the word you're looking for.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Watch Jay Leno's monologue next time and count the references to above-mentioned subjects."

Not gonna Happen, I gave up on most of Network TV years ago save for three Prime time shows and Pro Football.

But I didn't give up my sense of humor either.

You need to get out more and maybe have a laugh once in a while.

BTW No matter what you try and convince us all about culture and such, Farts is damned funny!

[TopQuark]

Farts is damned funny!

Sorry to hear you have so much depth.

[TopQuark]

Yeh, man... that's profound...And soooo original.

[MineralMan]

"The problem is with a deed: the owner's strategy is to gain visibility by shocking the public. We have enough of that, thank you. That is what I have a problem with. The word itself is just a tool."

Actually, there is no problem. Since the word "ass" has two perfecly good common meanings, and since there is a picture of an ass on all their advertising material, any offense taken is simply inane.

Sure, it's a play on words. That's fun. People get to think about the word "ass" and realize that it has more than one meaning. Those who are so sensitive that a simple Anglo-Saxon word is offensive to them need to relax a bit.

It's a lot like the word "fart." It's a good, one-syllable word used to describe the act of expelling flatus. Everyone know it. Everyone farts. How such a word could be considered a bad thing is only an indication of our stupidity when it comes to bodily functions.

I'll even bet you've used both "ass" and "fart" in sentences within the past month.

Lighten up, please. It's a funny name for a brand of coffee. If it bothers you, then don't buy that brand.