Posted on 04/09/2016 5:21:55 AM PDT by Mr Apple
It is a well-known fact that the corporate world is powered by high-end coffees. With pithy corporate executives forced to work early morning hours to keep their companies competitive, they must find a good source of status-quot coffee to start their day and show they are in charge.
Powerful liberals understand this fact and have thus encouraged young lesbians to start ‘exciting careers’ in the barista industry. By working at local Starbucks nationwide, lesbians have...
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Still blogpimping. :-)
Have you had a cup of Starbucks coffee?
Have you ever owned an iPhone?
Just so you know, I had Starbucks last weekend. Before that, I had Starbucks in April of 2013 (I was on vacation). Not in any way addicted to it. I make my own at home on a machine that I spent way too much on, but it makes coffee just the way I like it.
Ahhh let me guess reading comprehension is not your strong point.
Scroll back up and read again the first post of mine you responded to.
And No never owned an iPhone. Never felt the need to be one of the hipsters. My first smart phone (I still use it) literally cost me a penny. One of the main reasons I bought it was because of the way the music system works on it. I can share my music with friends via a quick link up with bluetooth though the few who own iGadgets can't seem to figure out how to receive them.
Also the camera is great and it is a Kindle as well. That is what I use it most for, reading books most of which I get free via Bing searches points and turning them into Amazon gift cards that allow me to purchase books. (Which I also get free books each month being a Prime Member which also gets me movies to watch at no charge and lots of music to listen to as well no charge plus free two day shipping on most items I buy on Amazon.)
Part of me knows you must be kind of OK because you flea market for old guitars, but jeez, do you have to be so darn smug about being a cheapskate :-)
I just refuse to overpay for things.
Most of the County's problems stems from people overpaying for stuff and thinking they are wise for doing so.
The housing bubble, the dotcom bubble, leasing cars etc.
I used to drink Choc full O Nuts years ago. Actually most any of the Columbian suits me. My wife likes the Folgers. I buy Folgers.
Sounds like wise shopping to me. I like to save money and I appreciate the Bing point tip for Amazon. I will try it.
Yup
It's a mermaid on the cup.
As for lesbian baristas -- maybe it's just twentysomething women with the style of the moment.
I would do that if I ever went to Starbucks.
The Barista would probably spit in the Cup though.
Folgers is my back up as well. The French Roast put out by Chock Full O Nuts is pretty good.
“Lowbrow Revenge.” Brilliant! Do you mind if I steal it?
I get the $.79 Senior Cup of Coffee at Mickey D’s. You can also get the Senior Soft Drink for the same price.
Depending on the location, the Senior price is $.59 up to $.99.
My Boss hits Starbucks every day for a Cup. I told him to go to Mickey’s but he won’t. The Mickey’s Coffee tastes better to me.
I’ve been clipping Coupons for years, even when I was a Regional V.P., for a fortune 500 Company. Cheap Bastard that I am.
Absolutely not. Use it to fend off any meanies. lol
Bing searches and points are so easy basically because I do many searches during any given day. Last year I searched about the best tomatoes and beans to grow in 5 gallon buckets (I have no yard where I live only a sidewalk in front of the building) then I searched out tips on Vermicomposting and I used the points I got from doing all that searching to buy the seeds and 250 red wigglers.
My MIL was ecstatic about Bing and using the points for garden stuff on Amazon. She calls it cybergardening.
You are my Hero.
I have never been to proud to be a Cheap Bastard!
Thanks Mr. Apple! I will use it.
How a Topless Mermaid Made the Starbucks Cup an Icon
Every day, millions of people walk into any of 20,519 Starbucks in 65 countries, and most walk back out with the same thing: a white cardboard coffee cup. Do you know the one? Of course you do. “Starbucks cups have become part of the cultural backdrop, an unconscious reminder that the brand exists,” observed management consultant and business speaker Can Akdeniz. “It’s an extremely powerful piece of packaging.”
And every year, Starbucks sells somewhere around 5 billion of them.
The story of how a simple paper cup got to be the most recognizable to-go container in the world is a strange one, and it’s about to get even stranger. Because, before we talk about the cup, we have to talk about breasts—a mermaid with breasts, actually.
In 1971, Starbucks (then a mere fledging coffee shop on the Seattle waterfront) was looking for a logo, something that would embody the seafaring history of its home city. The three founders hired a consultant named Terry Heckler. According to CEO Howard Schultz, Heckler “pored over old marine books until he came up with a logo based on an old 16th-century Norse woodcut: a two-tailed mermaid.” (Medieval-minded blogger Carl Pyrdum has pointed out that there were no Norsemen left by the 16th century, but let’s just move on.)
The mermaid was exotic. She was also topless. At first, and despite some complaints, Starbucks just rolled with it. As Schultz later explained, “Bare breasted and Rubenesque, [the mermaid] was supposed to be as seductive as the coffee itself.” But then the time came to put the logo on the delivery trucks, and that was problematic. “The logo was huge,” Heckler’s website relates, “—and so were the mermaid’s breasts.”
Starbucks solved the problem by restyling the mermaid’s hairdo so it draped over the trouble spots. Then, in 1986, entrepreneur Schultz bought out the original Starbucks partners and modified the logo by placing the mermaid in the center of a green circle, a striking and memorable badge for that white cardboard cup.
The resulting device became an icon nearly overnight. Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America From Starbucks, relates the folklore of how Madison Avenue interns used to splurge $5 on a Starbucks latte, drink it and then carry the empty cup around for the remainder of the week. “They wanted people to see them with the cup,” he said. “Through the intervention of users, Starbucks was able to make that cup shorthand for someone who was discerning, sophisticated and had enough money to waste on coffee.”
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/how-topless-mermaid-made-starbucks-cup-icon-160396
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