Topical Chat, September 1, 2006

Should be a wet one in Philly … make sure you wear your rubbers …. And don’t forget your rain-gear, either … ba-da-bing!!!!

1. On Starbucks discovering the hard way how quickly the Internet works when coupons e-mailed to a few employees in the southeastern United States were redeemed – these employees were encouraged to forward the coupons to friends and family (they were for free iced-coffee), and people began posting the coupons on blog sites. Starbucks had to stop the promotion because they were overwhelmed by the masses:
“Good thing our country isn’t addicted to coffee any way, shape or form … it’s gotten so bad, we have found a way to make an iced version of it so it is easier to drink in the summer-time … can’t wait for coffee cereal, and coffee pop-tarts.”

2. On a strip-club in Las Vegas donating money to a local school:
“It’s nice that the strip-club kept ‘a-breast’ of the situation.”

3. On a mobile meth lab being found in the trunk of a car driven by a man who was smoking meth, and also wanted on a felony drug warrant for manufacturing meth:
“Looks like there might be a flaw in this guys ‘meth-od.’”

4. On a 72-year-old woman who clapped her hands and ordered a bear out of her kitchen:
“Geez, and the grizzly was ‘bearly’ making any noise, either.”

5. On a pervert who filmed 30 women going for a pee before the start of the Great North Run being ‘arrested’ — by a giant banana:
“For some reason, this story is very ‘a-peal-ing.’”

6. On rush hour commuters being delayed for up to half an hour because the sun was too bright:”
“You know, I was so bright, my dad called me ‘sun.’”

7. On a New Zealand law firm winning an award for letting workers take naps, and offering flexible work:
“The truly unique part about this was the fact that most of the lawyers took naps during their court cases.”

8. On a curry house chain with ambitions for global expansion being fined £40,000 after a live cockroach was discovered nestling in the poppadums by a diner at its principal restaurant:
“That story really ‘bugs’ me for some reason.”


** Quick thanks (or blame) to Ink for helping me come up with a couple of these. **