| Wearin' o' the bloody black, OK? |
 Wearin' o' the bloody black, OK?
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Mar. 17th, 2004 @ 09:22 am 
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Dear Corporate America:
Please be advised that your license for cultural appropriation is under review for possible revocation. This action is being taken in direct response to the following violations:
1) The first music I heard after the 9:00 news brief on NPR was an overdone, schmaltzy, neo-Romantic full orchestral arrangement of "Danny Boy." This action lacked even the integrity of calling the instrumental version, without vocals, by its proper name, "Londonderry Air." The words to "Danny Boy" were written by a fecking Brit and put to the Londonderry Air by a New Yorker, anyway.
2) Starbuck's. While I am inclined to stop at that one word, which speaks volumes, it is necessary to add that I was offered an abomination called a "Leprechaun Latte" this morning. Mint mocha. With green whipped cream. Please accept this correspondence as notice that turning something green which is not normally green does not now, never has in the past and will not in the future make it automagically Irish. (This goes double for beer, so don't even think it.)
Please be further advised that I am not at present wearing any green where anyone who does not intend to have sex with me will see it, and if I drink any beer today it is my intention that it be BLACK.
With all due respect,
Mark Eric
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| From: | ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mtfierce |
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March 17th, 2004 09:21 am (UTC) |
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I just take this as an excuse...
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...to pinch people. I wear green regularly anyway. [grinning]
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Re: I just take this as an excuse...
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don't pinch me, I bite!
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| From: | mtfierce |
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March 17th, 2004 09:46 am (UTC) |
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oooh!
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Tease.
with great big wolf teeth.
you wouldn't like it.
I am a veritable 'touch me not'
believe it or not.
Guinness.... I might allow someone to cut it with Harp.
Cut it? No, lad, you float the Guinness on top of the Harp.
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| From: | mcroft |
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March 17th, 2004 11:47 am (UTC) |
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Black is the color of my true love's beer.
The foam on top is wond'rous fair.
The sweetest taste
And the thickest foam
I love the kegs that it pours from.
I love the kegs that it pours from.
Oh I love my beer
a'though now it's gone
It was so smooth and now it's done.
Yet still I hope
that the time will come
when I shall have another one
Realize and live with the fact that I will steal that, and if you show up to my band's gigs you will hear it sung back to you....
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| From: | ghilledhu |
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March 18th, 2004 06:39 am (UTC) |
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"Leprechaun Latte" ?!?!
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...the heck? Let me talk to darthsatyr and see if they had any such atrocity at his store. Maybe he can have whoever came up with that thoroughly thwapped. (Or at least we can commisserate about it.) Enjoy your black beer.
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Re: "Leprechaun Latte" ?!?!
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Yes...Leprechaun Latte. I have not shit you yet.
Oh, the horror. The humanity. The...cluricanity?
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| From: | ghilledhu |
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March 21st, 2004 04:55 pm (UTC) |
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Re: "Leprechaun Latte" ?!?!
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Well, I asked Loop, and he was just as horrified as you. Possibly more so -- he says that Starbucks stores aren't supposed to do things like that. Making up drinks is one thing (no problem there, since they can do custom requests for customers), but Starbucks isn't supposed to create drinks that favor any one ethnicity -- ie, they have a Holiday Blend instead of a Christmas Blend.
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Re: "Leprechaun Latte" ?!?!
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Is that universal throughout the chain, or perhaps a regional thing? (This was on a printed rather than hand-drawn sign, which of course proves nothing.)
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| From: | darthsatyr |
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March 21st, 2004 09:28 pm (UTC) |
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I'm probably looking to loose some teeth
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To the best of my knowledge that abomination called "Leprechaun Latte" was not supported by the “senior partners” (and yes I mean that is every wolfram and heart since of the word). While I do not have the authority to say that in any official context, it goes against many of the guidelines for how we run our business as I understand them.
Im sure that the store what devised it ment it in the best of intentions though.
On a related topic, I once again wore my big green button that says in fine Celtic style lettering "Blow Me, I'm Scottish". Maybe next year I'll make a big green four leaf clover that says "up yers Hibernia: with love calidonia" in irish gealic, scottish gealic, english and old english with one language per leaf. Wheee!
On the subject of making somthing green that should not be, there is a mamoth bronze bull by bolling green in NYC's financial district. Each year they paint it's balls green...
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