We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to Town. Beep, Beep!

by andrea pdx Sun Jul 13, 2003 04:37 andreapdx at comcast dot net

Hello from Portland, Oregon

For your info, here are three web addresses that will give you some background on what I call "Bucks Abuse"

Starbucks corporate mentality lashes out at any independent entreprenuer who dares encroach upon their trademark. This is multinational corporate imperialism at its best.

example:
http://home.comcast.net/~mobyd/Sambucks/SamBucks.htm


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134652848_trademark14.html

These two sites will give you the story of Ms Samantha Bucks who happens to run a coffee shop in Astoria, Oregon.

Bucks is her family name and her shop is commonly known in Astoria as Sam's Bucks. Two years ago Starbucks corporate lawyers came to her door and told her that she would have to change the name of her coffee shop because it was too similar to the Starbucks trade name.

then...

http://www.haidabuckscafe.com/news.htm

Earlier this year, in British Columbia, Canada, the evil empire struck again and objected to a coffee shop run by two native first nation men who called their coffee shop Haida Bucks. Haida being the name of their tribe.

Do we see a pattern here, corporate hegemony that has no room for women and native entreprenuers?

Havent they got better things to do?

As we say in Portland..." Friends don't let friends buy coffee at Starbucks"

by pc Tue Jul 08, 2003 21:56

a dicussion of the same above from a cork food site, including reply from asking if starbucks is coming to ireland from the company, where they say not yet....




http://www.forkncork.com/content/showthread.php?s=9a685a2314514d4ad46aa4254f0e223b&threadid=153&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

by Christopher Daybell. Tue Jul 08, 2003 18:21

I, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius,
Have seen with my two eyes,
Know in this head on which the helmet weighs,
That there is nothing new under the sun.
As a man and a stoic I am of the universe,
But since I am Antoninus I am Rome.
According to the mask I wear I could build
A temple reflecting blood or mercy,
But blood flows and has always flowed.
I have decreed that gladiators use blunted swords,
But this new sect who have the symbol of the fish
Are dangerous to the state, so I feed them to lions.
I follow the strictest personal rules:
When a man drops a false construction in his speech
I will never correct him to his face,
But I repeat the proper phrasing afterwards.
During these endless frontier wars
As I sit in my tent at night writing
These meditations no one will read,
I am not happy. I was not called
For happiness when Antoninus adopted me,
A simple life on a farm would please me more.
But the skeins of my life were ravelled
Before my birth, and I follow them to my death.

by not being contentshuz. Tue Jul 08, 2003 17:08

Shortly after Capmbell Catering got the chain, Campbell himself upheld a decision by the Grafton St. store manager to bar indefinetly Christopher Daybell.
Christopher was a close a personal friend of mine, and being barred from what was arguably still then a "traditional Dubliner's coffee house" cuased him great suffering.
In memory of Christopher Daybell, poet, writer, anarchist, pamphleteer and noted eccentric.
1939-2000.
you Sir passed your torch.

& the coffee tasted like piss the last time I was in Dublin, I'd almost prefer a starbucks coffee to that muck.

by penultimate - going through a bad poetical patch Sat Jun 28, 2003 23:22

:-)

by the former Mon Jun 23, 2003 23:42

i'm off for a cry, fnarr, fnarr, it's solstice and its past already. thanks for your even more lame contribution, poetic genius.

by . Mon Jun 23, 2003 22:16

as if i am.
sarcasm
drip drip.
fnar fnar fnord.
happy solistice.

by comic nerd Mon Jun 23, 2003 17:50

Anyone looking for the consumer whore parody of starbucks logo can find it at location below where you can also read of the case taken against Kieron Dwyer by starbucks over his parody. If that link doesnt work it can be found on The comic book legal defence fund website, also check out too much coffee man and lowest common denominator sites for other such fun.