Starbucks stinks. Seriously. I have to hold my nose when I walk by. Granted, I'm not a coffee drinker, but I've no trouble with Tim Hortons. Even when Peter MacKay isn't buying.

I have to disagree with cm about the smells of the respective stores. While I am not a regular customer of either Starbucks or Tim Horton's the pervasive smell of the Tim's store - the combination of too much bad coffee and the greesey suguary half-baked doughnuts - is awful. The only worse fast food store smell is that of McDonalds.

There once was a lawyer named Rex
Born with a diminutive organ of sex
When charged with exposure he replied with composure
De minimis non curate lex

I'm constantly amazed at how many people claim to actually like that overpriced, overcooked coffee-derived substance that Starbuck's purveys. Sheesh. I remember a Robins Williams routine that referred to Perrier as the French joke on the world. Sounds like Starbucks and Seattle to me.

The Queen's food service areas have been "proudly brewing" and foisting Starbucks stuff on staff and students for most of a year now. The problem is that they've turned up the temperature on all of the coffee makers, so even the reasonably decent Fair Trade stuff they have in Macintosh Corry Hall is now burnt, too.

There once was a lawyer named Rex
Born with a diminutive organ of sex
When charged with exposure he replied with composure
De minimis non curate lex

We got it, doug.

Nice to see Gordo, our voice of sanity and reason, is off the couch again and setting the record straight. Hats off to you, baby, for rejoining the bipedal world.

Bastards all of you. I love starbucks. I love the mugs i own, the coffee I buy and drink (except for Yukon roast. Something is wrong naming a coffee after a place where no coffee comes from as well as being a vision I have of dirty gold miners in dirty cold gold towns drinknig dirty coffee from dirty mugs in dirty snowy boots and parkas), I love the Queens girls in their little blackpants and starbucks polos. Their Americano is supremem. (sigh)

J'apologize for my bad typos. One would think I was in the pub at night blogging wireless-like, hoy hoy!

Gary, you really have to lay off the lead-based glazes. They're affecting your judgement.

There's only so much weekday loafing that an otherwise healthy human being, who happens to like his job, can stand. Even with a satellite, daytime TV stinks. Well, other than the Scream channel. :-)

I'm growing a moustache - 1 week in. Thought you should know.

Everybody's doing it.

<i>THAT'S</i> what I am talking about. I have had burns since the late spring and I am better for it.

Um, Gordo, I think you are mixing me up with another fellow up there whose name starts with a G. I thought you were my friend! Guess I will have to pack up my toys and move on again.....

(OOOOHHH! Maybe, Gordo, you ARE not the man I idolize, the voice of sanity and reason? Boy , another bubble popped---gawd, the more I see here of Kingstonians the more I wonder about......)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_people_wearing_a_moustache

Someday, someday,....

(You too have can have a goal in life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideburns)

I rid the world of my 'stache a couple of years ago, after ten years of saving leftovers in it. I no longer wanted to look older, as I am now old. The original goal had been a 'stache to rival Tom Selleck, Magnum PI, and therefore attract babes. But of course I am married now, got the babe, and gay friends told me that mustaches now represent a certain type of gay guy, a la Village People.

And cops. A lot of cops seem to have moustaches. No idea why, but there you have it.

Yeah - the cop look. That's the one I'm choosing.

Starbucks is giving away free coffee coupons. All you have to do is call up customer relations and complain about the free email fiasco. All the details of this mornings call are on my blog.