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09:26 March 4th, 2009

Grande fashion: better latte than never!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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You’ve probably noticed that along with coffee, your local Starbucks is now selling CDs, books, medical equipment and automotive parts.

What does this retail giant have in store for us next? Well, Bucks just unveiled its new line of women’s clothes at Milan Fashion Week. Soon, chicks will be able to wardrobe-up from head to toe while ordering their caffeine fix.

Now I guess the same clown that messes up your coffee order will sell you shoes, dresses, etc., all carefully designed to look good while holding a cardboard cup holder. Warning: if you want a small dress, you need to ask for a “large.”

“I’ll take the cobalt blue cocktail dress, the indigo sweater and the sunglasses, please.”

“Sure. Would you like a pastry with that?”

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A model presents a creation by Canadian designers DSquared2 at their Fall/Winter 2009/10 women’s collection show at Milan Fashion Week, March 2, 2009. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

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6 comments so far

I just knew that Starbuckmansism was just waiting to happen.

Those cups of joe that I spot Jethro Gibbs clutching on the TV show ‘NCIS’ look suspiciously like Starbucks coffee.

What is next?

‘Would you like slap in the back of the head to go with that latte?’

In a snobbish tone, no less. As if being a barista is the height of cool jobs?

Like, we owe the Starbucky people a huge debt when we fork over the better part of $5 for a cup of coffee?

I can and do make old school coffee, each and every morning. Why, I can make a frozen concoction which is every bit as good as Starbucks can offer.

For the price of a little coffee, a little creamer of choice, and a few ice cubes, either with sugar or Splenda added in, I can offer you coffee that doesn’t cost anything beyond blender tome and maybe 20 cents worth of ingredients.

And, if you want, I can look down my nose at you, while sniffing loudly!

So there!

And would you like an attitude to go with that coffee?

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Mmmm. Slurpy.

- Posted by Shawn Henrdricks

Yeah, she was sexy with long legs up to there, great hair and perfect skin. If it weren’t for her coffee breath and adam’s apple, I might have married her.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

The pretties girl
I ever saw

Was drinking Strabucks
Through a straw…

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Ok, what’s with all the hang-over shades, messy hair, thrown together clothes that say “I don’t care what I look like, I just really need my starbucks fix RIGHT NOW!!” If I want it to look like all my clothes came from a thrift store, I’ll go to a thrift store, not starbucks.

- Posted by Ashley

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