On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:06:37PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 
> Sitting at lunch here in Belfast, having a conversation about
> Starbucks' slash-and-burn march across the face of the urban coffee
> culture, one of the guys commented that despite all that, he really
> liked their muffins.  So I called him a tool, as in "tool of the
> establishment".  At this moment my life was in danger and the rest of
> the table had something of an overreaction in my opinion.

Handy hint: Lackey works quite well in that context.

> Anyhow, this may have been the cause of the War of 1812.

Almost certainly.

dha
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