Oh, that was done with malice aforethough, I assure you.

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 09:48:42PM +0100, John Forbes wrote:
> "grounds for complaints from the bean-counters"?  Was that deliberate?  Or  
> do we now pun unconsciously?
> 
> John
> 
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:35:42 +0100, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 08:19:30AM -0400, Bob Shell wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sep 23, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Tom C wrote:
> >>
> >> > FWIW, our local Starbucks saves their used grounds and gives them
> >> > away in 10
> >> > pound bags for free, just for this purpose.
> >>
> >> "Starbucks" and "free" rarely fit in the same sentence.  They'll
> >> probably fire your local manager if the corporate bosses find out.
> >>
> >> Bob
> >
> > Nope - it's corporate policy.  Earns them brownie points from the
> > local tree-huggers (or should that be greenie points?), and gets
> > rid of a significant fraction of their garbage (which they would
> > otherwise have to pay to get hauled away).  It's not going to be
> > grounds for any complaints from the corporate bean-counters.
> > Well, at least not until they find somebody prepared to *pay* for
> > the privilege of hauling their left-overs away ...
> >
> >
> >
> 
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