Starbucks vs Haida Bucks
| June 13th, 2003Hey, do you drink coffee?
If so, are you so incredibly stupid that you’re going to get confused between the brand names “Starbucks” and “Haida Bucks”?
Well, Starbucks thinks you are that stupid. Crowgirl at Magpie has the story.
Somehow, this story reminds me of Groucho Marx’s famous letter to Warner Brothers. The issue at hand was that the Marx Brothers were planning a new movie, “A Night in Casablanca,” and Warner Brothers claimed that this title was too close to their well-known film “Casablanca.” Groucho wrote:
You claim that you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name without permission. What about “Warner Brothers”? Do you own that too? You probably have the right to use the name Warner, but what about the name Brothers? Professionally, we were brothers long before you were. We were touring the sticks as the Marx Brothers when Vitaphone was still a gleam in the inventor’s eye, and even before there had been other brothers—the Smith Brothers; the Brothers Karamazov; Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit; and “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (This was originally “Brothers, Can You Spare a Dime?” but this was spreading a dime pretty thin, so they threw out one brother, gave all the money to the other one, and whittled it down to “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”)
June 13th, 2003 at 9:16 am
Groucho Marx said it, I believe it, and that settles it.
Why don’t I have my own bumpersticker-making machine?
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June 13th, 2003 at 7:52 pm
Thank you for that link to Karl Marx, that lovable scamp. I do not believe that a funnier scene has ever been filmed than Groucho and Harpo-Groucho playing his reflection in the broken mirror in, hmm, Duck Soup.
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June 13th, 2003 at 10:57 pm
not in any way to give John Isbell a hard time, but I *love* the characterization of Unka Karl as a “lovable scamp.”
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July 14th, 2003 at 5:04 am
I HAVE JUST BEEN MADE AWARE OF THE STORY OF HAIDA BUCKS , AND I FEEL THAT THOSE BROTHERS THAT HAVE HELD ON TO THERE STORE NAME HAVE DONE A GOOD THING. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS JUST A NOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHITE AMERICA TRYING TO ,AS THEY FEEL IT IS THERE GOD GIVIN RIGHT TO , OWN AND CONTROL EVERYTHING THAT THEY SEE . THEY NO MORE OWN THE WORD “BUCKS” THAN I OWN TABLE . I USED TO GO TO STARBUCKS BUT NO MORE . THEY DONT GET MY DIME .
I JUST WISH THAT THERE WAS A “HAIDA BUCKS” HERE WHERE I LIVE BECAUSE THERE I COULD GET A GOOD COFFIE AND UN-LIKE STARBUCKS I COULD GET SOME GOOD FOOD TOO!
ANYONE MAY REACH ME AT AIM_WARRIOR@MSN.COM
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July 14th, 2003 at 5:55 am
For anyone who really wants to boycott Starbucks, make sure you also boycott all the companies they own. I don’t know all that they own, but I do know they just bought the Seattle’s Best chain.
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July 14th, 2003 at 12:23 pm
They also own Motor Moka & Coffee People. I think, not 100% on Coffee People.
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July 14th, 2003 at 11:03 pm
Motor Moka/Coffee People belong to Diedrich, a Canadian company, not Starbucks. But Starbucks owns Seattle’s Best and Cafe’ Torfazione.
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July 15th, 2003 at 2:05 pm
I dunno. Starbucks is evil, to be sure, but they’re not uncommonly evil. Not Wal-Mart or Disney evil, anyway. They’re just stupid evil, with crazy lawsuits to protect their merchandise dreamt up with someone who spent too much time in law school and not enough time on actual thought. From what I hear, though, they treat their employees pretty well. I don’t think they merit a boycott, especially since I’m already undergoing lifetime boycotts of Coca-Cola, Phillip Morris, Nestle, and McDonald’s. A man can take only so much.
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July 15th, 2003 at 2:06 pm
Coca-Cola thanks to Amp’s cartoon. Way to be influential Amp.
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July 15th, 2003 at 2:34 pm
Stupid Evil is my favorite kind.
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August 6th, 2003 at 8:45 pm
Is it enough to stop drinking thier coffee? How about we just start our own co-op coffee shops and aks to franchise “Haida Bucks” when this law suit if through?
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September 8th, 2003 at 5:42 pm
Go Haida Bucks Go, isn’t it amazing when a small company beats down a large and well developed company!
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August 6th, 2004 at 1:59 am
I boycott starbucks because they took the nipples off their mermaid icon. I am anti-anti-nipple companies.
This comment was written by the amy brothers.If my cause alligns with Haida Bucks, then that is an added bonus.
Plus, at starbucks none of their chocolates or candies are priced, and so you get to the till and find out your coffe and chocolate costs twelve bucks (are we still allowed to call money “bucks”?), and then the “barista” gets all snotty with you when you want to put back the overpriced chocolate.
I only took a few bites. It was still good.
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August 6th, 2004 at 7:35 am
Starbucks coffee tastes like ass.
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November 8th, 2004 at 7:42 am
I think that haida bucks do very good thank you. thank you haida bucks. i love you i love you sooo much. thanks thanks. i love you
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November 8th, 2004 at 7:45 am
i was named after starbucks coffee GO TIM HORTONS
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November 8th, 2004 at 7:46 am
GO MVHS HIGH SCHOOL. PAAATTTYYYYYY WAAAGGGGGG
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March 18th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
HOW DO I GET A POEM ON STARBUCKS VS HAIDABUCKS??
This comment was written by DEREK BAWN.POEMS IN PDF FORMAT
CHEERS De Bawnair
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May 19th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
~ from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia…
This comment was written by Lady Rose.3 years later, still wearing our “Haida Bucks” t-shirts and Proud to do so!!!
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May 19th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
http://www.lanebaldwin.com/hbc/difference.htm
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