pearlswine: 09.12.06

Disgraced Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (

jfboyd) wrote in

pearlswine,
@ 2006-09-11 22:04:00

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coffee, jobs

09.12.06

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	ranka 2006-09-12 05:51 am UTC (link)
	Rat's still working there after the Croc incident? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gamahucheur 2006-09-12 05:57 am UTC (link)
	Croc is probably still working there after the Croc incident, with the manager disciplined by corporate HQ for failing to abide by the Diversity Policy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	forgottenlord 2006-09-12 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	Y'know, they should find another rat, hire him and fire Rat. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gamahucheur 2006-09-12 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	I dunno. Perhaps it's Better the Rat that you know…. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	redredwine 2006-09-12 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	when did this happen? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gamahucheur 2006-09-12 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Your question is ill-considered. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gamahucheur 2006-09-12 05:55 am UTC (link)
	Guess that he should order another. (Reply to this)

	entushka 2006-09-12 06:19 am UTC (link)
	Now explain me humor of this strip, please... I think I can't stand this 'couse I'm from Russia :) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bone316 2006-09-12 06:44 am UTC (link)
	You get the joke, it just ain't funny :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

gamahucheur
2006-09-12 06:55 am UTC (link)

Were a cup completely filled with coffee, there would be no room for cream.

Some customers accept such a cup, but pour out a bit of the coffee to make room for cream. Others request that room be left for cream; and at some coffee houses customers are asked if they would like such room left.

(It may be in the interest of the coffee house to ask because they retain the coffee that is not discarded, have to deal with less liquid waste in their trash, face fewer incidents of customers burning themselves during the discarding of coffee, and offer as much or more satisfaction (from the level of service) to almost every customer.)

Few customers specify or are asked to specify how much room they would like left. Instead, an amount of room is typically left which corresponds roughly to the volume of cream that a modal (average) customer would want.

However, Rat, acting with sloth or malice or both, exploits the failure to specify a volume to be left, and delivers a cup in which the room left for cream is the full volume of the cup. No coffee at all is provided.

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	entushka 2006-09-12 07:02 am UTC (link)
	Uh!.. O'K, I'd unerstand. Thank you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	funkychipmunk 2006-09-12 09:16 am UTC (link)
	I thought it was a joke about decaffinated coffee (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	abusesink 2006-09-12 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	shakes head in despair (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cutewhitedog 2006-09-13 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for that explanation (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bossgoji 2006-09-12 11:54 am UTC (link)
	My policy is, if's it empty, fill it with cream. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gamahucheur 2006-09-12 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	I noted that there wasn't actually a promise that cream was available. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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