#104189 - 10/07/2002 11:53
Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
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Registered: 30/10/2000
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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7-Eleven celebrates it's 75th anniversary tomorrow (7/11) with giving away 7.11oz Slurpees to the first 1000 customers in each store. I'm gonna do my best to get there.
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#104190 - 10/07/2002 12:44
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
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You are a fount of amazing knowledge. From now on I will refer to you as CyberSolomon.
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#104191 - 10/07/2002 12:50
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: robricc]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
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Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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I have this vision of Bart and Milhouse sitting in front of the Kwiki-Mart giving themselves brain freezes with free Squishees.
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#104193 - 10/07/2002 13:09
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
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But it's FREE! In America, is there anything better than FREE?
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#104194 - 10/07/2002 13:11
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: revlmwest]
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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ok... cool.... I guess....
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#104195 - 10/07/2002 13:16
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: robricc]
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
Loc: Sterling, VA
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Can someone tell me why that "ice and sugar" takes so damn long to mix? It seems like every time I want a "squishie", they're always mixing. And the guy usually tells me something like "that won't be ready for 20 minutes"
It certainly is cool that they're doing that though. Despite the fact that slurpee's are pretty cheap anyway
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#104196 - 10/07/2002 13:18
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 08/03/2000
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Oh, and "I don't know where you magic pixies came from, but I like your pixie drink!"
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#104197 - 10/07/2002 13:19
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: robricc]
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That was sort of tongue in cheek. Cyber and Solomon should probably never be used together in serious sentence.
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#104198 - 10/07/2002 13:19
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: robricc]
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What could be better than the experience of brain-freeze coupled with a blue tongue.
Oh what the heck. If it's free....
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#104199 - 10/07/2002 13:22
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
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I feel a round of Binge Squishee drinking coming on - beginning with a squishee on the highest sugar setting.
Mmmm, free goo.
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#104200 - 10/07/2002 14:27
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
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Hmm, what time does this start? I once tried to get a slurpee at midnight with a(frighteningly) persistent friend, and we found that the four 7-11's (All within a mile and a half) all had their slurpee machines defrost/refreeze at midnight... Oh well, I think I'll wait and spend my dollar next time I want a slurpee.
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#104201 - 10/07/2002 15:05
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
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You have to go out of your way to find a 7-11? Wow, I've never experienced that in America. Sounds like heaven.
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#104202 - 10/07/2002 16:10
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: rob]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
Loc: Sterling, VA
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Yeah, no kidding. In my Washington DC suburban town center we have 2 stores within 2 blocks of each other. Of course, on those same two blocks we also have 2 McDonalds
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#104203 - 10/07/2002 16:56
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: Dignan]
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If you think that's bad, lets talk about Starbucks. They're EVERYWHERE. It's definitely the worst in Seattle (for obvious reasons). I think it's an intersection in Seattle that has one at all four corners.
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#104204 - 10/07/2002 17:02
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: Dignan]
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Registered: 31/12/2001
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Loc: Petaluma, CA
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ya over near mission steet in san fran no matter how hard you try you can loose site of a starbucks anywhere, thats always entertaing, there are seriously 2 one accross the street from one another over there it out of control. On another note there are 2 7-11 here in petaluma within a .3 mile radious and there are a total of 5 in town that i know of. and petaluma isnt much more than a honky town anyhow. Corprate America is funny.
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#104205 - 10/07/2002 17:37
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
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Registered: 31/12/2001
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And for the event a Squissie Bootup Animation.
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#104206 - 10/07/2002 18:14
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[Re: robricc]
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Registered: 11/11/2001
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Ok, is this too far to go for a free one?
Yea, I've got my empeg to keep me company, but still
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#104207 - 10/07/2002 18:30
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[Re: BAKup]
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Registered: 30/10/2000
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Yeah, that's a little far. I'm surprised there isn't one closer to such a large city.
Check out my options. Looks like I'll be getting 3 free Slurpees tomorrow.
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#104208 - 10/07/2002 18:34
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#104209 - 10/07/2002 18:41
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
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Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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I would have 126 miles to go to get to the nearest 7-11. That doesn't sound right. Oh well, I don't need one that bad.
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#104210 - 10/07/2002 18:44
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[Re: Laura]
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Registered: 31/12/2001
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Loc: Petaluma, CA
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hey rob i wonder what time they will accully start counting the first 1000? 12:00? or start it at like 5:00 or something either way i wanna be number 1 its jsut a hop skip and a jump to the one by my house.
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#104211 - 10/07/2002 18:48
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I guess I don't feel so bad now then....
My closest one is only a block away from my place
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#104213 - 10/07/2002 18:55
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Registered: 30/10/2000
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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7-Eleven normally doesn't have 7.11oz Slurpee cups. So it's probably that each location only gets 1000 "special" cups. When they run out of cups, maybe they will let you fill a regular cup 2/3 the way. I doubt it though.
I would assume they start giving them away at 4-6AM. There are too many hoodlums that hang out at the Stony Point, NY 7-11. I used to be one of them (nothing better to do in a small town). The hoods would probably put too much of a dent in the cups to start giving them away at 12AM.
If you want one at Midnight, you could probably bring in a printout from the web. They will probably just give it to you to get you out of the store.
Speaking of free food... I just got back from PF Changs where the Lettuce Wraps were on the house for some unknown reason. Free lettuce wraps and Slurpee.... This is turning out to be a great week.
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#104214 - 10/07/2002 19:31
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[Re: Laura]
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Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5549
Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
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I would have 126 miles to go to get to the nearest 7-11.
Is that all? I would have to travel close to 400 miles... assuming that they still have 7-11 stores in Anchorage...
tanstaafl.
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#104215 - 10/07/2002 19:41
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Registered: 31/12/2001
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Loc: Petaluma, CA
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haha rob, ya at midnite they would be gone by morning with the amount of stoners there are in this town "wha? free slurppies, dar.. uh.. can i get 2?" "hrm.. maybe if we go in once get our free slurppie, than get a hat and change shirts he wont notice and get another" ill probalby sport my hood at 4:30am and get my freebe seems like the right thing to do.
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#104216 - 10/07/2002 19:53
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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But it would only take you a couple of hours or so to drive there in your sho-wagon and you would have some great music to listen to on the way But that's assuming that there is a road there which I don't think there is. In that case it would probably be a days ride by dog sled.
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#104217 - 10/07/2002 20:17
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
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Haha, do I win anything?
I wasn't lying, was I?
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#104218 - 10/07/2002 20:39
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Registered: 31/12/2001
Posts: 1109
Loc: Petaluma, CA
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holly cow, ther everywhere u look there.. WOW! i wonder where they started at. those are the fany ones with gas stations and stuff uh?
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#104219 - 10/07/2002 20:49
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Registered: 18/08/2000
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Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
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There was one one the corner near my house number 1 on the map but it suddenly closed up one day. Three months later (last week) the "All American Store" opened up, with a giant American Flag painted across the facade.
I haven't been in yet. It looks like it's still a kwikymart but they took out the gas pumps. I can only get a Slurpee on the way to work at number two on the map now. Three is in the wrong direction...
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#104220 - 10/07/2002 20:52
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
Loc: Sterling, VA
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Then there's the all-night resource of the college student.
I'm about 2 blocks from #3 there.
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#104221 - 10/07/2002 20:54
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Registered: 18/08/2000
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I would assume they start giving them away at 4-6AM. There are too many hoodlums that hang out at the Stony Point, NY 7-11.
I was one of the hoodlums at one in Tempe AZ. One night it blew up from a gas explosion, luckily no hoodlums were there and the employee was only slightly injured. Us hoodlums had no place to hang for a while until it reopened, but now it's an insurance sales office or something like that.
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#104222 - 10/07/2002 21:11
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Registered: 23/09/2000
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but now it's an insurance sales office or something like that.
So it's still full or hoodlums then
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#104223 - 10/07/2002 21:49
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[Re: robricc]
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Registered: 06/10/1999
Posts: 2591
Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Hmmm. I spend enough time taking bio breaks.
Think I'm going to save myself for Rite Aid Pharmacy's 50th celebration. Free Percocets.
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#104224 - 10/07/2002 22:05
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[Re: svferris]
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I think it's an intersection in Seattle that has one at all four corners.
There's a large section of downtown where it is basically possible to always hit an espresso stand of some sort with a well-thrown baseball, and even my humble neighborhood has a Tullys, Starbucks and SBC clustered on an intersection within baseball range, but I can't think of a Seattle intersection that has 2, 3, or 4 Starbucks in corner positions. I will investigate.
Two Starbucks do occupy diagonally opposed corners on what I take to be the busiest intersection on Robson Street in Vancouver, BC, FWIW
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#104225 - 10/07/2002 22:36
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Registered: 14/02/2002
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It seems whenever I go to get a slurpee before 10am they aren't frozen yet. Hopefully I can get one on my way into school... in 6 hours...:)
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#104226 - 11/07/2002 00:39
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Registered: 21/12/2001
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Nothing beats the 7-11 on the way back from the beach in San Clemente. All of their flavors are always mixed and they have the best ones: cherry, pina colada, blue rasberry.... Mmmmmm
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#104227 - 11/07/2002 00:57
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Registered: 31/12/2001
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woohoo i got my freebee at 10:30 i guess i go there enough for them to jsut hook a brother up i was the only one in the store, it was priceless, me the girlfriend and 2 7.11oz free slurpies, they taste better when they are free
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#104228 - 11/07/2002 06:42
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Registered: 08/03/2000
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Too bad today it's like 70 degrees outside. Not exactly slurpee weather...
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#104229 - 11/07/2002 07:01
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Registered: 07/03/2002
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""I would have to travel close to 400 miles..."
dang! you beat me. according to the 7-11 locater I have to go 321 miles.
--Yeah! this post bumped me up to newbie--
Edited by butter (11/07/2002 07:05)
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#104230 - 11/07/2002 12:26
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#104231 - 11/07/2002 16:55
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Registered: 31/12/2001
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Loc: Petaluma, CA
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its 102 here woohoo 5 slurpies for me
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#104232 - 11/07/2002 20:34
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cool link but I got ya beat.... I have one 212 ft from my house! here
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#104233 - 12/07/2002 06:00
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
[Re: robricc]
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Registered: 08/03/2000
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Loc: Sterling, VA
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Got my free drink last night. I probably should have just paid the 75 cents to get the regular, but a free supersmall was good enough.
You know what I found funny? Some stupid 16 year old girl was in there with her friend. Her friend bought a regular, and she bought a small! What a moron!
Then again, there were absolutely no ads for the promotion anywhere on the store we went to. NOthing at all except for the cups themselves. We went at 10PM and there were still about 150 cups left. I don't think everybody got the message. Was this the case at any of your stores?
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#104234 - 12/07/2002 10:24
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
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pooh-bah
Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
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Here ya go... Some humor about Starbucks from the Onion.
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#104235 - 12/07/2002 10:25
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Registered: 20/01/2002
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Loc: New Orleans, LA
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second attachment
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#104236 - 12/07/2002 10:29
Re: Tomorrow is FREE Slurpee day! (North America only)
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#104237 - 12/07/2002 11:47
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Registered: 06/10/1999
Posts: 2591
Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Hah! hadn't seen that.
For those who care, more Onion-flavored Starbucks. I left that particualr copy on the table at my local Tully's when I left.
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#104238 - 12/07/2002 11:53
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Registered: 20/12/1999
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OMG, I totally lost it when I saw that picture. ROFL.
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