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Article #297Re: Beer Prices and Baseball
From: Geoff Miller
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:47
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:47
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SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> writes: > For the movies, it seems like everyone is bringing in > food and drinks, and even appliances. What is it about being in a movie theater that impels some people to eat and drink? Like the way some people drive a car without talking on their cell phone or defecate without smoking a cigarette, I don't understand why the one implies the other. There've been a couple of times when I had a meal with somebody prior to taking in a movie, and they *still* headed for the snack bar, just out of habit. > One guy had a stir crazy popcorn popper plugged into an > outlet in the back of the local AMC megaplex, and someone > else was brewing coffee with one of those pod-type coffee > makers. That's pretty blatant. Were they Asian, by any chance? They're known to be rather, uh, _frugal_. Geoff -- "If I had a hammer, I'd hammer all the folksingers." -- Andy R.
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