[lit-ideas] Re: Is there any truth?


On May 15, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Ursula Stange wrote:

Is there any truth to all this hyperbole? Free beer on first Thursdays? Isn't that un-American? Or un-lawful? http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/travel/10Portland.html? src=sch&pagewanted=all

I can't vouch for the prices in the strip club, but the rest seems reasonably accurate. Free beer is not impossible on First Thursday. He under-describes the sin he committed by going onto Nike's campus while wearing Addidas shorts. I'm surprised he wasn't strung up by the hamstrings. After a tournament at our tennis club there were prizes--free gifts of shirts and strings and stuff. Nike employees declined theirs, simply because they couldn't risk their employer coming to know that they owned something made by a competitor.

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon

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