[lit-ideas] Re: Is there any truth?
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 14:21:56 -0700
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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