10-07-2006, 04:30 PM
[quote $tevie]What exactly are the odds that anyone is ever going to take a thousand packs of ketchup?
Why not just say that someone could buy a cup of water and walk out with the entire condiment stand and its contents, if you wish to use hyperbole?
Well, $tevie, I already USED the example of people buying the 1-ounce shot of espresso and filling the remaining 19-ounce Venti cup with milk, but nobody really understood.
Somehow the "thousand packets of ketchup" just resonated. And the fact is, you CAN'T take a thousand packets of ketchup, because most fast food joints had to take away those "free" condiments due to abuse of the system.
Some people, like Elmo, DO get a "free" cup for water and fill it with Coke. That's wrong, too.
Bad children! Bad!
Why not just say that someone could buy a cup of water and walk out with the entire condiment stand and its contents, if you wish to use hyperbole?
Well, $tevie, I already USED the example of people buying the 1-ounce shot of espresso and filling the remaining 19-ounce Venti cup with milk, but nobody really understood.
Somehow the "thousand packets of ketchup" just resonated. And the fact is, you CAN'T take a thousand packets of ketchup, because most fast food joints had to take away those "free" condiments due to abuse of the system.
Some people, like Elmo, DO get a "free" cup for water and fill it with Coke. That's wrong, too.
Bad children! Bad!