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| | | No offnse, but how was TRU supposed to know the item they were refunding was stolen? I agree that it sucks you were robbed, and I hope you find the culprit, but I don't understand why TRU should lose money in the deal. That is what you wanted (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Doug Finney
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| | | | (...) Are you serious? That's not as ridiculous as suing McDonald's for spilling coffee in your own lap but is still pretty out there, IMO. Yes, they screwed up. I thought their attempt at damage control ($100 gift certificates) was a fine gesture. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) The beauty of the coffee lawsuit is that you _know_ that same person would have brought the coffee back if it was just a little too cold! Dave! (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:FoCFKn.FLt@lugnet.com... (...) spilling (...) would (...) I am tired of hearing about that coffee incident being a frivolous lawsuit. The lady got $300,000 which was later reduced to $100,000 in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Tim Coats
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| | | | | (...) I am glad to hear that, as I thought the dumbass spilt it on herself, but it was still "frivolous" regardless of how much she got. She should have been jailed for wasting court time and required to pay all of McDonalds' legal fees. Timbo (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) It just causes cancer in lab rats :) DaveE (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | (...) I thought it just dissolved labratory pennies! Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Kya Morden
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Ah, now I have to ask, are you making that up or has someone found that it really does do that? I'm tempted to try that if it does. =P (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I don't know about pennies, but my sister's boyfriend (so he claims) had left his tooth (milk tooth, after it fell out) in Cola and after two or three days it was rotten. Or maybe it disentegrated - I forgot ;-). Anyway, Sprite is much better. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Umm... I think someone told me the same thing... :) Anyway, I prefer Mountain Dew and Frostie Root Beer. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Umm... I think someone told me the same thing... :) Anyway, I prefer Mountain Dew and Frostie Root Beer. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | | | | Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FoD1op.2su@lugnet.com... (...) left (...) days (...) If you ever had a chance to taste Elvan, Uludag, Yedigün or Camlica (1), you would immediately realized that you hadn't taste a real pop to the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Sounds intriguing. Any chance it could be found outside of Turkey? Has anyone seen these brands in Turkish stores or restaurants in the U.S.? There's this Brazilian soda (Guanara? or something) that I had once and thought was incredibly keen. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) I dunno if it dissolves them but if you put a dirty one in (all the way to green with oxidation, even) overnight, it will be shiny again. (...) I agree. Go clean your pennies off and spend them! (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | | (...) It dissolves *teeth* rather than pennies, and AFAIK, right now you can't get new real living teeth for mere pennies. :-) But yes, given enough time, it'll dissolve the lab rats themselves too. (...) Phosphoric acid, an ingredient listed on the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) ! 2 servings per can, to reduce the amount of junk per serving... Marketing in the nutrition info. :-P Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Mark Rendle
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| | | | | | "David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> wrote in message news:FoCGE5.J74@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) Rendle rendle2000@hotmail.com (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) That's interesting; I hadn't heard that previously. (...) What people generally regard as frivolous, I think, is the fact that she held the coffee between her legs--do I recall correctly? To many people's view this seems to be simply asking (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | Dave Schuler wrote in message ... (...) lawsuit. (...) That (...) it (...) warn (...) the (...) which (...) at (...) time, (...) be (...) coffee (...) I also recall that one of the big issues which always gets left out is that McDonalds had (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Adam Hoekwater
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| | | | | (...) There are a lot of things that, if spilled, could kill a baby. That doesn't make them morally wrong. They gave me a knife at the steakhouse and I managed not to chop off my foot. Does that mean the steakhouse got lucky? (...) I doubt that they (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) In fact, wasn't the award thrown out completely at some point? (...) I almost married someone about five years ago who had a rather large scar on her left hip (yeah, yeah, stop it, peanut gallery), believe it or not, from a McDonald's coffee (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | RE: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Doug Finney
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| | | | | | | (...) Not that I've seen, though if anyone can provide evidence of either of these ($100k or thrown out) I'd love to see them. From what I've been able to dig up, the original award was for almost $2.9 *million*, $200k for compensatory damages plus (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | All I did was type "coffee mcdonalds lawsuit" into the URL bar on Communicator, and the first match back was (URL) - everyone go read it. Can we PLEASE now take this to off-topic already? It has buggerall to do with Lego or shopping anymore. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | < cross posted to off.topic.debate > Mr L F Braun wrote: < snipped coffee issues > Hmm, well I worked at the Coffee Beanery for two years, when I ws 16 to 18 years old: (URL) business based in Flushing, Michigan, where I grew up. I still love it! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Adam Hoekwater
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| | | | | | (...) Oh yeah. The little family-owned roasting shops are always better than the big guys. [Shameless plug for] Schuil Coffee in Grand Rapids, MI is a fantastic shoppe. (...) get WARNINGS printed on the front of The Holy Bible, telling potential (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Richard Franks
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| | | | | | (...) Teeheehee! *ahem* Richard (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | (...) Hmmmm... May I suggest DNC pamphlets as well? Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator/CAD Operator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Richard Franks
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| | | | | | (...) Anything really.. following any organised or non organised philosophy may be hazardous to your health. But you can't regulate against unorganised philosophy because there's nothing there! Hope that clears it up! Richard (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Paul Davidson
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| | | | (...) lawsuit. (...) That (...) it (...) which (...) at (...) Only 150 degrees? That shouldn't be a serious burn -- anyone who frequents coffee shops (as I do) knows that the "normal" temperature for a latte is 160 degrees. I myself order them at (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | RE: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Doug Finney
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| | | | | (...) I believe it was closer to 190 degrees. Doug (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Perhaps he meant *centigrade*. ;) (this would be a trick--those newfangled coffee machines that produce coffee under 12 atm pressure...) best Lindsay (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Paul Davidson
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| | | | picky. (...) set (...) frequents (...) is (...) be (...) newfangled (...) I was about to challenge you on your physics until I saw you were joking. :) Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Had I been serious, I would have checked my physics. I think (IIRC) that at 190C water is always gas. At the very least it would be much more than 12atm needed to keep it liquid. Then again, it's been six years since I had to figure any of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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