Comments on: Time for some new rules http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1116 Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:17:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Too Many Quinces http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1116/comment-page-1#comment-25949 Too Many Quinces Sat, 23 May 2009 16:15:25 +0000 http://blog.snappingturtle.net/?p=1116#comment-25949 The customers are buying $500 clothes. At that point, the bag is a total rouding error. More likely, what Cathy Dernick actually means is, "it's embarrassing to ask a customer for $0.05 on a $500 purchase." Now, if the bags were $10 each... (Also, the "Poop...only the word wasn't poop" is horribly, horribly twee. My hand itches for a red pencil. And if not "poop," what was the word? My mind goes in all sorts of directions. I'd like to think she said, "Dash it all!" or perhaps more racily, "Zounds!") The customers are buying $500 clothes. At that point, the bag is a total rouding error.

More likely, what Cathy Dernick actually means is, “it’s embarrassing to ask a customer for $0.05 on a $500 purchase.”

Now, if the bags were $10 each…

(Also, the “Poop…only the word wasn’t poop” is horribly, horribly twee. My hand itches for a red pencil. And if not “poop,” what was the word? My mind goes in all sorts of directions.

I’d like to think she said, “Dash it all!” or perhaps more racily, “Zounds!”)

]]> By: MoreCoffeePlease http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1116/comment-page-1#comment-25945 MoreCoffeePlease Sat, 23 May 2009 14:19:09 +0000 http://blog.snappingturtle.net/?p=1116#comment-25945 I think whenever we hear it we all get to jump up and yell BINGO! I think whenever we hear it we all get to jump up and yell BINGO!

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