Oops.

[electricland]

See, this is what happens when I fail to activate my disbelief because it's the BBC.

Sorry.

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[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

She gives excellent analysis, though.

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

Some day, I'll tell you the story about NPR and the tale of the transcontinental Starbucks coffee pipeline...

[electricland.livejournal.com]

which is my point. When I read the original story, somewhere in the back of my head was a little voice saying "This is weird" -- but, hey, it's the BBC! So I just posted it and ran.

And now I feel foolish. But I'm glad she's set the record straight.

that sounds like a good one!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

ooh ooh! some day soon, I hope!

Re: that sounds like a good one!

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

Well, basically, during the spring of my senior year of high school, I heard an NPR article detailing a plan Starbucks had (they were just rising into ascendency in 1996) to build a transcontinental coffee pipeline from Seattle to points East. I was excited, because I was going East to colleges, and would miss Starbucks! They talked about the difficulties of buying out properties, and interviewed a farmer who's lands would be affected by the proposed plan.

That spring day was, of course, the first of April.

Re: that sounds like a good one!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

:D

Brilliant! I love it!

crankygrrl and I were just this morning discussing the difficulty we sometimes have telling the satire on The Current (http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/) from the real news. (They start each broadcast with The Guy With The Deep Voice doing a deadpan news-snippet-with-commentary, and apparently today's was about the Prime Minister stepping in on the NHL players' strike -- fortunately that was also in the papers so we were able to distinguish truth from fiction.)

Re: that sounds like a good one!

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

I have yet to live this down.