# Dude, just honor my coupon!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 17, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857 "2006-11-17T17:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Axxon2wire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5daacb/32.png) [@Axxon2wire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Axxon2wire)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/21 "2006-11-18T06:30:55Z")
This is funny, tonight on my way to work I stopped to redeem one of these coupons and the guy behind the counter said “what’s that.” “A coupon” “For what”? I’m thinking, wow, just like in the thread but no, once I explain it the guy was very enthusiastic and said he wanted some of that action and after I paid he went and pulled a couple of bags off the shelf. Luckily that isn’t the store I usually buy them from. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/22 "2006-11-18T06:44:30Z")
[QUOTE=kayT] man the smoking police are everywhere aren’t they and the junk food police good how everyone is looking out for us isn’t it? [/QUOTE] E. E. Cummings, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/23 "2006-11-18T06:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] E. E. Cummings, is that you? [/QUOTE] The punctuation is cummings, but I’d say the style is more Pound… ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/24 "2006-11-18T12:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] How do you feel about the punctuation police? [/QUOTE] Or the Capitalization Cops? The Grammar Guards? How about the Sentance Structure Security Squad? No? Well, nevermind then. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/25 "2006-11-18T15:26:02Z")
Now that everyone has remarked about my style, does anyone have a comment about the content? ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/26 "2006-11-18T15:44:24Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Every coupon I was presented with got you money off. [/QUOTE] Wait - do you mean that the dollar value of coupons redeemed by customers were taken from your paycheck? (Directly taken from your paycheck, I mean - of course reduced revenue translates to reduced profit margin, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/27 "2006-11-18T18:35:14Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] The punctuation is cummings, but I’d say the style is more Pound… [/QUOTE] \* Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His publishers and others have sometimes echoed the unconventional capitalization in his poetry by writing his name in lower case, as e. e. cummings; [Cummings himself did not approve of this rendering.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings) \* ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/28 "2006-11-19T20:23:59Z")
[QUOTE=kayT] Now that everyone has remarked about my style, does anyone have a comment about the content? [/QUOTE] Style: Offensive Content: Little 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/29 "2006-11-19T21:34:00Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] The punctuation is cummings, but I’d say the style is more Pound… [/QUOTE] I was thinking more William Carlos Williams, myself. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/30 "2006-11-19T22:03:13Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] The punctuation is cummings, but I’d say the style is more Pound… [/QUOTE] Or at least the fascist undertones. Though I’m guessing **kayT** was being sarcastic in that regard. ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/31 "2006-11-20T02:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=kayT] Now that everyone has remarked about my style, does anyone have a comment about the content? [/QUOTE] Sure, how about: what the fuck does any of this have to do with the smoking police? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/32 "2006-11-20T02:04:30Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] I was thinking more William Carlos Williams, myself. [/QUOTE] :mad: Them’s fightin’ words, bud. :mad: Do NOT talk smack about Jersey poets. [sub]Well, except for Joyce Kilmer. Say whatever you want about that guy. What a sap![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/33 "2006-11-20T20:28:50Z")
Joyce Kilmer…sap…You slay me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857/34 "2006-11-20T21:54:39Z")
I’m amazed there wasn’t more spectacular movie carnage in this story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-just-honor-my-coupon/380857.md?page=1)