I just drank some coffee
Posted on July 31, 2004 @ 2:52 pm
My wife and I had lunch at Applebee’s today, and we were seated near a muted television showing Headline News. It seems that there was a problem with the closed captioning, however, because it displayed the phrase “I just drank some coffee” across the bottom of the screen for the entire meal. Every few minutes, something on the television would catch my attention. Whenever I’d look up to see what was going on, though, it turns out that the person on screen was simply proclaiming that he or she had recently finished a cup of joe.
News anchor talking about Bush and Kerry campaigning in the battleground states? “I just drank some coffee.”
Footage of Mike Tyson being knocked out in the fourth round? “I just drank some coffee.”
Orphaned Sudanese children wandering through the desert, struggling for their lives? “I just drank some coffee.”
I kept hoping that a Maxwell House commercial would air and rescue my lunch from total captioning irrelevance, but it sadly never came to pass.
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Don’t you mean one of the new Starbuck’s commercials for Glen?
“My wife and I had lunch at Applebee’s today”
You didn’t happen to try their coffee?