What else does Gramp want from Starbucks? strip info approved by Molly
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Dialogue
Location
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Barista (offering coffee cup): Here's your Venti latte, sir. Can I get you anything else? GRAMP (hands in pockets): Yes! An apostrophe, please.
Starbucks
Coffee Shop
Counter
coffee
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Barista (offering coffee cup): ... An apostrophe? GRAMP (hands in pockets): In your name. ... "Starbucks." Don't you need an apostrophe?
Starbucks
Venti Latte
Counter
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GRAMP (talking): You're named after the "Moby Dick" character Starbuck ... so a shop of his coffees, or of coffees pertaining to him, should be "Starbuck's."
Starbucks
Coffee Shop
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GRAMP (hands outstretched, talking): It's not some group of guys names Starbuck ... or some abstract ajectival usage, right? So it needs an apostrophe ... right??
Starbucks
Coffee Shop
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Barista (annoyed, holding coffee cup) GRAMP (amused, hands in pockets)
Starbucks
Coffee Shop
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Barista (annoyed, holding coffee cup): Maaaaaaybe we'll give this latte to somebody else. GRAMP (arms outstretched, Dismayed, eyes wide, Hand shaking, hands outstretched): No ... NO!! It's fine! Write it however you want!!
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