Starbucks Called 'Slutbucks' Over Retro Logo

Mark "Clay" Dice, founder of the San Diegan Christian group "The Resistance", hates Starbucks' retro logo and has called for a boycott. And it totally would have worked had he not called for it after Starbucks' same-store sales went south.

According to Mr. Dice, the new image "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute. Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks."

Two thoughts:
1. Mark seems to know a lot about prostitute procedures.
2. "Slutbucks"? Seriously? That's not very creative. "Seattle's Breast" works much better.

--Spanno

Comments

[The Luke on May 16, 2008 at 04:04 PM]

Isn't this Starbucks' original logo?

Yep...that's what I thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks#Logo

[The Smitch on May 17, 2008 at 12:48 AM]

Vile Starbucks Siren, wafting forth her burnt caffeine aroma, luring poor hipsters to their overpriced doom.

[Charlie (Colorado) on May 17, 2008 at 12:36 PM]

Um, Mark, baby. That's a mermaid. Those are fins. They are mythical creatures, Mark.

[robert on May 17, 2008 at 12:44 PM]

Mermaids are obviously marine mammals, having hair and breasts. The scales are just artistic confusion. The two tails are a birth defect. What a marine mammal with a birth defect, inaccurately portrayed, has to do with roast coffee beans is beyond my comprehesion.

Latte anyone?

[Matthias on May 17, 2008 at 12:56 PM]

Why are we paying any attention to a guy who claims that 9/11 was orchestrated by th CIA, that "the antichrist will soon arise through the political and technical infrastructure" and whose most recent fundraiser brought in (I'm not making this up) $7.

Is it even reasonable to call his "organization" a "Christian group" seeing how it is essentially made up of him calling into various political talk shows and then posting the sound files on his website?

[Keith on May 17, 2008 at 01:15 PM]

I personally wouldn't drink a cup of coffee at Starbucks if you paid me to do it. Once was enough. It's not because of any feelings about their company ethics or lack of them etc but I just don't like the horrible decor in their places and the coffee isn't up to much either.

[Keith on May 17, 2008 at 01:16 PM]

I personally wouldn't drink a cup of coffee at Starbucks if you paid me to do it. Once was enough. It's not because of any feelings about their company ethics or lack of them etc but I just don't like the horrible decor in their places and the coffee isn't up to much either.

[Sol Vason on May 17, 2008 at 01:34 PM]

getting coffee from starbuck's is like getting a girl without nipples. Not what you would expect. Dissapointing. Net net, the cup is honest.

[John on May 17, 2008 at 02:11 PM]

Uhhh, legs? They look like bent hay stacks. I hate Starbucks, but maybe I'll go buy a cd or something from them.

[leucanthemum on May 17, 2008 at 02:30 PM]

I dunno. I never liked burnt coffee, and especially didn't like waiting in long lines to pay huge sums for it, so a boycott would be redundant on my part, regardless of some bizarre pseudo-Christian's rantings against its logo.

I've been calling the company "Star*ucks" for several years, now. In writing. With the asterisk. I don't have a portable Jimmy-Kimmel-style "bleep and blur" machine for audio self-censorship, so I don't usually talk aloud about it.

I much prefer Drunken Donuts coffee, when I'm allowed out of my cave...

[Klug on May 17, 2008 at 02:31 PM]

I have never heard of this guy before yesterday. Thanks for giving this nut a bunch of publicity. Congrats for feeding the troll.

[TallDave on May 17, 2008 at 03:05 PM]

"Mark seems to know a lot about prostitute procedures"

Hey! That's uncalled for.

He was young and he needed the money.

[Rufus Mubatru on May 17, 2008 at 03:47 PM]

All you honkies know about prostitutes and nothing else!

[oldbogus on May 17, 2008 at 06:13 PM]

I tried a cuppa joe from the 'Bucks. Sucked; now I know why they add all that shit to it.

As for the mermaid, I suspect the good crusader has had a bad affair with a largemouth bass. Not that I would know about things like that.

[rj on May 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM]

over roasting is useful - it cooks out the bitterness of the substandard beans.... and I'm pretty sure those starbucks beans are heavy on the caffeine too....thats probably why I go

[LadyNaava on May 19, 2008 at 02:09 PM]

I think the new logo is fugly. I like the green one better. The retro one I'm just like... Meh. She looks like a fat naked baby