is Starbucks, the coffee empire, named after Starbuck, the young protagonist from Battlestar Galactica?

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That would be kinda coolish.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Melville to thread...

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blast.net/hart/starbuck.jpg

― DECAF NON-FAT GRANDE PINEAPPLE UPSIDEDOWN MOCHA LATTE (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

May have been named after the character in Moby Dick, most likely.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

ha ha RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

― nickalicious is forgetful of secret emotion tears of literature creatures from t, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

READ ONE MOBY DICK.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

i probably missed a joke here :( im stupid.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Call him Nickalicious

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I beat all you bitches to it

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sci-fi-fan.de/Bilder/BilderKampfsternGalaktika/starbuck.jpg

― there she blows, a'humpin' a snowhill (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.soundgenerator.com/pix/articles/2004/03/starbucks_140.jpg vs. http://www.rotovibe.com/images/vipermov.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Not even just Melville: wasn't there a prominent English/colonial whaling family named Starbuck? Just last month I watched those creepy-ass Keno brothers go through a restored New England Starbuck house on PBS.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

oh dear

it is named after the Melville character

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/daveb/bsg/64200_z_battnclu.jpg

NO IT IS YOU GUYS WHO ARE WRONG - THE BONUS SCENES TOLD ME SO

― THE GUN ON ICE PLANET ZERO (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lightspeedfineart.com/battlestar/progress2a.jpg
I WILL GLADLY MAKE YOUR SHIP ALL BLOWED UP TODAY FOR A MOCHA LATTE TOMORROW.

― fluffy droids and lorne green whose eyebrows are on 'roids (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

projected cost of one coffee by '05?
"starbuck" = $5

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Someone told me a weird urban legend-ish story that the seed money to invest in/start up the coffee company was provided by Kenny G and Barbara Streisand and that that is the actual reference- the business was built on "Star" Bucks . . ..

it doesn't sound very likely, does it? But one can dream.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

uh, the first Starbucks store opened when Kenny G was 12 years old

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

feldercarb

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

uh, i'm pretty sure ken griffey was older than 12 in 1971.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

the official story

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure its a cryptic occult reference of some sort.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

STARBUCK WAS AN INEFFECTUAL FUCK WHO SHOULD HAVE STOOD UP TO AHAB AND THEREBY SAVED THE CREW OF THE PEQUOD BUT NO!

― stephen rosenblatt, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Explain me the Starbucks logo pls.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Keeping with the nautical theme, it's a mermaid showing off her red snapper, no?

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

feldercarb

What is scarier, that I recognize this or that the actual spelling is felgercarb?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

logo explained:
http://www.endicott-studio.com/jMA03Summer/theMermaid.html

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

guys...

starbuck was totally gay for apollo.

http://www.memorabletv.com/dvdreviews04/apollo.jpg

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

There was a reason he was always chompin' on that cigar, I guess.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Special nerd trivia: One of the coffee shops in the game Deus Ex 2 is called Pequod's.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

NERRRRDS

― The Scottish Restauranteer (ex machina), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Starbuck, WA

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Non-league football: Leigh turn to Starbuck

PHIL Starbuck has been handed the job of keeping Leigh RMI in the Nationwide Conference, with ex-City and Bury star Steve Redmond as his assistant.

Former Oldham and Nottingham Forest midfielder Starbuck has got the nod from Leigh's directors following a promising stint as caretaker player/manager.

Starbuck joined Leigh in the summer as assistant to Mark Patterson, who moved to Chorley three months ago.

His brief is simply to stop the struggling Hilton Park outfit sliding into non-League's new Northern Alliance

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

"The seafaring name seems appropriate for a store that imports the world’s finest coffees to the cold, thirsty people of Seattle."

???

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

feldercarb

What is scarier, that I recognize this or that the actual spelling is felgercarb?

haha time for you to hit the turbowash

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I protest.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 April 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/320204_194484767285497_152301921503782_467704_7626506_n.jpg

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 September 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago)

nine years pass...

I bought a four pack of “coffee” flavored Frappuccinos to have as a treat today but damn if they aren’t too sweet to consume

― calstars, Friday, 25 December 2020 11:40 (four years ago)

It functions well as a sweetener though by the dollop into regular coffee

― calstars, Friday, 25 December 2020 12:43 (four years ago)

ten months pass...

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