<![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I was working in Starbucks when some hipster-dweeb thought he'd go apeshit on us and started lecturing us about our Sulawesi coffee (I've been to Sulawesi, fyi). Once he'd got his human rights rant over with, he ordered (of all things) an Ethiopian coffee. So I got to lecture him, at twice his word count, about the oppressions upon the Etritreans. This was before the separation, but it was still sweet.

raincoaster

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @EvelynWasAMan: great screen name.

SnarkTwain

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @Hamilton: Really? Shashemene? but it is a sad sad little town with nothing to see/do except hanging out with Rastas who just sit around smoking all...uh..never mind, I see the appeal.

sosina

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I knew that yuppie coffee swillers and a new logo were the answer to Ethiopia's problems. I think.

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @Unfun: I made a promise to Kiri te Kanawa a long time ago...

@SlickaNicka: Just Eritrea home, okay?

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> They should've stuck with a Lion of Judah:
[en.wikipedia.org]

SW-2

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @EvelynWasAMan: whoa there fingers. must still have the shakes from last night - that was a mean croissant, not an evil one like i suggested. and no oil, just ravines.

evelynwasaman

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Mr. Nolan, for your next assignments, work qaid, qoph, faqir, sheqel, qindar, and qwerty into a post.

Multiphasic

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Wanna read a really interesting book about Ethiopia? Try The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński. It's about Haile Selassie. It contains really mind-boggling anecdotes such as "why couldn't those nosy aid workers have left the peasants to starve to death in peace?"

Our Lady of the Massacre

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @NinaHagen: You can get a mean mean croissant in Addis too, although Ethiopia technically was never colonized - the only (one of the only?) African countries to be able to make such a claim. It was occupied by the Italians during WWII, but they weren't interested in staying put - no rubber, no gum, no oil, just a lot of

In fairness, Ethiopia is less war-torn than any of its neighbors, and a good deal of the starvation had to do with crappy government policy in the mid-Eighties in the post-Selassie transition. It's a pity, too, the food is damn fine.

evelynwasaman

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @NinaHagen: I heard the recent civil war was started by pastry separatists who disagreed with Ethiopia's longstanding butter versus cream mandates. Makes sense now.

@In Other News...: But if they are Africanized bees, you are in great trouble, my friend!

SlickaNicka

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @In Other News...: Now you're just showing off, love.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @SlickaNicka: "I like my women like I like my coffee - covered in bees!!!"

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]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @SlickaNicka: The baguettes in Djibouti are supposed to be spectacular.

NinaHagen

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @smithhimself: I'm glad that European imperialism has an upside. Do they have good cannoli, too?

SlickaNicka

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Looks like something you'd find stamped on a tab of Ecstasy.

bittergreen

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @In Other News...: News, You tickle my fancy something awful.

SlickaNicka

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> People pay big money for coffee beans that are shit out by animals. Why not Ethiopians?

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @KimGordonsPanties: That was tasteless.

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Because of the Italian occupation, Ethiopia and Eritrea are two places in Africa where you can get a good cup of coffee. I've been in small towns in the north that were proud of their espresso machine.

Yes, there is poverty in Ethiopia, but I've traveled all over the country and have never had a problem. I'd much rather be sitting in a bar in Axum than in our meatpacking district on a Saturday night.

smithhimself

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I tried Ethiopian food for the first time last night. Starvation is preferred.

Also, tangentially, Mozambique incorporates the AK in its flag as a symbol of revolution.

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I guess that Pac-Man likes subtle fruity undertones too.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @In Other News...: ...while selling java at the local Wawa.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> + Energy Biscuit

fileunder

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I can hear Queen Laura Bush saying, "Let them eat coffee beans!"

aeries444

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I think Abba should go to Addis Ababa and tell the tales of Ali Baba with Baba Wawa and Kiri te Kanawa as a little Jawa.

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]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> You know what would help Ethiopia? Waterfront property.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I always thought Yirgacheffe literally tastes like vomit. Same thing with Grolsch beer.

Knucklehead Babylon

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Uh, Ethiopia... Bill Gates is on line one...

AndIAmTellingYou

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> If the new logo doesn't make me think of luxury the burlap sack will.

freeflushots

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Qat is really great by the way. Especially with bubblegum.

NinaHagen

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Funny thing is - if you actually go to Africa, you can't get a decent cup of coffee as it's all for export so you get stuck with instant a lot. It's what I really hate about third world travel.

NinaHagen

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> I believe that Midol already had the trademark on that logo.

mindbling

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> @sosina: I would still like to go to Shashamane one day.

Hamilton Nolan

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Am I searching the web with jenuwine Microsoft Ethiopians?

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Wow, that logo is edgy....

technically merchandise

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Hamilton, Beardo is not a suitable PR reference.

valarmorghulis

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> If we're making stock assessments of Ethiopia, let me add that its women are beautiful.

SnarkTwain

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Yirgacheffe: Taste the Violence

kielbasasausage

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> If it works for Juan Valdez, surely it will work for Haile Sellasee.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> and there, hamilton. you just broke my ethiopian heart.

sosina

]]> <![CDATA[Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo]]> Americans love subtle fruits.

Itsjustcatnip

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