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Making the rounds, already Snopes-ed it. I am a pathetic coffee-fiend, so this almost makes me cry:

 

http://blog.accidentaltourist.com/2011/01/paid-coffee-and-dignified-charity/

 

A well dressed gentleman of about 80 with a Borsalino hat and and elegant cane, walks to the cash register and asks to pay for “a coffee, and a suspended coffee”. Then drinks his coffee and leaves the bar. I tried to ignore my curiosity, but I only could for so long. Then I just had to ask the man at the register, what in the world is a “suspended coffee”.
So he patiently explained, trying to speak as close to a scholastic italian as he could (my question had given me away as an ignorant stranger):

 

fair use rules, etc. so I didn't paste in the key bit...simple, low bandwidth blog though.

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