I love America

Time for some coffee.

Very titillating story - thanks for keeping us abreast.

I'll take a cup of jo jo, with 2 mounds of sugar.

Why doesn't the VS include a map when reporting vital articles such as this? C'mon you guys, get with the program !!

neva a dull moment!

I'm really surprised the thumpers let this go through.

How Original Beelzebubba

This small business should thrive - go for it!

Here's a concept we can all embrace

The thumpers don't condemn so called straight sex, in fact they encourage it.

They know that there is money in condemning same sex.

Not that they don't secretly indulge in that, too!

Mainelyme

The thumpers don't condemn so called straight sex.

It's discouraging same sex that has the money in it.

Not that they don't secretly indulge in that, too!

Mainelyme

Can someone get a GPS location to program into my Garmin please?? Probably will go into my favorites!!

Which whay ta (East) Vassalboro?

from a stranga

TIME TO REPLACE YOUR PLANNING BOARD.....WHERE'S THE CLERGY IN THIS MATTER?????????? KEEP THE PORN IN CANADA.....

THIS DOES NOTHING TO EDUCATE CHILDREN..... IT PULLS THEM IN.... DID YOU HEAR THAT THE PORN INDUSTRY WANTS THEIR 5 BILLION BAILOUT????????? TIME TO WEAR MY SMITH AND WESSONS.....

Wonder if 'BALDI' and crew will stick their noses into this????

mariahstorm, we'll send the Rev Al Sharpten over to see ya!

Holy Hooters I hope Baldy and his people don't screw this up....I heard that after hearing this news today that Frank's Bakery is applying for their permit to serve topless....I hope they seek new employees first!

It's pornography. Let's be real. And, it will create some negative social situations. How degrading for women to have to have a job like this and for the patrons who go just to gawk.... There has got to be a more creative way to serve coffee....topless men??? How about Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays for women and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for topless men!!! It's just as rediculous, really....

The first happy news article of the week. I echo the first entry - love America. mariahstorm - I hear there is some great land for sale in the middle east - where you wouldn't have to worry about anything like this lewd behavior occuring. Oh yeah, you won't be able to vote though.

Alright, this is not porn. lol. Pornography is more like lets spread it open and be dirty...c'mon people really...if you do not like it there is a simple solution....DON'T GO! I am female and high do NOT..repeat...do NOT find this degrading to woman. How? How is it degrading if the woman is willing to do it and is comfortable? I am sure there will be rules in place, i.e. the men cannot touch the woman (or woman cannot touch the woman) and other things that go along with that kind of behavior. If this is a way for a woman to make some money and for some lonely ass men to get some fun out of their day and they are not hurting anyone who freaking cares. Its called freedom and opening businesses. Not like they are selling booze for gods sake. They are selling coffee and just doing it without a shirt. I say if the woman has it, let her flaunt it, no harm done.

Some people are way to uptight and close minded. Maybe you should just move elsewhere if you do not agree or again, maybe you should just NOT GO! Quit bitching on here it is not going to do anything. No one really cares what you have to think. If it is that important to you and your little close minded mind then go to a damn meeting and tell your cries there.

and I...my bad. not high lol

Are the going to offer a bottonless cup?? - No glazed for me thanks!

mainah_mom...what's your GPS location??

OMG, if you don't like it DON'T GO! And what's educating our kids and Jesus have to do with it anyway? Does Dunkin Donuts have learning material for our kids? Does it have chapel on Sundays? Good God, get a friggin grip people. And the countries that aren't such prudes about sex like the good ol' USA, their sex crimes rates are WAY lower than ours. Do we really want to keep Maine in the dark ages forever?

There is nothing wrong with opening the topless coffee shop.

jayneinmaine No one is making any lady to work at the coffee shop. If they chose to go there and get a job it is thier chose. Just like it is your choice to go there if you want. The USA is suppose to be a free country.

Russ give us another one of your visions!!!!!!!!!

Mainelyme, you are a great example of the only thing that bothers me about SOME gay activests. Why do you feel the need to take a light hearted story and message board and try to make it about you and your sexuality?

A little tip for the businessman. How about lowering the price of coffee, instead of the tops, now that is idea to bring in business, not "lowering the moral standard. Read on...

Cover up

It seems it is becoming increasingly more popular for women in this country to "reveal" the upper ventral region of the human torso, an area that contains the organs that secrete milk, used to feed infants.

As tops get smaller and lower, this area has not changed in its position. Therefore, there's the problem of visibility; they are there for all the world to see. Have we no discretion? Whatever happened to keeping one's private parts, private? Perhaps it is a "movement" of some kind, a feminine movement, wanting to make a statement that it is all right to "bare it all."

And it has now crept into the church pews. Women are not covered in church as they should be.

The Bible says "I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God, 1st Timothy 2:9-10.

My mother never showed hers and I do not show mine and yet I feel as though I am an outsider. I ask myself, "Why is it OK to show them now but it was not OK then?" What is this saying about our sense of "propriety," our boundaries with other people? Is there nothing now to be kept private? Is everything to be in full view of the world?

I cannot help but think of termites and how they burrow through wood and rot it, but one cannot see the damage, until it is done.

Janylee McGlinchy, native of Kittery, ME

(This story is part of a collection of stories called Heartstrings Two)

Hey SharonFaith, I can top that..."Htgabklo Khhdsdhgu Lokkkshsiire!!" (I was speaking in tongues...)

Now take off the blouse and git me a cup o' joe!

Please, there will be hairy legged, Birkenstock wearing protesting going on there in no time. Usually with baby slings strapped to their chests, and a few dogs for good measure. If you don't like it, don't go. Every single day I sit in traffic at the intersection of Hammond and Union try to answer my 6 year old's questions about Dave's porn place. Do I like it staring my kids in the face? Not especially, but we live in America and he has a right to run a business just like the next guy.

My GPS location?!! LOL! That is too funny! Hmmmm....are you married PabMainer? lmao. How old are you? Yeah. lol.

People go do your bible thumping elsewhere. Seriously, this is not about religion. I am a christian and in no way,shape or form is this against the bible. My god. Sex is openly talked about in the bible. In fact, umm..., yea, it is human nature people. All of you who think it is so degrading to woman must obviously be jealous that you can't look that good to get the job.

Maybe i will go apply.

give this a little thought...........Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. .... h.l. mencken

"A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sally's Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.” ~ Anton LaVey

contented: love it. The man was brilliant.

Duckwa, I disagree, and would say this article is about "in your face heterosexuality."

How appropriate that there's an acolyte of Anton LaVey here.

On 1/7/09 at 02:45 PM, pavance wrote:

Which whay ta (East) Vassalboro?

from a stranga

matt29 reply: Ya can't get there from here

Maybe if this donut shop is successful then more businesses will start having topless employees. Looking forward to going into Best Buy and have a topless hottie try and sell me a lapbreast, sorry I mean a laptop...............

I feel for the owner...finding 3 or 4 girls without muffin tops and tramp stamps is going to be difficult in Maine. The biggest compliment a woman can get in Vassalboro is, "Hey, nice tooth..."

One fringe benefit of the job is that there is no charge for the uniform- since you are wearing the emperor's new clothes.

Just a few more of these and perhaps this state won't be so freakin dull

Anyone in Vassalboro who has a problem with it should have thought about that earlier. I can't believe with all the Hubbub when Diva's opened that every town in Maine did not establish some kind of business/nudity ordinance. They can't do anything about it at the moment, but I bet there will be some attempt at "after the fact" zoning like bangor did with Diva's.

I don't want to see any business fail, but my guess is ithis one won't survive a full year anyway. When I'm down that way. Hope I have a reason to go down that way after they open. Hopefully the coffees good.

lol beelzbubba.

I used to work in New York, and there was a few topless diners. Yum Yum. To date I do not remember a burger as well as I remember those.

WEIRD... what are they going to do only hire lactating women so they can give a squeeze of milk to each customer.

I just hope they ain't hairy or saggy! ye-ha baby!

how about a few bottomless waiters to go along with the topless waitresses??

I wonder if they need a dishwasher?

im going to start drinking coffee

Mac Daddy Pub (former business at this location) is "street" for pimp. So now we are trading advertising the pimps for the women. Any odds whether there is prostitution in the neighborhood, or worse, human trafficking? Some say that this business doesn’t exploit women or hurt anyone. Try explaining that to an abused child who has been raped after their father or uncle or brother left the “coffee shop.” Try explaining that to the devastated wife whose husband’s “coffee” habit has led to her newly acquired sexually transmitted disease. Try explaining that to the brokenhearted dad who had dreamed of a better life for his daughter. Try explaining that to the neighborhood residents who are sexually harassed and suffer the decline in property values due to the increase in crime. “Not hurting anyone.” “Their choice.” “Who freaking cares?” Perhaps that is the problem. More people need to consider the impact their choices have on other people. Charla Bansley, Ellsworth, Maine

If one of those women who work there are lactating, you think you'll see them going around and offering some milk for your coffee?LOL

I'd like two creams in the coffee please..and a bounce if you wouldn't mind O_O

Hell, I live in Greenville and I would drive down to Vassalboro at 5am after work, and then at 5pm before I work at 10pm just to get my coffee. Nice draw. Now they just need to legalize marijuana in the state and have a smoking bar... like in Amsterdam...

then I would legalize prostitution O_O i hope to god they aren't mis-shaped or the *nipples* are screwed up...that would be nasty.

and I wouldn't want no 50 year old grandma serving me coffee, it would have to be someone (18)

And the lord said, "Hand Jon Coburn this stick to poketh the boobies of the coffee shop waitresses, and let their be heavenly gaze upon thine women of said coffee shop. And it was good"

Book of Jon Coburn Page Chapter 8, Paragraph 35

"Come to Coburn"

Didn't Abraham have to sacrifice one of his wife's breasts upon the altar to prove he was loyal to God?

nowhere in the bible does it say I can't lust for the taste of coffee

-Book Of RevelationCoburn

Can we gals get to have some shirtless men there, too? I'm thinking more along the lines of Tom Selleck(as he looked in the 80s) and not Danny Devito (pre AND post "Taxi" days, thank you)?

i take it you are female moosetopia...

Being a conservative republican with deep religious roots, I must vote for the topless cafe'. I never understood why guys could run around topless ,while WE, (men), made the women cover up. It's like a middle eastern, "keep the woman down" thing ! Best wishes and hope for your success as "perky" coffee house! How about calling it the "Pinay tay tay cafe'" and employ a bunch of frolicking Filipinas??? YUM!

I think the citizens in the town of Vassselboro need to select different people for their Planning Board. These things should be put to a public vote , not decided by a few who think men gawking at womens breasts is proper. What will they allow next, a strip club ?

Amanda was suggestion bottomless waiters... do you really want your doughnuts served hands free?

"Mac Daddy Pub (former business at this location) is "street" for pimp. So now we are trading advertising the pimps for the women. Any odds whether there is prostitution in the neighborhood, or worse, human trafficking? Some say that this business doesn’t exploit women or hurt anyone. Try explaining that to an abused child who has been raped after their father or uncle or brother left the “coffee shop.” Try explaining that to the devastated wife whose husband’s “coffee” habit has led to her newly acquired sexually transmitted disease. Try explaining that to the brokenhearted dad who had dreamed of a better life for his daughter. Try explaining that to the neighborhood residents who are sexually harassed and suffer the decline in property values due to the increase in crime. “Not hurting anyone.” “Their choice.” “Who freaking cares?” Perhaps that is the problem. More people need to consider the impact their choices have on other people. Charla Bansley, Ellsworth, Maine"

I live about ten miles from the proposed Coffee Shop. It's been quite the debate lately. But I've got to say, the BDN posts are by far the most entertaining, especially this one. Apparently, this person thinks that Vassalboro is a hotbed for debauchery. The person who started the Mac Daddy Cafe, I can almost assure you, wasn't trying to be the biggest pimp in town; he just wanted a "catchy" name. And apparently, all the staff that will work there will all have some sort of disease that they will pass on to their customers. Come on. You're making it sound like a brothel.

Remember, they used to have strippers at the bar that used to be there (full nudity) on the weekends, about ten years ago.

It's like making a generalization that all people from Ellsworth are immoral because they want to start a topless coffee shop.

Oh, by the way, all anyone needs to do is head west on Route 3. It's on your right before the Augusta line.

"The land of milk and bunny" that would be a catchy name.....It would kind of entice the church goers like me to show up after church on sunday. maybe monday, or tuesday and wednesday, probably thursday and maybe friday, definately saturday and well it's Sunday again!

Oh geee...it doesn't take too much for a few men to get all excited. Please...how childish. Can't you find something else worthwhile to do with your time. Bet half of you who have kids would not get that excited about anything else. Like if your kid got a good grade or if they asked you to play a game of hoops or you helped with their homework or asked them about their day...common on ....

Some of those comments were pretty disgusting. Trash in trash out. That's why so many people hate porn because a set of boobs will set off a few men into a shark attack frenzy.

If we get too strict on this stuff we all will be wallering around in burkas trying to hide our ankles.

Just think,you get your coffee and free milk to LOL.for some may even be able to pick if they want skim or with vitamin D.

I get excited about fishing too. Is that bad? I guess I need some government cat to make me think acceptable thoughts.

It is just breast. Women take them out to feed a baby in public. No big deal really. Let the men have their fun. Just loosen up people. If you don't like it don't go there. gee

And to think that I and all my brothers were born with these "banned" things in our mouths.....we thought it was food and now I find it was sin. And my wife did the same to my kids.....what horrible parents! A woman can't hardly feed her kids anymore because of nudity "freekazoids" making mamaries into sin bags! That just ain't right. If GOD made 'em then it is good. amen.

Don't worry leumas we're way past that. Not enough material on some young ladies I've seen to even make a head scarf.

By the way, did any of you know psychiatrists offices are beginning to see clients with porn addictions? This stuff is really distructive to families and societies. We might as well start our kids off real early and take them for a breakfast where boobs are on display. Well start feeding our kids to the porn industry at an earlier age. The industry make about $500 billion a year last I heard. Child sex slaves, drugs, abortions on and on..When we realize how much damage this stuff does to society and they start to sink maybe the government will bail them out.

Sorry folks this liberal stuff has already been done and tried in Amsterdam and they are trying to clean out. Probably too late for them. Too ingrained into their society.

Below the belt nudity isn't very acceptable but a womans breasts should be as common as a guy without a shirt.

Amsterdam has a small drug problem. Nowhere as bad as we have. The drug addicts over there are looked down upon as we look down on welfare breeders. I know when Americans go over there they cluster like maggots in the red light district and abuse drugs like the .5% of their locals do. But most Dutch folks do no drugs and screw nobody but their spouse. Because they legalized everything everything has very little draw to most kids.

I did find most dutch folks are way too much into excercise and diet stuff though. I personally ain't runn' that far or eatin' that healthy vegetable stuff! People get the wrong idea about the Dutch because , like I said American morons want to do the dutch scum areas, not legal here and think the whole country lays around on the curb injecting heroine and selling their ass for a few dollars. NOT TRUE.

ALL SICK... THE PLANNING BOARD OF THIS TOWN MUST BE ALL SICK.. OR SEX CRAVED PERVS.... AND THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO OPEN THIS?

AND THE GALS THAT WILL WORK THERE ARE SICK TOO... HELL, I GO TO MY LOCAL COFFE SHOP AND BRING MY FAMILY AND KIDS THERE.....

I'M SURE MORE THEN HALF OF THE DUMB ASS THAT WROTE COMMENTS THAT THEY LOVE THIS WANT THERE WIFE'S, GIRLFRIENDS , AND DAUTGHERS

WORKING THERE????????????????? THIS WILL NEVER PASS!!!!!!! YOU, ALL NEED TO GET A REAL LIFE... STOP BEING PERVS!!!!!!!!! SICK BASTERDS!!!!!!!!

OH YA, TOLD MY GRANDMOTHER ABOUT THIS.... SHE WANTS A JOB THERE!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S 93!!!!!!!! HOPE YOU LIKE THOOSE KNOCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

knockers, or floppers?

CREAM + 1 SUGAR PLEASE

What does OSHA have to say about this? Someone could get scalded!

What does OSHA have to say about this? Someone could get scalded!

What does OSHA have to say about this? Someone could get scalded!

What does OSHA have to say about this? Someone could get scalded!

What does OSHA have to say about this? Someone could get scalded!

oops

C'mon all you hypocritical Baptist Bible pounders.....let it go!....as several people have said, if you don't like it, don't go........if you don't like a particular TV show, you don't still watch it, do you?.....oh wait....that falls under the hypocritical thing again....sorry.....go for it, Donnie!!!

C'mon all you hypocritical Baptist Bible pounders.....let it go!....as several people have said, if you don't like it, don't go........if you don't like a particular TV show, you don't still watch it, do you?.....oh wait....that falls under the hypocritical thing again....sorry.....go for it, Donnie!!!

jdboys, quit thumping and get back in the closet......

ladyslipper sounds just like a guy, doesn't "she"?

I wonder if this attorney Peter Mason is going to apply for a job at this topless coffee shop. Im assuming he would work for a couple of doughnuts seeing that he likes to expose himself.

The bottom line is....It doesn't matter if its got tits or tires....eventually your gonna have trouble with it

Anne does it matter if its a guy or girl?

I don't know Russ, does it matter if I answer you truthfully?

Clearly it matters to ladyslipper, because he's the one posting as a girl.

Awwww the comments on the 1st article about this were funnier !! Some of you this time around are making me laugh too!! Laughing about PabMainer trying to program his GPS!!!

cough cough busy body cough

Oh Russ, I know you have such high posting standards. Are you trying to censor me?

anne i agree with russ...you go all over the articles and try to make one person 10 different people. who really cares who is who. you seem to like being the busy body.

anne i agree with russ...you go all over the articles and try to make one person 10 different people. who really cares who is who. you seem to like being the busy body.

How will the topless wait staff make any money. Tips for coffee are very low. And why would they want to be topless for a bunch of old man coffee clutch. That is what it will be when the novelty wears off. Mabe the town should make an ordinance for this. COFFEE that is so ridiculus. A cup of coffee will probably be 4.00 a cup or more.

Donald Crabtree has to get more creative to keep his business going. Using women and young girls to make money shouldn't be one of them. Hey might as well start selling drugs. That's immoral too.

Leumas...huge shipments of heroine end up in Amsterdam and are distributed from there. A lot of cases of hepatitis showing up. They usually go hand in hand.

Hope they find a way to stop this guy from opening up this place. I guess he doesn't have the creativity to come up with something else. He knows this type of entertainment will sell his coffee for a cheap thrill. And it seems from this blogg that there are enough small minds to keep his business going.

Have a good day...

looks like the ultra conservatives from ellsworth have arrived. russhermon: are they "pats" or "feminazis"? you never explained the difference. wink!

mainah_mom y dont you just take your kids and have a hell of ah good time. lol

Women only do those kinds of jobs if they "have to" out of "depseration'. So, yeah, great- more expoitation of women in America. Great thing to love. It isn't porn, and there is a strip club in bangor. It does not change the fact though that it is the exploitation of women.

How about someone make a print out of this comment section and if they have a meeting to decide if they allow this place to open up or not, present the comment section to them. There are a few comments in here that really show the mind set of the people who want this place. It might change a few minds on if this would be good for the community or not.

garris..not sure if you are playing and going with the "lighthearted" approach or if you really think i would bring my kids there. so, i am just going to clear this up.

me, as a female, as a woman have two different sides you see as i am sure many mothers adapt to. i have a motherly side, a side where when my kids are around i am a mother, i am conservative, i am a role model, i do things and say things and teach my children things. i have mommy time, i have play time, i have learning time. i am quiet and sit and relax with my children.

then, you see, just because i am a mom does not mean i cannot have a playful side. would i seriously work here? lol. hell no. just because i joke about something does not mean i am serious. it is called sarcasm. would i ever go here? heck ya, if i was in town without my children, which i am sure i will never be, i would go just to get some laughs and have some humor for the day.

this guy is not hurting anyone. he is not trying to degrade woman...as, i am sure, the woman will be applying not him saying okay you, you, you and yeah you. also, he is not trying to associate children with this i am sure and i am sure there will be rules and regulations regarding children and young adults. people want to turn it into something more than it is. everyone wants to bring religion into everything when this guy never said one thing about bringing god into his topless coffee shop so why should we? i don't know.

humor needs to be more prevelant among us. laugh a little more. smile during the day at something. it makes for a nicer day, especially when it is a monday.

On 1/8/09 at 09:11 AM, mainah_mom wrote:

anne i agree with russ...you go all over the articles and try to make one person 10 different people. who really cares who is who. you seem to like being the busy body.

THANK YOU MAINAH_MOM....others agree with you including me. There's another one on here that also likes to take a name and make it into a dozen diff people. Having a similar name or one they don't like does not make that person into who a few say they are.

Then I say you should go do it and see if it is degrading with the first few comments you get. I just can't find alot funny about exploitation and degradation. I don't think not finding it funny says that others don't have a sense of humor. If you find it funny or love it, you are entitled to that. However, saying that those who don't laugh about it are just not having a sense of humor is an empty arguement to make a point with. I have a playful side, but it doesn't involve exploiting or degrading others.

MaineMom again, this does not involve exploiting or degrading others and no, it is not a bad point to make. reading through these comments is funny, you are just uptight and can't take things in stride. that is obvious. maybe you and anne could be friends.

Big deal... its boobs. Who in their life has never seen boobs? raise your hand!

ok girls relax...research shows that if you add a little laughter to your life it will imporve your overall health....also physical activity will enhance your well being also....I am think this should be handled woman to woman...shirts & skins....how about it??

Sounds like the perfect drug cover to me. Its hard to make money on coffee alone tits hanging out or not. Its low class but a perfect drug cover which is what that place has been in the past, it always ends up a drug hole.

PabMainer I think you are one funny guy!

garris, now, not only is it degrading towards woman, pornography and just plain sickening.....it is also a conspiracy to cover up a drug hole.

gosh, i love this. it is so much fun.

mainah it looks like we are comparing Vassalboro to Sodom & Gomorrah!! Crazy what a little bare skin can erupt into....I guess that it's time to go to the temple and partake of the Holy Sacrament and pray for fire and brimstone to fall on this little diner....

right. only if you will roll for me though, i always have trouble with that. god. it really is a pain to get that paper to stick right. i will pray really hard for me if you do. k. now. thanks.

How is it not exploitation? Isn't this exploitation: " Utilization of another person or group for selfish purposes." That's what the dictionary has it as. It's women topless right? A select group?

You can also keep making assumptions whether I am down to earth uptight etc, but you don't know me. It holds as much weight as your humor arguement. The fact is, it's degrading to take your clothes off for money. I knew a woman who did exotic danicing in CA and she used to say that it was. Maybe she didn't really know? You can dress that up how you like, but a spade is a spade and if your happy in denial I will leave you be by all means.

wow. Exotic dancing in CA in a club compares to serving men in vassalboro coffee in a diner. great point.

yes, honey, you make really good points as well. if you would like to join pab and i for our prayer group you may. i think it may make you a little more ummm "happier". yeah! and then when can see you smile.

You mean taking off your clothes in one state for money differs than other states? You don't think men will inappropriately try to touch the women? You think that a woman at a topless diner is somehow different than a topless diner in Florida like Cafe Risque which serves no alcohol? The woman worked alot of places, I knew her well. Have you done the profession? Do you know someone? Have first hand experience? If not, then sounds like to me you are talking out of no where with no grounds for anything you've been saying or any point you've been trying to make. With all due respect, you don't even have an incling of the subject you are speaking of. Go talk to the people who do it or have done it, then come back with a fallacy hyper-bole arguement on religion and morals

You can tell where all the men will go now can't You. I think it's ignorant!!

See where all the comments came from and none were intelligent ones

What a world we live in

My good gracious if yous people take these comments with such sincerity and to such heart I would hate to think how you might react in a real crisis and emotionally stressed situation!! CHILL OUT!! Shout out a few hallelujahs and PTL's and you will feel much better...darn it, I misplaced my matches...

lol. oh well. i don't hold anything against you mainemom. i just think these comments are funny. i have a sense of humor and am not ashamed of my boobs. if someone feels the need to touch one of these girls i am sure there will be retribution. this was all on a light note for a days humor.

i would like to say though as you so plainly stated that you do not know me, so, you telling me that i have no incling of the subject is kind of "off base" as you claim me saying you have no sense of humor is as well. think about that. have a good hump day...lol..no pun intended.

you can borrow my lighter pab. i think that i would like to pray topless just to have the full effect. is that wrong?

I believe that would be appropriate as long as you assumed the prone position also!

*shrugs* if people are stressed out about it then they have my sympathies. The comments I made were just my own thoughts and opinions. I'm not stressed, I don't think debating points already made public makes one "stressed" just because they don't agree with your views or others. So we have humor and people being stressed out as the reasons others do not agree with your viewpoint. Interesting

Exotic dancing has more class. This does not remind me or make me think of religion nor is it really about that. The place is a dive anyway. I thought mabe they were going to tear the place down. Instead they tried to give it the log look but that came out tacky also.

uhhh....i thought supine would be the best way. lol.

No, actually I'm pretty sure Pab, MainahMom, and others who think I'm joking, I'm pretty sure I'd have to get my free cream in my coffee. Hell I'd pay extra to get ahold of those sweater cows and spray it like an udder...

I do hope though that nobody over 30 and over 120 pounds is employed at this place...

I second that kingofmaine...the over 30 and 120 pounds.

err...are you sure you are not someone else..lol. where is anne now. dang.

I do have a serious question though... if you're not going to go there, nor are your children (until they turn 18), and/or have a problem with women baring their breasts let me pose this question:

Why the hell just stay away from it and ignore it?

LOL...once again its just like hollywood slots....if u don't like it then don't go

LOL anne would be having a shitfit and you know it...lol I'm generally a nice person I just like to make fun of the stupid stories out there.

this is probably the biggest news event in Maine right now in my opinion. even more than Steve McKay's off-color comments about the weather

(sarcasm)

now they could never do a story from inside the place unless they had that little blurr cloud to cover the breasts....Steve McKay would love to do the weather from inside that place...

shitfit...you think? really? anne? nah.

I know you are sneaky. i know you have like 10 different screen names. i really think you should join in prayer too...you sin lover you.

i wouldn't allow the *black fist* in there either...*shudders*

well you got one thing right, I was never baptised... this is the one I'm posting under for awhile from now on... how do I know you're not anne, I think she boycotted the site

lol...oh yes, i am anne_of_mdi...lmao. laying supine at the temple, smoking one and praying so hard to save myself from my sin because i find this stuff humorous. you caught me. my bad.

Two of you are hilarious!!

Russ, mainah_mom, why do you care?

i don't anne. i think you are funny. and russ had nothing to do with that.

there you are thekingofmaine. apparently your theory was wrong...she didn't boycott it and she came back to prove it. lol

AHAHAHAHA she returns... under Anne's beliefs this would be the state of Maine's newest game for children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEQWWbQqzc

Mexico's favorite game for over 300 Years

umm...correction anne. i am not a troll. i have one screen name and i do not go to every article to start trouble or to try to say someone is someone else...unlike, *cough, cough* some people on here.

okay. thanks. bye now.

I didn't call you a troll, mainah_mom. And actually, thekingofmaine, under my beliefs you would have to use a credit card to sign up for an account here.

use a credit card to get a account....what kinda bs is that....I'm pretty sure its free speech even tho some people take it a little overboard but i think its our right.....a credit card...LOL

anne_of mdi: "So you don't like busybodies. I don't like sewage-spewing trolls. What's the difference?"

umm...even though i like sex, think boobs are okay, want to go to the temple and smoke, lay supine and pray....(i am being sarcastic to people who don't realize this) does not mean that i do not understand that with your words you were calling, russ, pab, and i all trolls. hmmmm? maybe that really does kill brain cells. gosh i need lots of prayer. who else would like to pray for me too? anyone, anyone? =)

Sorry for the miscommunication, mainah_mom. I was referring to the individuals who post under multiple usernames as sewage-spewing trolls. No need to be so defensive.

I don't like sewage-spewing trolls. WOW...I leave and run to the store for a minute and come back to this....now I am really getting p***ed off! Anyhow, back off you guys I was making a little progress with the little lady (mainah_mom) and you are spoiling all of my success thus far....

I like sewage-spewing trolls. Is there anything worse than that? I would like that, too. Hey, this is Maine - live it up!

i'm sort of a troll... i pledged to the BDN this is my final form

Anne I have spent some time reading back to the articles i have save that you have posted on......NOT ONCE have you ever posted anything about the article that was written. You type to see your name appear in a public forum. Your an annoying voice in the back ground of a good movie. Maybe you should give some thought to working at this coffee shop...I have never seen your boobs, but you have the mentality of a topless waitress. You have no brains but ya might get a tip for your insight into town gossip.

This thread is absolutely comical....so now the coffee shop is exploiting women and on the verge of becoming a crackhouse. I think the conservatives should all band together and head to Europe. Heck, they have topless women out on the beach, so they must be incredibly immoral and in desperate need of salvation.

ANNE did someone from BDN ordain you as the posting police. Get a life. You have never ever posted anything about an article on here your too busy wondering who is who. IT DOESN"T MATTER.. STFU

Russ, why do you care? I don't tell you to stop posting your soft porn comments. Why are you trying to censor me?

I knew it, first gambling now naked coffe shops, what next? They better have male waiters without pants on.

Whatever you do don't bring up nude beachs..The Pats and the feminazis will call it the sex industy..Robot the only difference between the two is hair length. They both eat at the same trough....wink

My Puritan ancestors would probably not be pleased with me for asking this, but can you tell me where those nude beaches are in Europe, turborob? I think I might want to go. Maybe we could launch a travel service based out of Vassalboro. Aren't we supposed to think outside the "box"?

Ladyslipper?......I think i'm starting to fall in love with you

Lorrie, slots was the beginning of hell for this state... I'm reminded of a sign up in Kokadjo... this is God's Country, don't set it on fire and make it look like hell..

albiet I'd like to squeeze Anne's sweater cows for milk, but she's probably bone dry....

back off russ, the ladies love a portly younger gentlemen who loves SWEATER COWS LOL

Stop getting aroused Russ. Next you will want to marry her. Then they stop acting normal. They lock your doodads in their purse.

you know, i just realized, back awhile ago i wrote "happy hump day" and no one corrected me that today is thursday..lol...all day i have been stuck in wednesday. wow!! it's thursday! yeah!

thanks guys for being so quick on here...gee.

sickntired that is the funniest joke on here by far......"and then only a fleeting glimpse as they leap out of bed and into the bathroom in the morning". lmao. you were joking right? lol

LOL

I guess the BDN sensors told you King. One minute you were there and poof you were gone.

I'll post on-topic for you Russ. I think the topless cafe is a great idea. It will keep all the idiots locked up in one place. Maybe they'll even forget to vote.

LOL yeah they're catching on ...

i'm just joking around BDN .>.>

Can you imagine if Dog the Bounty Hunter's wife worked there? You would have to wear eye protection.

lmao no sh**

.....Pats Anne on top of her head.....Here let me help you up Anne.....Good Job.......Zipppppppp

okay russ, so the "pats" and the "feminazis" are the same?? and then there are the "busybodies". . . that's quite the paranoid little world you live in. and you're still trying to convince us that a topless coffee shop is NOT part of the sex industry? it's part of. . . the coffee industry?? and the "pats" and the "feminazis" (and the "busybodies" too???) will fight this because. . . ??? take your time, russ. try not hurt yourself with all the thinking and the logic an actual argument requires.

Stevey you're killing me with a pic of that one....ouch!! mainah where have you been? I hope you don't think I am some crazed individual here?? I was engrossed in the bed burning story from Wells...hey did you ever see the Lorena Bobbit story?? I hope you don't think I am being pushy?? Hey your not a GUY are you?? OMG am I hitting on a guy...I might be GAY??

That's okay Russ. I'm not worried. It's pretty easy to tell who the girls are here.

Okay. Crazed individual? Lorena Bobbit story? Pushy? Me a guy? You gay? Gee now. Too many things in one thought.

are you crazy? hell if i know.

lorena bobbit? yeah. she cut her hubbys toy off and then he joined the god for saken *shockers* sex business.

pushy???

guy? nope. 100% female.

gay? that might explain your likeability...lol.

mainah_mom : I vote you to write a column weekly here on BDN. I have been just about beside myself laughing at your comments, wit, and humour on here along with quite a few others. This article has been the most entertaining in a while!! ladyslipper, LincolnMOM, RussHerman--you are all right up there too. It's nice to see Maine humor!! Luv to read your comments!! (this is sincere and NOT sarcastic!! )

Sooo, when are we all going to meet at the coffee shop and get to know each other?? We could just sit around conversing and try to guess who is who??

LMAO....good idea PAB

lol. or how many teeth they have? do you have all of your teeth pab? i do not even know where vassalboro is? is that sad? and, i have lived in maine my whole life.

mainleyme2...gosh...i just love you. i have nothing else to say to you. for once i am speechless. lets be penpals shall we?

i don't hate you, russ. and you don't know me. speculate all you like.

if you have an actual argument, make it. take your time. we can wait. . .

Lmao it will be pretty east to figure out who won't be there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB2tmnR6tI8

think this guy went a little too far

How very pathetic that anyone would be so desperate to see tatas that he would drive out of his way to go to a topless coffee shop! This coffee shop will no doubt be filled with obese, ugly , smelly old men who can't attract a decent women. with any brains at all.. Did you guys ever think that perhaps if you took a bath, got a job and left Mamas home maybe you could get a REAL date.... Well at least the sheep may get a rest while the pervs are off peeping!

Russ, I once knew this girl who really hated lesbians and always went out of her way to insult lesbians. And guess what? She turned out to be a lesbian! Turns out her homophobia was because she was a closeted lesbian. Isn't that the darndest thing?

Robot...If you can't figure it out hun, you might wanna talk with someone who has more time than I. And ya know your right...I don't know you. We can only guess who we are chatting with on here. Wanna meet for coffee?

where are you my dear? are you counting your teeth? or are you still engrossed in the wife burning the husband story?

i am waiting from someoen to please tell me where vassalboro is? like you know, near what...ellsworth obviously is not that far. i want to check this "titty coffe bar/dive/drug hole out" i think it could be quite interesting....plus i want to sit and drink coffee with pab so i can write a column for the bdn to tell you of my travels.

of course, i will do it all topless. you don't get the same effect if you don't. i have to really experience what i am doing to do it right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc&eurl=http://encyclopediadramatica.com/India&feature=player_embedded

this guy went out of his way too

Is it pathetic that in the summer I drive out of my way to get a good ice cream?? I am crushed by someone thinking I am a desperate individual.....Closeted lesbian did you say??

Did it take a long time to come to terms with it Anne?

I don't know Russ. I think it depends on the individual. It might take longer for some people.

It looks like it maybe near Augusta????? Maybe baldy will be there.

Anne...I turned out to be a lesbian too.........POINT?

you seem to have plenty of time for speculation, russ. looks like you're just still having trouble figuring out an argument. need some more time??

Good for you Russ! I thought you were in deeper denial than that.

lol....coffee from your nipples? wow. that is pure talent.

Robot what was your objection to the cofee shop again?....Pay issues?....Read it slower...I covered it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB2tmnR6tI8

lol I can't help myself, the guys a riot mainah

Stevey just north of Augusta, south of Waterville on the old road....Also home to the "Maine Criminal Justice Academy 15 Oak Grove Road Vassalboro, Maine 04989"....maybe the cadets can do some personal "undercover training" at the facility....great place for the female cadets to get some extra spending money...

............then, someone takes a photo or two (probably against the rules) and it gets posted to the embarassment of the waitress on YOU TUBE. It will lead to negative social situations....but, reading what was written above, guess there's a market. How close can you get with YOUR digital camera? Maine is not the place for a topless coffee shop. Years down the road, since everyone knows everyone..."hey, didn't you used to work at that topless coffee shop" right in front of the woman and her child(ren). Someone says, while they're in the coffee shop, a negative comment about one of the woman or a comparison is made.....it's all just negative. Too bad it passed and the coffee shop will open. It's a slippery slope...a down hill slide....

jayneinmaine. wow. you have a very negative attitude. sorry about that. you are a negative nelly.

what about the girl from operation repo on Tru tv!

i didn't object to the shop, russ. you've said repeatedly that this shop is NOT part of the sex industry. then what is it? what you are trying to say about the "pats" and the "feminazis" (and now the "busybodies")? you seem to be the one with the objections and the random speculation here. make your point.

Have things changed since cave times as far as boobs? I don't think so. Women have used their breasts since the dawn of time for personal gain. They have em...we want em....Nuff Said?

dandlmom , I don't think so. Just checked her out, just a tad rough on the eyes.

can't we all just get along and talk about boobs and coffee and laugh? is it hard to laugh about boobs and coffee? no, i didn't think so.

so, russ, robot..you two need to make peace, kiss and make up.

meet at the drug hole in 20 minutes. i want to hear the details in the morning.

Actually, I kind of appreciate anne_of_mdi being on this board because she reminds me of my ex and that serves to reassure me how wise I was in divorcing her. Thank you, anne.

A woman delivers a cup of coffee to a table topless...I don't see this as the " sex Industry". She selling coffee not ass...can i be any plainer?...wow

Russ just can't win. They won't let him put a windmill on his lawn, Robot wants to sleep with him. Anne wants to club him to death.

I don't have anything against Russ, Steveydee. It took a lot of courage for her to do what she did here today. And it all makes sense now.

well, russ you have a fan club going.

i would sell coffee, but make money off my boobs (there is no money making in the ass business for me...way to tiny). i like to think of as a "coffeesexish" industry. two of my favorite things wrapped in one. okay, and its kind of exhibitionist like too, so i guess that even makes it better. i think it could be quite a little place. even if they were all ugly and disgusting we could at least have something to talk about over coffee. it would be a great first date for anyone.

anne. you have to be a man, because from the way you speak, you have really big **lls.

I was a waitress once....and I spilled coffee a couple of times on myself and it hurt and I had on a shirt and an apron. It would really suck not having a shirt on.

I'll be at the grand opening...hope to see you all there..Anne and Robot....first cups on me...Later all

Thanks mainah_mom! Now maybe I'll be able to get a 33% pay increase!

33%?...Lets see how ya look in pasties first Anne.....

Donald Crabtree, make certain that all of those stryrofoam coffee cups have the warning 'be careful, contents may be hot' so that you aren't subject to any lawsuits from people drinking coffee that was too hot.

Russ, I'm straight. You'll have to look elsewhere.

So much for the "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" warning

and may I add that if you just show up wearing just a shirt and shoes do they have to let you in?

Awwwwwwww I have a new penpal!!! I will have something to smile about daily now LOL!! You guys are too funny...gotta luv ya!!

Has anyone heard if you have to be 18 to be admitted?

Do you have to be 18 to get in?

thekingofmaine, what is the name of the drug ur taking?

232

233

Having spent years there, much of that time during bikini season, I must ask: from where will they be importing the employees to Vassalboro?

mainah_mom, I didnt say anything about religiion nor did i say anything about degrading, I do think topless waitresses for coffee is low class and if you dont know where it is trust me then you dont know what I know about the history of this place. It has a great reputation for drug sales in the past. And believe me the place is a dive. Mabe they are going to bring in some of the cows to serve the milk they are better looking than some of the ppl out there and also have firmer tits. lol

I've traveled by this location many times while driving Rt 3 and it is back off the road quite a distance and on a hill, with no abutting businesses or obvious foot traffic. I don't remember seeing a school, childrens park or church in the immediate area either. This would seem to be an excellent location for this type of business, as there would be no excuse to "accidently see" anything, unless you went out of your way to try. Clearly post what to expect to find inside , have a minimum age of 18 yrs old, meet the regulations for a coffee shop, and I say go for it. Let them pay taxes on this property and its sales, give employment to those who want to work there, allowing them to pay taxes.

........someone said, "if you don't like it, don't go there".........how do we get it out of our community if we don't like it???????? As noted above, lots of ignorant people will be going there. I'd like to suggest that YOU stay home!

DO THEY SERVE BUNS

I'd want to 'accidently see' a nipple.

Even though I'm 22 and I can go to Divas hurrrr

Jayneinmaine. How in the heck does this affect you if you don't go there? The windows are covered, you can't see anything. This is coffee, no one is getting drunk or doing drugs. This will bring money into your community because you can be sure people will be going out of their way to go here. So you are complaining about something that will have no affect on you and will benefit your community. They are not having sex. they are not doing things that can be considered lewd or lascivious unless you think walking across the room with a cup of coffee is lewd. The human body is natural we all have one. There are many cultures where women and men alike being topless in public is completely normal. You have sexualised the female breast in your mind so you think it is bad. The Bible says nothing about breasts that is bad or that they should be hidden for any reason. Women not feeding children in public is a recent thing in human history. It is a natural part of life. Now I am not naive enough to not realize that the people going in there are looking to get a peak at a couple of breasts. the only reason this excites anyone is because people think like you.

So many perverts! Why dont you all get a flippin life! If you have to go look at some boobs in a coffee shop and go home to finish up in the shower you may want to consider using some GOOD cologne and get some CLASS to attract a woman for yourself that can help you with your problem. For all you married guys, if your wife isnt helping you, you might want to consider leaving for someone that will? Sex is REALLY important in a marriage. Guess these guys just like to "hang out" with a bunch of excited guys! Sounds like fun! Good luck with that!

You can say that it is "no big deal" that perverts are going to see girls without tops to drink coffee, but in this country we dont regularly practice that so everyone gets stupid about it (see above all comments from pervs) Why not leave sex in the bedroom, you would have alot less divorce and some pretty happy people. But people need and love drama, people need to keep divorce lawyers in business, people dont know how to please their mate so they bring them to some pleace like this in hopes that they wont do "anything" behind their backs( sorry if you have a perv for a husband he isnt going to change and will jump on anything that comes in his face, let him go! There is ALOT of good guys out there) Everyone should just learn to have GOOD sex and please their mates, creativity, frequency. If everyone started walking around naked if will become the "norm" and not as exciting!