BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack The Sailor
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 02:50 PM

Nice resource JohnB, but doesn't take the fun out of finding out about it on this thread? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: *daylia*
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 11:50 AM

Click here to listen to a folksy musical tribute and visual biography of (arguably) the most famous Leaf ever ....

The Ballad of Tim Horton

Can't find the credits for the song, or even the name of the singer though. Does anyone know?

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 11:31 AM

This may help with lots of questions which have not even arisen "YET"
Tim Horton's FAQ
Especially the urban legend about Nicotine and/or MSG being added to make people come back for more.
JohnB

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 09:32 PM

Oops! I could have sworn I posted a link with a picture of Elvis' Pantera and now its gone. I hope I didn't put it on an Obama thread!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: number 6
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 09:28 PM

Oooops ... I am to be corrected Jack ... it was Imlach (coach of the sabres at the time) who gave it to him.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: number 6
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 09:15 PM

Yeah ... apparently it was. He acquired that car when he was still with Leafs. We all know how Ballard was a cheap sob. Since he wouldn't give Horton a raise, he did concede to Tim's request for the Pantera.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 09:07 PM

Was it Ballard? The accident was quite a while after he was a Leaf wasn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: number 6
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 09:04 PM

Harold Ballard should never have given him that Pantera.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 08:40 PM

Brief biography of Tim Horton.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Beer
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 08:36 PM

And a pretty Damn good one to.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 08:33 PM

If you use Google you might find out that Tim Horton was a hockey player. If ya don't know it already.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: bobad
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 07:37 PM

Just Google the character's name, leeneia - remember, Google IS your friend.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 07:34 PM

Howard Engel? Not Dean Kaplan? Oh, well!

Have you read any of the books, bobad? If not, how do you find the author if you can remember a character but not a title?

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 02:43 PM

I feel sorry for Candadians because they have to put up with Americans.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: bobad
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 07:55 PM

Sorry........leeneia.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: bobad
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 07:54 PM

That would be Howard Engel, leenia.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 06:15 PM

My favorite Canadian thing is the Benny Cooperman crime novels. I believe the author is Dean Kaplan. Check them out.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 02:18 PM

Krispy Kream - Had one in Arizona. Yuk! Greasy. greasy. Melt in your mouth sugar and grease.

Tims - O.K. but not great. Very, very slick advertising, though.

Dunkin donuts - Much better. At least you feel like you ate something.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: *daylia*
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 10:23 AM

Coffee yuk, donuts yuk, but who could possibly resist Tim's sweet little ho ho HO's?   :-)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 01:20 PM

Beer.... Ron James is one of my all time favs. He weaves a tapestry of prose that is profound, prophetic and poetic. A true entertainer that spans the the inane and the intellectual and makes each laugh at the other and at themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 11:26 AM

Lets bring this thread back to folk music

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Beer
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 07:42 AM

Great morning laugh Gnu. Thanks for the video clip.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 07:34 AM

CET... I stand corrected. Thanks. I recall seeing on CBC that Tim's was sending free stuff to the troops... but, that was a while back.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: bobad
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 07:30 AM

FYI

Tim Horton's Liquid Big Mac

A Big Mac has 540 calories, 10 grams of saturated fat and 0.5 grams of trans fat.

What wonderful new Tim Horton's beverage has more calories, more saturated fat and more trans fat than the Big Mac?

The winner is, Tim Hortons 18oz Butter Caramel Iced Capp Supreme!

With 560 calories, 17 grams of saturated fat and 1 gram of trans fat it's a tall, cold glass of why it is we absolutely need calories posted on menu boards.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Mooh
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 07:15 AM

Half the kids I know work at Timmy's, the other half pass through regularly. Most of the adults I know buy at Timmy's regularly, the few that don't have friends who supply them.

There's a Tim's between our house and the schools where the rest of the family attend and work (my commute only passes the fridge in my kitchen) and so the family attends Tim's more than church. It's as if a double-double and a dutchie is the new sacrament.

The drive-through extends onto the street, which happens to be four lanes of highway 21, trucks sometimes park blocking a lane of the highway, all of which should concern the police except that they're in line too, waiting for coffee and doughnuts. I swear at them as I pass, then return when it's not so busy.

I'm addicted to their raisin-bran muffins, but since they switched from Coke to Pepsi, they've lost a little of my business. Somehow, this makes me feel guilty.

They used to offer me free TimBits for the dogs at the drive-through, as if to get them addicted too, damn pushers(!), but we don't often use the drive-through anymore...parking or walking is better for us and the environment.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: CET
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 06:48 AM

Gnu, hate to break it to you, but Tim's isn't free even for our gallant lads and lasses in Afghanistan. In fact the Kandahar Tim's outlet makes a healthy profit which goes to support morale and welfare. Our Personnel Support Agency has the franchise over there.

I've never understood the passion for double-doubles. That's way too damn milky. What I ask for is a "little bit of cream" (squeezing thumb and forefinger together) and two sugars.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 05:59 AM

Rats! I can't find the "Jesus upta Horton's" skit on This Hour Has 22 minutes.... But I found Ron James.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 05:45 AM

Sorry. Still half asleep.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 05:39 AM

There are 27 Tim's within about 5 miles of me.

http://web.sa.mapquest.com/timhortons/?tempset=search

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Beer
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 10:27 PM

And thanks biLL

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Beer
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 10:26 PM

Good one Bob.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: number 6
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 10:26 PM

thanks for the link Bob !

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: number 6
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 10:20 PM

"Anyone know where we get them?"

Brazil probably ... Columbian beans are too expensive.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 10:18 PM

Get in Line...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqmj0C271Vs&feature=related
Canada Eh...

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Beer
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 10:07 PM

Were not Stupid.....We just know where to buy our Beans.
Anyone know where we get them? Maybe Cuba?
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:48 PM

KK's are everywhere in this part of the south. DD's Too. But no TH Apple fritters!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:46 PM

We can get Krispy Kremes at the gas stations here. What we DON'T have is a Dunkin Donuts.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: number 6
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:35 PM

Tim's cookies are damned good.

Now, not all Tim's outlets serve the same coffee ... some serve better coffee than others, and that is a fact I feel, though some others may argue otherwise ... anyway, in case any of you are on a road trip to nowhere and somehow amble off the beaten track and end up in the foggy Port City of New Brunswick, the blue linky is a picture of the best Tim's to be found in Saint John.


saint john's best Tim's

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:27 PM

Jeri.....Lots of KK still around here as well.

JtS....Sissy the Weim definitely likes the apple but I have the feeling she's never met a goodie she didn't like.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:25 PM

I actually guessed the answer to the initial question. Maybe I should be a lawyer.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:19 PM

I moved from Canada to the heart of krispy Kreme country. The best pasty of them all is the Tim Horton's Fritter. But honestly, apple and blueberry are still sluggin it out for my heart!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:10 PM

Krispy Kreme ROOLS! Haven't seen one of those for years, though.

I had Tim's bits once, but ... (any number of really stupid, not particularly funny comments regarding his wife, the police, medical procedures or a weasel named 'Pascal' omitted for reasons of taste.)

Seriously, I always stop at Tim's, but rarely get anything because the lines are always long. I leave feeling deprived, but I've never been all that attracted to donuts, rolling or otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: number 6
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:26 PM

Tim's coffee is absolutely the premier of all coffee's, but I have to confess Dunkin Donuts makes the best ... well donuts.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:08 PM

We're also running out of grease.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:08 PM

Somebody PLEASE put a Tim's here. You can't get a decent donut here to save your life.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 07:36 PM

Thanks Jack....AS soon as I read that I felt stupid 'cause I think I knew that but the Halfzeimers is getting to me. Besides, if I hadn't asked I couldn't have come back and laughed, and right now I need all the laughs I can get.

Interestingly enough....................We're currently working on getting Tris tied into the services he will need as an adult and we applied to the county "MR/DD Board." (Mentally Retarded/Developmentally Delayed)   I get back a letter today that says after reviewing his school files, psychological testing, and a bunch of other things we had provided, they had failed to find a "qualifying disability."

He's mentally retarded. Its in their name but that doesn't qualify? Okay........Gimmee strength to deal with the system and the fools who operate it................

On the other hand.......Karen and I are HUGE fans of Tim's.   Recently she went to Atlanta where they had NO TIM'S!!!! Her sister does the Starbuck's thing and couldn't understand her "loss." I took a pic with my cell phone of a Tim's cup and sent it to her. She texted back a nasty word. AND.....My Weimaraner is hooked on Tim's as well. She has gotten so used to getting her apple fritter that now when we go to town she LOOKS for Tim's and barks if I go past! No shit! Know what's worse? She's got a coffee monkey on her back too. She steals any coffee she can find and drinks it. She'll take the cup out of the rack in the van and if it spills which it generally does of course, she licks the coffee out of the carpet. Kinda' gross but I kid you not she's hooked. We can't go in anywhere without leaving the coffee in the doorstep of the van.   If I have a cup at home sitting by the computer she runs off with it or just drinks it down on the desk!


Thanks for the input.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 07:34 PM

OMG: I almost forgot.......................BEER!!!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 07:24 PM

The History of Tim Horton's (A fable for your edification and entertainment...)
a.k.a. Why you have to answer a skill testing question in order to win "roll up the rim..."

Well boys and girls, it all started a long, long time ago...In a land not so far away...It began with Johnny Horton, a distant cousin of Tim, and the song, "The Battle of New Orleans..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Q47i4zGBs
Wow, wasn't that inspiring? Well, when those Brits ran at the Battle of New Orleans, where do you think they ran? CANADA. That's right kids, they headed for the cool blue north.
Now, those early years was tough. But they did "make do" with a "stiff upper lip" for generations...Now TEA. They could make that, but COFFEE?; FA-GED-ABOUT-IT!
So it wasn't until Johnny phoned up his long lost cousin in Canada, that would be Tim, the hockey player, and asked him to show those Brits that were up there how to make coffee. I suppose it was to make amends for the song that has been insulting Brits for all these years...
So, in the spirit of forgiveness. They shook hands and decided to form a company...TIM HORTON'S. And so it was, with the steadfast British business ingenuity, good coffee, and American knowhow that a truly CANADIAN company was born!
And in the spirit of generosity, everybody agreed that the famous "roll up the rim to win" contest would be a GOOD thing."
But here is where you have to get to know Canada just a little bit. Mounties, Polar Bears(ya sees 'em 'round closin' time, rubbin' their big black noses on the windows), Maple Syrup, HOCKEY, HOCKEY, HOCKEY, Prime Ministers who punch out hecklers themselves...Security? I don't need no stinkin'security - Jean Cretien, Health Insurance, clean air, squirrels, lakes & rivers, mooses, beautiful women, the Spirit of the French, good food, Freedom, somebody STOP me!....And, of course TIM HORTON'S, affectionately known by some as "Tim Horny's...'
So, with all this GOOD STUFF in CANADA, the government said, "look, wouldya mind answering a skill testing question for contests? Just so's we don't give it away, like the Americans? And we said sure.
And you must be wondering, "what IS that skill testing question?" It's, "Do you LOVE this country?" The answer: BOOYEAH!!!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,chief chaos
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 06:20 PM

I believe they haave probably donated a fair amount already but after 5 years they are probably running out of patience and free coffee. Aside from a few managers at the individual stores and occasionally at corporate level, I have found the Starbucks folks to be decent people (if a little exhorbitant).

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 06:11 PM

Cheap bastards! Tim's is free for our lads... in Afghanistan or Canuckistan.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,chief chaos
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 04:45 PM

Starbucks coffee has a promotion going that if you purchase and donate a bag(s) of coffee to the troops they will foot the bill of transport to Iraq/Afghanistan.
A large part of me wants to do just that because I support my fellow service men and women (regardless of my personal opinions about the Iraq war).
An equally large part of me refuses to do it because I don't want the troops feeling too comfortable over there.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 04:29 PM

JtS... "...there would at least be a commission of inquiry and even a majority government would lose a confidence vote."

And worse yet, several Canucks may write a Goddamned letter!

My apologies to that Canadian Guy!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 04:18 PM

Bruce....this thing with doughnuts...do they have to be hot and does the flavour matter? Or have I just got a filthy mind. (Which doesn't make me a bad person)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 04:16 PM

IsCatspawsSpacebarBroken---or what?

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 04:13 PM

Right on, Jack.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 04:10 PM

Neil,

Michigan has a Canadian governor so my guess is that something similar would apply there too. But if someone were to screw with the size of the Doughnuts in Tim Horton's in Canada there would at least be a commission of inquiry and even a majority government would lose a confidence vote.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 03:50 PM

Tha bits'll do that. A little bit at a time.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 03:11 PM

It isn't that the sandwich and donut are smaller, Neil. You are larger.

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 03:08 PM

My wife and I discovered Tim Horton's on one of our trips to Canada several years ago and loved it. a couple years ago we heard they were coming to the U.S. and were geeked. We still don't have one in our area but on a trip to Michigan last year we passed one and had to stop. It seems like both the sandwich and doughnut were much smaller than we remembered. Is that the case all over or just in the ones down here?

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:36 PM

I'm not kidding about this. A teacher in our elementary school mentioned such contests as an incentive for us to pay attention.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:34 PM

"Shane"'s gonna be rolling in something -- matrimony, perhaps -- if her daddy catches up with him.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:30 PM

Uh....what was the question???

Did you guys know that Shane has on three occasions now failed to win a substantial prize, because he could not answer the skill testing question? Our boy would be rolling in Winnebagos right now if he had only paid just a bit more attention in grade school! It's tragic.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Emma B
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:21 PM

Love it! :)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: bobad
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:17 PM

Story in today's newspaper about Tim's in Afghanistan has it that the Gurkhas love their French vanilla cappuccinos and honey-dipped doughnuts the Americans like LOTS of sugar and cream in their coffee, the Dutch like hot chocolate and the Brits thought that Tim Horton's was some kind of religious cult.

Story here Crullers in Kandahar

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:58 PM

Past few years the donuts ain't been up to par. They are sent to the various stores from a central location and so not made on the premises. BUT, their coffee rocks.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:54 PM

Yees, Peace. Tim's does a lot for the community. The Kid's Camp is amazing. And, they keep the RCMP alert... one cop at a time... hehehe. Best security system in the world!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:52 PM

Oh my...that's the first time I've ever been sent to the cellar. teeheehee.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:44 PM

Well, if you go into Tim's, for example, and order up a bunch of donuts and coffee, and then tell them that you think that they should just give them to you because you're such a swell guy, the manager will tell you all about it. Or fill up your car and tell the gas station guy you think that it should be free because petroleum comes from the ground and we are all part of the world.

I'd explain it in great and loving detail except that I'm just a shy kid from the Great American Middle West, golly shucks.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Megan L
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:44 PM

Yer aw gonny get a skelp in a minute if ye dinny behave. An as fur you Becca awa an find yer faiter an join him in the cellar

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:34 PM

Tell me more (and be still my beating heart).

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:34 PM

(WHich goes to show where he developed that quick-draw expertise in the use of donuts....). :D



A

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:33 PM

Peace, are you unaware of flying and rolling donuts?

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:33 PM

Yer right, Becca. Dang!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:33 PM

In case you haven't noticed cat, Canadians love their Tim Horton's.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:27 PM

Tim Horton's gives LOTS to various charities. And I know from many calls in the early freezing hours that we can count on them to open up and make coffee and food for us all. Thay have never asked us to pay for stuff they deliver when we're on a fire/MVC scene. OK, so it's only three or four times a year, but they come through for us, and more than once I've been thankful for their coffee, rim or not.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:25 PM

The skill testing question is designed to ensure that only Canadians can win. Unless the neighbour to the south asks a Canadian for the answer, no way he's going to win the prize.
Nice coffee though!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:25 PM

Aww, Peace, that's a bummer...and just when you were getting really GOOD at it... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:22 PM

BTW.... I was at the Moncton Hospital this AM to visit a buddy and I learned sommat. The Tim's in the main lobby... every dollar of profit goes to the hospital. Kinda made me all teary eyed, ya know, eh? I mean, what better way to give back to the overweight, the overcholesteral, the over sugar, the.... sniff... sorry... I can't see the keys for the tears.

Seriously, tho... it's a good idea and I appreciate the lad that did it. My guess would be that it's worth close to $1M a year.

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:19 PM

Ya gotta love that Canadian English! LOL!!!


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Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:12 PM

No no no no no.... ya gotta be able t'add up the price of of two large double doubles, a large ice cap, a small box a bits, and somethin else. Acourse, the real skill comes in when ya have ta figger out what the "somethin else" is over driv-thru speaker when it's -30C and the snow is stingin yer face and then have the correct price by the time ya get ta the pic-up window. And, no, she don't repeat the question, she just says, "Pleasemooshpshshshtssshhhow."

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 01:12 PM

So, uh, it's not about using the donut for sexual purposes? Like, tell me now!

Subject: RE: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 12:51 PM

Canadian law does not allow private companies to run lotteries. The skill testing question, which is usually simple math, technically, makes it a game of skill and therefor legal in Canada.

Subject: BS: AreCanadiansTooStupid---or what?
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 12:42 PM

Actually I am and I ain't a Canuck! But I got your attention AND this question does relate to that or something......maybe......sorta'............

THe past week or so has been very tough in 3D and with almost no time for the 'Cat except for a few minutes here and there. On the other hand, I have had time to drink a boatload of Tim Horton's coffee which is the source of this question.   Currently Old Timmy is running a contest and you can check to see if you're a winner by rolling up the rim of your take-out coffee cup. For reasons I don't recall but probably relating to the "hurry up and wait" of this past week, I was reading the cup and discovered this sentence at the bottom regarding prize redemption:

Skill testing question required for Canadian residents.

Say what? Why is this? And what kind of skill is the question about? Drinking coffee? Using a drive-thru? Submersing donuts? Using your donut as a sex toy?

Little help here Folks........Thanks



Spaw.......Too Stupid To Figure It Out (lazy as well)