Rrrrrrrrrrroll Up

Rapunzel: 10th Mar 2006 - 15:00 GMT

That must be a Tim Horton's cup!!! Sorry, I've been out of country for a while, and even the litter seems nostalgic! JOKING!! Saw the photos of the courier who'd thrown stuff back into a vehicle a while ago...
Sorry, I'm in Australia now, where there's no snow to hide the shit we humans leave about the place... I've seen/found many NEEDLES and even a used SPOON about the city streets, bathrooms and parking spots. A bit of cup seems small by comparison... Welcome to the Commonwealth Games!!!

jack: 10th Mar 2006 - 15:13 GMT

a lot of colors on that street. catherine (i was going to type 'cat' but that is i believe a friendly term between you and elaine and since i being the pedantic person i am decided to type catherine) oh, i was reading forbes magazine (just happened to see it on a table in a dr's office) and i found an interesting article about the history of (all things) but a 'singapore sling'. check out www.raffleshotel.com.

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 10th Mar 2006 - 15:35 GMT

Hi Jack, I go by Cat or Catherine....but I didn't take these great photos. Maybe it's because you think I'm a femme fatale you've parsed that into thinking I'm Mata Hari. Alas, not. I wasn't swift enough to come up with a good pseudonym. But if I ever join an all-girl biker gang I shall be called Kitty Penknife. I will wear a lot of very red lipstick and my special knife trick will be to pin the bad cops sleeves to telegraph poles when they hassle us. Yeah.

EvilGentleman: 10th Mar 2006 - 15:53 GMT

There are still telegraph poles standing?

jeeff: 10th Mar 2006 - 16:16 GMT

"A study done in Nova Scotia in 1998 showed that Tim Hortons disposable coffee cups made up more than 20 per cent of the province's litter."

www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-hortons-trash20050302.html

Peter: 10th Mar 2006 - 16:19 GMT

wtf! thats astonishing. someone, explain the phenomenon that is tim horton's to us non-canadians...

EvilGentleman: 10th Mar 2006 - 16:45 GMT

Peter, Tim Horton's is a doughnut-and-coffee chain owned by Wendy's, which has a very devoted following in Canada similar to that of America's Krispy Kreme chain.

www.timhortons.com/en/index.html

They have franchises in almost every part of Canada, as well as 10 US states. For a full view of their operations, see their media kit (a .pdf file) at www.timhortons.com/en/pdfs/en_media_kit.pdf. The last page of this file has a map showing what states, provinces and territories they operate in.

jeeff, this is not surprising. According to the data in the above file, there are 178 Tim Horton's franchises in Nova Scotia. Considering Nova Scotia has an estimated 2005 population of 938,116 people, this would translate into Nova Scotia having the world's highest Timmiefication rate, at one franchise per every 5270 people.

Elicar: 10th Mar 2006 - 16:54 GMT

Canadians are obssessed with coffee www.coffeeassoc.com/coffeeincanada.htm, especially Tim Horton's coffee. (That's how we show our patriotism). Forget your designer Starbuck's coffee. People are lining up at Tim Horton's. They say that we have a coffee shop every two blocks.

The RRRRRRRoll Up the Rim to Win is a promotion that Timmy's have every year I believe. You can rrrrrroll up the rim to win an SUV and other wonderful prizes. Country Style Donuts, another coffee shop, has joined in the fray. I can't recall what is the name of theirs, but you can win one of 10 Conquest vacations to the Bahamas. So far, all I have won was 6 country bits.

Elicar: 10th Mar 2006 - 16:55 GMT

Holy Macaroni Evil...I didn't realize you have posted an answer to Peter already!

EvilGentleman: 10th Mar 2006 - 17:10 GMT

LOL, Elicar... I compiled my Timmiefication data last week, anticipating that this moment would come one day. People on the chat sites often ask why the Canucks are always going on about Tim Horton's as well. But my data is out of date already. The .pdf file I posted a link to is different than the version I downloaded last week. Nova Scotia now has only 177 stores (I guess one either burnt down or closed), reducing the Timmiefication rate to one franchise per 5300 people.

Elicar: 11th Mar 2006 - 23:04 GMT

Peter, here's Timmy's!

EvilGentleman: 11th Mar 2006 - 23:47 GMT

Looks like a nice Tim Horton's. Mine is undergoing renovations, so they are operating with a reduced menu out of a trailer in the parking lot for now. If I want to go to a fully functional Tim Horton's, I have to go a whole 10 blocks! Life is so difficult sometimes...

Elicar: 12th Mar 2006 - 00:13 GMT

I have three Tim Horton's in my neighbourhood within 15 minutes walking distance.

jeeff: 12th Mar 2006 - 00:47 GMT

today during the 10 minute walk home from the grocery store i counted tim hortons cups that i saw on the ground. i saw 13. there is no tim hortons in the neighbourhood. the nearest is 1.29km away, according to timhortons.com's store locator. that's about a mile. i submit that we have mostly motorists to blame for the tim hortons litter around here. it's enough to make one get angry.

Elicar: 12th Mar 2006 - 03:58 GMT

Hey Jeeff, did you pick up the trash and rrrrrrolled up the rrrrim? A girlfriend's daughter picked up an un-rrrrrrrolled the rrrrrim and got a barbecue for the effort.

EvilGentleman: 12th Mar 2006 - 09:10 GMT

The great irony of all this for me is that although I love Tim Horton's doughnuts (particularly their Boston Creme), I loathe coffee and all other hot beverages and even hot liquid meals such as soup or broth. I am constantly reminding people that the name of the chain is Tim Horton's doughnuts, not Tim Horton's coffee. Coffee is an evil addictive substance that has somehow escaped scrutiny, while other "bad" habits such as smoking, drinking, gambling, drugs and saturated fats have become unfashionable. I may smoke, drink and consume (an ever-decreasing amount of) saturated fats, but I am proud to be a drug-free and coffee-free non-gambler (excepting the occasional lottery ticket).

grange: 12th Mar 2006 - 12:24 GMT

I once had a lemonade stand as a kid . Made 37$ in a day . Next day there was a tim hortons next to me .
Evil , live like its your last buddy .
Catherine ,, dont forget the dolly Parton wig.
Repuzel , G'day mate!
Elciar, See if you can get the peeing guy to use the cup next time .lol
Evil; we have a population of 20,000 with 7 timmies ,does that make up for the shortage in N.S.
Peter: yall welcome ,

JayEastsider: 12th Mar 2006 - 13:22 GMT

Elicar, Thats a picture of the Timmy's at Main & Danforth

S: 14th Mar 2006 - 23:44 GMT

Better check that cup. It might be a winner!. I actually won a free coffee this morning for the first time (after buying at least 30 coffees). Has anybody been following the story in Quebec about the 2 girls who found one of those winning cups in a schoolyard?. Apparently they won a brand new SUV. The one girl found the cup and asked her friend to roll up the rim. Now the parents are fighting (in court) over who owns it. The school teacher is also involved claiming it's his cup. Now he wants a DNA test done!.

All the major coffee shops are offering roll-up cups. Country Style claims that every cup is a winner (yeah right). I've won $5 off a Ontario Place pass. Buy one combo get the second half price. $50 off a beaches vacation!. What kind of prizes are those?.

Micah: 17th Mar 2006 - 19:20 GMT

If you throw away the cup you have relieved yourself of any right to win anything from it.
Those kids' parents should just agree to share! What are they teaching their kids, that they can't solve their problems on their own and that it's wrong to share? Grrr!
There's supposed to be a Tim Hortons opening up soon in Kandahar; it'll be in a trailer I think, but it'll be the real thing (as real as Tim Hortons has been since it was bought by the Americans, no offence to you Americans)! I know my dad will be happy; he's over there right now and normally lives off that stuff. (Personally I think it is gross and even after working at Second Cup for two and a half years find all coffee gross.)

EvilGentleman: 18th Mar 2006 - 00:42 GMT

From what I understand of the situation around the schoolgirls, the one little girl tried to roll up the rim, but her fingers were too small. So the second girl helped her. Now maybe I have a different value system than other people, but if I hold a door open for a little old lady, and she walks into the store and wins a million dollars for being their 10 millionth customer, the money is hers. Even though I may have held the door open for her and delayed my own entering and winning the prize, she was the rightful winner. Nobody forced me against my free will to hold the door open for her, and I imagine if I had know what lay on the other side, I would have raced her to the door, so why should she owe me a thing? Same goes for the girl who "helped" her friend.

S: 24th Mar 2006 - 02:13 GMT

That's because we have lots of litter bugs in this city.

Tim Horton: 28th Mar 2006 - 15:02 GMT

Since my name is Tim Horton, and my name is on that cup, the SUV rightfully belongs to me. :)

Seriously though...I think the Tim Horton's is missing an opportunity for some great PR here. Why not bite the bullet and award both girls an SUV. Imagine how good they'd look...and it's not like they can't afford it. (NOTE..To hell with the teacher. You throw it away, it's no longer yours).

Now I know the obvious retort to that idea is that the flod gates will open with multiple winners claims, but if they just did it as a one-off PR move, they'd look like gold.

BTW...if you want my opinion, the girl who picked it from the trash is the rightful owner. If I loaned my car keys to someone and asked them to help me by moving my car 2 feet, does that give them rightful ownership of my car? I think not.