...when chat is king and as is traditional we throw out all convention and use bullet points instead of separate posts. Madness. Here are some things to discuss today:
- Nothing good ever comes of leaving the kids alone for one single minute, even at a Timmies:
It all started Tuesday in Montreal when a 10-year-old girl found a Tim Hortons cup in a trash bin, according to a report in the Montreal Gazette. Remembering the coffee chain's promotional contest, she plucked it out of the garbage. The girl couldn't roll up the rim by herself, so she asked for help from a 12-year-old friend.
You can see where this is going. Apparently the cup was a prize winner for the SUV and now the families are fueding. Ethicists? What is the answer? I say sell the SUV and the two girls get half the cash for college scholarships. - Even though Canada got pounded by Mexico last night - one day after the Miracle on Dirt - in large part it goes to show that baseball is a game which is difficult to dominate and that on any given day any team can win. Hence the need for 13,957 games to determine anything.
And did you see Stubby Clapp, Canada's favorite allegedly 5 foot 8 sportsman, dive head first into first base yesterday when he saw the firstbaseman for Mexico was diving in cleats first? That was one gutsy play. I am a big fan of the Mexico uniforms, however. Sweet font.
- Finally but certainly not last, the outpouring of response to the injuries suffered by Trevor Greene, here and elsewhere, have been overwhelming. I have had the chance to get in touch with a number of mutual friends from 20 or more years ago and also share emails with others who I have never met but who have been touched by his life. One thing I noted in the news this morning that is very honourable was this gesture by our top soldier in Afghanistan:
Brig.-Gen. David Fraser in Afghanistan sent a message to the Taliban Wednesday that Canadians will not be scared away from their mission of helping rebuild the communities of the war-torn nation...Fraser even held another shura, the tribal meetings designed to broker peace and goodwill with Afghans. Despite the axe attack on one of his troops in the same setting, Fraser removed his helmet and laid down his rifle in a gesture of goodwill. "I can't do my job sitting down .... I can't sit in an office. I've got to get out here and do this stuff," Fraser, a former infantryman who heads the Multi National Brigade for Regional Command South (MNB RC (South)), told CTV's Steve Chao in Afghanistan.
I am pleased that I have been able to provide the conduit for so much sharing and it does serve as a great example of how useful the medium is when you forget about RSS, podcasting and other bells and whistles that most people will never need from their blogging to gain a sense of commonality.
Comments
David Janes - March 10, 2006 10:04 AM
I'm going to hang around malls to help little old ladies read their 6/49 tickets. If it's a winner, half is mine because I helped!
Alan - March 10, 2006 10:10 AM
Where's the loser who threw out the paper cup? If CSI is anything to go by the DNA of the person who actually paid for the coffee is all over that cup.
David Janes - March 10, 2006 10:26 AM
I discarded one the day before yesterday; my wife checked and won a donut. D'oh. So it can happen to the best of us ;-)
cm - March 10, 2006 10:29 AM
I heard a guy on the radio the other day who'd gotten a winning cup for a plasma tv but then got the skill-testing question wrong. He was pretty upset about the whole thing.
Flea - March 10, 2006 11:02 AM
If the cup was in the garbage I assume it was the property of Tim Horton's. Charge the guardians of both children with theft, saw the little girls in half and give the SUV to me. If this simple plan is followed I pledge to drive to and fro through the Annex, throw Kentucky Fried Chicken bones out the window and make rude gestures at anyone who looks like a CBC producer.
Mac - March 10, 2006 11:16 AM
Has Tim's not already stated that since it has already been admitted that the youngsters found and rolled up the cup, the prize will not be paid since they are too young to be eligible? If these parents are dumb enough to start yapping about this "dispute" in the media without giving that point consideration in the first place, they deserve nothing.
Arthur - March 10, 2006 11:31 AM
I discarded one the day before yesterday; my wife checked and won a donut. D'oh. So it can happen to the best of us ;-)
I never won yet. I think that's because I've never been to Tim Hortons yet.
Arthur - March 10, 2006 11:34 AM
Oh. And about that little girl not being able to roll up the rim of a TH cup: I blame computers and Bush! Back in the days when I had to walk to school in -43 degrees temperatures through at least 1 meter of snow for a 100 kilometers...
Gordo - March 10, 2006 11:38 AM
The kids just aren't eligible to collect the prize. The fact that the rim was rolled up by a minor doesn't invalidate the prize.
The chronology tha I heard on CBC has the mother of the 12-year-old helper calling a radio station to plead her case for the whole thing after the father of the 10-year-old's father got to the school first to get the cup. He offered her a fair split, but she wants it all.
A very sad exampled to be settig for the young'uns, I must say.
Chris Taylor - March 10, 2006 11:39 AM
I like the Flea's plan. TDL home office in Oakville should find some legal-weasel way of denying the prize to both carpetmonkeys, and then award it to one of their executives as part of his/her annual bonus.
As a side note, why does everybody love going to Tim's anyway? I know the gut implies otherwise, but I have one or two donuts a year, tops. And Tim's coffee/tea is the worst-tasting bilge water I've ever crammed into the GI tract. What, besides sentimental hockey memories and cup-rim-bingo, is the attraction of the place?
Flea - March 10, 2006 11:45 AM
Good Lord, man! A Timmie's double-double is the only decent coffee when away from Flea Towers! Also, I like their Nanaimo Bars. In fact, I shall go get one presently.
Alan - March 10, 2006 11:59 AM
I am pro-Tim's coffee. The new-ish unibake-oven donuts are another matter.
Chris Taylor - March 10, 2006 12:21 PM
That's interesting, too. Does everybody take Tim's coffee double-double? I have two co-workers who always order Tim's double-doubles. I feel like I am over-medicating if I have to add more than one dose of each to a coffee.
Gordo - March 10, 2006 12:22 PM
When I can't get my snob-coffee (Nicaraguan from Multatuli, currently), I do enjoy a Timmie's double-double. For some subversive fun, try ordering one from a Starbuck's. ;-)
Mike - March 10, 2006 12:24 PM
I was behind a guy once who ordered a 'medium, five double-sugars'. <<shudder>>
Alan - March 10, 2006 12:33 PM
Sugar is for the weak. Large, cream and no sugar.
Gordo - go to Produce Town on Bath for some Kicking Horse coffee. It is otherworldly.
Arthur - March 10, 2006 12:40 PM
The new-ish unibake-oven donuts are another matter.
Make that evil unibake-oven donuts.
Gordo - March 10, 2006 12:40 PM
Alan, I don't find the price-premium for Kicking Horse to be worth it. I thoroughly enjoyed two bags of Kootenay Crossing, but $14/pound just isn't justifiable. Supporting a local business in Multatuli factors in to my math as well.
cm - March 10, 2006 12:58 PM
I don't drink coffee and Tim's is one of the few places I can go into without being overwhelmed by the stink of coffee. Plus I do love a walnut crunch.
Alan - March 10, 2006 1:55 PM
I also buy Multatuli so I appreciate the local but there is something in the Kicking Horse that I love. Plus saving all the birdies' winter homes and all.
Gordo - March 10, 2006 2:30 PM
It's BC bud, my lawyer friend ... LOL
ry - March 10, 2006 4:16 PM
Double-doubles have a WHOLE other meaning to Californians.
brian - March 10, 2006 6:44 PM
Priceless line: "...<i>called a local radio station to ask for legal advice</i>."
Does anyone find it odd that people are calling radio DJ's for legal advice? "<i>Let's see. I should put together my will. I think I'll call Bob & Tom in the Morning! After all, when I think 'law school' I think radio!</i>"
David Janes - March 10, 2006 7:05 PM
Coffee: black; Walnut Crunch: excellent, I avoid them like the plague :-)
Rick Mercer did a funny _talking to amercians_ where he was getting washingtonians to congrat prime minister "tim horton" on getting a "double double" (explained as wins in both the senate and parliament).
WCG - March 10, 2006 10:26 PM
I come to the GenX blog for all my legal advice. This is where I learned that you can't kill stupid people like those parents - apparently it's illegal and junk. What a disappointment.
Scott - March 10, 2006 10:55 PM
Looks like it could be Nova against the mighty Orange in tomorrow nights final? Already have the beer in a tub of ice for that one.
David Janes - March 11, 2006 6:25 AM
Oh yes, WCG, this one is for you, re: last week's discussion:
The Internet is for....
cm - March 11, 2006 10:44 AM
<i>Where's the loser who threw out the paper cup? If CSI is anything to go by the DNA of the person who actually paid for the coffee is all over that cup.</i>
He's right here.
David Janes - March 11, 2006 11:54 AM
What a tick.
David Janes - March 12, 2006 3:37 PM
OK -- further thoughts. Throwing something out isn't the same as losing something. At what point do I reliquish my ownership rights? Is there a dump in Michigan somewhere full of stuff that I own?
Alan - March 12, 2006 3:49 PM
There must be something pithy to be written about forgetting the law of abandonment but it would be under Quebec's civil code and that mandates all broccoli be blue and stuff like that and I really know nothing about it.
David Janes - March 12, 2006 4:24 PM
Random thought then: Canadian Law needs a Wikipedia, of sorts. (I've spent a fair bit of time this afternoon looking at old 80's technology and protocols -- good fun).
Alan - March 12, 2006 4:56 PM
That's cool because I just watched an infomercial on the top 138 hits of the 80s. How would these interact. Can we have wave files of the Fine Young Cannibals playing non-stop without the option to turn it off?
David Janes - March 12, 2006 6:27 PM
Suspicious minds say it may be in your future...