Preroll

Tim Horton’s famous Rrroll up the Rim To Win contest doesn’t start until March, but one of my colleagues is getting prepared.

Today he walked in with this handy little device - the most Canadian of inventions:

Know what that is? It’s a purpose-built tool called the Rim Roller, which he bought at Lee Valley Tools for a mere $2.50. And it works like gangbusters, I tried it.

That rolled up real good! Now Daniel has months to perfect his rim rolling form, and create works of art like the above. I have no idea why Tim’s doesn’t sell these at the store and give the proceeds to their children’s camps (maybe they will this year.) You have to think the staff would prefer this precision-cut cup to the gnawed-on messes they are normally handed.

Side benefit: as this article points out, you can now unroll someone else’s cup you found on the street without worrying about catching a nasty disease.

Of course, if that person comes after you demanding a DNA test, as happened in Quebec in 2006, the Rim Roller won’t help (I suppose you could throw it at them) - your saliva won’t be there to prove your case. Better lick it first.

So, how much coffee would one have to drink to make this purchase worthwhile. I don’t know, but according to this blogger, who has a numbers obsession almost as strange as my own, the odds of winning even a cup of coffee are about 1 in 9.

And according to CBC, the wonky prefab distribution of prizes means there are some places with rrrreally long odds - for example, you CANNOT win a car with a medium coffee in B.C., or an extra large in Eastern Ontario. Still, as Rick Mercer says in this spoof, there’s nothing more Canadian than donuts, coffee, and regional inequality.

Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 11-09-2007 | 06:11 PM
Posted in: Blather