This is the thread where you roll up the rim to win

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Its that magical time of the year where you can report what prizes you've won, even if it was just a cookie.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is it back? I'm gonna have to start going to Tim Horton's again in the morning.

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is this thread title meant to be rude?

I haven't won anything lately.

jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I only got as far as "roll up to the rim" and couldn't go on due to aggravated tears of laughter.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is it ever back. They're ugly red this time round though.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

You are not helping my aggravated tears of laughter.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I guess it wouldn't help if you knew one of the rewards was $1000.
Please note Mark knew exactly what I was talking about.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's a Canadian thing.

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I won a cookie last night, first time in monthes I order something other then an XL.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

i won a free boston creme. it is the only thing i have ever won in my life. and i don't like boston cremes. crullers 4-EVAH!!!

Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 9 March 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

i dont like tim hortons except for their crullers.

anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

What, are you some kinda Robin's Donut freak? :P

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

I went a little roll-up-the-rim crazy last year (we were going back and forth on the 401 a lot) and all I won was a muffin.

slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

But I'm happy to hear that it's back.

slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cookie? Didn't you tell me it was a free coffee (which is the best of the small prizes etc.)?

Kim (Kim), Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnn....

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right now it doesn't matter what it was, I can't find it.

Only 2nd star of the night, whadda rip off. What does a man have to do on his debut to be #1?

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who was first? Bertuzzi?

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yup. Nazland 3rd.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

That line is so good it's appalling.

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whose? Vancouver or Leafs 2nd line? Im with Don Cherry on this one, screw Reichel, get Domi on that line.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Naslund/Bertuzzi/Morrison line.

Although Antropov/Renberg/Nolan looked pretty goddamned good too. Now we just need Mats to wake up...

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd like to see them trade Reinberg for a defenseman, or a goalie who isn't a sievelike. Belfour is years past his prime. If it wasnt for all those recent expansion teams his GPA would be 3 something probably.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

What?!

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

GAA?

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Belfour's numbers are way better than Cujo's BTW, and Cujo's got a far superior defense in front of him.

Anyway Eddie's save percentage is a solid .920. The goaltender is the least of their problems.

This Reinberg guy, though...

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

GAA, GAA, GAA. I dunno, everytime I see Belfour in between the pipes they loose and its usually his fault. Can't blame him tonight considering who scored but hell if he is so good he should be able to hold the fort. I just miss Potvin in his first few years as a stater.

I wasn't much of a Cujo fan either, I guess I can forgive Belfour if he stands on his head in the playoffs when it counts.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 05:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't you kinda wince when you think of Belfour? I'm just waiting for him to freak out.

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 05:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like the donuts , but for coffee i go to 2nd cup, esp. with that new mexican mocha thing.

anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 9 March 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why did you have to bring up donuts?

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 06:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

And am I the only idiot who always wrecks the rim on those cups by chewing on 'em? It is fun to hand them in all soggy when I win, though.

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 06:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Um Bryan, them cups is not for eatin'.

Kim (Kim), Sunday, 9 March 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did say I was an idiot!

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I recall no such conversation!

Kim (Kim), Sunday, 9 March 2003 06:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

See above. We're you trying to win something and now you can't sleep?

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just knew this was a Noodles thread from the subject line. I have maybe won a cookie and one small coffee for all the hundreds of rim-rolling cups I have consumed in my days (that's enough, Dan).

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 9 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

We just got Glen Wesley!

C'mon Pat, one more d-man...

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Belfour's goaltending is superior to Cujo, I must say. And I kind of like Cujo.

Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 9 March 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like to Lever up the Lip and Lose.

Anyhow, back to the hockey derailment.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 9 March 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay then, Potvin is still my favorite Leafs goalie. "The Cat" is the coolest of hockey nicknames, and he was kind of hottt. Though Belfour I heart because he is an utter mentalist and emotional wreck who still manages to get the job done on most occasions.

Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 9 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

MIKE PALMATEER TO THREAD.

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

¿belfour is an emotional wreck? i thought he was a drunk.

dyson (dyson), Sunday, 9 March 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

That too.

Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Palmateer couldn't stop a beachball. Wregget did a good job considering how decrepit the team was.
Belfour may be a drunk be he's got nothing on good olde Al Iafrate when he was a Leaf. I think they kept a bottle or two on the bench for him.

I still havent found my missing cup.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was kidding about Palmateer. All-time worst Leaf player: Bill Root. We had a Bill Root fan club which consisted of me and my friend Chris. Anyone wanna join?

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't remeber Root, Im guessing he was one of those classic players backing up Rick Vaive and Wendel Clark? One of the all time worst Leafs was their captian, Rob Ramage.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh Potvin, let me sing thy praises. i saw him back in St. John's right before he got sent to Toronto; by the third period most other teams would just kind of give up and go limp.

Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 9 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dave M you a newfie?

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

guilty

Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thats alright. There is somegirl with a MUN backpack who lives around the corner I see on the TTC all the time. It makes me miss NB a bit when Im in one of the rush hour sardine cars.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 10 March 2003 01:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

(xxxx-post)

Bryan, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link

i feel like they don't have the 'steeped tea' at every location. or they do and my skepticism about it has caused me to ignore it's existence! i tend to just get earl grey, which is yr regular tea bag in hot(ish) water.
now i really feel a need to roll up the rim. and eat a chocolate glazed donut. ohman.

xp
are there more tim hortons in vancouver now? i remember there being not many at all in the city proper, but further out, yes. which is sad when all you want is a chocolate glazed.

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link

(its, not it's, existence, of course)

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link

There are tons in Vancouver now. There's one on Commercial Dr, several downtown. One on the corner of Main/Broadway, there's a drive-thru on Terminal near the skytrain, one next to the library etc. Pretty much everywhere. All in the last 3 or 4 years.

everything, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Looked at their website. Looks like 25 locations in Vancouver with about half downtown.

everything, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link

There are too many of them. I work in Royal Centre and there are two of them in the building. I've gained so much weight since I moved here. x-post

Bryan, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah me too. I got into the habit of having two breakfast sandwiches and a cup of tea for breakfast pretty regularly. That was costing less than $5. I put on about 10 lbs in 6 months. I gave that shit up now.

everything, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link

Worst thing for me has been moving from a place with deplorable public transit (Winnipeg) to a place with fantastic public transit. I walk a fraction of what I used to walk.

Bryan, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link

wow! yeah, 9 years ago i remember going out of my way to one, it might have been part of a gas station
i was a sugar junkie back then
xps

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link

There was some community resistance to the one on Commercial Drive, taking business away from the older Italian joints or the hipster hangouts with "good" coffee. Locally respected fringe ranter Kevin Potvin kept writing about it in his paper which was kind of the last straw for me, in terms of picking it up. First point is that there is NOWHERE on Commercial Drive that sells doughnuts apart from Tims. I've got a right to eat what I like even if it is fried dough. The second point is that Tims makes coffee available for the really poor folks on the Drive, since their coffee is about $1.40 rather than $2.30 a cup, which is approx what everyone else sells it for. Third point is, can't you take your anti-corporate rant to some of the other big businesses on the Drive, of which there are many. EG. when was the last time anyone took down HR Block. I'm sure there's a lot of independent tax accountants that hate those guys.

everything, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, there's a bunch of them attached to Esso stations. They're ok in a pinch. x-post

Bryan, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, I use the one on the corner of Davie and Burrard quite a bit. Lord, what a dump.

everything, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link

I have trouble understanding that area. What a strange mix of fancy and dumpy (weighted towards dumpy).

Bryan, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Timmie's is my favourite but now I need to drink coffee with soy instead of regular milk and none of their store stocks it; breaks my heart.

Was with Grandma, who was 1:1 yesterday! Free coffee right off the start.

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Roll Up The Rim And Win....A Hospital Stretcher

everything, Thursday, 3 March 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link

i won a donut!

Kim, Friday, 4 March 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Yay!

Apparently Country Style is accepting all Please Play Agains and giving coffees for them. FYI!

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 4 March 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link

2 for 13 (2nd coffee just now). They're fuckin' lucky. Of course there aren't any Country Styles here in Vancouver. I wonder if Duffin's would accept the please play agains? I should try just for fun.

Bryan, Monday, 7 March 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link

and now a coffee! that's like 2 for 8 i think.

Kim, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link

You're not gonna get one of those raunchy French vanillas with it, are you, Kimmo?

Bryan, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link

is that really what you think of me Bryan? i'll admit that i sometimes put real vanilla in real coffee, but those things are grossly oversweet - only rarely drinkable if diluted by half with coffee (apparently my one time recommendation of the Kriek beer has tarnished my taste rep for all time?!)

Kim, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link

I was just testing you. I can't look at a bottle of Kriek without wincing! Hospitals could use it in place of ipecac, ffs.

Bryan, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link

I must be 0/8 by now.

sofatruck, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link

mmm ipecac

Kim, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link

I love seeing this thread revived!!

NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

It's a magical thread. 2/14, btw

Bryan, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link

we have a new brewer here at home (our old one wore out last month after years of hard service) so i am faced with the realization that it does not dispense RUTR cups. no more winning at morning coffee. :(

Kim, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link

Maybe you should tape loonies to the bottom of random mugs in the cabinet? :D

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

I'm 1:5 so far this year. A coffee of course. But I think it's a better prize this year since the have a new, larger coffee size.

everything, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link

One is six is a winner so I'm ahead of the game so far.

everything, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

I went to Tim's today for the first time in months and months and didn't get a coffee.

franny glass, Sunday, 4 March 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Not going to do it this year.

Bryan, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link

Please Play Again/Reessayez S.V.P.

everything, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link

They've asked too many times. Feels like begging.

Bryan, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:13 (eleven years ago) link

Hilariously, I won my first-ever doughnut in 2011 in a hospital cafeteria after receiving my diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link

eleven months pass...

DOUBLE FUCKIN RIM ROLLS

Bryan, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link

The song is terrible (Nickleback is ours too, remember), but I guess it is sort of our "Party in the USA," or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAnWPo6dtdc

clemenza, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link

Hilariously, I won my first-ever doughnut in 2011 in a hospital cafeteria after receiving my diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:37 PM (11 months ago)

Timmy's franchise where I bought the coffee was directly opposite the cafeteria, just to clarify

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link

I'm glad I never had to work at a Timmy's.

, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link

I'm in a "fuck that place and their shit coffee/wrong order" mood lately so probably no free disappointments for me this year.

everything, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link

They seem unable to make a cup of tea without pouring fucking sugar into it and about half a pint of milk. Also the breakfast sandwiches etc have taken a turn towards McDonalds quality, the donuts are way too sweet and Timbits have always tasted like crap.

everything, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link

The thing is, who goes to Timmy's for quality, right?

Every time I've gone it's been out of convenience or for "Aw, fuck it, I don't feel like thinking of where to eat" reasons.

, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

It's taken me a few weeks, but I am beginning to accept the reality that blueberry fritters are gone and they're not coming back.

clemenza, Saturday, 22 March 2014 13:32 (ten years ago) link

Also: I think the whole two-chances-to-win thing is a ruse. The odds are supposed to be 1 in 6. I'd estimate I've bought 30-40 coffees the past month, and I've won three times--1 in 12, maybe (ignoring that it's 1 in 24 if you count each cup twice). I don't know how to do the math, but my guess is that the probability of a 1/6 event happening 1/12 times over 35 trials is low. I'm forwarding this post to Oliver Stone.

clemenza, Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link

Nothing this year at all.

Manitobiloba (Kim), Saturday, 22 March 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

Going through the drive-through a few minutes ago, I got a "Congratulations" as I handed over a free-coffee scrap. First time that's ever happened. Appreciated, but not really necessary--and I felt very little joy as the transaction was completed.

clemenza, Sunday, 28 February 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.rimroller.com

mookieproof, Friday, 15 April 2016 07:54 (eight years ago) link

I some money I've been looking to invest somewhere--thanks for the heads-up.

clemenza, Saturday, 16 April 2016 11:31 (eight years ago) link

"have"

clemenza, Saturday, 16 April 2016 11:32 (eight years ago) link


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