947...We're Number Ten!!!

More importantly, we are ahead of the Americans who finish fifth from the bottom.

The category is an important one and yet another reason to carry a Tim Horton's coffee mug, a Canadian flag and a hockey stick when travelling outside of The Great White North.

We finished number 10 on the www.OnePoll.com list of best male lovers in the world.

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

Number one was Spain btw; the Germans finished last in the survey of 15,000 women, a scientific survey I may add, using slide rules, calulators and pie charts. Apparently what did the Germans in was that they are too smelly. England was second worst, too lazy and the Swedes third worst, too fast.

WFDS

911...PM Harper Repatriates Timbit

The biggest consumer of branded products I know, 93.1 CKCU's tic, will be proud of his Prime Minister this day.

Stephen Harper met with Tim Horton's executives today after shareholders of the multinational coffee chain voted to reorganize as a Canadian public company. The Canadian Press reports that the PM says that the reason Timmy's is moving back to our home and native land from the home of the free and the land of the brave is because of the Conservative policies of lower taxes that are attracting business to Canada.

Welcome home.

WFDS

838...BTW

If the powers that be in all parties in Canada would just make the trek to the Tim Horton's in their neck of the woods they wood find that, rhetoric aside, Canadians don't want an election.

And you don't even have to go out side the Ottawa version of the Beltway, which is the Queensway/417.

The Tim's six blocks from the Hill at Gloucester and Bank is a fount of normal people who don't want a election.

Sometimes smart people think way too much, eh?

WFDS

640...Ottawa Boy Comes Home

Bryan Adams, who usta live in The Nation's Capital, is cruising through town this week, the 12th to be precise, as part of a Canadian tour.

He spoke to Brad Wheeler of the Globe and Mail and when asked what his most Canadian trait was he replied that "I can tell the difference between a beaver tail and Hortons bits."

Sics all around btw.

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637...FirstBroomballShoes,Now Ice Cream At Tim's

I remember a quieter time, back in the olden days, the 1990s, when Tim Horton's sold donuts and coffee.

Service was fast.

Now you can do your Christmas shopping there.

Service is slower.

As if that wasn't enough, I have been just made aware, through a story just filed on CanWest News Service, that 40 Tim's in the States and 6 in Toronto are selling Cold Stone Creamery brand ice cream and it looks like they will expand said sales across the country.

That won't slow down service at all.

Wait, yes it will.

WFDS

629...As It Turns Out

If one were to believe what one heard on talk radio, the one outlet being CFRA in Ottawa, and if one were to believe the chatter at the Tim Horton's and the Starbucks and the McDonald's I was at yesterday [I have a serious caffeine addiction] Mayor Larry O'Brien, well, everybody knew he was going to be found not guilty.

As if.

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403...Tim Horton's Moving To Canada

Weird headline, I know, but Tim Horton's has been corporately outside our home and native land for years, based in the States.

Now that Canuckistanian corporate taxes are lower than the Yankee ones Tim's has come home.

Yay.

WFDS

165...Lobsters For The Troops

I read all the newspapers for you and this morning I was perusing the Moncton paper of record, Times & Transcript, and on page A10 there was a brilliant opinion piece by Brent Mazerolle who parsed a neighbour of his idea and it is a brilliant one.

There seems to be a huge surplus of lobster in Atlantic Canada and the idea being floated is to load up a plane with a few thousand pounds of the little guys and take them on a one way road trip to Kandahar.

Mr. Mazerolle is succinct when he tapped out "...if we as a nation could make Tim Horton's available to our soldiers overseas, then surely a lobster dinner is doable."

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