Supporting athletes should be left to jock straps, not pastries
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:38PM So I started my first Two Week Resolution, which is to submit a logo design a day to 99designs.com, and I've met my quota for the whole two days I've been doing it so far. It's been taking a bit more time than I thought it would, and yet today when I managed to get one submitted during the toddler's naptime I was all, sweet! I have a free evening in which to play video games or read comics or hell, go to bed early!
Then I was like, oh riiiiiigggghhhht. That blooooggggg thing.
Half of you are probably off at Blissdom anyway, but I will share with you something I spotted the other day. I was at Tim Horton's, which is Canada's answer to, say, Dunkin' Donuts. Except it's WAY more addictive because I'm fairly certain they make their coffee with butter.
Or maybe crack cocaine.
Anyway, they were featuring a donut covered in tiny red candy maple leafs. Ooooh, how patriotic! Except - wait - Canada Day isn't until July, guys. What's with the unwarranted patriotism?
(Canadians don't like to get all patriotic for no good reason. It's ostentatious.)
(It's the same reason we say "excuse me" when somebody bumps into US, okay? We're just inexplicably weird that way.)
Then I realized, oh! It must be for the Winter Olympics, which are in Vancouver soon.
Because...nothing screams "Olympic athlete" like a big fat deep fried DONUT.
Nice one, guys.
Maybe it's because they're shaped like an Olympic ring? Yeah, we'll go with that.
Reader Comments (31)
ROFL!!!! Yeah...it is the Olympic ring!! LOL!!
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SueAnn
You're absolutely right, I totally apologize when people bump into me. It's weird. But I've discovered that Kiwis do the same thing.
I miss Timmies so bad. Send me some donuts!
I can't get past the butter coffee. Yum.
butter coffee.. yummy... doughnuts... okay really?
I say excuse me when people bump into me too.
lol... Any reason's a good reason to grab a donut :-D Patriotism and donuts, sure! Support your olympians and donuts? Why not :-D
The post title cracked me up, btw ;-)
Tim Horton's is without a doubt proof of Canada's superiority. And I say this as an American who lives a few blocks from Dunkin' Donuts and its "Maybe this time it will be drinkable. Nope." coffee.
Hmmm. I wonder if Dunkin Donuts has donuts with little American flags.
Ha! It makes me laugh that patriotism is weird when not found in July. Oh, America. People *wear* the flag 365 days a year for goodness' sake!
You have succeeded in making me desperately want a doughnut, even if it is covered in teeny maple leaves.
Olympic ring...talk about jumping on the bandwagon...
And you're telling me about my title baiting =-)
I heading to Dunkin Donuts now.
I'm taking my kids to taekwondo this morning. Coincidently, it's within walking distance of both a Tim Horton's and the Olympic speed skating oval. Think I'll get myself an extra large double double and an apple caramel cruller and torment fit people.
Any excuse for a new donut sounds good to me!
ostentatious... good word!
down here we put american symbols on anything and everything, anytime of the year. except here in texas. we use all things texan - since texans think they are their own country anyway (like quebec). so this is good for me to know, for when i move to canada.
mmmmmmmmmmm donuts.
If you really want to go with the Olympic rings thing, you'll need FIVE donuts. Oh yeah!...
Butter coffee and Olympic donuts?! Sounds like a fair trade off for the arctic temps. Where do I sign up?
LMAO! I love this one... Of course I do live close to Vancouver and it's Olympic everything right now.
Hmmmm I think it's time for a timmies run.
butter coffee? I was thinking CREAM was decadent.
Go with the olympic thing. You can buy 1/2 dozen & then eat 1 one the way to the office cuz the logo only has 5 rings, right?
What the hell is Blissdom... I think I'm missing out on something fun... Damnit!
Are you saying in a sort of subtle way that all Canadians are ostentatious?
Was it a tasty patriotic donut?
Tim Horton's in the US has a red, white and blue donut right now. I think they are just trying to get people to buy donuts...
yeah, i'm not going to lie. once i clicked over and saw that donut? the rest of the post was dead to me.
mmmm... donuts.
Rumour has it Tim's coffee is laced with cocoa, but the butter theory works too.
Olympic donuts, now there's an oxymoron! Okay, now I'm hungry...