{"id":1769,"date":"2008-02-26T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2008-02-26T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:11:45","slug":"roll-up-the-rim-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Roll up the Rim 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>f you read Roll up the Rim 2008<\/a>this blog, you’d know that I’ve been tracking the Hortons’ ‘Roll up the Rim’ contest for quite a while (“Since 2002”). Just like last year<\/a>, 2008 also misses the ‘breakdown of winning cups per size’ which makes the numbers look stale, if you’re a number cruncher.\n<\/p>\n

On first view, there are more cases shipped to the regions 2 (Alberta), 4 (Quebec) and 6 (the US), while the Atlantic provinces and Ontario lose out on the amount of them (there’s also a bit more ‘winning cases’, 12,000 or some [Hortons metrics: ‘1 case = 1000 cups’].\n<\/p>\n

As for the prizes: they’re quite dull. There is the Toyota (for the 3rd year in a row now) of course but the rest of the prizes (a boat, a Garmin device and a Hortons cash card worth 50 dollars) will probably not appeal to everyone. I’m a bit surprised to see the (popular) TV prize missing. On the other hand this appears logical and follows the basic rule of linear interpolation: after all, the size of the winning TV shrunk from 50 inch (in 2006) to 40 inch (in 2007) to nothing, nada, zilch this year. For some kind of reason, I keep thinking of the Wizard of Oz, right now.
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If that doesn’t make you want to throw up and laugh, what does? Have at it coffee-drinkers of Canada (and the US).\n<\/p>\n

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Previous entries: 2007<\/a>, 2006<\/a>, 2005<\/a>, 2004<\/a>, 2003<\/a> and 2002<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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