Lorraine Bobbit and Tim Hortons

It's been an interesting two days.

Tuesday in one of my seminars we had our Lorraine Bobbit moment. In the scenario we were to discuss the main character got a piece of his anatomy caught in a mix-master and burnt the mix-master motor. First the leader wanted to know if the Canadians knew what a mix-master was. Four of the 10 in the class are Canadian. Once it was established that we knew what it was then next point he wanted to clarify was that the character in the scenario got his ears caught in the mix-master. At this point I should mention that the guy was trying to reenact his favourite TV show 'the nude chef'. Yeah, so it's completely feasible that he got his ears stuck. Had the instructor said that he got his head stuck we would have believed him because for the most part we all know that men let their little heads do the majority of their thinking. Yes, I know that's a man-bashing comment. But in class today the prof clarified that it was his little head that he got stuck in the mix-master. Needless to say on Tuesday when we got it established just what part of his anatomy he got stuck the guys all went into their Lorraine Bobbit cringe face while we were discussing the situation. For those who are curious we decided that both he and the woman were liable for the burnt-our motor.

Today was Tim Horton day. Except the benefits were for the one student council team and not Tim Horton camps. We are in the middle of Law School Student Council elections. There are about 80 Canadians here, (~20% of the total pop) The one group tapped into that and are running with a couple of Canadians on their ticket.

Today was voting day so everyone was set up in front of the law school. I saw the one table had this HUGE lineup. Walking over I saw canisters which looked vaguely familiar, as I haven't seen them in 10 months. It was the great big canisters of Timmy's coffee. I don't even drink coffee but it didn't matter cause it was Timmy's!! They even had donuts. (Donut King not Timmy's cause customs are a little protective about what they let into the country) But they let Timmy's coffee in so that's all that matters. I nursed that little Styrofoam cup for almost an hour. Walking past the other candidates on my way into the law school they all freaked and told me to think about who I wanted to vote for to not be swayed by a cup of coffee. But it's not a cup of coffee its Tim Hortons!!!! But trying to explain Tim Hortons is like trying to explain hockey. They just don't understand. Although one of the Aussie's is back from Canada and he understands about Tim Hortons. Anyway when I went into vote I had just taken the first sip and the guy at the ballot box saw the look on my face. He was like What?? It's Tim Horton's. He didn't understand but had see too many Canadians come in with that same look. He yelled at someone to go to the Canadian table and get him a coffee. He then said that he had to be bi-partisan and to get him a cupcake from the other party. I told him that the Canadian coffee had donuts. He yelled F*&^ Bi-partisanship I want a donut.

Needless to say I think the Timmy's trick worked. The results are going to be announced tomorrow night at the big annual party. Even if they don't win I and the rest of the Canadians got our Timmy's fix and we introduced a lot of Aussies to the joy and wonder of Tim Hortons.