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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Asta Kask
What kind of magic ritual would demand a million liters of maple syrup as material component?
Rain of Syrup.
We should make a check on the companies that make pancake batter to see if enough is missing to cast a transmutation on the ground to make continent sized pancakes.
Delicious theory. Of course it all turns to mud after the spell wears off.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Asta Kask
What kind of magic ritual would demand a million liters of maple syrup as material component?
None that I can think of... But transmuting it to nectar should allow them to summon giant hummingbirds and conquer the world...
Or worse... Giant bees!
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Elemental
None that I can think of... But transmuting it to nectar should allow them to summon giant hummingbirds and conquer the world...
:smalleek:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...HQ_kq3rAzA&t=1
RUN!
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Blue Ghost
:smalleek:
*snip*
RUN!
That's right blue, blame everything on the nazca lines:smallwink:
Then again, you might have a point
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Blue Ghost
congratulations! you just made me relive half of my childhood nightmares :smalleek:
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Asta Kask
What kind of magic ritual would demand a million liters of maple syrup as material component?
Summon Syrup Elemental. A whole army of them...then take over the world! Mahahahaha.
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Syrup golems? I'm picturing something along the lines of the Molasses Swamp from Candy Land.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Asta Kask
What kind of magic ritual would demand a million liters of maple syrup as material component?
The supervillains annual pancake breakfast. Last year, we had to make do with butter and strawberry preserves. Never again!
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Tyndmyr
The supervillains annual pancake breakfast. Last year, we had to make do with butter and strawberry preserves. Never again!
Why do I never get invited to these evil mixers?:smallfurious:
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Rockphed
Why do I never get invited to these evil mixers?:smallfurious:
Well....
Bad Horse
He rides across the nation
The thoroughbred of sin
He got the application
You just sent in
It needs evaluation
So let the games begin
A heinous crime, a show of force
A murder would be nice, of course
Bad Horse
Bad Horse
Bad Horse
He's bad
The Evil League of Evil
Is watching, so beware
The grade that you receive
Will be your last, we swear
So make the Bad Horse gleeful
Or he'll make you his mare . . .
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Originally Posted by
GolemsVoice
The villain plans to poison the syrup, and the movie will end with a dramatic fight over bioling tanks of maple syrup, in which Bond will throw the villain.
"He's got a pretty sweet deal"
You win.
Respectfully,
Brian P.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Tyndmyr
Well....
Bad Horse
He rides across the nation
The thoroughbred of sin
He got the application
You just sent in
It needs evaluation
So let the games begin
A heinous crime, a show of force
A murder would be nice, of course
Bad Horse
Bad Horse
Bad Horse
He's bad
The Evil League of Evil
Is watching, so beware
The grade that you receive
Will be your last, we swear
So make the Bad Horse gleeful
Or he'll make you his mare . . .
Laser death rays are go!
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Vizzerdrix
Looks like we should be watching for Norway's strategic lutefisk reserves to go missing next if your presumption is correct.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Wookieetank
Looks like we should be watching for Norway's strategic lutefisk reserves to go missing next if your presumption is correct.
Why are there strategic reserves of lutefisk? Maple syrup is at least tasty. Lutefisk is fermented eels that taste of lye.
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Originally Posted by
Rockphed
Why are there strategic reserves of lutefisk? Maple syrup is at least tasty. Lutefisk is fermented eels that taste of lye.
Because he who controls the lutefisk controls the vikings...and he would controls the vikings controls the world!
In seriousness, it's not eel. It's usually whitefish. It's also not at all bad when prepared properly.
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That article forced me to collapse onto my desk with laughter. Maple syrup?! How do you FENCE that much maple syrup? What do you DO with it? More importantly, who decides: "Hey, I'm going to go steal the maple syrup. ALL OF IT."
Insanity.
Love it.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Creed
That article forced me to collapse onto my desk with laughter. Maple syrup?! How do you FENCE that much maple syrup? What do you DO with it? More importantly, who decides: "Hey, I'm going to go steal the maple syrup. ALL OF IT."
Insanity.
Love it.
this is pretty much everypony's reaction i think P
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That's just a guess, but I would image they plan to can it and sell it in Alberta or something, because crossing the border would probably be too risky. They could make a ton of money if they're not caught.
For the people asking why the reserve exists in the first place, you have to understand the industry. All of the commercial maple syrup producers have to be in the Coop, and it controls the price and the supply of syrup. So they have a big stockpile to insure there's still supply on years like this one when the thaw is early and very rapid and the production is super low. So yeah, in Quebec. we have a semi-evil maple syrup producers coop with a mandatory adhesion and a monopoly on the market. Yeah us!?!?!?
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Tyndmyr
Because he who controls the lutefisk controls the vikings...and he would controls the vikings controls the world!
In seriousness, it's not eel. It's usually whitefish. It's also not at all bad when prepared properly.
Also, it's not fermented, it's dried. Cheap and easy preservation method, but a little hard on the teeth unless you soak it in water for a week or so.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Asta Kask
What kind of magic ritual would demand a million liters of maple syrup as material component?
Curse of Diabetes, Mass?
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Eldan
Curse of Diabetes, Mass?
"Number 1, how goes the plan to curse the world with Diabetes?"
"It is on schedule Dr Evil. We have seized the Canadian syrup supply and are ready to move on to the next stage."
"Excellent. The world will suffer from diabetes unless they pay me... one MILLION dollars! Mwahahaha! MWAHAHAHA! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
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I hate to kill a running gag, but nowhere in that article does it even suggest that they got all of the syrup.
There's probably not more than enough barrels to fill the bed of a pick-up or maybe a flat-bed missing. I wouldn't bet that they've lost more than a couple hundred gallons of the stuff. Enough to take notice, but probably not enough to do any serious damage.
Even so, this still begs the questions, WHY? and what could you even do with that much maple syrup?
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Even if you only stole a tenth of the total reserves, you would still have 340,000 litres of maple syrup.
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Breaking news! Canadian officials have released a composite sketch of the perpetrator.
A spokesman for the RCMP stated their "best man" was on the case.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Telonius
A spokesman for the RCMP stated their "best man" was on the case.
He'd better get it solved quickly, so he'll still have time to make it to the wedding.
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Originally Posted by
Kelb_Panthera
I hate to kill a running gag, but nowhere in that article does it even suggest that they got all of the syrup.
There's probably not more than enough barrels to fill the bed of a pick-up or maybe a flat-bed missing. I wouldn't bet that they've lost more than a couple hundred gallons of the stuff. Enough to take notice, but probably not enough to do any serious damage.
Even so, this still begs the questions, WHY? and what could you even do with that much maple syrup?
It does say that they stole $30 million worth of it though. Anyone feel like calculating the volume of $30 million of syrup? Whatever it is, it's a lot, levying me to agree with SamBurke:
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Originally Posted by
SamBurke
What really, really, puzzles me is: HOW DID THEY DO IT? I mean, we're talking MILLIONS of gallons. Did they drive an oil tanker through the wall?
"Hey, we wanted to park this here, and, uh, leave a suspicious hose attatched to it, which also just happens to be attached to your gigantic oil maple syrup reserve..."
Seriously though, how did they do it?
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Originally Posted by
Traab
Deborah Honeypotts : "Oh James, what are you doing?"
James Bond "My dear Miss Honeypotts, I seem to have developed a sweet tooth." /goes back under the covers.
I love exaggerating the Sean Connery accent in my head, the way he slurs his s's :smalltongue:
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Well, one liter will sell for maybe USD 20. (I think? I last bought maple syrup a year and a half ago, my mum or grandmother buys it otherwise.) So USD 30M would be 1.5M liters, as a rough estimate. If so that's half the reserve.
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Re: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
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Originally Posted by
Traab
"Number 1, how goes the plan to curse the world with Diabetes?"
By stealing all the insulin.