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2012-08-31, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Great Maple Syrup Heist
I've lived in Canada all my life and, until this morning, I had no idea that we had the world's largest maple syrup reserve.
Or that you could apparently steal it.
Somewhere in the world, there is a group of thieves with apparently millions of litres of maple syrup, no doubt planning the most ambitious pancake breakfast of all time.Last edited by Giggling Ghast; 2012-08-31 at 12:52 PM.
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2012-08-31, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-31, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-31, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-31, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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In completely unrelated news, I have very recently developed type 2 diabetes.
...completely unrelated, mind you.
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2012-08-31, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-31, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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RIP Canadian economy
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2012-08-31, 03:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-31, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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It gets better: the official name of the reserve is the "Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve".
STRATEGIC.
The Canadian route to domination begins with control over the maple syrup, than all the comedians, then THE WORLD
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2012-08-31, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-31, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-31, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Screw Ocean's Somenumber, I want a movie of that heist.
If we go with the Strategic Reserve angle the thieves may well make a decent Bond villain too.
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2012-09-01, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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I had to google it in French to understand what the heck this could mean !
In fact, this has nothing to do with national defence or anything of the kind. The reserve is strategic from the maple syrup industry's perspective. They use it to protect themselves against price peaks and crashes, do of which can be very damaging to their business.DM in Mummy's Mask I, II, III | Keshkaru and Ozkrak in Extinction Curse | Marzena in Age of Worms | Elrembriel in Wrath of the Righteous | Gurmok in Nightmare in Katapesh | DM in Catacombs of Ravenloft Avatar courtesy of Neoseph7
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2012-09-01, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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If we go with the Strategic Reserve angle the thieves may well make a decent Bond villain too.
"He's got a pretty sweet deal"Si non confectus, non reficiat.
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2012-09-01, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-01, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-01, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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The joke possibilities, they are endless.
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 giganticoilmaple syrup reserve..."
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2012-09-01, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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it's canada... they drove up and said that they were stealing some syrup and the guards said "ok, did you need to take my car too?".
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2012-09-01, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-01, 12:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, but it was all insured, so the owners won't lose out financially. On the other hand, the company that was collecting premiums off of maple syrup insurance are doubtlessly kicking themselves at this unthinkable travesty.
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2012-09-01, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-01, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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I am pretty sure it would be the number two guy that goes into the vat. Spoken by the snarky sidekick: "You know 007, you always do manage to land everyone else in a sticky situation."
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2012-09-01, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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And there was a great putting on of sunglasses. I wonder how many sexual puns Bond could make to his girl of the week? Likely named Debora Honeypotts or something like that.
M.A.P.L.E. Middle-and-North-American People's League of Evil. A communist cell implanted in the US and Canada during the height of the Cold War, with the intent of holding the capitalist, decadent west hostage by taking away it's access to sweet syrup, and thus to pancakes, and demanding a ransom, or else the degenerate capitalist consumers will lose trust in it's government and revolt. Because what's more American than pancakes for breakfast? And what's more Canadian than Maple Syrup? Nothing, that's what. They could just as well have stolen the Statue of Liberty and whatever Canada is famous for!
But seriously, SamBurke asked a pretty good question, how did it work? Inquiring minds got to know!Si non confectus, non reficiat.
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2012-09-01, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-02, 07:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-02, 08:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-02, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-02, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-02, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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What kind of magic ritual would demand a million liters of maple syrup as material component?
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Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
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2012-09-02, 03:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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