Show Us Your Cans! (Part 2): Guest Blog By Hubby

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January 28: The soup elves were busy again

The soup can total for the [awesome-Engineering -people] group. as of this morning (7:00 a.m.). is 276 cans of soup!  That is an increase of 64 cans of soup from Friday morning.

Thank you for all the anonymous soup donations that appear at my desk.  Thank you to Dennis for donating 10 cans of soup.  Thank you to Safi and Ron for each donating 24 cans of soup.  Last Friday someone donating cans of soup and I spoke to the person, but I am suffering from old timer’s disease and forgot who I was speaking with.  To the Friday morning soup can donator, thank you!

We now only need 1901 more cans to beat the world record for the most amount of (full) soups cans collected for a group of 25 people within a 14 day period.   Speaking of 1902, the year 1901 had its ups and downs, but wasn’t all it was cracked up to be:

• Australia joined at federation to become the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup  (last year Toronto Maple leafs made the Stanley Cup playoffs)
• Queen Victoria dies
• Horse racing is banned in San Francisco
• New York becomes first state to require auto licence plates ($1 fee)
• The US Stock market crashes (won’t be the last time)
• The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
• A bunch of other stuff happened, but I’ve got to get some work done.

We only have three more shopping days till the big contest.  Any amount of full soup cans are welcome. You don’t need to bring in a whole case.  With your contributions, we (awesome- Engineering) are well on our way to crushing the other groups!

Keep up the good work!

Regards,

Gord

January 29:

The soup can total for the [looks-like-we’re-going-to-win-awesome-engineering-group] as of this morning (7:00 a.m.). is 325 cans of soup!  That is an increase of 49 cans of soup from Monday morning.

Thank you for all the anonymous soup donations that appear at my desk.  Thank you to Dennis for donating another 12 cans of soup (his individual total is 30 cans).  Thank you to Ron for donating another 24 cans of soup (he is now tied with Simona and Turab for donating the most cans of soup at 48 cans each).  Thank you to Hai Yen for bringing in another 14 cans of soup, (both her own donation plus others who donated in her group, which brings her total up to 35 cans).

We now only need 1852 more cans to beat the world record for the most amount of (full) soups cans collected for a group of 25 people within a 14 day period.   Did you know that in the year 1852:

• The first public men’s and women’s toilets open in Britain
• Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
• Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established
• Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal, but no one dies
• the first Hawaiian cavalry is organized
• Emma Snodgrass is arrested in Boston for wearing pants?

 Wow, only two more days and you will finally stop getting these annoying e-mails!  Any amount of full soup cans are welcome.   Thanks to those who have already contributed, I strongly believe we [coolest-engineering-group-ever] are crushing the other groups!  This Thursday will tell.

Keep up the good work!

Regards,

Gord

January 30: Only one more day left.  Tomorrow morning is the last day to bring in a can of soup for the soup mountain challenge.

The soup can total for the [awesome-Engineering-people]. as of this morning (7:00 a.m.). is 347 cans of soup!  That is an increase of 22 cans of soup from Tuesday morning.

As of this morning, the top individual donations (Hai Yen’s includes others and not just her own contributions) are:

Turab	48
Simona	48
Ron	48
Gord	45
Dennis	42
Hai-Yen	35
Safi	24
Ed	12
Graham	12
Len	12
Bruno	12

I don’t think we will make the world record for the most amount of (full) soups cans collected for a group of 25 people within a 14 day period as we need to bring in another 1830 cans by tomorrow morning.   However, we have collected a substantial amount of full soup cans.  Thank you to all our contributors.  Your donations will make a difference.

Speaking of 1830, did you know:

• The first US railroad station opens in the US (Baltimore)
• First railroad time table published in the newspaper (Baltimore American)
• The first train delay takes place due to cows on the track
• First person run over by a train is William Huskisson (England)
• “Mary Had a Little Lamb” is published and Mary’s lamb takes its first trip on a train
• Horse beats first US built locomotive (near Baltimore) and the first horse run over by locomotive (near Baltimore)
• Great Britain, Prussia, France, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium.  It had been wearing a fake nose and moustache.
• Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws by Charles X 

Regards,

Gord

January 31: C-Day (Campbell’s soup day)

The soup can total for the [brainiac-engineering] group as of this morning (7:00 a.m.). is 395 cans of soup!  That is an increase of 48 cans of soup from Wednesday morning, and still counting.

It is still early and I have heard that there will be more cans of soup to be brought in this morning.   I will be taking a group picture with our mountain of soup at 9:30 this morning.  Please meet at the area between seat A50 and A51 for the picture.

Regards,

Gord

Well that isn’t the end of the story. When we took our photo, we had 412 cans of soup. This would have won the competition by 2 cans of soup. However, Richard and Shivi each brought in over 120 cans of soup. The final total for the [winningest-engineering-team-in-history] was 735 cans of soup which crushed the other teams like yesterday’s soup can.

And then came the congratulatory emails:

Gord,

Congratulations on leading our team to the prize finish.  It is obvious to me that you are a great motivator and should move into management in the near future.  You have already mastered the art of writing e-mails with a lot of useless information that nobody really wants to read.

Ed

The moral of the story: Even a bunch of Type A personalities can have fun and help out the local community in the process. And, oh yeah, don’t mess with us.

Show Us Your Cans! (Part 1): Guest Blog By Hubby

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competition, food, humour

We would like to issue the following challenge to your teams but only if you have what it takes. Our team will be recognizing International Soup Month by creating a mountain of Soup cans to donate to a local food bank. The challenge is simple largest donation wins the prize. The prize of course “a can of soup.”

Thank you

Jeff, Manager [group name removed to protect the instigators]

This is the challenge that went out from one of our engineering teams to all of the others in engineering. That’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Whenever a bunch of Type A personalities gets involved in a competition, somebody is going to get hurt! The game is afoot.

January 21: Gord was the only one who had brought any soup cans in.

The soup can total for the [incredibly good looking team name removed] group as of this morning (7:00 a.m.) is 45 cans of soup!

We only need 2132 more cans to beat the world record for the most amount of (full) soups cans collected for a group of 25 people within a 14 day period.

We may be a small group, but we have a lot of heart!  Hope you can help with the soup can collection!

Gord

Dear [awesome-Engineering-people],

We have been approached by the [name removed to protect the not-so-innocent] team to see if we would like to join forces with them in collecting enough cans of soup to beat Jeff’s team in the total number of soup cans collected.  I believe they got wind of how many cans of soup we have collected so far and feel threatened.  

What I want to ask the group is:

Do you want to join the [not-so-innocent] team?

 or

Do you want to crush the [less-innocent-by-the-second] group and the [nameless instigators] all by ourselves?

So far I have one vote for crush the other teams all by ourselves.

What is your opinion?

I suggested to the DMM team this morning that we could also wait until close to the end of the competition to see how well we are doing and then decide to join forces if it looks like we will be crushed as opposed to doing the crushing.

Regards,

Gord

Now I don’t want to give the impression that we’re all self-centred, ego-maniacal  genius, rocket science types. But you can see that this isn’t going to end well. Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad.

January 22: Only one can of soup came in.

January 24: The soup can total for the [awesome-Engineering-people]. as of this morning (7:00 a.m.). is 80 cans of soup!

We now only need 2097 more cans to beat the world record for the most amount of (full) soups cans collected for a group of 25 people within a 14 day period.  I have done a count of the [not-so-innocent] group number of cans and they have 69 cans of soup, provided they are not hiding any cans.

Keep up the good work!

Regards,

Gord

By now, intrigue and espionage was making its way into our friendly contest to see who could raise the most soup cans for donation to the local food bank.

January 25: The soup can total for the [awesome-Engineering-people] group  as of this morning (7:00 a.m.) is 212 cans of soup!

This new total is thanks to a soup run made by Simona and Turab.  We now have 12 cases or 12 soup cans.  A case of soup was donated by Ed, Graham, Len and Bruno.  Four cases of soup were donated by Simona and Turab.  Both Simona and Turab are tied for the individual soup can leaders with 48 cans of soup.  The previous leader was moi, with 45 cans of soup.

We now only need 1965 more cans to beat the world record for the most amount of (full) soups cans collected for a group of 25 people within a 14 day period.   I am told that 1965 was a very good year.  I was not born yet, but I hear it was nice.  That was the year that Canada adopted the maple leaf as our national flag symbol, the St Louis Arch is completed, cigarette advertising is banned on UK television,   In the US the average cost of a new house is $13,600.00.  Average income per year is $6,450.00. a US gallon (not litre) of gas is 31 cents, a new car is $2,650.00.  A loaf of bread is 21 cents and the average rent per month is $118.00.  

Any amount of full soup cans are welcome. You don’t need to bring in a whole case.  With your contributions, we [awesome-Engineering-people] will crush the other groups!

I have no idea how many cans of soup the [name removed to protect the not-so-innocent] group has, since they are hiding some of their cans, but I am pretty sure we are well ahead of their total.   Emma saw the cans on the desk beside me and  asking if they can join our group and not the other way around.

Keep up the good work!

Regards,

Gord

There was less than one week to go!