# I suck and I blow; also, Communist Little Girls and Their Communisty Lemonade Stand! \[Fixed title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976 "2010-07-08T16:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/21 "2010-07-08T17:30:42Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I bet they used fluoridated water in making the lemonade. That’s how the commies get you, they sap and impurify all of your precious bodily fluids. [Homer Simpson]Mmmmmm! Lemon-flavored precious bodily fluids![/Homer Simpson] ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/22 "2010-07-08T17:42:28Z")
He was such a nice boy on The Wonder Years. What the hell turned him into such a jerk off? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/23 "2010-07-08T17:50:38Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > I had written a garb led mess of misspellings I can’t spell for shirt, either. ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/24 "2010-07-08T18:15:52Z")
Reading this thread I wondered three things: 1. The girls made _coumadinisty_ lemonade? That could be dangerous. 2. I thought Telly Savalas is dead, why is he writing a column? 3. Why does Telly Savalas think that the point of having a lemonade stand is to make money, as opposed to serving lemonade? Dead people just never seem to make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Cort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Cort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cort)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/25 "2010-07-08T18:29:35Z")
What the fuck?! They don’t teach Ayn Rand in the elementary schools anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/26 "2010-07-08T18:30:42Z")
A _real_ conservative would have exercised Second-Amendment rights to punctuate her First-Amendment rant. It’s the only way to fight creeping Socialism. ---
**Author:** ![vd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/27 "2010-07-08T18:31:23Z")
I’d like to see a talk show where Dan, Terry, Michael, Adam, Fred (or Ben, but not both), Randy, and Doc Savage all get together to discuss current events. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/28 "2010-07-08T18:46:55Z")
> [@](#): > > I pushed the button to roll down the window and stuck my head out to set them straight. > > “You must charge something for the lemonade,” I explained. “That’s the whole point of a lemonade stand. You figure out your costs – how much the lemonade costs, and the cups – and then you charge a little more than what it costs you, so you can make money. Then you can buy more stuff, and make more lemonade, and sell it and make more money.” What a jerk. An alleged grownup, stopping to intervene in a game that little kids she has no earthly connection to are playing, to tell them that ‘you have to play your game MY way.’ That’s all it is. No more, and no less. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/29 "2010-07-08T18:50:09Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Wow, how did that happen? I had a REAL title. > > “Terry Savage Savages Communist Little Girls and Their Coumministy Lemonade Stand” > > I must of done something wonky. I’ll ask for some moderator help. Fixed title. Original title: “!” ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/30 "2010-07-08T18:51:17Z")
Geez I cannot even spell my replacement title right in my request to the Admin. It’s official… I suck and I blow. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/31 "2010-07-08T19:15:06Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > It’s official… I suck and I blow. For free? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/32 "2010-07-08T19:18:57Z")
This is my favorite line: > [@](#): > > I pushed the button to roll down the window and stuck my head out to set them straight. Not just “rolled down the window” She had to make the point that she has them real fancy push button windows. I have an image in my mind of a painted old biddy in an air conditioned limo saying “Jeeves, do stop so I can inform these heathen children about the ways of capitalism.” ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/33 "2010-07-08T19:19:28Z")
> [@](#): > > “No!” I exclaimed from the back seat. “That’s not the spirit of giving. You can only really give when you give something you own. They’re giving away their parents’ things – the lemonade, cups, candy. It’s not theirs to give.” > > I pushed the button to roll down the window and stuck my head out to set them straight. > > “You must charge something for the lemonade,” I explained. “That’s the whole point of a lemonade stand. You figure out your costs – how much the lemonade costs, and the cups – and then you charge a little more than what it costs you, so you can make money. Then you can buy more stuff, and make more lemonade, and sell it and make more money.” I’m not sure which is worse. Terry’s assumption, with no underlying basis behind it, that the kids DIDN’T pay for the lemonade they’re now giving away, or Terry’s belief that selling something you have no ownership over is somehow superior to giving it away for free. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/34 "2010-07-08T19:21:55Z")
> [@heatmiserfl](#): > > Reading this thread I wondered three things: > > 1. The girls made _coumadinisty_ lemonade? That could be dangerous. Too late. 🙂 [http://www.munchiessweetsandtreats.com/Leninade\_p\_1251.html](http://www.munchiessweetsandtreats.com/Leninade_p_1251.html) > [@](#): > > THE SOFT DRINK FOR THE MASSES! Many people who once escape from the Soviet Union, upon tasting Leninade, have overwhelmingly remarked that it is “BETTER THAN EXPECTED”;and those who prefer vodka in their potables have been known mix it with Leninade and ice to make a COMMIE KAZE. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/35 "2010-07-08T19:26:05Z")
Terry Savage is just a miserable malcontented “fucked up in the head” type person. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/36 "2010-07-08T19:40:16Z")
I’ll buy that for a dollar. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/37 "2010-07-08T19:45:44Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I have an image in my mind of a painted old biddy in an air conditioned limo saying “Jeeves, do stop so I can inform these heathen children about the ways of capitalism.” “I wouldn’t advise that, madam.” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/38 "2010-07-08T19:59:03Z")
Apoplexy at giving away lemonade? She’d have a heart attack if she saw the Free Hugs people I saw in Toronto last week… ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/39 "2010-07-08T20:01:39Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I’m not sure which is worse. Terry’s assumption, with no underlying basis behind it, that the kids DIDN’T pay for the lemonade they’re now giving away, or Terry’s belief that selling something you have no ownership over is somehow superior to giving it away for free. Also, maybe Ms. Savage didn’t fully consider what the kids’ whole business strategy was. Perhaps their lemonade wasn’t just ordinary lemonade but _really good lemonade_. So good that you could say it was _addictive_. However, the average consumer has no way of knowing this beforehand so, in order to distinguish the lemonade from the lemonade sold at the half-dozen or so stands in the neighborhood, they _gave it away for free._ Sure enough, the stand is besieged with thirsty customers who quickly consume the delicious sunshine-yellow concoction and (with the exception of one cranky old lady in a limousine) are all grateful for the generosity displayed by the big-hearted kids. The next day, the kids make their lemonade and open their stand again. But this time the lemonade is no longer free but instead goes for the price of 25 cents a cup. Most of the people who drank the lemonade for free the day before return and, despite taking brief pause at the new price, buy the beverage because it’s soooo good and still a bargain at a quarter. At the same time, the stand attracts new customers because the price is still far less than other neighborhood stands. The day after that, the kids sell their lemonade at an increased price of 50 cents a cup. However, all the previous customers from the previous two days return along with others who have heard via word-of-mouth about the great lemonade they sell at the stand. Sure, the price increase may be a little irritating but it’s more than worth it considering the must-have quality of the lemonade. Anyway, each day this pattern of behavior continues: the kids make the lemonade and slightly increase the price and the customers all return to buy it at the new higher price. Soon, the lemonade is going for $10 a cup but is still selling out because, for some reason, customers can’t resist going back for their daily fix of the beverage. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suck-and-i-blow-also-communist-little-girls-and-their-communisty-lemonade-stand-fixed-title/545976/40 "2010-07-08T20:05:17Z")
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