# To the wackjob at the Girl Scout Cookie sale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 29, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348 "2012-02-29T15:22:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/61 "2012-02-29T20:23:01Z")
A joke I heard a loooong time ago: Q: Why are Girlscouts always so chunky? A: From eating too many Brownies! d&r ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/62 "2012-02-29T20:26:04Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Because it’s much easier to say, after the fact, “If I were there…” than it is to actually be in a situation so out of the ordinary that your brain freezes up, because it cannot fathom that a crazy person is **unloading on a bunch of little girls**. Eeeeww. You _definitely_ should have called the cops at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/63 "2012-02-29T20:32:13Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Teaching math right out in public! Have they no shame! Next thing you know they are going to be recommending college eduction, which as everyone knows indoctrinates you into being an un-American deviant. They might as well just sell their bodies on the street. Fine, as long as they don’t scare the horses. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/64 "2012-02-29T20:35:49Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > The quote has more to do with the economics of Teletubbie-land than the gender identity questions that danced through that show like guests at a John Waters party. If the right thinks Sesame Street is a hotbed of liberal ideas, I hope they never see Teletubbies, their brains might explode. This actually made me snerk out loud - thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/65 "2012-02-29T20:37:10Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > How much are the paper towel tubs at the dollar store? I need to get a gift for some lesbian friends. Are they tub girls? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/66 "2012-02-29T20:45:14Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Yep. Them elves are just bad people. It’s the pointy ears, I tells ya. One little Familicide spell and everyone’s on your case. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/67 "2012-02-29T20:52:21Z")
> [@](#): > > The quote has more to do with the economics of Teletubbie-land than the gender identity questions that danced through that show like guests at a John Waters party. If the right thinks Sesame Street is a hotbed of liberal ideas, I hope they never see Teletubbies, their brains might explode.[URL=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=14823150](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=14823150)”] Well, I have never wished Teletubbies viewing on anyone…until now. I am all in favor of exploding right wing brains. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/68 "2012-02-29T20:55:55Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > What’s so hard about interrupting him to say, “Sir, please stop. If you wish to express you views on this issue, please contact GGUSA, this is an inappropriate conversation to have with children. Thank you so much.” Whats wrong with the old classic, “fuck off you weird aul cunt?”. Them fancy words seem unnecessary! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/69 "2012-02-29T20:55:59Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Sure, I do! Hit [the link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=630580&page=49), to a text search for “paper towel”, and check your brain at the door. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/70 "2012-02-29T20:57:33Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > This actually made me snerk out loud - thank you! I thought it created a nice visual…😃 ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/71 "2012-02-29T20:59:41Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > We adults were dumbfounded. I really wish I’d had the presence of mind to take him aside and scold him for saying things like that in front of the children. And with that you would have fallen into his trap. “Aha!” he’d say. “Aha, says I. So you do object to sex education for children! Would you be interested in singing my petition to ban such behavior as you just objected to from our school curricula?” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/72 "2012-02-29T20:59:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Whats wrong with the old classic, “fuck off you weird aul cunt?”. Them fancy words seem unnecessary! Thanks for laugh, **bucketybuck**! And you’re right! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/73 "2012-02-29T21:00:39Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > … I recall years ago, the girls literally coming door to door, though I understand why the kibosh has perhaps been put on that. What makes no sense to me is that I can’t just go on the website, put in my zip code, and it tells me when and where I can show up and hand over my money… Huh - there _is_ such a website for our area (DC metro). Shame your area hasn’t set up such a thing. We do the door-to-door sales but it’s always pre-orders. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/74 "2012-02-29T21:06:27Z")
We still have door to door sales, where I live, but always in pairs and with a guardian watching from the curb. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/75 "2012-02-29T21:13:25Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > We still have door to door sales, where I live, but always in pairs and with a guardian watching from the curb. It is (I’m pretty sure) a national rule that girls are supposed to be accompanied by an adult through (I think) elementary school, and go in pairs after that if they are selling door to door. There is also supposed to be an adult present at booth sales, although the girls are supposed to take age appropriate responsibility…i.e. if they are old enough to make change, they should be doing so. This is the first (maybe second) year that our council is letting Daisies (kindergarten and first graders) do booth sales because it was previously felt (and I agree) that the girls that age don’t get much out of it - its the moms selling cookies and making change while trying to watch bored girls. I think they should be really restricted until they are Juniors (4th grade) and can pretty much take the lead on the booth…by that time the girls can do the setup, make the change, and take care of all the schmoozing - well, except when gobsmacked by a cross dresser. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/76 "2012-02-29T21:17:54Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I suspect that it’s been several years since **Tapioca Dextrin** bought cookies. GS cookies here in San Antonio went for $3.50/box. I know because Sophie sold 240 of the damnable things. This year the local GS organization told us to have checks made out to our account (i.e., instead of making the checks out to “Girl Scouts” they were to be made out to “JohnT”.) I asked them if they would warrant, by signature, their liability for all bounced checks, associated fees, and other financial damage that may impact my checking account. When told “No” I said that I’m not at all interested in financing the GS by taking on their transactional risk. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/77 "2012-02-29T21:19:22Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > What makes no sense to me is that I can’t just go on the website, put in my zip code, and it tells me when and where I can show up and hand over my money. [You can!](http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/) ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/78 "2012-02-29T21:28:08Z")
In Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth were a paramilitary organization of children who would roam the street and set fire to the homes of Jews while chanting oaths to the Nazi Party. In 1932, the Jungmädel, was formed. Their membership consisted of girls aged ten to eighteen. In 2012 America, we have our own female Hitler Youth. The girl scouts. They walk the streets in paramilitary uniforms and swear oaths to their organization. They earn paramilitary “badges” for such things as first aid and fire starting. How long before they use their fire starting skills to burn down the homes of those who dare to speak out against their facist tyranny, just as the Jungmädel burned down all those homes years ago? Here is a picture of[the Jungmädel](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__xbFaVtwKEQ/S88kDs95QjI/AAAAAAAAJ28/sOUrsSg8_r8/s1600/PFB1875b_2.jpg). Compare that to a picture of the average [girl scout](http://www.productappeal.com/photos/sexy_costumes/girl_scout_2.jpg) Welcome to Obama’s America. You can find more in my new book _Why No Reach Around? How Obama is Sodomizing the Paper Towel Tubes of America_, available at [www.zombo.com](http://www.zombo.com) ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/79 "2012-02-29T21:36:32Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > This year the local GS organization told us to have checks made out to our account (i.e., instead of making the checks out to “Girl Scouts” they were to be made out to “JohnT”.) I asked them if they would warrant, by signature, their liability for all bounced checks, associated fees, and other financial damage that may impact my checking account. When told “No” I said that I’m not at all interested in financing the GS by taking on their transactional risk. :rolleyes: Couldn’t you make cash only sales and then write a check from your account for the amount of cash you took in? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/80 "2012-02-29T21:49:42Z")
Yes. We didn’t do that however - just handed the GS rep $840 of cash and checks made out to GS of America. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348.md?page=5)