To tell the truth, that’s the only reason I buy them, but except for the Thin Mints, I really don’t think the cookies actually are all that good. Not as good as they look. They don’t taste any better than most of the other generic cookie stuff. Every year it’s like a tease, because I forget how mediocre they are (for the price), and get suckered into trying the other types. Then I just feel like I’ve been scammed by some eight-year-old girls. Every damn year.
Yeah, in the spirit of cultivating junior lesbians, I bought a box of Savannah Smiles yesterday. I want my four bucks back.
Can’t they get some kind of merit badge for tolerating shit like that from an old guy?
And to come full circle, the last time I was in a Wal*Mart was last year some time and there were knock-off girl scouts selling something (I don’t think it was cookies.) I think they were a more outwardly religious GS knockoff, for parents who think that GS don’t hate teh gheys enough.
No, as was said, there are knockoff cookies, but the two girl scout bakeries only sell girl scout cookies to girl scout councils.
The Girls Scouts don’t hate Teh Gheys, they told the Mormon church where to stick their money. The Boy Scouts, on the other hand, spat in the face of The Scout Law in exchange for cash.
For as long as I’ve been involved, the official “care and share” program has been the U.S. Miliatry. They get a ton of cookies, donated direct by people who want to support the girl scouts, but don’t need or want cookies, and donated by the organization (someone gets the leftover cookies, local food shelves got quite a few boxes last year as well.)
There was a nice article in American Girl magazine about a young girl who lost her father in Iraq. This year, she sold 650 boxes for distribution to overseas soldiers all by herself.
:eek: Aaaaand that’s a criminal act. :mad:
Mama Zappa, I hope your organization has alerted law enforcement to this incident of “faux terrorism” and that the criminal in question is caught. (You might also write a letter to Morris’ local newspaper complaining that his ignorant and inflammatory accusations are exactly the sort of gutter politics that foster lies and hatred.)
What do you want to bet that the dickhead wannabe-terrorist who sent that letter, thus probably costing first-response agencies thousands of dollars in totally unnecessary expenses for dealing with a malicious false alarm, also likes to complain about government agencies wasting his tax dollars?
Hadn’t heard of Rep. Morris until just now, but something about his photo is pinging my gaydar.
I can’t find it at the moment but I read an account on another board where a Girl Scout going door to door received a similar diatribe from an adult who answered one of the doors. She went home and told her mother “something weird just happened”.
What can you say about incidents like this? If these people are oh so concerned about protecting the innocence of children, then why are they ranting at them about lesbianism and abortion?
They act like it’s about the children, but it’s not. They don’t really care about the children. If they cared about the children they wouldn’t expose them to angry rants about things that they may not even understand yet.
They’re so caught up in their political hatred that they can’t even think straight.
Another board I frequent has a contingent of conservatives who had a discussion about how they’d respond to requests to buy Girl Scout cookies. One of the participants is a teacher and decided she’d tell her students that by being Girl Scouts, they are involved in things their church would not condone and that they should go home and ask their parents about that. They were all trying to outdo each other with their comebacks to these little girls. Some people have lost their minds.
Dollar General, in the Clover Valley house brand, have knock off thin mints, Samoas and Peanut butter patties (Tagalongs now?) and I think the shortbread cookies, too. They seem very, very close to the original. OTOH, their year-round availability dilutes their appeal.
Could it be because he looks like Mr Smithers?
True story: back at home I would buy a couple boxes of cookies every year (because I support GSUSA’s pro-homosexual incest abortion mission), and then go back to my usual of not carrying any cash, so as to avoid temptation whenever I went to CVS or the grocery store and such.
I’m now stationed in Germany, where the little devils outsmarted me by A) setting up a booth right inside the only store on post which sells alcohol B) doing so at 5 PM on Friday and C) cheerfully accepting not just US dollars but Euro as well. “I’d love another box of Tagalongs, but I’ve only got Euro on me.” “Oh, we take Euro. Do you want your change in Euro or dollars?”
In reality - I’m incredibly glad for the years I spent as a Girl Scout, and wish people would just fucking relax about it. The vast majority of the time it’s absolutely nothing more than a fun club for girls, with the possible added bonuses of helping girls to feel like equal people rather than second-class citizens, and providing female role models for girls who might not have them otherwise. Are we so misogynistic as a nation that we need to find a reason to object to that?
Within certain groups, yes.
I start teaching the boys around 3rd grade about the 5% of people who will get mad, no matter what. The Boy Scouts get a bit of heat here in Southern California due to their anti-gay stance (a stance I disagree with 100%). Because of that, 1st graders get doors slammed in their faces, people snarl as they go by, etc.
I tell the boys that some people don’t like Scouting, and that they can’t let it get to them. When the boys get older I talk to them about specifically why we catch some (deserved) heat as well.
Decent enough teaching moments, regardless of which group of assholes is coming after you. It just sucks that some people seem to be OK with taking out their issues on kids.
I’ma gonna leave a link here.
This is real. They’ve been spotted in Surrey, BC, Canada.
Wow! I may have to go hunting Girl Scouts to find me some of them.
I’ve GOT a Girl Scout and she claims to know nothing at all about this new treat. Time to bring out the fingernail splints and the Lawrence Welk music.
You, unable to control yourself? Shocking, it is.