Girl Scout Cookies!

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Promote lesbianism! Buy a box of Girl Scout Cookies! Bad joke there. Bob Morris a representative from Indiana refused to celebrate the Girl Scouts recent centennial because, according to him, they promote lesbianism, communism and subvert "traditional American Values"! (Hey, I was a brownie! Where was my copy of Mao's little red book and Spring Fire?)

All of which prompted me to buy four boxes of cookies today I mean, I'd have bought 'em anyway, but I really wanted to buy them this time around and I'll probably buy more than usual to show my support--I really admire the Girl Scouts for having openly gay troop leaders and refusing to bow to pressure from some to change that policy. Go Girl Scouts! Anything to subvert traditional American values


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[RedHairedandFriendly]

I love the Girl Scouts, love their cookies and was a leader for 7 years. It was a blast and a lot of hard work, the only "rule" we had regarding sexuality was we weren't allowed to discuss it. I think that's bull - some of these girls - we leaders were the only ones willing to talk to them about anything - because mom and dad used the meetings as their personal baby-sitting time.

In regards to cookie sales, sadly the troops see only sometimes as little as .15 cents a box - to up to .35/box (If they're lucky) the rest goes to the council, who receives a small percentage. The cost of these cookies that are made specifically for the girl scouts is ridiculous. The manufacturer is making a butt load off these girls.

The best thing for the troops and for the councils are for folks to take their 20.00 and give it to the troop of their choice. This 20.00 then is theirs to use as they see fit. They get to keep all that money and not send the donation to the council.

If a person wants to give to their local council, the same thing applies. That full 20.00 doesn't have to be split up and send to the cookie manufacturer, the council keeps the full 20.00 and gives the required amount to the next level of the organization so those folks can distribute it.

The Boy Scouts - - well as much as I hate to admit they are smart about their fund raising, they are. The Boy Scouts are allowed to keep almost all of their profit sold when doing their big popcorn sell, and that money stays locally.

Sorry, that guys from Indiana too.

Okay, back to the boards I go.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Thanks , RH&F As much as I love cookies, I love young women more. I want to see them to grow up to be adult women.

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

I generally donate money and let my mom buy cookies. Because I NEED Thin Mints. They're like crack for me. And they keep really well in the freezer. >.>

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I was kicked out of girls scouts. I called the leader a 'bipolar bitch' and she didn't take kindly to the sentiment.

I remember thinking that this was the most hilarious thing ever... For two years in my troop we sold a kind of cookie called 'lil brownies' and they were like dry chocolate dog-turds. I liked them, and on the back of the box under the nutrition label it said 'if consumed in quantity, may be a mild laxitive'

In my troop, this passed for high-brow humor.

 

[sr71plt]

Sorry, Stella, you can't love Girl Scouts on Literotica. They don't exist here until they are Woman Scouts.

 

[Awful Arthur]

I was gonna buy a couple of boxes of Somaos, but when Morris made his statement, I bought ten boxes instead.

 

[TE999]

I love Girl Scout cookies and I especially love Samoas, Thin Mints and the Shortbread ones. Fuck that crackpot from Indiana. What a tool. Would he rather girls run with a street gang or let the preacher feel them up during choir practice?

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Thanks , RH&F As much as I love cookies, I love young women more. I want to see them to grow up to be adult women.

You're welcome. It was a lot of fun, the downside is that sadly when these girls reach middle to high school, many drop out because the programs aren't designed with young women in mind.

My co-leader and I would try to keep them interested by taking them out of the area to experience things, but unfortunately money from the troop budget makes it hard.

The Girl Scout association has done some things to increase older girl participation, by making badges and such no longer the necessary thing for the girls to earn, now they can early cheaply made charms that can go on bracelets/necklaces.

Fund raisers beyond the cookie sales also includes a sale that is similar to the ones you see in schools - candies/chocolate/trinkets that cost 5 times their value - this money the girls actually get to keep more of than during the cookie sale.

We were also allowed other fund raisers, but they had to be approved of by the council. Those we did and we were able to keep the funds in the troop. It was with these funds that we took the girls camping, to museums, to Notre Dame to see girls basketball games/volley ball/soccer - we also took them to the Embassy to watch plays.

It was a fun time.


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And on the topic the "women scouts" mentioned in the thread. . .

Yeah, wrote a story about 18 year old Senior Girl Scouts. It was fun.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I love Girl Scout cookies and I especially love Samoas, Thin Mints and the Shortbread ones. Fuck that crackpot from Indiana. What a tool. Would he rather girls run with a street gang or let the preacher feel them up during choir practice?

Are you kidding?

Tagalongs are THE SHIT!

A couple years ago my grandpa sent me an article clipping because he thought I would find it amusing. I used to be a big seller, on my best year I sold 467 boxes (RH and F, we get 45 cents a box now, but that's because they raised the price from 3$ to 3.50$) The article was about a man who had caught a 25 lb muskie with a tagalong cookie as bait.

The oversized fish agree with me, Tagalongs are the best.

 

[Neonurotic]

"Savanna Smiles" are like Lemon Coolers?
Mmm, lemony.

 

[sr71plt]

This thread just dredged up an old memory, and I had to laugh. I just remembered that my older sister was hit on by a female counselor at a Girl Scout camp once.

 

[3113]

This thread just dredged up an old memory, and I had to laugh. I just remembered that my older sister was hit on by a female counselor at a Girl Scout camp once.

Did they share cookies?

 

[3113]

Because I NEED Thin Mints. They're like crack for me. And they keep really well in the freezer. >.>

Thanks for reminding me! I just put a box in the freezer. How long will they last in there?

 

[sr71plt]

Did they share cookies?

My sister doesn't nibble and tell.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I actually got kicked out of Brownies. We made "paper bag puppets" and I made a cat. When it opened its mouth, a mouse was sitting on its tongue. They were friends.

The brownie leader came to my mother and told her I was disturbing and ghoulish. The puppet probably wasn't the only thing I did that bothered her, being the only kid there from a liberal, democratic, and atheist family. Anyway, my mother didn't take me to the next meeting, or any after that, and I never really understood why not.

I found a boy scout manual and 'earned" a lot of those badges on my own. I copied the badges on paper. Then I lost interest because what's the fun of earning badges when there's no one to award them to you?

There is a reason why all these laws have been passed about tolerance and inclusivity and not kicking people out of things because they aren't like you. We know from experience, that we can't count on people to honor inclusivity on their own.

 

[mynameisben]

I found a boy scout manual and 'earned" a lot of those badges on my own. I copied the badges on paper. Then I lost interest because what's the fun of earning badges when there's no one to award them to you?

Because it earns you the opportunity to say, "Badges! I don't need no steenking badges!"

 

[Stella_Omega]

Because it earns you the opportunity to say, "Badges! I don't need no steenking badges!"

yeah, tell that to a seven year old.

I say it all the time now, though!

 

[Handley_Page]

And I thought the Cookies were made BY girl scouts (or Guides as we call them in the UK) and for the exclusive benefit of the Troop.
Well, one can occasionally learn. . . . .

 

[TheeGoatPig]

yeah, tell that to a seven year old.

I say it all the time now, though!

I said it all the time when I was seven (I was a strange seven year old).

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Girl Scout Thin Mints are okay but the Campfire dark mint candies are The Bomb. Not that it matters anymore . . .

Thank-you See's for coming out with sugarless chocolate!