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What is your Girl Scout Cookie of choice?
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @09:25AM
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 13 2016, @10:28PM
The American equivalent of an all-female Hitler Youth, giving girls merit badges for things like "loving Jesus Christ," "sewing," and "sandwich-making-while-barefoot-and-pregnant."
They have their own brand of cookies they sell during their fundraising season. Thin Mints (also my favorite) are unsurprisingly the winner (I like to crush them up in a glass of milk or crumble them over vanilla ice cream) but Samoas [littlebrowniebakers.com] are also pretty good. They also have gluten-free Thin Mints.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday February 14 2016, @10:35AM
I don't eat any Girl Scout cookies, I'm a vegetarian.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Sunday February 14 2016, @03:10PM
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(Score: 4, Informative) by lentilla on Saturday February 13 2016, @10:27AM
Are we aware that approximately 97% of the world's population has never seen a girl scout selling cookies?
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday February 13 2016, @11:10AM
Around here, at girl scout cookie selling time, their parents usually peddle them in the workplace, and the moms peddle them at the entrance to the supermarket, usually keeping a token girl scout or two around to make it look legit.
Shouldn't complain though... I remember when the adults would hound us kids into going door-to-door to all the neighbors with fund raisers.
They knew an adult would not stand a chance trying to sell those things, but people could not disappoint a neighbor kid. Another kid, fine, but not a neighbor kid.
I remember waiting around for hours for certain people to show up at their house. Just as soon as we saw them come home, we'd come ring the doorbell.
Mean. But it got the money.
And the fund raisers knew it.
When I was a kid, it was pretty hard to disobey an adult. ( This was in the same timeframe "Dennis the Menace" was being filmed - and I was a passable Dennis. )
I am glad they do not send the kids out like that anymore around here.
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(Score: 2) by archfeld on Saturday February 13 2016, @08:22PM
they still do the door-to-door thing in our neighborhood, and yes it difficult to tell the little girls no, and the big girls too, but that is a different story. I have several nieces in the girl scouts and they get 1st priority. Wow the cookies have gotten expensive and they just don't taste the same, but it is for a good cause and I love my nieces.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @11:07PM
I'd never buy girl scout cookies from some person at work. Sorry, the kid has to go door-to-door or be in my neighborhood.
When I was a kid (I'm a male) and was in whatever after school actvity that had fund raisers, yeah us kids would want our parents to just bring boxes of candy bars or whatever to work and just make the money for us. Great way to be lazy and teach zero ethics.
Directly guilt trip your co-workers by bringing in your kid's homework and doing it for them while pissing off most of the co-workers of yours that do not want to buy, or already have purchased, stuff from their own neighborhood kids! or their own kids.
If the neighborhood is too rough to send little girls out, fine I can get that, but why are the scout leaders sending out girls into rough neighborhoods to begin with?
Again, I'd never buy cookies brought to work. Part of that experience is to build up the confidence of the kids, to teach them that many doors will close on you without any opportunities being behind those closed doors -- and to accept that and move on to the next one.
Taking their stuff to work and dumping it on people there doesn't teach anything I'd want the next generation to learn.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @03:48AM
I got a little peeved at the number of parents bringing their kid's fundraisers to work, then personally visiting me to collect in front of everyone else.
I do not have any kids, so I thought I had lost out, whereas all the collectors knew I was good for a knockup without having to payout for my kid. So come fundraisers, I was number one on everyone's list.
So, I ended up picking a charity. And got forms from them. I figured if each fundraiser costs me $10 or so to get a smile on their face so they would walk away and not show me off as the office tightwad, at least I was gonna get $10 out of them too.
It was amazing how fast those visits dropped off!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @05:13PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @09:04PM
What is your Girl Scout of choice?
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday February 14 2016, @10:45AM
What is your Girl Scout of choice?
Tera Patrick did an educational video a few years ago on selling Girl Scout cookies. She may have gone a bit far in terms of what she did to close the sale, but it was most effective. She'd be my favourite Girl Scout.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 13 2016, @10:34PM
For those of you who don't get the joke. [wikipedia.org]
As somebody whose sister was a Brownie, I chuckled slowly in disbelief upon seeing that poll option even though it was (I assume) an innocent misunderstanding. Girl Scout cookies, after all, aren't baked with THC as many brownie snacks are.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Appalbarry on Saturday February 13 2016, @11:46PM
As somebody whose sister was a Brownie....
I too had a sister who was a Brownie, and I can concur that her times spent baked with THC were many years later.
(Score: 2) by CortoMaltese on Sunday February 14 2016, @01:17AM
Girls Scouts don't sell cookies here, you insensitive clod!
(on an unrelated topic, are Peanut Butter Patties the same as reese's? because that's my favorite "candy"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 14 2016, @02:30AM
Back when I was active in scouting, the cookies came to our home. At the time, we had a big garage, so we stocked the cookies, and all the girls would come our place to pick their orders up. 45 foot tractor trailer pulls up in front of the house, and 1/4 or more of the load comes in the garage.
My favorite were those S'mores. I often ate a box of them at one sitting. After my first year working with the girls, I just started ordering them by the case. I would have GS cookies all year long that way.
These days, if I want GS cookies, I have to go online and order them.
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday February 14 2016, @10:41AM
After my first year working with the girls, I just started ordering them by the case.
Sheesh, where I live ordering just a single girl is expensive enough, you'd never be able to afford an entire case of them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 14 2016, @11:13AM
You're warped, dude. If you have any other good traits, I could start to like you.
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(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday February 14 2016, @03:23AM
I'll buy a box of Thin Mints and a box of the Peanut Butter Patties. Toss them in the freezer. Get a glass of milk, take out a thin mint and a peanut butter patty. Stick them together, dunk them in the milk and let them soak ten seconds or so. Ecstasy.
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(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Sunday February 14 2016, @04:08AM
...Chocolatey Mint Cookies?
I know people who go over the border every year to get 'em...
Better'n Thin Mints, any day.