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Originally posted by Go Anne Go:
Thin Mints. Minty yes, but I've eaten loads of them and don't seem to be any thinner.

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False advertising.
 

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Posted by Laura (# 10) on :
 
I had to help the neighbor girls! It was charity!
 

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Posted by Janine (# 3337) on :
 
We don't have Girl Scouts in the immediate neighborhood. All our close neighbor-kids are teen and young adult males.

They get us at church. Charity begins in the pews.

Samoas. Tagalongs. Thin Mints. Whatever-the-heck you call the peanut-butter-and-chocolate ones. Boxes and boxes of them. All for a Good Cause and thus For The Lord, too.

I'm working now so I wasn't at home alone with them this time. They actually got eaten up by the kids and the FG and they lasted a week.

I don't know whether to be grateful I missed the pig-out, or sorry about it.
 

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Posted by Joan Rasch (# 49) on :
 
Oh, dear -- I think the next time I go into my local public transit station, I will have to purchase a box of Thin Mints (as a former Girl Sprout) (or maybe 3 boxes - for my Dear Dad)
 

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Posted by JB (# 396) on :
 
Why is it always during Lent? Is there a conspiracy?
 

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Posted by KenWritez (# 3238) on :
 
I'm seeing Laura passed out face-up on the floor in her power suit, she's spread-eagled, stomach distended, glasses knocked askew, her fingers twitching slighty, chocolate smeared around her mouth, and the floor around her littered with ripped cellophane and broken, emptied cookie boxes.

Children cry behind closed doors and a man's voice comforts them, saying. "Hush, my sweet ones, the storm will soon pass."

In self-defense against the Girl Scouts I have hired sherrif's deputies, grim men all, to escort me to the grocery store and back. They have inviolable orders to guard me against the snack-packing, dewy-eyed minions of Hell, and I've authorized them to use deadly force if a Thin Mint comes within ten paces of me.
 

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Posted by Cassiel (# 3897) on :
 
You should all count yourselves lucky: you are civilians. I'm actually amongst the ranks: a volunteer with the Girl Scouts of America, and I have to fend off my troops with a bloody STICK. Still, perhaps such endless exposure has hardened me to their attacks. I somehow have only one box of Thin Mints and they are still sitting in my cupboard, unopened, after three whole weeks.
 

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Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 

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Originally posted by Janine:
They get us at church. Charity begins in the pews.

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Originally posted by Mamacita:

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Originally posted by Janine:
They get us at church. Charity begins in the pews.

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Yep, try to get through Coffee Hour in March without being assaulted by a green-sash-wearing conspiratrice brandishing an order form and a pen.

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I went to the 8 am service a few times. They weren't up at that hour. And this last Sunday at coffee hour they were delivering cookies, not taking orders.

I must be livin' right this year.
 

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Posted by Scot (# 2095) on :
 
I managed to avoid the ponytailed demonspawn this year. That's a good thing, I think.

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Can anyone spare a Thin Mint? Preferably a frozen one?
 

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Posted by Scot (# 2095) on :
 
By the way, what do Girl Scouts do apart from selling crack, erm... cookies?
 

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Posted by babybear (# 34) on :
 

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Originally posted by Cassiel:
I somehow have only one box of Thin Mints and they are still sitting in my cupboard, unopened, after three whole weeks.

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I shall PM you my address.

Otherwise I shall not believe the fabrications of Laura and KenW.
 

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Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :
 
We, the citizens of the United Kingdom, feel duty bound to support our fellow Shipmates overseas. We will all, forthwith, PM you our addresses. Thus you may earn yourselves Brownie Points for three good deeds: the purchase of said cookies and Thin Mints which are clearly raising money for a good and worthy cause; the non-eating of said cookies which is beneficial to your weight and Lenten promises; and the giving of pleasure in cookie-form to those overseas who are without girl-scouts to evade.

See how we think of you?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 1143) on :
 
Yeah! In the spirit of lease-lend couldn't we at least borrow a few boxes?
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
Yeah! In the spirit of lease-lend couldn't we at least borrow a few boxes?

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The Americans tend to a very kind hearted bunch, always ready to share their good fortune.

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Just you wait. It starts with just one box, and then in a couple of years you'll be cursing Americans and those adorable little demonspawn for their blasted imported cookies.
 

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Posted by Padingtun Bear. (# 3935) on :
 
Hmn.

In the interests of diplomacy and Girl Scout Globilisation, I think we should put the UK shipmates forward as the international export branch of the aforementioned cookie movement. And besides, Smudgie's logic is undeniable.

No, seriously - have you ever tried a really British biscuit? The sort that you can dunk in your tea without it falling apart (i.e. rock solid!)

Mint Thins, We Need You!

P. B. // With bear arms and a hard stare .
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by Flausa:

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The Americans tend to a very kind hearted bunch, always ready to share their good fortune.

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Just you wait. It starts with just one box, and then in a couple of years you'll be cursing Americans and those adorable little demonspawn for their blasted imported cookies.

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You mean that in every British high street, between every Fastbucks and BurgerNasty there will be a GirlScout store selling cookies?



Can you imagine the uniforms?
 

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Posted by Flausa (# 3466) on :
 
Sioni, if it was a store selling Girl Scout cookies, that would be avoided. Rather it's these little adorable minions that corner you at church, at random stores, and their parents haunt you at work, and suddenly you've bought 12 boxes and you can't give them away because everyone else around you has done the same. Then just when you've finished your last box, and are needing another "hit," the little rugrats are nowhere to be found, and you are left to convulse in withdrawal in your own spittle.
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Can you imagine the uniforms?

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I couldn't before you said that, curse you .

More seriously, as a member (lapsed) - and thus representative - of the UK Scout Movement, I would like to extend the hand of friendship and support across the ocean to the Girl Scouts of America. Your endeavours in the cookie-based fundraising field are sans pareil.

(by the way, if any of you were in World Jamboree '95 troop 116*, next to the Birmingham part of the UK contingent, I honestly have no idea how that snail got there. In fact, what snail? )

Oh, and while that hand's extended, could you see your way to dropping a couple boxes of Thin Mints onto it, in the spirit of solidarity and mutual respect of course ...

[ 10. March 2005, 08:52: Message edited by: Marvin the Martian ]
 

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Posted by babybear (# 34) on :
 

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Originally posted by Flausa:
suddenly you've bought 12 boxes and you can't give them away because everyone else around you has done the same.

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We can save you from this awful fate! We can be your saviours. Let us help.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 1143) on :
 
Give us your Double Dutch, he says
Trefoils yearning to be free
We take a bite from your Do-Si-Dos
A bite of Liberty

Give us your packaged cookies
Lost on another shore
All Abouts and Thin Mints
These we take and more

Give us your Lemon Coolers
That we from another place
We who would dream of Tagalongs
Might stuff our face.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 1059) on :
 
The only reason I buy Girl Scout Cookies is to support the wonderful programs and opportunities for these (very) young women. Yes, I want to encourage them in their lives and I want to help them to succeed in their quest for knowledge and wholesome activities.

Besides, I only gave up eyerolling for Lent.

*urp* There's a half-sleeve of Thin Mints gone while writing this. Gosh! My self-control has really improved! <-...needs cookie crumbs around mouth...
 

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Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
You mean that in every British high street, between every Fastbucks and BurgerNasty there will be a GirlScout store selling cookies?

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Originally posted by Smudgie:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
You mean that in every British high street, between every Fastbucks and BurgerNasty there will be a GirlScout store selling cookies?

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No no no. Please read for comprehension. The suggestion is that our beloved American cousins should send the cookies but retain the actual girl-scouts. After all, how could we deprive them of their sweet pony-tailed offspring? No, we will simply relieve them of the undesirable side-effects of being the Nation of Cookie-selling Girl Scouts. It's the least we could do.

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I wuz worried about this being the thin end of the wedge. American businesses know how susceptible we are to their products and once the Girl Scout cookies arrive that will be it. They will achieve cult status in, oh, days and it will be the polenta of 2006.

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I would never suggest America's finest young ladies should come here to serve in the GirlScoutCookie stores. They would have to be recruited here but quite what your average chav would look like in even an approximation to a Girl Scout uniform I can't imagine.

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Originally posted by babybear:

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Originally posted by Cassiel:
I somehow have only one box of Thin Mints and they are still sitting in my cupboard, unopened, after three whole weeks.

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I shall PM you my address.

Otherwise I shall not believe the fabrications of Laura and KenW.

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Babybear and Smudgie: send me your addresses by PM and I shall send you a box of your choice of girl scout cookies. I recommend the Thin Mints (crisp mint chocolate cookies enrobed in dark chocolate). Also good are the Samoas (crispy cookie topped with caramel dredged coconut and chocolate stripes) and Tagalongs (peanut butter patties on cookies enroben in chocolate). I'm ordering a batch for my sister in a few hours' time. As to the other non-US shipmates, the next two to PM me will also get a box, their choice. I understand that some are made which do not involve chocolate but frankly can't see the point of that.

I must warn you: they are highly addictive. And they only come once a year.

[ 10. March 2005, 14:29: Message edited by: Laura ]
 

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Posted by snowgoose (# 4394) on :
 

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Originally posted by Mamacita:

(By the way, did you know Thin Mints taste *great* right out of the freezer?)

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Thin Mints are better right out of the freezer. It also solves the no-chocolate-for-Lent problem, though the day after Easter tends to be a serious occasion for gluttony.

Oh....Thin Mints. Mmmmmm. Ambrosia.
 

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Posted by Emma. (# 3571) on :
 
I think i might be a bit late for a box of yours laura- but ill happily volunteer if any other US shipmate would like the opportunity of serving botht the little girl scouts AND a uk shipmate (and of course themselves the hastle of eating yet another box )
 

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Posted by Laura (# 10) on :
 

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Originally posted by Scot:
By the way, what do Girl Scouts do apart from selling crack, erm... cookies?

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If I recall correctly, I earned badges in camping, assorted crafts, hospitality , sport, writing, hiking, books, horseback riding, and some other stuff. We had weekly meetings and occasional camping trips. The cookies we received directly from the powers of Darkness, through a conjuring ceremony. I was always very proud of my "Pagan Feminist Cookie Conjuring" badge.
 

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Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 

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Originally posted by Go Anne Go:
The eternal cry "Its girl scout cookie time" has led to new entrepreneurship. Now the little scouties just order in loads of cookies and sell them on tables out side the Supermarket - more sales and less effort than going tdoor to door the way I had to!

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Originally posted by Laura:
Babybear and Smudgie: send me your addresses by PM and I shall send you a box of your choice of girl scout cookies.

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Now this is the sort of generous, open handedness that I assosiate with our American shipmates. Many thanks Laura.

I shall hunt out a little something from the Isle of Man. I fear that it will not be food as the American import restrictions are very tight.
 

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Posted by KenWritez (# 3238) on :
 
To put all this in perspective for our UK friends, consider GSA cookies to be, oh, say, the moral equivalent of TimTams dusted with heroin and crack cocaine sprinkles. There are people who literally order cases of the damn things so as to have a year's supply of cookies until the next Cookie Orgy.

It's quite the domestic triumph to offer one's guests Thin Mints or Samoas six months after everyone else has eaten their last, miserably hoarded cookie. Ask Sine.
 

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Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
Out of curiosity, I clicked on jedijudy's link to the Girl Scouts website and followed a few other links that led me to the information that I have not missed the grocery store marketing campaign in my area.

So now I can't go to the grocery store for the next few weeks. I'm going to have to do all my grocery shopping at the independently-owned convenience store around the corner or the 7-11 up the street. Though on second thought, considering the food those places sell, I may as well eat Girl Scout cookies.
 

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Posted by KenWritez (# 3238) on :
 
Hmmmm...7-11 microwave burritos and Top Ramen vs. Thin Mints and Samoas.

Tough choice, Ruth.
 

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Posted by Laura (# 10) on :
 
Okay, sophs gets the third box! Who wants the fourth?
 

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Posted by sewanee_angel (# 2908) on :
 
The rest of you are welcome to Tagalongs, Somoas, and all the rest. The only Girl Scout cookies I crave are the Thin Mints. They are the bestest. mmm...thin mints...mmm
 

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Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :
 
Life is good. Life is very good

I will be making a space in my freezer in anticipation... purely in the spirit of transatlantic cooperation, I hasten to add.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 1143) on :
 

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Originally posted by Laura:
Okay, sophs gets the third box! Who wants the fourth?

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Originally posted by Chapelhead:

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Originally posted by Laura:
Okay, sophs gets the third box! Who wants the fourth?

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Ooh, yes please, yes please, yes please!

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Originally posted by KenWritez:
I'm seeing Laura passed out face-up on the floor in her power suit

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Can you imagine the uniforms?

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I couldn't before you said that, curse you

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Here you go.

I first encountered UK Girl Guides in the pages of ... yes, really! C.S. Lewis, who'd mentioned Jill Pole being a Guide once, and at the time I didn't know he meant something like a Girl Scout.

By the way, am I the only one who wants to make a pun out of "Tagalong" and "Tagalog"?

... thought so. Oh well.
 

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Posted by Ann (# 94) on :
 

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Originally posted by ChastMastr:

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Originally posted by KenWritez:
I'm seeing Laura passed out face-up on the floor in her power suit

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You know you've read/seen too much SF/fantasy when... the first image in your head is Laura in some kind of futuristic armor. You know, a "power suit," probably with some kind of force field, or plasma beam guns, or something like that.

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I'm seeing something like the Vicar of Dibley passed out surrounded by Crunchie wrappers. Fortunately, there is not a photo on the web to link to.
 

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Posted by Padingtun Bear. (# 3935) on :
 
Y'know, you US lot really are most generous - the concerted pressure campaign we instigated didn't really even get going... I'll stand down Phase 2 ( Pleading and weeping ).

I was a Girl Guide in the UK, and we never got to do anything worth writing home about - it was all newspaper hockey sticks and making small marzipan fruits. . A bit Jill Pole, really - before the adventure!

Cheers all! P. B.
 

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Posted by Go Anne Go (# 3519) on :
 

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Originally posted by Laura:
Okay, sophs gets the third box! Who wants the fourth?

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If it is Thin Mints, I am *completely* shameless enough to mention that I'm going into the hospital on Monday for two weeks and will be surving only on hospital food unless Thin Mints are dispatched to my door................

Cough, cough, I think I might be dying......
 

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Posted by Go Anne Go (# 3519) on :
 
Oh, and for those of you who don't know Girl Scouts, but DO own a freezer.......

It is "light" ice cream. Hee hee.

[ 11. March 2005, 01:22: Message edited by: Go Anne Go ]
 

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Posted by Sine Nomine (# 3631) on :
 
This seems like the appropriate place to announce I've just finished 7.2 oz (206g) worth of Pepperidge Farm "Sausalitos". You know, the single-serving pack.

This was after meatloaf, mac & cheese, and a green salad.

I don't feel so good.
 

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Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :
 
Maybe you should lay off the green salads, Sine.
 

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Posted by Sine Nomine (# 3631) on :
 
Good suggestion. I'm sure the macadamia nuts in the Sausalitos provide sufficient roughage.
 

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Posted by Sine Nomine (# 3631) on :
 
Oh dear. A quick perusal of the Nutrition Facts reveals that although I appear to have eaten eight servings in a single sitting I have ingested no dietary fiber.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
This seems like the appropriate place to announce I've just finished 7.2 oz (206g) worth of Pepperidge Farm "Sausalitos". You know, the single-serving pack.

This was after meatloaf, mac & cheese, and a green salad.

I don't feel so good.

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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
This seems like the appropriate place to announce I've just finished 7.2 oz (206g) worth of Pepperidge Farm "Sausalitos". You know, the single-serving pack.

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Originally posted by The Riv:
11 Girl Scouts in the Children's Choir this year. So it was one box from each of them.

Four remain...

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Four...Thin Mints? Boxes? Girl Scouts?

It turns out I have given up GS treats for Lent, or what's left of it. My doctor put me on the South Beach diet yesterday.

[For some reason I can't write the "C"-word here.]

[ 11. March 2005, 12:30: Message edited by: jedijudy ]
 

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Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :
 
Am I right in thinking that the Girl Scouts don't actually bake the cookies themselves (as I used to think) but get them supplied from somewhere? So all they do is sell them?
 

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Posted by Laura (# 10) on :
 
Oh and ken: thanks for the powerful imagery.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 1059) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sparrow:
Am I right in thinking that the Girl Scouts don't actually bake the cookies themselves (as I used to think) but get them supplied from somewhere? So all they do is sell them?

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Originally posted by Laura:
Oh and ken: thanks for the powerful imagery.

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You're welcome. When I read your post, that's the image that popped into what I'm pleased to call my mind. (I really did mean the imagery as a gentle tease, nothing else.)
 

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Posted by nicolemrw (# 28) on :
 
now why wasn't this thread around when my little darling was doing her cookie sale? i could prehaps have hooked anyone in the nyc area up with a connection. its not true that girl scout cookies come only once a year, but they do only come once in an area per year, we haven't recieved our cookies yet, and this thread is making me quite hungry.
 

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Posted by Moth (# 2589) on :
 
Yes but - are they made with real girl scouts?

(I love the Addams family!)
 

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Posted by Rossweisse (# 2349) on :
 

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Originally posted by Laura:
... I understand that some are made which do not involve chocolate but frankly can't see the point of that. ...

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The shortbread cookies (known as Scot-Ts in my cookie-pushing youth, now called Trefoils) are very nice, particularly as a palate-cleanser between courses of Thin Mints.

Just reading this thread is making me all twitchy. The sprite from whom I ordered OUR cookies did not show up on Sunday, and I'm preaching at another parish this week! I NEED MY FIX!



Rossweisse // also known to enjoy the peanut butter sandwiches
 

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Posted by Laura (# 10) on :
 

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Originally posted by Rossweisse:
The shortbread cookies (known as Scot-Ts in my cookie-pushing youth, now called Trefoils) are very nice, particularly as a palate-cleanser between courses of Thin Mints.

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Originally posted by Laura:
I hadn't thought of this angle on the trefoils. Shortbread palate-cleanser.

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