Posts Tagged ‘scout’

1. Tagalogs – Sold only in the Philippines (now you’re talkin’ my language)
2. Sin Mints – Wickedly good
3. Sapostas – Saposta taste like Samoas
4. Pecan Sandinistas – Popular in Nicaragua
5. Chocolate Taints – This is one funky cookie
6. Do-si-dids – Past tense of Do-si-dos. Popular on the Square Dance circuit
7. Caramel Cameltoes – Must be 18 yrs old to purchase
8. Issac Newtons – The fig-filled treat for smarties
9. Aluminumfoils – Sister cookie to Trefoils. Fun to chew if you have fillings.
10. S’lesses – Slesses is S’mores. Sounds like I’m lithping

Girl Scouts of America’s proposed new logo.

Girl Scouts of America (GSA) have taken what was traditionally a little charitable bake sale and transformed it into a sophisticated glucose delivery system. Frantic sales scenes like the following have been reported all across America as a kind of cookie-mania has swept over our nations medical marijuana dispensaries.

Near the entrance to Pot Shots in Portland, OR, 9-year old Becky Galvin was all dressed up in her freshly pressed Girl Scout uniform when she looked up at red-eyed Eddie Miller and observed, “You look like you could use a box of my Thin Mints.”

“How much for a box,” blurted-out a fidgety Mr. Miller?

A match made in marketing heaven.

“Five dollars sir,” politely answered Becky.

“I’ll take 20.” Mr. Miller quickly tossed a C-note on the portable plastic table Mrs. Galvin had purchased recently at Costco and in the span of 2 minutes, 19 boxes were loaded into the meshed netting of his 2008 Honda Element. He reserved one box for his personal use in the front seat.

“This box’ll be empty before I ever get home,” Mr. Miller remarked before mistakenly wishing Becky good luck on her new religion.    Read the rest of this entry »