- STIMULATION: We will be Liveblogging the Obama Stimulus program on the teevee, tonight, starting at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Do not forget to buy guns and liquor on the way home. See you then, money lovers!
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He better be finished before 9, ’cause I gotta watch the FEMALE president and America’s First Top Torturer at that time.
I have to take my daughter to her Girl Scout meeting tonight. After discussing ad nauseum how to increase fucking Girl Scout cookie sales & listening to the bitchy, uptight GS moms, I am going to need a few drinks. Barry’s press conference is just a really good excuse. Also.
Ken’s going to stimulate us. Huzzah!
[re=239373]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: What useful life skills do little girls gain by schilling those sugar/fat-bombs door-to-door every year?
Wait, I have to miss Antiques Roadshow? On the other hand, there’ll probably be a Republican rebuttal, so that should suffice. “There’s what looks like a nice patina on this idea, Senator — unfortunately, it’s clearly a spray-on imitation that hearkens back to a time that never existed. It’s too bad your constituents paid billions of dollars for this cheap forgery of a defunct notion, but if you fill it with sand, it could possibly hold a door open. But hey, at least it wasn’t your money, right?”
Do not forget to buy guns and liquor on the way home.
Why no mention of narcotics, huh? Buy guns and liquor AND narcotics… Don’t discriminate.
[re=239382]V572625694[/re]: Hold off there buddy, I need my Girl Scout Mint Cookies.
[re=239382]V572625694[/re]: Well, sadly my little one is learning about markup (GS troops keep .35c for every $3.50 box sold); recession (no one has any extra money), rejection (everyone says ‘NO’ or hides from her) & that sales jobs suck (see previous point).
[re=239393]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Oh, & let’s not forget superficiality (the cute girls sell more & attract the weirder male customers–but that’s another story).
Next year I’m just going to put her in piano lessons & call it a day!
I hope they have a Quickfire Challenge at the beginning.
[re=239384]SayItWithWookies[/re]: My old friend and radio co-host Nicholas Lowry is on that show, as he is from an ancient family of Vampire Hunters: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisers/lowry_nicholas.html
Geez, always you with the Glock advice. Do they make some that only shoot Republicans?
[re=239393]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: “sales jobs suck”
As a Salesman who is trying to sell an expensive product in a niche market during extraordinary economic collapse I must say: yes, very much. So much that my numbers have gone from %40,000 to $8,000 a month.
[re=239403]Ken Layne[/re]: Oh cool. I don’t know if I’ve seen him on the show. My favorite dude is one who does toys, records and assorted ephemera, who reminds me of the Comic Book Store Guy on the Simpsons. Probably because of the resemblance.
[re=239393]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I used to have a boss with four daughters, and he’d distribute a sheet to the whole office staff, with your name pre-filled-in so you could check off how many boxes of Thin Mints you, or [re=239390]BillyClubb[/re], wanted to buy, if you valued your job. Nothing against the kids — it’s just that the selling seems irrelevant to all the useful stuff Scouting does teach.
[re=239393]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Those are some really sucky margins…10%? The cost to produce is probably 10% of the sale price.
I remember when my sister sold these cookies and somehow my house got turned into the troop distribution center. We had like 5000 cartons of cookies filling the living room. In total that probably equated to at least one heart attack. But damn, those Thin Mints have got it going on. At least their troop used the $$ to subsidize trips to Mexico & NYC which is better than some lame-o camping trip. Anyway, I recall one secret is to sit outside the supermarket & sell them all there, so tell those other moms to put that in their pipe & smoke it
[re=239430]V572625694[/re]: Yeah, those people are jerks–my husband refuses to take them to work & I don’t blame him. Unfort. the selling helps offset the costs of the scouting trips–absolutely nothing’s for free in this organization & a lot of the kids are poor (or soon will be).
[re=239373]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Here’s what I hate about my daughter’s Brownie troop.
THE LEADER ALWAYS TYPES IN ALL CAPS AND IS CONSTANTLY YELLING AT US TO MEET DEADLINES AND THREATENING US IF WE DON’T GO TO OVERNIGHT CAMP IN THE FUCKING WILDERNESS.
But yes, I will be subscribing to your liveblogging tonight, thank you very much.
[re=239443]Bruno[/re]: FYI–we’re trying to go to an overnighter at Sea World in San Antonio. In order to do that, each girl needs to sell 416 boxes of cookies–EACH. And yes, we sit outside WalGreens, the mall, WalMart–anywhere they let us. That’s why when you leave one of these fine establishments, little girls descend upon you like you’re the last dude at the bar & it’s almost closing time.
Will the Republicans have a response, and will it involve handguns?
[re=239452]hockeymom[/re]: Hee hee; sounds like our Brownie troop. I refuse to do any camping. I was in the Army for 4 years & got enough ‘camping’ experiences. The only ‘camping’ I will do is if we lose our house & have to live in our car.
[re=239373]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: OK, I have to say it. I fucking hate Thin Mints. I know this makes me a lesbian communist terrorist, but I can’t understand why these things are so popular.
[re=239494]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: It’s all about the Samoas, baby
[re=239384]SayItWithWookies[/re]: i appreciate your Antiques Roadshow comment on such a deeply profound level man.
Is there going to be a drinking word?
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