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2/22/2010 9:36:45 AM

i'm glad i do not crave the girl scout cookies

2/22/2010 9:38:29 AM

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"Dear Wadhead1, you're still wrong "

2/22/2010 9:45:45 AM

2/22/2010 9:45:57 AM

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"the boxes kept getting smaller and more expensive every year"

That:s one thing that reall makes me about the cookies.

2/22/2010 8:16:11 PM

^what are you talking about? The boxes have been $3.50 for as long as I can remember.

Nonetheless my Tagalongs peanut butter patties ( ) were smaller than they were last year, when they were called fucking Tagalongs and were apparently made by the other supplier.

That's right I'm pissed. And now I'm afraid to even open up my box of Samoas Caramel Delights.



Fucking Caramel Delights

2/22/2010 11:47:09 PM

I want some real girl scout cookies

[Edited on February 22, 2010 at 11:49 PM. Reason : fuck the knock-offs]

2/22/2010 11:49:16 PM

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"The boxes have been $3.50 for as long as I can remember."

Yeah they've been $3.50 but the amount in each box has become less and less. Thus they've become more expensive over the years.

2/23/2010 12:25:40 AM

While the peanut butter fuckstick paddies I got this year are smaller, the (real deal) tagalongs I got last year were the same size they always are. Same amount too, as far as I can tell.

2/23/2010 10:25:28 AM

I was a girl scout in middle school and would bet 10 dollar bucks that they were $2.50 back then.

Of course that was almost 20 years ago

2/23/2010 10:27:04 AM

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"Thank You Berry Munch: Introduced in 2010, has Cranberries and white fudge chunks."

Do they have these around here? I MUST GET THEM.

2/23/2010 10:29:42 AM

As long as the price increase for girl scout cookies is less than that of beer, I'm okay with it.


B/c I've become pretty pissed off that the price increases of beer is outpacing inflation handily...(as well as my salary increases )

[Edited on February 23, 2010 at 11:34 AM. Reason : k]

2/23/2010 11:33:48 AM

that is due to demand as well as crappy hop harvests over the last couple of years (not just inflation)


still sucks though- I remember when I could get cases of "normal" light beer (coors, bud, miller, etc...) for 11 bucks. Now it is 16.99 "on special" and food lion


we were actually talking about this at brunch on sunday at Saucer- I was surprised they had raised their firesale only by 25 cents. They didn't know why, but when I explained it, as well as what it has gone up in the stores, they agreed that 25cents really isn't that big of a deal

[Edited on February 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM. Reason : ]

2/23/2010 11:49:37 AM

^I'd put the blame with the gov't mandating increased use of corn based ethanol. Jacks the price up of grains across the planet.

Thanks Washington, DC. Oh, and don't forget the new tax on alcohol. Thanks Purdue.

2/23/2010 12:54:37 PM

STOCK UP

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"A Single Box of Girl Scout Cookies Could Yield $15 Billion Worth of Graphene By Clay Dillow Posted 08.05.2011 at 10:06 am 20 Comments Graphene from Girl Scout Cookies Rice University Next time you're inhaling an entire box of Girl Scout shortbread cookies, just think of the potential you're wasting: a full $15 billion worth of graphene. At least, that's the estimate given by a team of Rice University researchers working on a dare. Published as part of a paper recently published by ACS Nano, the Rice lab's work on Girl Scout Cookies began when lab chemist James Tour mentioned at a meeting that his team had turned table sugar to graphene--a one-atom-thick layer of carbon possessing remarkable properties of strength and conductivity. He claimed that he and his grad students could grow graphene from any carbon source, and it just so happened there were Girl Scout Cookies being passed around the meeting. And so a challenge was born. The lab invited Girl Scout Troop 25080 to join them in Rice's nano lab to see exactly how cookies become a prized version of carbon. In their demo, they made graphene from a range of materials--grass, chocolate, a cockroach leg, even dog excrement (special thanks to Sid Vicious the mini dachshund) to show that high-quality graphene is basically waiting to be extracted from all kinds of everyday materials. To make graphene, the Rice team uses a copper foil and a super-hot argon and hydrogen gas oven burning at more than 1,900 degrees. In this process, the object it placed on one side of the foil and, under high heat, begins to decompose. A thin sheet of graphene forms on the other side of the foil, while the residues and impurities remain on the other side. Two of the grad students in Tour's lab did some math given the current commercial price for quality graphene--about $250 per two-inch square--and figured that a box of shortbread cookies could generate a roughly $15 billion profit if converted to graphene. Of course, that has everything to do with scale, supply, and demand. Right now, graphene is difficult and expensive to produce in large quantities. A box of shortbread could yield a sheet of graphene that would cover three football fields if the means of production were there. And of course if supply were that inexpensive the price would drop substantially. In other words, the team was trying to demonstrate that--given better manufacturing means of producing graphene in bulk--sources of graphene are all around us, not that you should buy Thin Mints as long-term investment. Although in this economy you might actually come out ahead."

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-08/single-box-girl-scout-cookies-could-yield-15-billion-worth-graphene?src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obinsite

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5/14/2014 4:32:10 PM

Got me some thin mintz son

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