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On 3/3/2025 2:12 AM, gm wrote:
> Hank Rogers wrote:
> 
>> dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:24:32 +0000, Ed P wrote:
>>>
>>>> I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.  They were 
>>>> setup as
>>>> you leave the Publix store.  They use some unfair sales tactics though.
>>>> The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore
>>>> them.  The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.
>>>>
>>>> The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
>>>> look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
>>>> cookies?"  What can a guy do?
>>>>
>>>> They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
>>>> chocolate/caramel thing.  It was OK, but not my favorite.  I do like 
>>>> the
>>>> Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.
>>>
>>> I'm eating a Samoas as I type this and boy, is my keyboard a mess -
>>> there's chocolate and coconut all over it!
>>>
>>> Your best bet in dealing with this band of scam artists is to just
>>> pretend that they don't even exist. I think this could become a thing in
>>> the future.
>>>
>>
>> John Kuth would tell yoose and ed to be careful. Yoose guys can buy
>> those girl's cookies, but yoose better not touch their Twinkies.
>>
>> Yoose could end up in jail. Ed might get away with it, but yoose ain't
>> white, and yoose also asian, so yoose would get a life sentence.
> 
> 
> "... yoose better not touch their Twinkies ..."
> 
> 
> "Twinkies" = "snatch", Sire Hank...???
 >
I've been known to refer to it as "little sweetness."
> -- 
> GM
> 
> -- 

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