On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:35:53 -0600, notbob > wrote:

>On 2006-03-28, Doug Kanter > wrote:
>
>> You're kidding, right? All their cookies are awful.
>
>Nonsense. I've been buying their shortbread cookies for decades.
>Love 'em!
>
>> I just make a
>> contribution and tell them I can't eat cookies. This amazes them.
>
>That's what I do for their candies. Does freak 'em out, don't it.
>
>I wish the Boy Scouts shilled something good to eat. When I was a
>scout, we sold fireworks to raise money, but the safety police have
>screwed that up. I just send them a check directly, thereby avoiding
>all that PC bullshit from United Way.
>
>nb

Until the city started recycling, the cub scouts had newspaper
collections. Made a fair amount of money with it. They also had an
annual pack dinner with the father-son cake decorating contest.
Auctioned off the cakes.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974