--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > > eh?  And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no 
> > > cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start 
> > > to have an appeal!
> > > 
> > > Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen?
> > 
> > The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive
> > success is that it's a contest -- the girls are
> > earning college money for selling the most cookies, 
> > that sorta thang.
> 
> Actually not.  They get patches and pins,
> no monetary awards.

Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local
policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters,
for the national one.  But there have actually been articles
in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the
Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so
the policy does exist at least in some places.






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