This week's CL ad!

I've got 5 Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies - - What Do You Have To Trade? (Round Rock)

Reply to: mailto:sale-736049763@craigslist.org?subject=IDate: 2008-06-28, 3:11PM CDT

I've got 5 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies: 3 boxes of Caramel Delites, 1 box of Cinna-Spins and 1 box of Thanks-A-Lots. What have you got to Trade???

I googled images of GS cookies and came across some interesting tidbits.

• The name of the cookie depends on the bakery. Girl Scout councils can choose which bakery they want to go with.




• Samoas and Caramel De-Lites are the same cookie -- different bakery. They seem to have overtaken the Thin Mints in popularity and deliciousness. Many people like them straight from the freezer.




• Scot-Teas are now known as Trefoils, and they no longer have that sugar sprinkling on top. Darn. Now they have no redeeming quality, as far as I'm concerned.




• Some Google cookie images are fairly large, and some are small. What's up with that? This Thanks-A-Lot pic was only available in small. Maybe it should be called "Thanks-A-Little."

Why do I keep wanting to call this cookie a "Sit N Spin?"

Most people may not know that I was the marketing/p.r. director for a Girl Scout council in western Pennsylvania, back in the early 90's. To this day, one of the best marketing ideas I ever came up with was when I worked there, and we wanted to promote our cookie sales.

We hosted the Great Girl Scout Cookie Concoction Contest where we invited local restaurants to create original recipes using GS cookies. The restaurants purchased the cookies, experimented with ideas and then came together where we had local celebrities taste test the goodies. Restaurants were judged on creativity, taste and presentation. The winning recipe used the Trefoils in a breakfast dish with sausage. It sounds weird, but it was surprisingly yummy!

The top three restaurants received plaques to hang in their foyers, which promoted GS and GS cookies year-round. We also had great coverage in the local paper, complete with color pictures and winning recipes.

My favorite GS cookie IS the Caramel De-Lite. Maybe I should come up with something to give this guy for his three boxes of them.

The Latest Craigslist Ad

One of these days, I'll ask everyone to single out their favorite Craigslist post. Until then, here's this week's funny ad (no corrections to the spelling errors, but I did take the liberty to clean up some of the language).

Eight wheels of stinky cheese (brie) (EAST AUSTIN)
I have eight entire wheels of cheese that are totally stinking up my refrigerator. I'm not sure if this brie is more potent-smelling than usual brie, as I have never before possessed multiple frickin' wheels of any type of cheese at one time. Alls I know is, this is more cheese than I can possibly eat without permanently plugging up my colon, and I'm not about to toss it out while the proverbial (not to mention literal) Kids In China are starving their arses off.

If the idea of receiving funky food from a total stranger seems a little shady to you, I can understand...so as a token of my goodwill, you will not only have my assurance that this stuff is safe to eat, I will also consume some of it before your very eyes if necessary, with my gentleman's word that I am not an illusionist (à la Davids Copperfield & Blaine). You may observe closely as I lovingly chew and swallow a sizable portion of the cheese in question before your very eyes.

And now that this ad has taken on the creepy tone of sexual cheese fetishism, I'm going to wrap it up. But seriously, I have to give this stuff away. Somebody help me out here. As you can see in the photo, the cheese is wrapped in some balsa wood or something, although you cannot see that it's also sealed in plastic, but it is. Also regarding the photo, the bloody mary mix is not part of the deal. (Crackers not included)

Another Craigslist Ad

As it appears in the Austin Craigslist barter section (I've found the barter ads to be the funniest).

Cheeseburger meal for Indiana Jones box set (north)

I am so hungry. I will trade my mint condition box set of Indiana Jones for a Double cheeseburger meal deal(ketchup and cheese only). Call Will @ 512-***-****.

Ya Can't Make This Stuff Up

Ugh. My blogging has been so sporadic, and I do need to finish my series on cystic fibrosis and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Until then, I have to share the latest, funny Craigslist ad. I'm tellin' ya, Austin's Craigslist has the funniest ads! The ad below is as it appears in CL. Enjoy!

I need stuff like clothes, legs, R.A.M., Mp3 player, food, musical instruments, dates with inteligent women that care about the environment, Art, good art, great art, beats for hiphop, and basically any cool shit you can offer.

I have to admit, I'm curious about the "legs" part.

Addicted to Craigslist

The Austin Craigslist is really great. I suppose that's because Austin's a college town and also because a lot of people continue to move in and out of the city. A few weeks ago, a local radio deejay was talking about the barter posts on Craigslist. I'd never thought to look at those till she mentioned them. Here's a recent one that struck me funny:

Experienced Construction Worker Needs Counseling
Me: Carpentry, Masonry, Flooring, Painting, etc...
You: Anger Management & Depression Counselor

How awful it would be if a counselor took this guy up on his offer and then didn't like the work he did. :-)

I should take and post pics of some of the great Craigslist scores I've made, but I need a new digital camera. That could be my first barter.
Me: Almost new, Weedeater lawnmower
You: Almost new digital camera

I'll keep you posted.