Dumb Person #1 - “Al Jazeera is backpedaling!”

You confused me. For a second I thought the Yankees took on Ryan Howard’s contract.

A picture of the proposed fire pit:

Hey Deadspin, you guys really need to create a tutorial on how to follow these “live in the comments” chats. Finding Alan’s comments, and then trying to refresh the site to read the new ones, is a miserable experience. Right now the best method I can figure out is to click on his name, then his discussions, refreshing…

Doctor: “ok how do you spell your name?”

No means no Ben, you’re not playing.

So, having children should only be a luxury afforded to the affluent?

There has to be someone affiliated with Deadspin that can pull off the mannerisms and affectations of an adolescent attendee.

That’s ridiculous, but why would you want to go listen to Greg Hardy speak anyway?

At least the Boy Scout troops make 35% on popcorn sales. Girl Scout cookies net the troops less than 20%. The councils make 65-75%.

Yes, but the news stories are saying that the costs are going up to $5 because production costs are up, not that they want more profit. Councils nationwide are struggling financially, and since they all rely on cookies for such an overwhelming percentage of their annual budgets, it only makes sense to them to raise…

They're not facsimiles, they're the exact same cookies! Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler. Thin Mints and Samoas are made in the exact same factory as Grasshoppers and Coconut Dreams.

Thank you for stating this. My daughter’s council raised the price a couple of years ago from $3.50 to $4.00 and the council pocketed the entire 50 cent increase.

I buy the GS Cookie knock offs at the market for $1.50 for twice as many cookies are in the GS boxes, then just make a straight cash donation to our local troop. Rather than getting 90 cents per $5 spent, they get 100%. And I get more cookies.

John Mulaney:

Then just donate to them? Find the local troop. Call the leader. Say “I’d like to donate $20 to the troop. No, I don’t need anything, I just want to support.” Buy the Keebler version for half the price and just hand them the left over cash? There’s a few options here, but increasing the price is just silly. They’re…

No. Just, no. I’ve been railing against the cost of GSC’s for years now. I support the GSCs and what they stand for, but I will never buy cookies. Not ever. I’d rather write them a check for $10, made out to their troop, so that they can use 100 percent of it, than buy two boxes of cookies at a ridiculous per-cookie…

I don’t know if this makes me a skinflint or Scrooge or something but I have to point out, you can get Girl Scout Cookies all year round at the cookie aisle, they’re just re-branded and marked up Keebler cookies...