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Who called Girl Scouts? I don't think I'd ever be willing to pay that much for cookies. I mean, I love my Girl Scout cookies as much as most people (if not more...it's a miracle I wasn't a chubby child for all the cookies I ate as a scout)...but $10k or $20k? Hell no!
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Thin mints are, what,$7? Let's just round up to ten because it's after 1AM. So... $10 per box. Divide $10,000 by $10 gives us 1,000 normal, human sized boxes.
But at the rate given in the comic, M agrees to pay $20,000 for 520 boxes, $38.46 per box as Opus said.
Hmmm.
38~40... 40/10=4... Whaddaya say, folks? D'ya think a crate of thin mints containing enough cookies to fill four of our normal human boxes would transfer well to... A sphinx? I'd say a sphinx is reasonably within 4x the bodymass of an average human.
Besides, 10 boxes a week is a bit much for a human... I'm willing to bet some of those sphinx-sized crates will be shared.
...sorry if that was hard to follow, I'm pretty knackered at the moment.
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humm, dont think i would go for the thin mints at that price. now if it was them lemon glazed cookies we might could deal
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What the frell is in those things anyway?
This cannot be normal thin mints by any stretch. Particularly the "fresh stock"comment had me blinking at the monitor this late at night...
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Yeah, something about the math is off. $20K, 52 weeks, 10 boxes, should not cost $38.46 a box. I tried rules-lawyering it as much as I could, and even if it was $10K AND 10 boxes PER GIRL, the math still doesn't add up. If it was 100 boxes or only $2K, that would be an entirely reasonable price. Someone goofed.
oldmanmickey wrote:humm, dont think i would go for the thin mints at that price. now if it was them lemon glazed cookies we might could deal
M doesn't seem to be all that great at haggling.
Her family is independently wealthy, she has her own settlement agreement funds, she can teleport gem stones right out of the bedrock, she is supernatural royalty, and she's dating a super model. Money is not something she lacks.
BarGamer wrote:Yeah, something about the math is off. $20K, 52 weeks, 10 boxes, should not cost $38.46 a box. I tried rules-lawyering it as much as I could, and even if it was $10K AND 10 boxes PER GIRL, the math still doesn't add up. If it was 100 boxes or only $2K, that would be an entirely reasonable price. Someone goofed.
Yeah, on first reading I mentally translated that to "cases," but ten boxes a week seems pretty low for that much trouble.
It's always a good episode of "Mythbusters" when even the bomb squad is standing in awed silence.
oldmanmickey wrote:humm, dont think i would go for the thin mints at that price. now if it was them lemon glazed cookies we might could deal
M doesn't seem to be all that great at haggling.
Her family is independently wealthy, she has her own settlement agreement funds, she can teleport gem stones right out of the bedrock, she is supernatural royalty, and she's dating a super model. Money is not something she lacks.
Cookies, however, are another story.
I think we are talking boxes of boxes, ie cases.
That would make more sense.
It's just my inner tightwad talking. I'd still haggle even if I were filthy rich. Sarsapirilla would be one of the few food items i'd be making this sort of bargain for (Frostop or Sprecher gourmet soda brand specifically).
"Occam's razor is a fine thing, but the universe is a Rube-Goldberg machine."