Happy [Belated] 95th Anniversary AGS!

[monkey0506]

The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) (a.k.a. the American Girl Scouts (AGS)) was founded on 12 March 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low (a.ka. Christopher Juliette Gordon Low, later Chris Jones or "CJ") as a feminine counterpart to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) (a.k.a. the American Boy Scouts (ABS)).

The AGS Program uses the Scouting Method to train and prepare these girls effectively to become door-to-door cookie saleswomen. As part of the Scouting Method the girls will be forced to memorize the Scout Law, a special higher law which the Scouts are sworn to follow above all other laws:

I will do my best to be
    honest and fair,
    friendly and helpful,
    considerate and caring, and
    responsible for what I say and do,
    and to
    respect myself and others,
    respect admins and mods,
    use resources wisely,
    not act like a mod if I'm not one,
    make the forums a better place, and
    take a bullet for CJ. Amen.

The girls will also have to swear to abide by the Scout Promise:

On my honour I promise that I will do my bestâ€"
To do my duty to CJ and his mods
To help other people at all times
To obey the Scout Law.

The girls will have to "learn by doing," a unique method of teaching where the girls are thrown into the city streets with 20 to 50 boxes of cookies and told not to come back until  the cookies are sold. This is comparable to the method of teaching swimming where children are thrown into a pool of water and told to "sink or swim." A similiar method of teaching is seen today in online communities where new members are expected to "follow the rules or get banned."

The girls will be required to participate in group projects from arts-and-crafts to moving-the-cookies-out-of-my-mommy's-car-into-our-wagon-and-selling-them-before-she-gets-back-so-we-don't-get-beat. This type of teamwork will help the girls to build good social skills which will aide them in today's modern world.

All these and many more traits are taught to the girls to prepare them for the real world. However, all these things are ultimately taught to bring up the girls in the ways of Scoutcraft, a little known form of Witchcraft in which the girls are lead to believe that CJ is God and that through his divine scripting language, all may be accomplished.

So as we celebrate this 95th anniversary of our great heritage (albeit a day late), let us think back on where we have come from, and were we are going yet.

[SSH]

in which the girls are lead to believe ... that through his divine scripting language, all may be accomplished.

Are you implying that there is something that CAN'T be accomplished by AGS scripting? 

[monkey0506]

Writing the AGS Editor. :o

[LGM]

Yes.. You can't script the AGS script with AGS script.

[monkey0506]

...should probably be added as a feature to the next version of AGS or something...

[Tuomas]

YESS! I always believed AGS would bring us the proof that there is no God!


EDIT: Oh noes, blasphemy! :o

[Kweepa]

Yes.. You can't script the AGS script with AGS script.

There's no technical reason why not...

[DoorKnobHandle]

Yes, beat the horse to death. :