The "REAL" Definitions of Girl Scout Terms

As you read these PLEASE keep your sense of humor!

Troop Committee:

• Family Appeal Chairman - Calls parents to tell them the leader needs money to send in.
• Cookie Chairman - Parent with a garage and a pick up truck or van.
• Emergency Contact - Parent who is always home except when you need them.
• Telephone Chairman - Calls to tell parents what was in the note sent home.
• Transportation Chairman - Parent with station wagon or van.

Types of Troop Government:

• Brownie Ring - Circle of chairs that girls run around.
• Town Meeting - Chairs all face the same way but girls don't.
• Patrol System - Small groups of chairs - girls all in the bathroom.

Girl Scout Glossary:

• Badge - A small, round patch on a girl's sash that she can't remember what she did to get.
• Bridging - A ceremony in which girl is given her honorable discharge from the troop.
• Brownie - Short girl in brown dress which is either 2 sizes too big or 1 size too small.
• Buddy System - Pairing of girls which guarantees they will never be in the same place at the same time.
• Cadette - Tall girl who would rather be caught dead than seen in uniform.
• Candle lighting - Ceremony in which a Girl Scout demonstrates that she cannot light a match.
• Color Guard - Group of Girl Scouts tripping over each other while banging flag poles into door jambs.
• Court of Awards - Ceremony parents attend to make sure their daughter got more badges
        than the neighbor's daughter.
• Court of Honor - Mythical part of the patrol system.
• Daisy - Very short girl with blue smock covering all food, paint, and grubby hand stains on
        regular clothes.
• Fly-Up - Brownie ceremony similar to Bridging ceremony, but girls are booted out of the nest as well.
• Friendship Circle - Girls standing in circle trying to out-squeeze each other's hands.
• Girl Scout Sign - Girl holding up 3 fingers so she has something to look at while saying her promise.
• Girl Scout Week - A week on the calendar, sometime in March, that overstressed leaders can't
        seem to think of anything special to do to celebrate it.
• Investiture - Ceremony in which girl forgets her promise after practicing it at least 25 times
        that afternoon.
• Junior - Medium size girl dressed in green with sash falling off shoulder.
• Juliette Low's Birthday - Usually called Halloween because that's more "fun".
• Kaper - Fancy name to trick the girls into cleaning the latrine.
• Kaper Chart - Poster board announcing, for all to see, who gets to clean the latrine.
• Motto - Be Prepared, but any experienced leader actually knows it's Be Flexible.
• Neighborhood/Service Unit - A geographical subdivision of a council with a fancy name to
        confuse new leaders as to where they belong.
• Patrol - Group of 6 - 8 girls who used to be best friends.
• Quiet Sign - Hand signal invented by leader with laryngitis.
• Ranger - Man in charge of scout camp -- can see gum wrapper under a tent 50 yards away.
• Scout's Own - A ceremony where no-one contributes anything and everyone wonders what
        is coming next.
• Service Team - Group of adults that muddles along trying to convince everyone else they
        are great administrators.
• Sit-Upon - A mat or pad, usually somewhere else when you really need it.
• Thinking Day - Special Guiding and Scouting day when leaders worldwide wonder why they are
        spending more than an hour a week on somebody else’s girls.
• Troop - Large group of girls dedicated to making leader insane.
• Try-It - Triangular piece of colored cloth on a girl's sash/vest that shows she's been showing up
        to meetings.
•WAGGGS - What leaders do with their index fingers to girls that are misbehaving.

Four Program Goals For Girls:

1. To Develop to Her Full Individual Potential.
Translation: You are a very small cog in a very big machine.

2. To Relate to Others With Increasing Understanding, Skill, and Respect.
Translation: You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

3. To Develop Values to Guide Her Actions and to Provide the Foundation for Sound Decision-making.
Translation: Never Miss a Meeting or a Deadline

4. To Contribute to the Improvement of Society Through the Use of Her Abilities and Leadership
Skills, Working in Cooperation With Others.
Translation: Sell Cookies and collect for Family Appeal.

Source and thanks to: Mountain View Girl Scout Neighborhood in Vancouver, Washington.
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