Thanks to Alyson M. of Pickering Valley Service Unit in the Girl Scout Council of Freedom Valley, Pennsylvania.  Alyson developed a web page for her Service Unit as part of her Silver Award.  This is just a small taste...

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.
• Candelighting - 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 - Handsignal 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 convice 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 elses' 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

Need more laughs?  Here's the website http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3209/terms.html

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