A small cloth pouch tied with red string stands beside a folded white paper cone and a round stitched patch on cream ground.

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Elliot

Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.

— True Romance  ·  1993

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Our interpretation.

The introduction adopts the language of a scout fundraiser, then names cocaine as the product being sold. The collision between a wholesome institutional claim and an illicit commodity creates the joke. Hesitation in the wording makes the incongruous sales pitch especially conspicuous.

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