Too true, free gifts are a great strategy for making friends.

-Nuju Metru

Who's serving cookies?

Isn't that more like bribery? "Give me the location of the rebel base... and I'll give you a cookie."

People are more likely to agree with you if you have a weapon.

~AA

People are more likely to agree with you if you have a weapon.

 

~AA

AND have cookies.

Also, as The Boondocks have taught me, some people are easily swayed by cheeses of decent quality.

Cookies! =D

HOM NOM

~Riku

What if I use the cookies as a weapon?

~EW~

My parents bribed me with Vakama Metru, I said yes.

Oh my god -- I just watched 88 Minutes, with Al Pacino. (Awesome flick, btw. Pacino plays a forensic psychiatrist with 88 minutes to solve the case of his own impending murder. [!]) There's a scene in the beginning where these dudes from the FBI come to ask him some questions. Before they get down to business, Al offers them -- you guessed it -- cookies and milk. While this gesture achieves nothing in a practical sense, it does soften the edges of a situation that ends up rather tense in itself.

It's true: hospitality and good manners do make a difference when you've got difficult issues to hammer out with somebody.