Results tagged “girlscout”

• First and foremost, we'd like to give a shout-out to higher education. Promoting the notion of Thinking for Yourself since at least the 18th century.
• Television advertisements will soon embrace images of cancer tainted lungs as cigarette companies are required to clear up any confusion about the health benefits of cigarettes. (See benefits of higher education, above.)
• And the smoking-ban in Austin will hopefully soon be changed to make smokers, not bar-owners, responsible for their actions.
• Everything you hear about the housing market "cooling off" you can ignore. It doesn't apply to Austin.
• You paid for those Girl Scout Cookies, right? Otherwise, be on the lookout for your court order.
• Sooo...is it sacrilege to bite the head off of this piece of chocolate?
• When you hear someone screaming at the office today, you know they read this article...after a couple drinks...

It's a mad, mad workd out there, folks. And here's the proof... SFist commenters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest...

We don't like to pick on animals or children here at Austinist, because it just doesn't seem right. But...we saw a story today that kinda made us a little uncomfortable. The Statesman ran a story today about the Austin-area Girl Scout Cookie Queen, Round Rock's Shalee Hindes. The 12 year-old sold 4,500 boxes, shattering the previous record for cookie sales (3,658).