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The Post by buttercup (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 03:32:44 PM EST

The reason Houstonians hate the Chron so much is because it bought out and then killed its only competition, the Houston Post. Having two papers made both better. Now there's no reason for the Chron to do anything more than sell Sunday advertising supplements.

Enjoy your camping this weekend! Here's the firestarting recipe we'd use in the Girl Scouts. Take a cardboard egg carton and stuff the cups with dryer lint. Pour melted paraffin over the lint and allow to harden. Tear the cups into individual firestarters and store them in an old coffee can.

"Too slow, Chicken Merengo!" — Cat

Awesome. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #13 Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 04:49:20 PM EST

Enjoy your camping this weekend! Here's the firestarting recipe we'd use in the Girl Scouts. Take a cardboard egg carton and stuff the cups with dryer lint. Pour melted paraffin over the lint and allow to harden. Tear the cups into individual firestarters and store them in an old coffee can.

The next time I need to stuff a firestarter into a Girl Scout, I'll know just what to use!

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I think it's more for by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #21 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 07:38:06 AM EST

starting Girl Scouts on fire. Can't see why you'd want to do that because, if you did, they wouldn't be able to sell any more Thin Mints. And Thin Mints are, as you know, the crack cocaine of the cookie world.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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Of course. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #23 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 08:15:14 AM EST

But you don't start them on fire by just placing them in the same general area as a firestarter. No, no, you gotta stuff them firestarters in them to make it count!

And the world could do with a few less thin-mints. Because for every box of thin-mints, some bastard is buying those horrible oatmeal concoctions they call cookies.

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What! by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #24 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 08:22:49 AM EST

the world could do with a few less thin-mints.

Oh, right, you're one of those Upper Northern Midwesterners from Dakota or Minnesota or somewhere like that where everyone is of Good Norwegian Lutheran Stock and thinks that Suffering is Good For The Soul

And that's why you hate Thin Mints. Because they are yummy and decadent.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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No, no, you misunderstand. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #25 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:16:50 AM EST

I love thin mints. But everybody that buys them also buys a box of those gawd-awful caramel covered oatmeal things and expects you to eat as many of those as you do thin mints because, heaven forbid somebody just not buy the thing they hate. There's some weird "I have to buy one of each or someone's feelings will be hurt" thing going on in this area. So girl-scout cookies are bought not on merit, but on strange associations based on type.

If we could get just thin mints, and only thin mints, I'd be all for it. As it is, we're better off with fewer girl scouts because I'm not eating any more of the crappy cookies just to get at the thin mints.

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I don't by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #26 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:27:43 AM EST

I just buy Thin Mints. But I live in the South, where people are reasonable about the simpler pleasures.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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: Yeah, we suck. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #27 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:31:36 AM EST

Everybody's all about "taking the bad with the good." Even with cookies. I blame religion.

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