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Knead to have: Auntie Anne's launches pretzel-scented fragrance online, sells out in 10 minutes Knead to have: Auntie Anne's launches pretzel-scented fragrance online, sells out in 10 minutes PHOTO: Instagram/Auntieannespretzels Amierul Rashid PUBLISHED ON August 19, 2024 1:00 AM ByAmierul Rashid Walk past any Auntie Anne's and you'll catch the wonderful whiff of freshly baked pretzels. But how about wearing it as a scent? As unusual as it may sound to some, the US franchise has made this possible with the release of its very own perfume. The warm, buttery notes of a freshly baked pretzel, along with just a...

AUSTIN — Three McNeil High School students are each facing a class C misdemeanor citation for stealing animal crackers and a jar of pretzels from the staff lounge...According to the school district, McMillan's 15-year-old son and his two friends entered the unlocked school building during the school's basketball game and made their way into the staff lounge, which requires a badge. A custodian had left the door propped open. "They were like, 'Let's go in. I think it would be cool if we go in and get it.' Just being dumb teenagers, not doing what they're supposed to do," McMillan...

They came for your laptops. And for your liquids, and your shoes. Now, the Transportation Security Administration is coming for your snacks. Passengers at airports around the country — including all three of the Washington region’s major airports — are reporting that, increasingly, TSA agents are instructing them to remove their snacks and other food items from their carry-ons and place them in those ubiquitous plastic bins for separate screening. It’s not part of agency’s standard policy, according to TSA spokesman Mike England. It’s simply a recommendation issued by the agency last year to help speed the bag-check process. Screening...

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts and arrogance. It's Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, "No other word and no other language can do it justice." Read the story below and you will understand. A little old lady sold pretzels on a mid-town street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel. This went on for more than three years. The two of them never spoke....

That pretzel you're munching is not only an ideal accompaniment to a beer, it has a connection with Lent that dates back to the fourth century. In the Roman Empire, the faithful kept a strict fast all through Lent: no milk, no butter, no cheese, no eggs, no cream and no meat, according to CatholicCulture.com Ancient Romans made small breads of water, flour and salt, as a reminder that Lent was a time of prayer. The breads — the first pretzel-like breads — were shaped to form crossed arms to symbolize prayer, as praying was done with arms crossed their...

For a party that is supposed to be the American Hizballah (Party of God) the GOP sure seems to be incurring his wrath.Is Sarah Palin a lightweight, politically inept, or crazy like a fox? Only her hairdresser knows...Mark Sanford? Is that bum still around? Don't cry for me Argentina...Papa Bush wasted a 92% approval rating, falling victim to the Clinton smear machine. All George W wasted was a once-in-a-century opportunity and trillions of dollars. Of course, it was the Bush-Cheney gang versus the entire MSM smear machine by that point...Show me a conservative Democrat, and I'll show you a liberal...

Ansaman has been keeping a lil' strip on Kim Jong Il's latest fun shennanigans.... http://www.ansaman.com/kim/kimcomix.html

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he war on drugs is about to become a trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada. A Canadian agricultural company that grows and sells what it terms sterilized hemp seed that Americans use in bird feeders will try today to convince U.S. officials that hemp is not marijuana — and it will use the North American Free Trade Agreement to argue the charge is a misfire in the war on drugs. Kenex Ltd. says the U.S. anti-drug campaign has gone too far by targeting the hemp-based chips, pretzels, nutrition bars, clothing, oil and seed products that in the past five...