REJECTED GIRL SCOUT COOKIES
• SKIP-A-BEATS – Cookies so loaded with fat and sugar they made your heart stop after eating just one.
• AIRDROPS – When you opened the package it appeared to be empty, but inside were the lightest, most invisible Girl Scout cookies ever made. And they had zero calories. Unfortunately you had to eat the box to feel the slightest bit full.
• CHOKEY-DOKES – These were the Girl Scouts’ most dangerous cookie, make with ingredients so sticky you needed to have the fire department on standby to administer mouth-to-mouth. Chokey-Dokes were made with caramel, peanut butter, molasses, marshmallows, candle wax, and Gorilla Glue.
NAMELESS, TENNESSEE _ When you think of Tennessee your mind probably goes to Nashville, Memphis, Dolly Parton, etc. It probably never goes to Nameless. The unincorporated community of Nameless, Tennessee, is located at the top of a ridge along the scenic back roads of Jackson County. During its heyday around the turn of the 20th century, Nameless had a population of 250 residents, who sent their children to Nameless Elementary School and mailed letters at the Nameless Post Office. Local folklore disagrees on how the town got its name. Davis Watts, whose family once owned the town’s general store, says that residents couldn’t agree on a name when they sent Washington D.C. their application for a post office. Because the “Nam” field on the form had been left blank, the form was stamped “Nameless,” and the name stuck. In another version, a local official tried to name the town “Morgan,” after a Jackson County attorney general, but the name got vetoed by the post office because it was still too closely associated with Confederate war hero John Hunt Morgan. In the resulting standoff, the town stayed “Nameless.”
PARENTS WITH TWO CHILDREN ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS _ A study found that a second child wreaks havoc on your mental health. Researchers surveyed 20,000 Australians over the course of 16 years, and found that second children “increase time pressure” and “deteriorate parents’ mental health”. Researcher found that both first and second births increased parents’ time pressure in roughly the same way. That said the effects were more significant for mothers than fathers. But that doesn’t mean that fathers are getting off easy, particularly when it comes to the second child. When looking at mental health, mothers saw improvement after the first child is born. Add a second kid, however, and paternal mental health plummets.
