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To: Olog-hai
Just this morning, over a bowl of gluten free cheerio type cereal, I reminisced about all the reading I did as a kid

I read every single word on every box set before me .... corn flakes, usually

And I cut out the masks and once, someone had printed on the cardboard, a 45 phonograph record I cut out and it actually played

I don't remember what it was ....

But a lot of my reading comprehension is courtesy of Battle Creek Michigan ... and Iowa and Kellogg's and ...

43 posted on 02/24/2016 9:06:23 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: knarf
"I read every single word on every box set before me .... corn flakes, usually."

Perhaps you've stumbled on the explanation for the declining sales. The cereal boxes exceed the average millennial reading grade level.
47 posted on 02/24/2016 9:11:02 PM PST by clearcarbon
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52 posted on 02/24/2016 9:34:58 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: knarf

Breakfast cereal records... more of them then you light think.

http://www.mrbreakfast.com/list.asp?id=5

I think there was one about John Glenn’s Mercury spaceflight in the early 60s, but maybe I just imagined that.


66 posted on 02/25/2016 12:05:00 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: knarf

I did all those things AND I send away and received a Captn Crunch Treasure chest breakfast set. What I would do to have that again!


85 posted on 02/25/2016 2:03:43 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftism is the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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