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Captain Crunch should be a controlled substance.

Caution: The Surgeon General has determined that Captain Crunch causes significant mood swings. In mammals.

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What kind of Cap'n Crunch? regular, Crunch Berry, Peanut Butter?

When I was going through a "sugary cereal" phase a few years back -- after years of whole grains and other not-as-bad-for-me cereals -- I'd go thru a box, sometimes two, of PB Crunch in a week. Among other things.

I usually have cereal four times a week. Haven't touched any in a month.

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Hey, I've noticed that Monty Python (at least in my nieces) leads to literacy. It appears Holy Grail lead them to read The Once and Future King.

Same can be said for Looney Toons, actually...

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Captain Crunch was restricted in our house mostly because of the cost. Corn flakes were a lot cheaper, although I suspect that by the time we got done adding sugar, the cost averaged out.

Ah, the great sugar wars! "Just ONE spoonful of sugar!" Yuck- one spoonful of sugar on cheap cornflakes was NOTHING! The games then begin- heaping, teetering piles of sugar carefully balanced in the spoon, using bigger and bigger spoons ("Put that serving spoon BACK right now, young man!"), trying to sneak extra spoonfuls.

We even had sugar cubes- and that was my favorite! They were for my parent's coffee and were usually off-limits to us, but when we could, we would add them like ice cubes and happily crunch on them as we ate our cereal.

On this subject- what were the great long-gone cereals you remember?

Quisp and Quake- the alien and the big construction worker?

Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Booberry- the 'monster trio'?

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Cartoons & Cereal

To tie the cartoon and cereal discussions together:

Most of the commercials for the cartoons Madkins007 mentions (Captain Crunch, Quisp and Quake, and some others) were produced by Jay Ward, who was the creator and producer of the wonderful Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons.

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Re: Re: Re: I'm impressed

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One of our favorite audio tapes is "Cartoon Classics"- full of the classical music they use on Looney Tunes (like old sci-fi, they often used itbecause they did not have to pay a copyright fee).

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[...] On this subject- what were the great long-gone cereals you remember?

Quisp and Quake- the alien and the big construction worker?

Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Booberry- the 'monster trio'?

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Good God

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I'm not sure about Quake, but I'm 99% sure I still see Quisp and I'm 100% sure I still see the monster trio in stores.

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I'm not sure about Quake, but I'm 99% sure I still see Quisp and I'm 100% sure I still see the monster trio in stores.

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I am pretty sure Quake is no more..

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Silly rabbit...

Who voted in the great Trix election that the rabbit should get to eat Trix!!

I did! The kids on the Trix commercials were almost as irritating as the Road Runner.

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I can remember watching a Saturday show called "Winky-Dink".

Parents could buy a kit that contained special crayons and a screen protector(most likely was patented, which would make previous discussions moot ).

Used to draw bridges, etc, so that the cartoon character could cross rivers, chasms, etc.

Of course, many TV screens got messed up using unauthorized crayons and no protection.

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I also remember Winky-Dink and the trouble I got into the one and only time I didn't use the screen protector and used my regular Crayola crayons. I couldn't sit down for a few days.

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'Monster trio cereal'- I found out that it was just the stores that I shop at that had stopped carrying them. I probably should do more of the household shopping! ;-)

Ah, the old educational shows- Toby's mention of the Electric Company reminded me of Zoom, 3-2-1 Contact, Mr. Rogers... My youngest is now 12, so I have not watched or heard of these for some time, so they may still be on, but some of the episodes were so fun to watch with your children! (I KNOW Mr. Rogers recently retired after his incredible run. I really love that guy- he is a pretty incredible person!)

I have a 'golden oldies' TV theme songs CD- and whenever it plays the Captain Kangaroo theme, I get an instant flashback- Tom Terrific, Mr. Moose, Mr. Greenjeans, Bunny Rabbit, the Ping Pong balls, story time, ahhhhh.......

The Old Curiosity Shop with that girl who was also on that other show (real helpful, huh?)...

Hal Lindsay (?) and his old children information show (Make a Wish? I seem to recall him saying 'Make a wish, dream a dream...")

The REAL Mr. Wizard- who makes Bill Nye look like a fool (OK, maybe that isn't hard!) I got in so much trouble for trying to re-do some of his 'stunts'!

Now I see that they are using "Davey and Goliath" in new commercials! That seems blasphemous to me- but on the other hand, I gotta admit it is kind of a kick to see them again!

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[...] Ah, the old educational shows- Toby's mention of the Electric Company reminded me of Zoom, 3-2-1 Contact, Mr. Rogers... My youngest is now 12, so I have not watched or heard of these for some time, so they may still be on, but some of the episodes were so fun to watch with your children! (I KNOW Mr. Rogers recently retired after his incredible run. I really love that guy- he is a pretty incredible person!)

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Sad Indeed..

I remember my C64.. on BBS's until 2am calling myself "The Nowhere Man" (I was 13 yo, more like "Barely-A-Man") ... and when they started in COLOR, wow that was "so killer." I played EA Summer Olypics quite a bit and wrote programs in BASIC. Then I went to college and I had to get the newest thing out (funny how some things DON'T change no matter how old you get...) and I bought the ultra sleek and immenently "portable" MAC. I spent $1300 I believe. Well, 2 years later I couldn't give it away (actually I ended up gutting the little box and turning into a fish tank, which I then sold for $50 bucks). Well, way back in 1998 I bought one of those old Pent II 400 Mhz dealies. Aaaahh.. So long ago. I got it at Gateway (the cow place - remember?). I spent $2300 I believe. Well, I got that YourWare program dealie where you can "trade it in on a newer model." You guys remember that program don't you... seems like just yesterday. Of course, the total sum of my trade in was just over $50 bucks. So, I have a new theory... anytime you buy something.. it will eventually be worth "$50 bucks." (You may have to turn into a fish tank to get the money though). FLASH TO THE FUTURE... Ad reads: Used Treo 270... $50 bucks. No, it doesn't have parallel video feed, nor does it have picture in picture in picture plasma screen.. But it still works.. would have made a fish tank but the brine shrimp kept leaking out."

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Hey, I like Bill Nye! Okay, the guy in the rat costume was over the top but it was fun to watch, especially the time he threw a computer terminal off a roof (it was the same type of terminal I was using, and not likeing much, at work at the time).

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Re: Silly rabbit...

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Who voted in the great Trix election that the rabbit should get to eat Trix!!

I did! The kids on the Trix commercials were almost as irritating as the Road Runner.

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Yes! Glad to hear I'm not the only one who wanted to have the rabbit finally get Trix...

As for the Road Runner, I say let the Coyote eat the silly bird! Poor guy was constantly getting mashed, flattened, and generally abused. Geez, those cartoons were violent... One more "beep beep" and I would have wrung his scrawny neck myself.

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Hey, I like Bill Nye! Okay, the guy in the rat costume was over the top but it was fun to watch, especially the time he threw a computer terminal off a roof (it was the same type of terminal I was using, and not likeing much, at work at the time).

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Are you sure you aren't thinking of Beakman

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