7/30/2006 Blog Cereal

[JenLee]

Oh hell. I meant milk, not beer.

Clearly the after-effects of eating that crud have stayed with me, even after all this time.

[WendellWit]

Ken, your observation forces me to digress into my favorite youthful discovery of "the way the world really works"...

In the early 1970's, I had the semi-privilege to attend Pepperdine University right after they opened their beautiful campus in Malibu, California (moving from a bad neighborhood in downtown L.A.). Personally, I learned that attending a "brand new" college campus is just as risky as buying an "exciting new car model" the first year it comes out, or dining at a "hot new restaurant" right after it opens (In this case, the best of the faculty had not yet migrated from bad-neighborhood-L.A.). But I digress from my previous digression. Pepperdine is run by the very fundamentalist and somewhat presumptuous religious group that calls itself "The Church of Christ" (my emphasis), and had some relatively strict social rules, including NO dancing on campus and absolutely NO alcoholic beverages anywhere on the grounds, including - no, especially student housing. In spite of that, two guys down the hall from my dorm room built a rather impressive beer-can pyramid right in their room's window, periodically assuring dorm monitors that they had picked them all up as empties from the nearby beach. No one in authority questioned the predominance of certain brands and the absence of soda cans. Thus, I learned the ubiquity of beer in College Life, regardless of school rules or standards.

[Professor John]

Oh hell. I meant milk, not beer.

Uh huh

[geniusNOTatWORK]

Yeah, the Kellog's brand cereal mascots lived in la-la land...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHiDr6KdD28

[kaledrina]

Something in the favorings of the cereal, when combined with beer, made the sloppy mess taste like beer.

In college, I found this was true of many cereals.

I should protest. My college has over thirty kinds of cereal in the cafeteria, despite being home to less than 1200 students - but there is only milk available, not beer.

[WendellWit]

Classic Cap'n Crunch Commercial! on YouTube via Mark Evanier