Comments on: Trivia champ on comics and cereal

By: fashion

fashion — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:10:21 +0000

The subsequent time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I really thought youd have something attention-grabbing to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could fix in the event you werent too busy in search of attention.

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By: bored guy

bored guy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:19:11 +0000

You all need a life, this is funny and that should be the end of it, all though it is exactly true.

By: Canton

Canton — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:53:53 +0000

That’s a beautiful analogy. Especially since Kelloggs was pretty much at the forefront of the modern breakfast cereal industry with Corn Flakes. General Mills hopped on board later with Wheaties, of course, which are like Corn Flakes made with wheat.

Of course General Mills needed to be edgier. To stand out! Yes!

And now, of course, they have Cheerios, the Wolverine of breakfast cereals. Cheerios, though kind of bland, are everywhere. They’re my parents’ cupboard, in my Grandma’s Chex Mix, and they’re like the number one baby snack food in America! Everywhere!

By: Tom Galloway

Tom Galloway — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:54:03 +0000

Tom B.’s wrong on the above; he’s recalling Alex Trebek mixing up Namor and Aquaman while interviewing Ken. Ken did miss, as I recall, a Final J! about comics, but it was so obscure and with so little associative info in the clue that I also missed it at home (basically, it gave a date in, I believe, 1971 and perhaps a quote which mentioned comics and you had to give the event that it refered to. Which was something like the first time Classic Comics shut down).

Ken’s a known comics fan, and even made a few posts on rec.arts.comics groups back in the ’90s. In fact, he recalled that I’d read questions to him back then at a Bay Area quiz bowl tournament since I’d worn a rec.arts.comics Suicide Squid t-shirt to it.

By: Jason Rodriguez

Jason Rodriguez — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:58:30 +0000

Yeah, I heard you can set your watch to Joe Sacco’s bowel movements – that’s how indie he is.

By: Mike Nicolai

Mike Nicolai — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:26:07 +0000

Quaker Oats is so indie. I heard Dan Clowes just eats raw oats and hay in the morning. And Chris Ware wakes up at 5 A.M. and eats a bucket of sawdust. Those boys are hardcore.

By: Jason Rodriguez

Jason Rodriguez — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:42:28 +0000

I’m on Quaker Oat’s side – that’s straight indie.

Old school colonials with perverted smiles – you never know what his hands are doing behind the bowl, it’s a study on sexual repression in the 1600s. Makin’ it happen wit’ the Cap’n – the hip pirate several generations ahead of his time. Mikey digging on some Life cereal – that kid hates everything, nonconformist since birth – but he appreciates the simplicity and great taste of a bowl of Life – a cereal that’s good for your mind and health, not just your taste buds. Than you got your Kretschmer Wheat Germ which is the hardcore indie – they don’t need a mascot, you buy because there’s nothing more chic than saying you had a bowl of Kretschmer Wheat Germ for breakfast.

By: Tom Bondurant

Tom Bondurant — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:30:36 +0000

Ironically, I think the one time I saw Ken Jennings on Jeopardy, he got a superhero question wrong. Seems like he confused Aquaman with Namor.

It’s funny to think that General Mills and Marvel both had their “horror” phase, though!