the cereal serial continues ...

Who do you think is the best cereal mascot ever? There sure are some great ones out there:



• Tony the Tiger ... he's grrrrrrrreat!
• Lucky the Leprechaun ...we're always after his lucky charms
• The Trix Rabbit ... sorry, Trix are for kids
• Snap, Crackle and Pop ... the first gay breakfast cereal characters
• Fred Flinstone ... yabba-dabba-don't
• The Honey Nut Cheerio Bee ... a little too flighty for me
• The monsters: Frankenberry, Count Chocula, Boo-Berry ... mad props to the monster pack
• Cap'n Crunch ... is it just me, or does he come across a bit pervish?
• The Corn Flakes Rooster ... psyche
• Toucan Sam ... follow that nose ... um ... beak
• The Sugar Smacks Frog ... hippity-hoppity
• The Post Super Sugar Crisp Bear ... remember when he was all smooth?

One song from cereal time rocks: Honeycomb's big — yeah, yeah yeah! It's not small — no, no, no!

Random Guam Fact Of The Day:
• Guam is the largest, and southernmost, of the Mariana Islands. The smallest, and northernmost, is Maug. Really. Can't make that shit up.

killer cereal ...

At a meeting today, the discussion turned to cereal. It seems as if some of my co-workers enjoy mixing cereals — the good for you, full of fiber stuff with the sweet, bad-for-you cereals.

Bleah.

I can't mix cereals unless they're pretty much the same thing. I need my cereal grains to be of a relatively uniform texture. That's just me.

My favorite cereals:

• Cocoa Krispies. Best chocolate cereal ever. I can't stand Cocoa Puffs or Cocoa Pebbles; they're both nasty. Cocoa Krispies with banana slices is the best. Second place is Count Chocula.

• Tony the Tiger. That's what it's name should be, not "Frosted Flakes." Every kid I've ever known calls it Tony the Tiger cereal. Also a great cereal when mixed with banana slices.

• Raisin Bran. Something about the sweetness of raisins mixed with the bowel-cleansing goodness of bran.

• Grape Nuts. But only the following way: with about 1/4-inch of milk above the cereal level, then set aside for 10 to 15 minutes, so it soaks up all the goodness of milk and gets non-crunchy.

• Sugar Smacks. The crack of cereals. You have to eat it fast, because once it gets soggy it's pure nasty, but man, oh man, is this stuff good.

• Wheaties. Hey, what can I say? I bought it for the athletes on the box; keep coming back for the taste.

And keep all that Mueslix-like new-age cereal away from me. Use it for it's original intended purpose: Feeding goats and other lifestock.

Random Guam fact of the day:
While Mt. Everest is the highest mountain, Guam's Mt. Lamlam is, technically, the tallest. Everest is 29,035 feet above sea level. While Lamlam is only 1,332 feet above sea level, it's "base" is, again technically, the bottom of the Marianas Trench, which has been measured at 35,800 feet in depth, or 6.2 miles. Add Lamlam's height and you get a grand total of 37,132 feet in height, from bottom to top.

Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

Too lazy to write up something original, so I'm sharing something from e-mail that, as a wordsmith, I appreciated.

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. They formed a row on the side of the canoe.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Random Guam fact of the day:
• Guam's territorial bird is the Mariana fruit dove, which is called "tottot" in Chamorro. It is endemic to the Marianas Islands, is an endangered species and is extinct on Guam, thanks to the notorious and nefarious brown tree snake.