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...JACK Armstrong, The All-American Boy!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hAOoRNdJx8 (...I especially love the Wheaties commercial in this thing!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Joe Weider was the Wheaties guy I remember.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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What a puppy you iz! Okay, while Jack Armstrong was even before MY time(though I DO remember my father mentioning the character to me over my breakfast bowl of Wheaties) I think the first Wheaties box I remember had the Olympic pole-vaulter Bob Richards on it, which according to this Wiki page list of Wheaties box stars would place it at 1958. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_athletes_on_Wheaties_boxesSaaaay, ya know, this might be fun have the folks around here try to remember the first athlete THEY remember being on a box of Wheaties! (...sooooo, anybody game here?)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Sorry we grew up poor couldn't afford Wheatie 
Are we there YET? I gotta go pee!!
08 SpeedMASTER, Black and Red!
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Oh boy, here we go with that old Monty Python "We were so poor that..." routine again, eh Jason?! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I love those "we were so poor" shticks. I always use them when my dad is hovering nearby, cause he always says "now wait a darn minute!", and he gets really exasperated. It's fun to tease dad. My favorite, ala Redd Foxx; We was so poor, that on Xmas eve, dad went out into the alley and fired a shotgun into the air, then came back in and told us Santa Claus just committed suicide!
Fidelis et Fortis
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Saaaay, ya know, this might be fun have the folks around here try to remember the first athlete THEY remember being on a box of Wheaties!
(...sooooo, anybody game here?)
Just try and find a picture of that wheaties box 
Anyhow, I think this is the picture that was on it:
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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When I was a kid Phidippedes was on the Wheaties box for his recent achievements.
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When I was a kid we didn't even have Wheaties, if you wanted something like that you'd go out to the field with a scythe to get some grain then squirt some milk on it from the utter of ol' Bessie.
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Luxury! We used to bite the grain off with our teeth and..... Never mind. Python has a lot to answer for 
Dinosaur.
"Oh Man I only ride 'em.I don't know what makes 'em work". Donald "Oddball" Sutherland
"Don't let the bastards get you down". Kris Kristofferson
"I am only paranoid because everyone is against me". Larry [Frank Burns] Linville
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We were so poor, that breakfast consisted of government cheese out of a Wheaties box my mother had gotten out of someone's trash in the alley. 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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...I had a piece of chaff for a pet.
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We were so poor, if I didn't have a hole in my pocket I wouldn't have had anything to play with. 
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And you may see me tonight
With an illegal smile
J. Prine
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We were so poor, if I didn't have a hole in my pocket I wouldn't have had anything to play with.
Yeah, BUT since we DID, life was GOOD!
And you may see me tonight
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J. Prine
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