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From: ewhac@shell.portal.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Subject: Re: Star Trek cereal box DOES exist!!i
Date: 24 May 1994 05:37:56 GMT
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In article <2rq2qk$rt9@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Mike Jittlov <jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:
>>>and becoming one of the few owners of the original Kellogg's
>>>Sugar Smacks box with Mr. Spock on the front.  (Ya-ha.)
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>This is apocryphal, it's never exiisted, and you can't prove it.
>
>No -- No -- Tough to prove (unless you're Kibo and can see right
>_through_this_monitor!!).  But Believe It Or Not, I'm holding said
>cereal box (swaddled in a giant Zip-Loc) in my hands _right now_,

	He's telling the truth.  He brought said artifact with him to BayCon
last year, which I saw_with_my_very_own_eyes.  Unbelievably cheesy piece of
60's-style marketing (rather like the Flintstones movie opening later this
week (a comparison which I'm sure will prove to be unfairly denigrating to
the cereal box)).

>BTW, I'll be bringing The Super-Valuable *Mister Spock Box* to
>my convention appearance at (appropriately enough) MAD MEDIA CON,
>this June 10-12 weekend, in Madison "Land o' Cheese" Wisconsin ;)
>
	Be sure to secure it in a safe place.

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