cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs

[Jonathan Lighter]

You mean people who *believed* the commercials as kids.

JL

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>wrote:

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> On 26 Aug 2012, at 03:53, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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> > That's actually easy. People who used to watch the commercials as kids
> are now running things.
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> Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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