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Cereal prizes, and ow, my neck.

I threw Group 017 up on the Cereal Prize Project, and I mean that more figuratively than I'd prefer, but it's been a dizzy week and I know you'll forgive me. I've got a special blog entry coming tomorrow, but calling it "special" will only overstate its innate specialness, so let's just say I'll be back with more tomorrow (or, as they case may be, later today) and leave it at that.

In other news, over the last week and a half or so, I've had the most annoyingly consistent neck/back cramp/thing ever. Like clockwork, around the time I'm supposed to go to bed (now-ish), my neck and back start feeling as if I've ever done anything in my entire life physically exerting enough to cause neck and back pain. I worked hard at atrophy; this really sucks. What's worse is that it always strikes at bedtime, like there's some demon controlling the happy balance of my body who waits until it's finally time for me to relax and be comfortable to lash out with a HOLY FUCK WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY NECK, I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW BAD MY NECK HURTS, every single night. I'd visit the doctor, but that would go against my family's longstanding theory that things like this "just go away on their own eventually," and who am I to rebel against generations of Opiophobia? Besides, I've always been into those old Doan's commercials and I've finally found justification to down half a bottle of their pills. When I do, my back better start pulse-glowing red and orange to illustrate what the pills are doing, or I'm getting my money back.

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Posted by Matt on 05/09/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 52 comments

Matt-
My suggestion is to SACRE out the pain. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00…s=dvd&v=glance

50 movies should give that lower back pain quite a fright

King

Chestnuts roasted by KingofKings @ 05/09/2006 9:20 AM

"Robaxisal or robaxicett platinum." — JoshC

I heart this stuff. Brought it back with me from my last trip to Toronto, which like 8 bottles of Canadian Tylenol. I love Canada. Swiss Chalet, Roots, Codeine over the counter, hockey galore. It truly is a fairy land.

Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/09/2006 11:35 AM

From the perspective of spending one’s first full decade of life in the 70′s, I miss Smedly, the Peanut Butter Crunch Elephant. Then again, I remember when those carboard records used to be on the backs of boxes. One of the oddest premiums my siblings and I ever got was a Presto Magix set in a Jiffy Pop. It was to promote Disney’s "The Rescuers." It was a scene of the bad guy’s hideout and, of course, we put ‘gators in trees, and upside down mice in the water. Makes me wonder, when did they stop putting good stuff in cereals and other food packaging? Did it just slowly phase out, or was there a sudden cold turkey moment?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/09/2006 11:59 AM

Has anyone looked closely at the top of the Joke Machine? It clearly demands that you pull Crackle’s finger. I weep for the future of our children.

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 05/09/2006 2:46 PM

I was always confused by Sugar Bear’s Dean Martiny voice. Maybe it made sense originally, but by the 80s he still had the voice, and as a kid I wouldn’t have known who Dean Martin was if he was pouring vodka on me. I honestly thought Sugar Bear was supposed to be from some other country, but I wasn’t sure which one.

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 05/09/2006 3:47 PM

I hated Sugar Bear! I thought he was a conceited bastard! So, I never ate Sugar Crisp as a kid on principal.

….now I eat boring, "adult" cereals. Although I used to love TRIX, Golden Grahams, and Pac-Man cereal the most.

Matt- Any chance of ever doing a review of the Nintendo cereal they had briefly? It had two compartments inside, and a different picture on each side of the box- it was 2 boxes of cereal in one! One side was MARIO BROS. and the other ZELDA- I think. Does anyone know what I am talking about? I only ate it for a 2 week vacation at my cousin’s house as a kid, and then never saw it again…

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/09/2006 4:07 PM

…and did anyone else notice that there are like 5 ads about relieving neck pain at the top of the site here? Is that coincidence? :)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/09/2006 4:09 PM

Right now one of the ads involves an injury lawyer site.

I can’t believe that it would take you as long as that to get a sack of gummy bears from Sugar Crisps. You know, if you recall those ads you’d know that Sugar Bear must have been on downers.

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 05/09/2006 4:22 PM

I think the ads are usually based upon the keywords in the article.

Chestnuts roasted by Hey I'm Jeff @ 05/09/2006 4:27 PM

Muppet Baby– I absolutely remember Nintendo cereal. It was even called the Nintendo Cereal System! I refused to eat it because I felt that it cheapened the serious nature of gaming. Grrr… such an angry child.

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 05/09/2006 5:06 PM

Not only do I know of Nintendo’s Cereal System, I also partook of its conceptual sibling, Nerds Cereal. Does anyone have the bowl you could mail-away for? It had a dividing partition that you could remove to mix the two flavors together. Now I want neon-colored fruity cereal. All part of this X-E snack.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/09/2006 5:10 PM

So this is my firts post EVER (in 5 years). And JoshC brought me out of my shell. I just have to chime in on the nutmeg thing. Even if you don’t decide to use it for the neck pain. Its definitely a very fun (legal) recreational drug. Get the whole nuts, though, and chew them really well with some hard candy like lemon heads or that christmas ribbon candy. Then wash them down with a good gulp of coke. It takes a while to kick in, but its pretty fun. Enjoy!

Chestnuts roasted by Boo @ 05/09/2006 5:18 PM

The blog ads change to match the context of the entry and comments. It’s neat to see them change around as the posts drift from topic to topic. If you look back at a few older entries you can really see it.
They sell codeine over the counter in Canada?!? Next thing, you’ll be telling me that Mexico is decriminalizing weed!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/09/2006 7:39 PM

Never liked Golden Crip either. Nothing wrong with the mascot, who is cool, I just never liked the taste of the cereal. Still don’t. I also now eat boring cereals; Shredded Wheat (with or without frosting) is a favorite.

The "joke machine" rings bells; I think that’s another small vendor/fast-food meal/cereal premium toy my sisters and I had laying around our rooms for five or six years. (Some of them were around for so long, my brother eventually ended up with them when he got old enough.)

Errgh. Matt, I kinda know how you feel. I’ve had massive sinus headaches for weeks now, probably because I’m not used to being around so many trees. I’ve been taking generic sinus capsuals and aspirin. It’ll go away for a few days, then come back. It’s annoying, to say the least, and it makes work very difficult.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 05/09/2006 8:20 PM

Here’s my two cents: You can temporarily relieve the pain in your neck with vicodin and a huge batch of margaritas. It’s been working great for me.

My friend had a stuffed animal much like Lotsa-Leggs, except I’m pretty sure it had plastic feet. Around the age of 7 she hit me in the face with it during a pillow fight gone awry. One has not known pain until they know the pain of being pelted in the face with a welfare Lotsa-Leggs [with plastic feet].

And lastly, around the same time Super Mario Bros. had a cereal with two compartments of cereal, so did Barbie. One kind was gross and one kind was good and one morning my mom poured me the gross kind and I complained and she insisted THEY WERE BOTH THE SAME FLAVOR! That conversation still irates me, as they were obviously NOT the same flavor. If they were the same flavor what would the point of two compartments be? I’m gonna take the Barbie cereal incident, and the rage that followed, to the grave with me.

Chestnuts roasted by Rebecca @ 05/09/2006 8:20 PM

Bludge- Glad you remember the cereal…but, you thought it cheapened gaming? I thought it advanced gaming’s importance, and made NES even more important in my life! Nintendo was everywhere- even in my breakfast!

They DONT sell codeine over the counter in the US? Geez, what a bummer. You gotta love the Tylenol 3s.

This whole nutmeg thing intrigues me… what kind of effect does it have on your tummy?

kingklash- That bowl sounds awesome. Sounds like something I would actually use a lot!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/09/2006 8:37 PM

this has nothing to do with bears or muscle relaxers, but I felt the need to respond to an article from back a few years ago when i was young and full of life, that i only just saw today, when i am old and waiting for a bus to hit me so my cat can get the insurance. CONSUMERS rocked! That’s the catalog store where you just go in, pick up a catalog, and they check to see if they have what you want in their secret warehouse youre not allowed to see. I scored a Hordak figure and a few other hard to find
toys there as a kid. we didn’t have a Toys R Us for a while, so Consumers was the place to go if Kay Bee and the department store toy sections didn’t have what you wanted. Also, Child World with the big panda logo was wicked swell for big/rare toy finds too, you must remember that store especially if you’ve spent lots of time in Jersey.

Chestnuts roasted by bowlah @ 05/09/2006 8:38 PM

Yeah, I’d like to know about nutmeg effects too… all I know is that Denzel Washington’s prison buddy gave it to him to help him get over withdrawal in Malcolm X. I guess nutmeg is a wonder drug. Deodorant be damned, I’m sprinkling my pits with nutmeg tomorrow.

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 05/09/2006 9:10 PM

"A risk of any large-quantity ingestion of Nutmeg is the sudden onset of Nutmeg Psychosis, an acute psychiatric disorder marked by hallucinations, excitement, thought disorder, a sense of impending death and agitation."
-wikipedia.org

So euphoria OR a sense of impending death. I guess it’s not so great after all… although Nutmeg Psychosis would be a good name for a band.

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 05/09/2006 9:20 PM

I swear on my life, and the lives of everyone around me – that Excedrin Migraine helps ALL PAIN. Seriously. Of course, I take it for headaches/migraines, but also any other kind of pain, no matter what, and it takes it all away, and makes you feel like a brand new person. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/09/2006 9:47 PM

I just found an old inhumanoid coloring book and two super naturals figures today from when I was a kid. Sweet.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 05/09/2006 10:23 PM

Nutmeg just makes me REALLY stoned for about 24 hours. It kind of messes with your time line. What I mean is, in reality you would get out of bed, go in the bathroom, and brush your teeth in that order. But nutmeg makes you think you get out of bed, brush your teeth, and then walk to the bathroom, then get out of bed, then walk to the bathroom, then get out of bed, then brush your teeth, and eventually your back in bed again. Its pretty fun.

Chestnuts roasted by Boo @ 05/10/2006 2:16 AM

Damn you, Muppet Baby, I now have the jingle from the Nintendo Cereal System ad running through my head …

Nin-Ten-do! It’s a cereal now!
Nin-Ten-do! It’s for breakfast – Wow!

Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/10/2006 10:52 AM

Late posting, but I just read the link to Group 017 and I had to tell you, not only do I vividly remember having prizes 69 and 72, I’m almost certain I still have them. Given my propensity for clingy-ness, I’ve never been able to throw things away. I have drawers full of crap like that. I rarely go back to them, afraid I might get the urge to clean the mess out, so I just get new containers when old ones fill up. Some would call this being a packrat. My parents call it being a filthy slob.

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