PRODUCTS THAT DON'T EXIST ANYMORE - POST CEREAL PRESENTING "COUNT OFF"
Back in 1962, the Post cereal company decided to take advantage of the American love affair with the space program. They stole the idea of a cereal with sugary sweet oat numbers from their own corporate product - ALPHA BITS. The difference between the two cereals: one cereal had numbers, and the other cereal had letters. The ALPHA BITS semi-cloned (copied, but slightly different) cereal was named COUNT OFF.
About a year ago, I wrote a satirical blog post about Alpha Bits being used as a learning tool for a young George W. Bush. Supposedly, "W" had a hard time learning to spell, and his parents bought thousands of boxes of Alpha Bits to help their son learn 3rd grade spelling (when he was 13 years old.) Who knows, maybe Count Off cereal was also used as a "W" learning tool to help teach him to count.
He never seemed to be able to include the Iraq war in the budget. He always had to pay for the war as an EMERGENCY SPENDING BILL. A little more intelligence with numbers, and the budget would have been a truthful document, and it would also have been a HUMONGOUS deficit laden budget. Was it STUPIDITY, or was it being a SNEAKY, CONNIVING GOP politician - YOU BE THE JUDGE?
Posted below is an original 1962 commercial for Count Off cereal.
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About a year ago, I wrote a satirical blog post about Alpha Bits being used as a learning tool for a young George W. Bush. Supposedly, "W" had a hard time learning to spell, and his parents bought thousands of boxes of Alpha Bits to help their son learn 3rd grade spelling (when he was 13 years old.) Who knows, maybe Count Off cereal was also used as a "W" learning tool to help teach him to count.
He never seemed to be able to include the Iraq war in the budget. He always had to pay for the war as an EMERGENCY SPENDING BILL. A little more intelligence with numbers, and the budget would have been a truthful document, and it would also have been a HUMONGOUS deficit laden budget. Was it STUPIDITY, or was it being a SNEAKY, CONNIVING GOP politician - YOU BE THE JUDGE?
Posted below is an original 1962 commercial for Count Off cereal.
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Posted by Ron D at 4/26/2012 7:36 AM 
Categories: Pop Culture, Politics, Classic TV, Advertising Commercials
Tags: Pop Culture vintage advertising classic TV politics commercial sarcasm cereal box political GOP Republican my opinion "W" Post cereal
Categories: Pop Culture, Politics, Classic TV, Advertising Commercials
Tags: Pop Culture vintage advertising classic TV politics commercial sarcasm cereal box political GOP Republican my opinion "W" Post cereal
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