Count Chocula ALIVE AND WELL!!!!!
Much more disconcerting than the missing teen in Aruba (give up already she’s dead) is the recent disappearance of one Count Chocula. My favorite breakfast cereal still in production (Fruity Rice Krispies R.I.P.) suddenly stopped being in production a while back. Or at least that’s what I thought. On my bimonthly Meijer trip a few months back I strolled down the cereal aisle looking for my sugar encrusted soul mate Count Chocula and found none there. I subsequently went to Farmer Jack, Walmart, even a K-Mart and found nothing in the way of chocolate peddling vampires. I became increasingly concerned and scared. Eventually my cereal paranoia led me to the internet to do some research. The General Mills website mentioned nothing about the Count being discontinued. This was both a positive and negative finding. Positive because there was hope, but negative because it gave me nothing to go on, no news wasn’t necessarily good news. My main concern was that the terrible tasting and completely inappropriate Chocolate Lucky Charms was forcing the Count out on the street figuring that people like their chocolate and marshmallows mixed with Leprechauns not Nosferatu.
Shortly after I first noticed the disappearance I placed a call to one Mr. Aaron Luedtke I asked him what he was doing, the following is a transcript of that conversation.
MC: What are you doing?
AL: Just finishing off a box of Count Chocula.
MC (temporarily relieved): Where the HELL did you get Count Chocula!?
AL: I don’t know, I’ve had it for a while.
MC: Do you have anymore?
AL: Nope that was the end of the box.
MC (panic reinstated): Then that may have been your last.
The good news is this MAY NOT BE THE CASE…Jeff, one of the many members of UI’s insanely friendly and helpful staff, when shopping to restock the kitchen with breakfast foods and snacks FOUND Count Chocula and bought TWO boxes, one for UI and one for me.
Like reuniting with an old flame, I don’t know how long this will last. But all I know is that I have at least one more box Chocolatey Cereal with Spooky-Fun Marhmallows to enjoy.
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In other news Tracie has started her new job for the state of Michigan Environmental Department. Her job is to make sure our WATER supplies are safe and unpolluted. She mentioned the other day she went out to lunch with a couple of folks. One person from the “AIR” department of her building and another from the “LAND” department. This got me thinking. WATER, AIR, LAND…well AIR, that could also cover WIND and another word for LAND is EARTH, so logically Tracie could only be working for one man...
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I'd really like to help you, let you feel free, but I haven't much hope left, and I'm saving it for me.
Shortly after I first noticed the disappearance I placed a call to one Mr. Aaron Luedtke I asked him what he was doing, the following is a transcript of that conversation.
MC: What are you doing?
AL: Just finishing off a box of Count Chocula.
MC (temporarily relieved): Where the HELL did you get Count Chocula!?
AL: I don’t know, I’ve had it for a while.
MC: Do you have anymore?
AL: Nope that was the end of the box.
MC (panic reinstated): Then that may have been your last.
The good news is this MAY NOT BE THE CASE…Jeff, one of the many members of UI’s insanely friendly and helpful staff, when shopping to restock the kitchen with breakfast foods and snacks FOUND Count Chocula and bought TWO boxes, one for UI and one for me.
Like reuniting with an old flame, I don’t know how long this will last. But all I know is that I have at least one more box Chocolatey Cereal with Spooky-Fun Marhmallows to enjoy.
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In other news Tracie has started her new job for the state of Michigan Environmental Department. Her job is to make sure our WATER supplies are safe and unpolluted. She mentioned the other day she went out to lunch with a couple of folks. One person from the “AIR” department of her building and another from the “LAND” department. This got me thinking. WATER, AIR, LAND…well AIR, that could also cover WIND and another word for LAND is EARTH, so logically Tracie could only be working for one man...
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I'd really like to help you, let you feel free, but I haven't much hope left, and I'm saving it for me.