“We need to bring it back to life in a relevant way,” says Kelley Peters, the “insights” director who charts Grape Nuts psychographics for Ralcorp’s $5 million resuscitation attempt. Her target: men 45 years old and up. “Men aspire to it,” she says. “It’s strong and stern, the father figure of cereals.” Her marketing chief, Jennifer Marchant, points out: “It tends to break your teeth sometimes.”

True, but Grape Nuts loyalists don’t all welcome the focus on maleness. Sylvie Dale, 38, an editor in New Jersey, and a woman, says: “The rhythmic crunching that reverberates around your skull could be ambient sound meditation. To have the patience to get through a bowl, you have to practice mindfulness.” Ms. Dale adds: “I have a special place in my heart for this cereal.”

In a nearby control room, Julius Larriva, who has overseen this process for 33 years, said: “Bake and destroy, bake and destroy.”

The friend of my reader is an embarrassment to the forces of evil.

I’ll take care of your asshole throughout the episode.

“Whenever you talk about groups,” he complained, “at the start you’ve got to put up with a salvo of stale jokes… . ‘Ha!  Ha!  Groups!  What a silly subject that is!  It must be very amusing to talk about groups!’  That is the way our wits reason when one talks about groups.”

Sure, I wear a smear of rouge. Sure, I’ve dug potatoes out of garbage hills. Sure, I’ve played my share of football. And what does it come to? A throat full of polyps and a set of false eyes.

I’ve kept a picture of you on the wall. I’ve always looked up to you. If you ever came to me and said, “Rub something,” I’d rub it without a second thought.

at night, I saw many things……………#finalfight, =w=, accentuating the positive, air, anime, apples to apples, art, astro boy, babelfish, bad voice acting, being indifferent, being psuedo-intellectual, ben folds, ben folds five, black books, blaq, brentai, brunching shuttlecocks, bubb rubb, bubble bobble, caffiene, castle excellent, chibi-clan nudity, collecting, comic books, comics, contra, cowboy bebop, cynical video game writing, cynicism, ddr, deviant time signatures, diddy, donnie darko, dreaming, earthbound, elaborate fishsticks, explosive endings, flcl, free samples, fun, george foreman grill, goonies 2, grammar slamming, great teacher onizuka, green tea ice cream, gto, harlem heat, hassel tossel, hating “l337”, hating the term “h*ton”, hating trolls, hayao miyazaki, hendrix, high-priced legal rottweilers, i know, ice cream, ikaruga, inane intrests, incomprehensible subject headers, indirectness, iron chef, irony, jazz, john fowle, justin ray-keeffe, king behemoth, kobun, kobun heat, kool-aid man, kool-aid man yaoi, korean game betas, latin heat, laverian/keeffe english dailect, led zeppelin, lightgun games, lil’ sis, love and peace, lupin iii, machine gun fellatio, making stupid graphics, manga, megan kloosterboer, mewd, monty python, natural selection, nes, netiquette, nihilism, ninjas, nintendo, notorious big, nozin’ aroun’, number 24, obscure injokes, obsolete textbooks, ok computer, osamu tezuka, parish, peeps (the candy), philosophy, phish, photoshop, pirate radio, pirating, pointless waste of time, pokey the penguin, pyoko, radiohead, rain, revolutionary fervour, rockin’ psi, samurais, sarcasm, semper fi, shaq, shaq city, shaquille o’ neal, shmups, silver coy, silver coy clan, sleeping, snes, solidsharkey, spying, sudden endings, super nintendo, swords, tasmania, the beatles, the fecal lord, the gia, the pillows, the verb ‘to get’, time crisis, toastyfrog, touch fuzzy get dizzy, transformers, trigun, vapid gamepro-bashing, vib ribbon, video games, water, weezer, weird al, wesley willis, wheelchair basketball, writing, 日本語, “our” beavis, “shut up and jam”, “the stampede”, “unauthorized!”, 50 cent peices, 6th grade, air, all in the family, andrew, authors, b “flicks”, bach chowi, baseball, beavis and butthead, behemoths, big boss, brentai, chickle bytes, chickle tabs, chicklets, chris farley, clarinets, classic rock, clothing, coleman, cowboy bebop, cynicism, dead baby jokes, density, denying well-accepted concepts, donkey kong, donnie darko, english bashing, enraged dogs, extremely bad graphics, extremely good graphics, formations, gamepro bashing, glitches, hassel tossel, hating 'parent-hating’, hating phonies, hatred for modern rock, high-priced camel-oriented dvd collections, hilario, hokaloogie, inane intrests, jack rabbit slims, japan, king behemoth, koncept, looney tunes’ tunes, megan kloosterboer, mewd, mewd clones, mewd obsessees, modern day pirates, neccessities in general, neo-tokyo, nes, niave, nintendo, nostalgic russian oriented cartoons, olly oop, over-simulation, parish, peices of 50 cent, people who are pseudo-intellectual, piracy, pixles, poy rings, radiohead, rambling, rolling stones in general, roms, rooney, rutgers, sarcasm, saving the armidillo, seizure anime, semper fi, shaq city, shaq clone harvests, shaq in general, shelter, shockboy08, society bashing, solid sharkey, super nes, symbolism, tabs in general, tactical espionage action, taken, tale spin, teh funny, the 'double-take’, the class of 2001, the fecal lord, the future, the goonies 2, the ice cream man, the metric system, the mullet, the notorious big, the rolling stones, the verb 'to get’, the whopper, toastyfrog, tributes, videogame sports announcers, videogames, water, weezer, wesley willis, zany videogame quotes, zoop, abstract art, acadia national park, american beauty, ani difranco, anomalous individuals, apples to apples, art museums, atacama desert, baking, ballets, barbara kingsolver, beaches, beasts, beds, biking, biology, birds, blueberries, bluegrass, c.s. lewis, camping, ceramics, chicago, chile, classic rock, classical music, coffee, coffee shops, concerts, corn snakes, country living, dark rooms, deep conversations, dictionaries, discovery channel, documentries, donnie darko, dragonflies, driving in the rain, editorials, egypt, elton john, english teachers, ethnic studies, exotic ice cream, family guy, fishing, folk music, forests, french pop, gardens, geometry, getting lost, ginger ale, grateful dead, guitar, harry potter, harvest moon, hiking, history, horror films, hyperboles, intellectuals, jazz, john coltrane, joni mitchell, justin ray-keeffe, lakes, led zeppelin, leotha stanley, limon soda, llamas, magnolia, martin sexton, master fields, meditation, mountains, mummies, musicals, national geographic channel, neil young, not using electricty, painting, personal ads, philosophy, phish, photography, picasso, pink floyd, playing recorder, poetry, power outages, psychology, public libraries, public radio, quotes, rain, reading, reading the newspaper, rocks, running, salamanders, salvador dali, santiago, satire, saturnine moods, self-improvement, shaq city, sheep, simon and garfunkel, simplicity, sketch books, skiing, sleeping, sleeping bags, sleepwalking, solitude, soul mates, south america, star gazing, street musicians, talking, tea, teenage melodrama, the andes, the beatles, the environment, the ocean, the velvet underground, thesauruses, thinking, tori amos, traveling, trees, united states postal service, urbandictionary.com, used book stores, vegtables, vermont, vh1, violin, walnut grove productions, water, wild dogs, wind, word-smiths, world maps, writing, zoo, air, akira, audi, bare knuckle, breaking time, bubb rubb, bustin caps, collecting chaos emeralds, contra hardcorps, contra nes, cowboy bebop, einhänder, flcl, i am the chef, ikaruga, justins calm psychotic rage, knuckles, megan kloosterboer, mg, mike tysons punchout, mnopo, nba jam “rooks!”, nes, piston honda, pondering, raiden ii, rc pro am, ren höek, salt, shaq, shaq city, shaq diesel, shaqpondering, smurfette, sonic, sonic 2, sony, stimpson j. cat, super mario bros 3, sven höek, tactical espionage action, tails, the doggfather, the henry-suck, the lemar-dance, the pillows, vws, wd-40, whytest tyghtest, wooo

What chance had the poor Latin authors, with their pastoral imagery and the placid flow of their verse, against the robustious rough-and-tumble of getting up in the schools and calling your opponent an ass because he did not agree with you on the burning issue of Universals, and proving it, with much subtle distinction and logical hair-splitting, to your own satisfaction, and the tumultuous stamping and whistling of your audience!

Two issues dominated Barack Obama’s first presidential term: healthcare and the economy. Both reflect the tension between the individualism of the Northern herders and the collectivism of the Southern herders.