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That Photo of Michael Phelps With a Bong Did Serious Damage...

Dan Savage
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The accompanying graph in that story looks like I drew it in Microsoft Paint in 1993 - when I was 10. Stay classy, "Vanno."
on February 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM Report this
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Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeir (not so) GREAT!
on February 24, 2009 at 8:32 AM Report this
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Trés kewl.

Happy Fat Tuesday, BTW.
on February 24, 2009 at 8:37 AM Report this
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hmmmm..... how did they determine it was them dumping phelps and not that it was phelps himself who brought their rep down?
on February 24, 2009 at 8:42 AM Report this
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well.......I think that since it kept going down......instead of rebounding...............after his dismissal......ummmm .....yeah......that would imply that it was the firing.
on February 24, 2009 at 8:48 AM Report this
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@5. What relevance does this have. I have close friends who died due to our decision to enter Iraq. Their deaths are not Dan's fault. Dan has apologized for his stance in the lead up to the Iraq war. Many people were lied too. Even our friends when they were recruited. Lets us concentrate on the push for socialism and the legalization of personal freedoms.
on February 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM Report this
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There are few things better than a bong hit and a bowl of cereal in the morning.
on February 24, 2009 at 9:05 AM Report this
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They don't understand just how many stoners ate their cereals morning, noon and night. What do you want to bet they start focusing their advertising on "the munchees".
on February 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM Report this
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What a fun story. It's got so much. A busted-face kid with a great bod whose pursuit of endorsements began in childhood, the concept of Olympic amateurism utterly destroyed, absurdly priced consumer staples, soft drug hysteria, sic transit gloria mundi - a cornucopia.
on February 24, 2009 at 9:24 AM Report this
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What more could we have asked for to prove all those "drugs get in the way of your dreams" scare commercials wrong? Phelps wasn't jumping into an empty pool... he seems to have done just fine.
on February 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM Report this
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What's really stupid is that Kellogg's wasn't going to renew the contract anyway, but they just had to get on their high horse and say Phelps wasn't consistent with their image. Why the fuck they couldn't just let it go, I'll never understand. I hope the person responsible for that fuck-up got in big shit from McKay.

S'mores Poptarts are still my stoner food of choice though.
on February 24, 2009 at 10:14 AM Report this
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc much?
on February 24, 2009 at 10:50 AM Report this
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I would love to boycott Kellogs, but I gots to have me my Apple Jacks.
on February 24, 2009 at 10:54 AM Report this
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I just love this. I am not a pot smoker but I just love it. Being out of touch and supporting a drug war that we are losing is costing them big. How lovely.
on February 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM Report this
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I did not know about S'mores pop tarts until right now. Troubling news, since I love both s'mores and pop tarts.
on February 24, 2009 at 12:51 PM Report this
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On the bright side, Phelps just signed a multi-year endorsement deal with U.S. Bongs.
on February 24, 2009 at 12:51 PM Report this
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I immediately stopped buying Kellogg's cereals; and I eat a lot of cereal.
Ye Olde Fart
on February 24, 2009 at 1:05 PM Report this
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Is there such a thing as damage control for botched damage control?
on February 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM Report this
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@23 Yeah. Don't you read the consumerist? It Seth's thing on SNL couldn't have helped though.
on February 24, 2009 at 2:22 PM Report this
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In defense of Seth's thing on SNL: it was hella hilarious.

"Really Kellogg's? Every one of your products sounds like a wish a genie granted at a Phish concert."

Comic genius.
on February 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM Report this
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I stopped buying Kelloggs junk a long time ago. It's all so much genetically modified, artificially coloured crap. Wholesome...please!
on February 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM Report this
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Kashi?
on February 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM Report this
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The way the powers that be at Kelloggs mishandled the publication of the, (so what?) Michael Phelps bong picture was not only not "great" it was downright flaky!

They have no one to blame except themselves for costing them and their stockholders so greatly.

Several people have discontinued using anything with their name on it, not because of what Phelps did. It is the pathetic overreaction of the stodgy twits who run the company.
on February 24, 2009 at 11:09 PM Report this
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Kellogg's got what it deserved for being so uptight.
on February 25, 2009 at 12:28 AM Report this
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Seriously, and Kellogg's imagines their market is squeaky clean wholesome families? Where is their head Office, Stepford? Fruit Loops and Pop Tarts are the backbone of the stoner diet!

Years ago I had a buddy whose sister worked in marketing for Kellogg's. She got us a bunch of T-Shirts, Buttons, and fridge magnets that said, "Make today a Special K day!" Which we proudly wore on White party weekend where every day, and especially the nights were "Special K" days. LOL. Yup they've got their stodgey old heads firmly up their asses over ther at Kellogg's.
on February 26, 2009 at 2:10 AM Report this
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They're always after me Lucky Charms.............and that's all I got to say about that.

-Crackle, (formerly of the Snap, Crackle, and Pop Party)
on March 6, 2009 at 8:55 PM Report this

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