"Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
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On Sep 11, 7:45 pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
> >> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
> >Alpha Bits had the best prizes. They also had the terrariums.
>
> You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
> inside of the boxes in the 60's. I think it might have been honey
> comb.
>
> Lou

I don't think it was the inside of the box. I think it was embedded in
the actual box. I remember cutting the record out of the back of the
box, leaving a giant hole in the back of the cereal box and getting
into a heap of trouble for that!!!!! The cardboard "record" did play
on my sister's panasonic portable record-player/am/fm radio, but you
needed to hold it down on the turntable with a quarter. You needed to
tape a nickle to the arm of the record player to begin with... and it
ruined her needle. I got into a heap of trouble for that, too!!! Not
for using her record player. I was allowed to use her record player. I
was probably 6 or 7 though, so I had no idea that a cardboard "record"
cut from the back of a cereal box would ruin a record player needle.

Don't remember if it was Honeycomb, Alphabits or Super Sugar Crisp. It
was one of the Post cereals....

It was Honeycomb. Could have been the others too, but I remember begging my
mom for the Honeycomb so that I could get the record. I remember cutting it
off of the box. The record itself was square.

I hated Honeycomb cereal and wouldn't eat the stuff. I actually didn't
really like any cereal. That's why I had to beg to get it. And I would
promise to eat it. Luckily my brother did eat it. It wasn't his favorite,
but he eventually ate it.

But after the second box? Nope. My mom wasn't going to fall for it any
more.