Mournful Oatmeal
Saturday, June 22, 1996

GK:.....brought to you by Mournful Oatmeal. Many people give up eating oatmeal when it's warm and that's why, in hot weather places, people tend to be dumber. They're eating fruit loops, when oatmeal is what they need.

GK & RD:

Mournful Oatmeal is nature's way of reminding you that you are only passing through And in the greater scheme of things, you are a temporary problem.

You were more interesting five years ago than you are now and this trend is going to continue.

Mournful Oatmeal. We put the real into cereal.

© 1996 Garrison Keillor

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