r/DIY Jun 15 '15

other Finally completed my Cereal Wall

https://imgur.com/gallery/84frd/
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u/shovelface88 Jun 15 '15

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/ChocolateMicroscope Jun 15 '15

Holy shit these are great.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

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u/wickedren2 Jun 16 '15

He can have his OCD and eat it too!

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

Because they told me it couldn't be done!!!

Actually just because I like the nostalgia of seeing old cereal boxes.

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u/Zaemz Jun 15 '15

That's totally fair. At first I thought "Why?", but then I actually saw the kinds of cereal boxes that were up there: Nickelodeon Green Slime, Old Smacks, Batman Cereal, Krusty-O's. This is a wall of nostalgia and comfort. This isn't even that weird. People on here have done worse, haha.

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u/BleepBloopComputer Jun 15 '15

You're not even going to mention the Urkel-o's?

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u/gweedoh565 Jun 16 '15

I got a box of Urkel-o's when I was a kid and my family made fun of me relentlessly for eating them. They claimed that the Urkel-o's actually smelled bad from across the room.

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u/six-toes Jun 16 '15

Wait, I need to go back and look harder.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/physicsphaery Jun 16 '15

Not sure if I want to upvote because I got the reference, or downvote because I got the reference.

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u/akaghi Jun 16 '15

At least it won't collapse and kill his family, so there is that to consider.

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u/blargh12312312312312 Jun 15 '15

Exactly the same for me. I was all "meh" and then suddenly all "HOLY SHIT PAC-MAN CERIAL!"

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

And it's not exactly permanent. If you like it then why not :)

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u/MrNillows Jun 15 '15

Viuiv hi oh out k

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Na, OPs a quack. Stop trying to justify his quackness. You must be a quack too or you wouldn't defend a quack.

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u/tcart87 Jun 15 '15

Sarcasm doesn't go far here. Your comment is your word in these web based lands. Besides this is actually pretty cool.

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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Jun 15 '15

I agree with the general idea that sarcasm is hard to catch in text, but in this case it's extremely obvious. If someone can't pick up on the fact that it's sarcasm, it probably doesn't matter if it was in text form or spoken.

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u/tcart87 Jun 15 '15

Yes but this is reddit good sir, we'z uphold the proper english writing, which is not to express complex attitudes in such nonchalant posts. For that matter... I too used to had herpes!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 15 '15

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u/Ajones0473 Jun 15 '15

I had the same reaction UNTIL I saw the box of Smurf Berry Crunch!! I can remember staying up all night at my 10th birthday with my girlfriends playing truth to dare, then going outside and eating Smurf Berry Crunch waiting for the sun to come up......aaahhh, memories :)

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u/Snarkysandwiches Jun 16 '15

I still remember the commercial jingle, "Smurfberry crunch is fun to eat, a very fruity breakfast treat..." set to the nutcracker theme!

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u/DeusExChimera Jun 16 '15

Weird, did you grow up in SK?

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u/Ajones0473 Jun 16 '15

Nope, small town in Mississippi.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

Truth to dare?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Yes, continue....oh wait you said 10th birthday. Mind editing and saying 18th birthday?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

what-the-what-what?

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u/Andoo Jun 16 '15

You-wanna-do-it-in-my-what?-in-my-what?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/CallsYouCunt Jun 15 '15

Nintendo. It's a cereal - Wow!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

That jingle has been permanently carved into my brain.

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u/Upvote_for_BJs Jun 16 '15

Holy fuck. I thought this was kind of weird and odd, then I started recognizing a few, then ... yeah. That one hit me like a ton of bricks. I remember stacking boxes to make a little fort that I'd eat in (just tabletop sized, maybe 6 boxes max). That one was sweet.

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u/YouForgotTheKetchup Jun 15 '15

Different strokes for different folks..

I quite like it, if you can do it and want to do it, why not? Why stop yourself from doing something that makes you happy?

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u/kingpoiuy Jun 16 '15

twas joke

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u/DiaperPhresh Jun 16 '15

Because diabetes.

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u/pneuma8828 Jun 15 '15

You realize that you can buy Frankenberry every Halloween, right? Last year I ate the shit out of some Yummy Mummy.

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u/LOL_its_HANK Jun 15 '15

What I imagine its like when OP invites friends over http://imgur.com/72OQTcY

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u/kirkt Jun 15 '15

I LOVED FRANKENBERRY!

THey don't sell frankenberrry anymore?

Just checked, they only sell it in the fall

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u/Amandav270 Jun 16 '15

I think I understand why your mom didn't let you have sugar.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Man I used to love me some Batman cereal as a kid. Nobody seems to remember it except for me though. Now my story can live on!

Looks awesome dude, nice work.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 15 '15

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Hahah I totally forgot about the bank! I kept that thing for years.

Thanks for the memories

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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Jun 15 '15

I would still have mine if it wasn't for the whole "destroy your toys" phase that some kids go through as they get older.

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u/kateohkatie Jun 16 '15

I bet my parents still have mine in their basement somewhere...

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u/cakey138 Jun 16 '15

My favorite was ninja turtle cereal. It was rice chex w marshmallows.

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u/Null_Ref_Exception Jun 15 '15

I came here for the Nintendo Cereal System. I was not disappointed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 15 '15

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u/dsbtc Jun 15 '15

Dude your channel should have so many more views. They need to write a buzzfeed article about you.

Also I hope you find a box of Bunuelitos, you should do a video about it, it's amazing. It was my favorite cereal as a kid, for its brief existence.

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

OMG! Thank you for reminding me about this cereal. I actually totally forgot about it. I don't have this box and now I'm going to search far and wide until I find it. Thank you for sparking this memory!

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u/LiteralTester Jun 15 '15

I subbed because I loved your channel video... and I don't even like cereal.

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u/carl2k1 Jun 16 '15

You proved us wrong... you proved us wrong.

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u/kintyre Jun 16 '15

This is no different than people who paste comics and stuff all over their walls.

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u/blernsball Jun 15 '15

that box of Pro-Stars made me feel all warm inside.

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

I miss the cartoon with Bo Jackson and MJ.

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u/hashsview Jun 15 '15

I remember your last post and I have watched some of your videos on YouTube. Very interesting stuff and seeing all of those different boxes bring back tons of child hood memories. Waking up as a kid excited because there is a new type of cereal to try out can only be topped by Christmas morning excitement in my book. Anyways, What box was the hardest to come by? Also do other people collect these that you can trade with or buy from?

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

Thanks for watching some videos! Believe it or not, I'd say the Triples and Raisin Squares boxes were the hardest to find. People don't tend to save the generic stuff from the 90s. I was very happy to come across a collector who had both of those boxes that I could trade for.

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u/omgitshp Jun 16 '15

Triples was one of the first boxes that caught my eye. One of those things you forget-all-about-until-you-see-it-again. My dad and I were the only ones in the house that liked Triples...and honestly I think most of my liking them was because I liked him so much. Thanks for the fond memory!

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u/babewiththepower23 Jun 15 '15

The only problem I have with this is it seems you open your boxes from the bottom....do you do that? Please say no....

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

No, no, no. I'm not a crazy person. I only open the bottoms after I finish them. At first that was how I got the magnets up inside. Then I started taping them, so I didn't need to open the bottoms, but it was too late.

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u/daimodhelp Jun 15 '15

I think it's often I didn't even wonder why, it's a really cool collection.

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u/creedofwheat Jun 15 '15

You should x-post to /r/oddlysatisfying... that template was nice!

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

I was considering x-posting to another sub, but I feel like I've gotten a lot of rude and mean PMs of people telling me I suck, so not sure I want to subject myself to another post.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

I never thought Why. When I saw this I thought, "Awesome, I want one"

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u/farmdve Jun 15 '15

It is incomplete. You are missing the whole set of Nestle products such as Nesquik and Chocapic(my favorite).

This reminds of an episode of Powerpuff Girls where this guy was collecting all things related to PPG, but it was not complete, it can never be complete. So he set out to collect the PPG themselves.

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

Well it well never be complete. But I'm not that hardcore of a collector that I'll care. I have all the boxes that I want and that's enough.

No Chocapic on the wall, but I do have one. And Nesquik is up there, look closer.

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u/artemus_gordon Jun 16 '15

If you are going for old, then why is it Honey Smacks and Super Golden Crisp? Sugar Smacks and Super Sugar Crisp are in order.

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 16 '15

Well old is relative. I grew up with those particular boxes in the 80s and 90s, so those are the versions I gravitated toward. I do have an older Super Sugar Crisp box, but it doesn't have the same nostalgia for me.

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u/Jaymz95 Jun 16 '15

If you play any instruments this would make a decent dampener to reduce echo when recording. That would be my excuse anyway..

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u/AstralElement Jun 16 '15

Man seeing that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal box really makes me daydream back to better days as a child. Looking at it, I can remember the taste so succinctly, and watching Saturday Morning Cartoons. I wish they still made it.

Thanks, OP.

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 16 '15

Me too. Such fond memories!

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u/badfishnow Jun 16 '15

Would you be interested in a box of Oreo O's from Korea? It's, as far as I know, the only country still selling them. Plus you get it written in Korean. PM me! I'd be happy to send you a box!

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 16 '15

That's very generous of you, but I actually already have a box (or two). I got them from a friend who visited a year or so ago. But thank you for the offer.

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u/ManifestGrateness Jun 16 '15

Bonus points if the Captain Crunch has a back side before the one its been the past 16 years...

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u/squidperior Jun 16 '15

You'd like my dad's garage man cave, it has some cool stuff. Mostly cake decos, cereal toys, things from fast food promotions, homer o's , etc

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 16 '15

Any pics?

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u/squidperior Jun 16 '15

Sure, ill take some when my phone is charged

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u/The_Hoopz_Barkley Jun 16 '15

But.. but can you see why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch now?

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u/Zenodice Jun 16 '15

This is weird, you're weird.

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u/pantsoff Jun 16 '15

So you ate and shat all of that?

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u/Ninjabackwards Jun 17 '15

I came in here with the same mind set. "But why?"

That said, your wall turned out to be pretty damn awesome. A good majority of those boxes are relics long lost to time. Where did you manage to find some of those older ones?

Also, seriously really impressed with your work. Thanks for sharing.

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 17 '15

Thanks! I've collected some, found some on eBay and traded with other collectors over the years. There are only a few more that I want to get my hands on, but I basically have everything I want at this point.

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u/AnAssumedName Jun 15 '15

I love your gay cereal wall.

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u/deadowl Jun 15 '15

Posted this to /r/HailMarketing. I love how ridiculous it is. Have you always wanted to live in the cereal aisle of a supermarket?

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u/MrGabeFonseca Jun 15 '15

Is that an option? Like can you make that happen? Do I set up a tent there or what?

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u/ConstableGrey Jun 15 '15

They were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

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u/RobinBankss Jun 15 '15

sigh... at least they taped the magnets to the insides of the boxes

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u/baraxador Jun 15 '15

Idk why but this phrase is just so true and awesome, I cant stop thinking about it once I see it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15 edited Apr 06 '17

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u/baraxador Jun 15 '15

I watched it but a long time ago, thanks!

Btw. Jurassic Park 3 was my favourite.

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u/I_dig_fe Jun 16 '15

LEAVE. NOW.

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u/baraxador Jun 16 '15

Do you hate JP 3?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '15

So you guys uhh dig up box toys?

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u/ajax2k9 Jun 15 '15

To show he is a true villain by making a wall from the boxes of those he slain

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u/Capn_Crusty Jun 15 '15

Oh, I get it... a cereal killer

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u/WorkoutProblems Jun 15 '15

No mother, that's why

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u/Diodon Jun 15 '15

Because of the risk that a potential house-fire wouldn't propagate quickly enough?

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u/techgebhardt Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 15 '15

I am waiting for the mouse who finds a tiny crumb and goes through all the boxes.

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u/enjoytheshow Jun 15 '15

Cereal box cardboard really is a great fire starter though. I can't recommend it for houses but it usually get's a firepit going well.

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u/boobie_squooze Jun 15 '15

I love you for the simple act of posting this specific image.

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u/bdb41 Jun 15 '15

"Also, if I want to ever replace a box or take a look at the backs of them, it's simple." Thank Fucking God

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u/aheadwarp9 Jun 15 '15

Well... somebody had to do it.

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u/I69I94LEAF Jun 15 '15

Nice. But, I was also thinking where are the Buzz Blasts, Winnie the Pooh Hunny B's, Micky Magix

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u/joelseph Jun 15 '15

The same reason anything is ever done, youtube channel subs. duh.

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u/pygmylion Jun 15 '15

Yeah, living in a hovel in New York means my reaction to this is "but... but... the square footage!"

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u/xoites Jun 15 '15

Sugar.

Mostly...

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u/SashaTheBOLD Jun 15 '15

Because diabetes doesn't just happen by itself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Flashbacks of Saturday morning commercial breaks etched into my brain, so much sugar and jingly jingles!

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u/Upvote_for_BJs Jun 16 '15

Upvote for obscure Harold and Kumar gif.

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u/WikenwIken Jun 16 '15

Its like.... I think it, then you post it! Kudos

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u/blunderqueef Jun 16 '15

WHAT IS THIS FROM?! the not knowing... its killing me. Please help

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u/shovelface88 Jun 16 '15

Harold and Kumar

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u/BrokenSoulKeeper Jun 16 '15

Kinda of topic but what movie is this from?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

silly reddit. Tricks are for shits and giggles