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He's An Impostor, The Navy Says About Cap'n Crunch
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Posted on 06/20/2013 10:44:10 AM PDT by Perdogg

We don't know how, but we missed a major scandal brewing in the Navy for decades. It's important, so even if we're a little late to the story we still wanted to point it out: Cap'n Crunch is an impostor.

The Cap'n was unmasked on June 14 by a food blogger, who noticed the uniform he wears on cereal boxes had the stripes of a commander, not a captain. That is: A captain has four stripes on his sleeve, while a commander has three.

As the story spread, the Navy confirmed what you might be fearing: Cap'n Crunch is a fraud, tricking innocent children since his introduction in 1963.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: napl; usnavy
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To: tgusa

a lot of commanders are ship’s captains, adn addressed as such....heck, ‘Captain’ bligh was actually a rank Lieutenant.


21 posted on 06/20/2013 10:57:32 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

What about the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island?


22 posted on 06/20/2013 10:58:31 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: dirtboy

Well, of course: Cap’n Crunch is far more respected than Barack Obama. .


23 posted on 06/20/2013 10:58:47 AM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: Perdogg

NPR hopes the captain crunch scandal deflects attention away from the myriad of Obama scandals bursting into flames all around him.


24 posted on 06/20/2013 11:00:04 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Perdogg

Your tax dollars, hard at work in their new HQ.


25 posted on 06/20/2013 11:00:13 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Salgak

Sold a lot more product than Barry ever did.


26 posted on 06/20/2013 11:00:28 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tgusa

Now, let’s talk for a moment about Captain Fantastic.

He wasn’t a captain and he was hardly fantastic.


27 posted on 06/20/2013 11:01:21 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: Perdogg

I trust NPR has also launched an investigations into Tony the Tiger and Sugarpops Pete. Meanwhile, the background of the world’s biggest imposter, Baraq Hussein 0bama, remains very cloudy.


28 posted on 06/20/2013 11:01:29 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Jesus, Please Save America!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

OK, that’s kinda funny.


29 posted on 06/20/2013 11:03:28 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Perdogg

Next you’re going to tell me that King Vitamin isn’t a real King.


30 posted on 06/20/2013 11:04:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: WesternPacific

We hard an Army Mike Boat working for us for a couple of months. The skipper was a SP4 named Spanky. On the water we called him Cap’n.


31 posted on 06/20/2013 11:04:32 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Perdogg

That stuff always hurt my mouth.


32 posted on 06/20/2013 11:08:01 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: Perdogg; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Did he serve with Kerry in Vietnam?


33 posted on 06/20/2013 11:18:39 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: Perdogg

What they do not take into consideration... is that there is a rank of captain in the Navy O-6, but a Commander can be the Captain of a ship...


34 posted on 06/20/2013 11:19:03 AM PDT by Fully Awake DAV (Navy Vet when homosexuality was not tolerated)
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To: dirtboy

BUMP!


35 posted on 06/20/2013 11:21:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Perdogg

Until Post brings back Frosted Rice Krinkles (which they have no intention to do according to them) I am stuck eating this Cinnamon Toast Crunch crap.


36 posted on 06/20/2013 11:24:51 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Perdogg

2600...


37 posted on 06/20/2013 11:25:28 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Perdogg

Who says he’s in the “U.S. Navy anyway? Is his hat navy issue?

It must be awfully boring to work at NPR, if this sort of childish nonsense is all they’ve got to do.

Reminds me of the libs who wanted the “Roadrunner” cartoons quashed because they were “too violent”.

The arrested development of the left never fails to amaze me.


38 posted on 06/20/2013 11:25:50 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Perdogg

This is bad. I remember what happened to Adm Boorda.


39 posted on 06/20/2013 11:29:59 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: DManA

I know- that’s why you gotta eat the whole box at once- because you can’t eat anything else for a week


40 posted on 06/20/2013 11:30:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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