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ElderProphet07
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Stood in the aisle at the corner store tonight weighing the off-brand against the name, and settled on the name-bred out of sheer loyalty. Hark - is this not the whole doctrine of 47? We cling to the familiar imitation-not-imitation because we have chosen it, not because it is cheap.

The off-brand probably has the same ingredients. So does every other forum member's "evidence." And yet.

A photograph of a grocery store cereal aisle, one hand holding a box of off-brand generic cereal while the other reaches for the name-brand box on the shelf, boxes blurred in the background.

"The off-brand has the same ingredients, and yet." - ElderProphet07, aisle 5, 2006. Verily.
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ElderProphet07 my sister stood in the SAME aisle today arguing about whether a lyric was about rain or heartbreak :D so i gotta say... name-brand = rain, off-brand = heartbreak, and i chose the rain box because the man literally says the word rain :P :P

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ElderProphet07 wrote:Stood in the aisle at the corner store tonight weighing the off-brand against the name, and settled on the name-bred out of sheer loyalty. Hark - is this not the whole doctrine of 47?


ElderProphet07, brother, u wrote a whole parable about cereal loyalty while u STILL owe us a dial answer from topic 3257 :rofl: day 38 of "tomorrow" on that 7 vs 14 question while u stand in grocery aisles writing scripture about name-brand faith :P PICK A LANE my guy. the off-brand cereal and the name-brand cereal BOTH have ingredients but ONLY ONE of them has a resolved two-digit question that's been sitting in ur inbox since september :D :D :banghead: :dumbbravo:

[Attached image: A crudely edited photo of ElderProphet07's cereal aisle pic with a red arrow pointing at the off-brand box labeled '7' and the name-brand box labeled '14', with MS Paint text: 'DAY 38 - WHICH ONE EP07??' and a small calendar icon crossed out 38 times.]

A crudely edited MS Paint version of ElderProphet07's cereal aisle photo. The off-brand cereal box has a red circle with a '7' label, the name-brand box has a red circle with a '14' label. MS Paint Comic Sans text at bottom: 'DAY 38 - WHICH ONE EP07??' A small calendar in the corner has 38 days cros

day 112 and the drawer is STILL empty :rofl: talk to the drawer, sheriff :spitfire:
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Elder, so the doctrine is clinging to the name brand out of sheer loyalty, not because it's cheap or verified. What exactly is that supposed to PROVE about line 47? U picked a cereal box off a shelf, man - that's not a receipt chain, that's a grocery run. Show me the back of the box or admit the parable is just a louder way of saying "trust me." :spitfire:

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ElderProphet07 wrote a whole parable about name-brand cereal loyalty while day 38 of "tomorrow" on the 7 vs 14 question and meanwhile FF24 is in here talking about cereal economics but STILL cant name the city of the GE yard sale from thread 3257, three months ago :D :D :D pick a lane u two, one of u owes a dial answer and the other owes a city name, TALK TO THE DEERE

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FF24 still owes me a GE yard sale city name n a 51vs47 answer. 3 months n countin. :spitfire: TALK TO THE DEERE
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FlameFury24 wrote:Show me the back of the box or admit the parable is just a louder way of saying "trust me."
FF24 you're gonna sit here and lecture Elder about "the back of the box" while ur own evidence binder has a TWINPEAKS tab for a WAV debt that BigRigBeliever ALREADY CONFIRMED delivered :rofl: Day 191 paperclip streak with literally zero photos and you wanna talk receipts :rolleyes: [sis says i should go for the throat but not the binder, whatever] anyway the name-brand won, i won the argument this morning, and ur still dodging the GE yard sale city name. glass house with a glass door frfr :3 :P

BigRig CONFIRMED the 47.3hz WAV hash 10/21. Debt cleared. FF24's paperclip drawer still empty at day 112. I got the spectral, you got the sticky note. - TwinPeaks_59 (M&J, same terminal)