About Us
Several years ago (I think 1995) Sam Buck and John Andres were screwing around being
weird and funny,
and thought that Cap'n Crunch should be promoted to an Admiral. So
they called Quaker Oats and told them what they thought. 
Quaker Oats liked the idea and even sent them a padded
envelope to send a petition and a audio tape
saying why they thought he should be promoted. So Same and John started up a petition
getting names from school and even took it to Scout camp with them. Eric Dodge,
another member of the troop and friend of both of theirs, was one of the couple people that
walked through the huge camp to all the camp sites with John and Sam trying to
get as many signatures as possible. The total was somewhere around 200 names. That's a
lot of names for such an odd thing! Anyway, after that, John made an
online version of the petition and posted it on his website. Then the idea of promoting
Cap'n
Crunch kind of faded away, but Eric was lucky enough to copy the page's HTML
and pictures before John's web page got erased. Then, in 1998, John and Eric started the
petition up, with a new and updated petition, and with Eric redesigning the
webpage and hosting it along with his personal webpage. Their goal
was to get 500 names!! And if you think about it, 500 is a LOT.
After 500 names was reached and passed (very quickly too), The goal became 1,000
names! Wow! Hundreds of names were pouring into Eric's mailbox from
the webpage. 
Eric and John started submitting the
URL to as many search engines as possible and Eric wrote an article for an online zine
called Yellow Dog. After 1,000 names came and went, the goal was 2,000!! Eric wrote an
article for the Waterloo Courier, a newspaper in
Waterloo, IA. The next day, Eric got an email from someone signing the petition saying that
they heard about it from the Washington Post.
Then another...and another...and so on. Eric found a copy of the article from the online
edition and got them to send him a copy of the article
(which will be included with the petition when sent to Quaker Oats, just as ALL the news
coverage will.) A little after that, KWWL, a NBC station in Waterloo,
Iowa did a story on us. Eric was online when it aired and started getting emails of people
signing the petition as SOON as the story was done! Then, more and more names keep
coming in as John and Eric, and their cause, were featured in more and more newspaper,
zines, and online zines across the nation! The goal of 2,000, once reached, marked that John
and Eric were going to send the petition into Quaker Oats. They wanted to include a video
tape containing the KWWL story, so john and Eric wanted to make a little video to go along
with it describing to Quaker Oats why they think the Cap'n should be promoted. But due to
their conflicting schedules, John and Eric didn't really get that chance. Then the goal of 2,000
came and went. Eric said that they should start getting everything ready to send out and the
video recorded, and hopefully by that time, they'll have 2,500 names to send to Quaker
Oats. Well, the video finally got made not to long ago, and the count then was 2,679
names. Now, the only thing holding them back from sending the petition is, is that they would
each like to include a letter describing their personal thoughts into the matter. That, and
they're waiting for the last of the articles written on them to come in so they can send those
into Quaker Oats too. So hold on tight and just wait and see! SOON, the Cap'n MIGHT
just become an Admiral!
Check out the NEWS section to see all the different
media we've been in.