# oatmeal man

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-man/6505>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 25, 2000, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-man/6505 "2000-01-25T13:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![curious861](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@curious861](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious861)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-man/6505/1 "2000-01-25T13:29:00Z")

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who was the original oatmeal man?  
was it not wilford brimley.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-man/6505/2 "2000-01-25T13:52:00Z")

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William Penn

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“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx

Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman)