# Quaker Oats Logo

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 16, 1999, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quaker-oats-logo/938 "1999-06-16T21:26:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 16, 1999, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quaker-oats-logo/938/1 "1999-06-16T21:26:00Z")

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Who in the hell is John Penn? Did you perhaps mean William?

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**Post date:** [June 22, 1999, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quaker-oats-logo/938/2 "1999-06-22T22:36:00Z")

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John Penn-----lawyer, signer of the declaration of independence, Virginian

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**Post date:** [June 23, 1999, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quaker-oats-logo/938/3 "1999-06-23T22:07:00Z")

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I certainly didn’t mean John Williams. He’s a good composer, but he certainly didn’t have anything to do with the Declaration of Independence.

Rich