Posted by John Phillips [209.91.93.146 - ] on 01 September 2004 at 12.14.01 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: A Nomination for Idiot of the Month posted by Indon on 22 March 2003 at 06.20.45 ZuluTime:

prozac Dear Mister Language Person: I am curious about the expression, "Part of
     this complete breakfast". The way it comes up is, my 5-year-old will be
     watching TV cartoon shows in the morning, and they'll show a commercial for
     a children's compressed breakfast compound such as "Froot Loops" or "Lucky
     Charms", and they always show it sitting on a table next to some actual food
     such as eggs, and the announcer always says: "Part of this complete
     breakfast". Don't that really mean, "Adjacent to this complete breakfast",
     or "On the same table as this complete breakfast"? And couldn't they make
     essentially the same claim if, instead of Froot Loops, they put a can of
     shaving cream there, or a dead bat?

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