Okay…I know that I am not the brightest bulb in the box. But what am I missing here?



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The corn flake sold on eBay for $1,350.

CHICAGO — Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350.

"We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. "There's a lot of relief involved."

The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is the owner of a trivia Web site who wants to add the corn flake to a traveling museum.

"We're starting a collection of pop culture and Americana items," said Monty Kerr of Austin, Texas. "We thought this was a fantastic one."

Kerr owns TriviaMania.com and said he will likely send someone to Virginia to pick up the flake by hand, so it won't be damaged. This isn't the first corn flake that Kerr has tried to buy. He said he purchased a flake billed as the world's largest, but that by the time it was delivered it had crumbled into three pieces.

McIntire and her sister Emily, 15, listed the corn flake on eBay last week, but eBay canceled the auction saying it violated the Web site's food policy.

The sisters restarted their Ebay auction, advertising a coupon redeemable for their corn flake, instead of the cereal itself.

The McIntires said they'll likely use the money for a family vacation.

Copycat items have popped up on eBay, including corn flakes shaped like Hawaii and Virginia. There's also been a potato chip shaped like Florida, and Illinois corn flake paraphernalia, including T-shirts and buttons.



Did I read that right? Did someone actually pay $1,350 for not a box of corn flakes…a single corn flake?

What’s next, someone selling or buying a pair of used men’s underwear with a crotch stain that looks like Rhode Island? I wonder how much that would fetch on the open ebay market?

I guess its time for all of us to start paying more attention to the mundane things around us. I mean that pile of dog crap you just scooped up and threw away could have been in a shape that was the likeness of Elvis and could have been worth real cash.

I wonder if the restaurant you ate at the night before said Elvis turd arrived would expect a percentage of the sale price. I mean after all, it was their food that enabled you body to manufacture that beautiful piece of art.

But seriously, what am I missing?