
alphitomancy \ al-FIT-uh-man-see \ noun
1. the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
As opposed to alphabitsomancy, the use of children's breakfast cereal as a means of divination.
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2 comments:
as a boy, I always tried to fill my spoonful of Alphabits cereal with nasty words, then gulp them down before mom or dad could read it~
Switched to Honeycomb cereal after they did catch me.
I guess we had that when I was growing up, Mal, but I was always more of a Post Toasties/Cheerios kind of guy.
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