Bonnie Fraser:  

"Bugo Bars Build Better Bods" (The Story of Bugo Bars at PNHS) Do you remember the Portage Northern high school snack bar downstairs where we'd go after lunch to buy candy? Bob Nicol used to drive those poor sales people nuts by asking (with a serious face) if they had any Bugo bars. They replied that they'd never heard of Bugo bars. Bob would look shocked and chide them for not knowing about them. At first they thought he was nuts, but Bob kept asking day after day. I found out about it because he enlisted me to ask for "Bugo Bars" too. At that point, I wasn't in on his joke, but when I saw the hangdog look on the salespeople's faces I asked them what was wrong. They told me they felt bad because they had been getting requests for "Bugo Bars" but couldn't find them in any of their catalogs. (Apparently I wasn't the only one Bob had conscripted!) I thanked them for trying and went back out in the hall to find Bob Nicol doubled over with laughter. He was having great fun at their expense. I asked him what was so funny and he told me he had made up the name "Bugo Bar" just to mess with them. Then I got an idea. I pretended to enjoy Bob's ruse and (laughing) said I was going back in there to give them a hard time. Bob watched me go in. He stayed outside in the hall. What I really did, was to make a plan with the salespeople to open the door for me before school. That night, I bought a box of Clark bars and covered their wrappers with a wrapper of my own that said "Bugo Bars". They looked official. The next morning I slipped into the snackbar before school and the salespeople put the "Bugo Bars" in the glass case, bottom row, down front. Predictably, after luch Bob went...Expand for more