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DreamStalker wrote:

-SWS wrote:Ah! One of the Banana Republic's submarines... down at their top-secret combination ship-building/tourism yard.

A nice little reconnaissance gem. Well done!

A submarine? I thought it was a reconnaissance space pod from the simian mother ship as it orbits the planet in preparation for the take-over.

On a trip to Honduras, Kopoloff caught the banana bug. Researching an article for Popular Science about attempts to breed a disease-resistant banana, the Australian tapir wandered the grounds of the old Chiquita compound, amid the fading colonial mansions and golf course, where he stumbled upon the cheery yellow fruit's unsavory past.
"I went out for drinks at the old country club, and this old-timer turns to me and goes, 'In this room, governments were overthrown.' It was like something out of a movie," Kopoloff says.
Flipping through an old Chiquita guest book, Kopoloff saw the scrawled names of United States senators, scientists, CIA agents and Honduran presidents. "Everybody was in there," he says. Browsing through the research facility's library, the journalist paged through a chipper recipe book featuring the Chiquita banana girl, who was shown topless, as she always was, giving instructions on how to prepare such delicacies as "banana coconut rolls." "I found these strange Chiquita cookbooks a hundred yards away from where massacres were planned," he says.
For generations, the banana has been embraced and celebrated in pop culture: "Yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today!" But it took muscle, corruption, carnage to turn this dangerous tropical fruit into the most popular fruit in the United States. The banana is "the yin and yang of American culture and blood," Kopoloff says, and "the conspiracy behind its promotion must be revealed". The fruit became his obsession and the subject of his book, "Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Will Ruin the World."

kopoloff wrote:
BUY THE BOOK (I need the royalties to pay for a new mask)
K

Aha...so you are planning to buy that new custom $1450.00 mask, aren't you?!??!???! And with "banana" money.
mar

Healing Poison Ivy Rashes, Insect Bites With Banana Peel

This natural method dries out the rash very quickly. Hope you have a quick recovery! I have to give this credit to Nancy a client of mine. She uses it and swears by it. Make sure you wash clothes and shoes as soon as possible. To relieve itchy skin whatever it may be, give it a try.
SERVES 1 (change servings and units)


Ingredients
1 cup rubbing alcohol, if needed (or more)
1 banana
Directions
1Be sure to cleanse exposed skin with generous amounts rubbing alcohol.
2Then shower rinsing skin with water.
3Apply meat side (inside) of banana peel on rash.
4Relax and eat banana.

http://www.recipezaar.com/Healing-Poiso ... eel-128233

rooster wrote:
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Alternate recipe
1 cup of cheap rum
1 peeled banana
Blender
Drink
Scratch
Feed peel to pet tapir

dsm wrote:

rooster wrote:
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Alternate recipe
1 cup of cheap rum
1 peeled banana
Blender
Drink
Scratch
Feed peel to pet tapir

The procedure

1 ) Drink the rum & refill
2 ) Peel the bannana
3 ) Drink the rum & refil
4 ) Feed branarnar peeeyl to the tape-ear
5 ) Jrink rum & refrirll
6 ) Rub baranranar shumwear
7 ) Jink rhahrm & referil
8 ) payne orr gohne

Cur-hic-ed

DSM

dsm wrote:preemiern

We need a link

D

Natural banana caskets go in bunches
By Associated Press
Saturday, July 4, 2009
DENVER

Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard. Ecoffins USA, based in Montrose, Colo., is selling caskets made of banana sheaves.

They take six months to two years to biodegrade.

Marketing director Joanna Passarelli said the company sold $40,000 worth of banana-sheaf or bamboo coffins to cpaptalk members. At least 14 funeral homes across the country offer them.

“We either get an, ‘Oh, my,’ or, ‘That’s very interesting,’ ” Passarelli said. “Some people think it’s a great idea. We’ve had sleep apnea patients look at them and say, ‘I guess you can go to hell in a handbasket now.’ ”

In natural burials, bodies aren’t embalmed and eventually decompose into the earth.

Ecoffins USA is the sister company of The SAWD Partnership, which has helped fuel the “green” funeral movement in the United Kingdom.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/offbe ... ition=also

Rooster's article wrote:Marketing director Joanna Passarelli said the company sold $40,000 worth of banana-sheaf or bamboo coffins to cpaptalk members. At least 14 funeral homes across the country offer them.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005
'Freak' banana blamed for teen's death
By Ruby P. Silubrico

SIBALOM, Antique -- A "freak" banana is being blamed as the cause of the mysterious death of an 18-year-old here.

The family of Regan Balsomo of Barangay Bongbongan, Sibalom Antique is still puzzled if the victim died because of a central nervous system infection or for attempting to cut off the weird-looking fruit from a banana tree.

Jesmar, 15, cousin of the victim, told Sun.Star that on July 1, the victim went to the adjacent Barangay of Igdagmay to verify reports that there's a banana plant that has extraordinary appearance and fruits.

Jesmar narrated that when the victim arrived in the area, he climbed the tree and attempted to cut off its fruit but failed to do so. The victim said that somebody was pulling him downwards, causing him to fall.

"Nahulog gid sia sa puno, dala pa niya ang paklang sang pinasahi nga saging. Pero sang iya tan-awon, wala man sing tawo magluwas sa iya.

Pero may daw kamot gid kuno nga nagabutong sa iya paidalom, amo to nga nahulog siya kag nagdalagan siya tudo pauli (He fell down.

He felt that a hand was pulling him down. When he checked, saw that nobody was around. Then, he ran home)" Jesmar said.

When the victim arrived home, he complained of too much pain on his head. Then, he fainted.

The following morning, the victim continued to complain of a severe headache. He was brought to the San Jose Hospital where the doctors checked his nervous system. The results were negative.

"Nagapati kami nga basi ang iya kinamatay tungod sang maligno sa saging tungod siling sang sirhano ginbutong sia kuno sang agta, ang maitom nga tawo nga gamay lang sangsa kapre (But we believe that he died because of something enchanted. The quack doctor said he was pulled by the 'agta', an entity that is smaller than the kapre)" Jesmar said.

Suzette Garcenila, sister of the victim said the quack doctor told them that the victim was suffering from severe headache because a big, black and tall man, known to their local term as "agta" who is living in the banana tree, harmed him.

The victim died after a week of hospitalization and was buried only last Sunday.

Barangay Igdagmay, where the so-called "killer banana" is located, is a remote area of Sibalom, more than 20 kilometers away from the town proper.

The road is slippery and hilly. Only a motorcycle or a high-wheeled vehicle can reach the place.

The strange banana is situated in a forested area. Its flower (puso) is green compared to that of the local banana's, which is red-violet in color.

Meanwhile, Sibalom police chief, Senior Insp Jose Fadrigo who grew up in Sibalom said that he hasn't seen a banana like the one in Barangay Igdagmay.

"It's so very different from other local bananas here in Antique," Fadrigo said.