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Re: Saturday Open Thread (none / 1)

This is just plain weird:

Bananas are not a tree but an herb.

An herb? Huh? That's unexpected. By me. (a total ignoramus re: Bananas)

[Is there a Banana Maven in the house?]

by ATinNM on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 02:15:54 PM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (none / 1)

Wouldn't have guessed "herb" either. I had a banana tree in my back yard growing up. That's the closest I can come to being an expert.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 02:23:40 PM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

An herb is any non-woody plant.

I just assumed from the common use of "banana tree" to describe it the banana plant was ... a tree. ;-)

[Note of epistemological clarity: will entire Universe kindly quit mucking around with the sloppy use of adjectives and nouns? It's very confusing. KTHXBAI]

by ATinNM on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 02:29:54 PM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Does that mean you can smoke them...?

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 06:43:14 PM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (4.00 / 5)

Reminds me of a kid calling into a youth advice radio show fifteen years ago : "There's acid in the lemon juice I just drank ! Will I get hallucinations ?!?"

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 08:11:05 PM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (none / 1)

I remember smoking dried banana skins. The word was that they got you high, that was what "Mellow Yellow" meant.

LOL.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 04:10:33 AM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (none / 1)

That's totally bananas....

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 04:26:41 AM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (none / 0)

My mate and I agreed that all we got out of it was a vague headache.

But we didn't smoke a whole bunch.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 04:48:32 PM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (none / 0)

I have a banana leaf cigar from Thailand loitering in the flat somewhere.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 06:10:06 AM EST
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Re: Saturday Open Thread (none / 1)

You've smoked all the other things you brought back from Thailand and now you're down to just the banana leaf cigar?

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 06:16:22 AM EST
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That would be it!

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 06:35:06 AM EST
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