Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I once photographed an experimental banana plantation in Tanzania where bananas were grown which were very surprising, indeed. Bananas that tasted like strawberry, watermelon and orange, to name a few...very weird. Wasn't the e-lec-tric-al banana celebrated in song by Donovan? I can hear the tune but can't remember the name. In case you are blessed with a slippery memory, for a brief time circa 1967-68, post-adolescents everywhere were drying the fibers from inside banana skins in the absurd hope that smoking them would have a hallucinogenic effect. Buzz Hausner -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Emanuel Lowi Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:11 AM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] re: Banana When you think about it, the banana is also the only truly honest fruit, maybe even the only utterly reliable food of any kind. You know exactly what you are getting before you even touch the thing. The skin colour tells everything: is your banana only just sweet, quite sweet or sticky-sweet? Firm or soft? You always can tell. A banana never surprises or disappointments, while apples, oranges, peaches, pears, pie and people deceive us (indeed often seem determined to do so) with chronic frequency. Plus there's that removable leatherette cladding with integral hand grip, the ergonomic shape and oh that clever mount design (the bunches). Pick a joined pair or a six-pack. The bananas don't complain. Any creature, male or female, always appears to be having a good time when eating a banana. Kids and chimps especially. The banana is Truth Made Flesh. Veracity Incarnate. Now for ten points, which 60s LSD-inspired smash hit claimed that "electrical banana is gonna be a sudden craze"? Emanuel(whose craze is way past sudden)Lowi Montreal ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information