Re: RE: [Leica] re: Banana

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Steve

"B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote on 01.06.2004, 15:09:56:
> Yes, Buzz...But I can't recall anything about it...and then there was a
> 60's album by, I believe some major group, that featured a yellow banana
> on a white background...Trivia and or rock buffs? It may have been one
> of the "super groups..."
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Buzz Hausner
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:46 AM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] re: Banana
> 
> 
> 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  
> 
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