[Leica] re: Banana

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Right...Boy, the neurons are going fast...Wrong freaking decade! And
classic classic. ;-)

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Velvet Underground

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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