Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Bananas and other metaphors

Why are things that are crazy called "bananas"? Bananas are not crazy - they are fruit from trees, which is an incredibly common, normal concept. If they were as crazy as we infer, then they would surely not be $0.48/lb at the grocery. They would be $1.98 like all the fancy cross-pollinated apples coming out of the U of M's ag program. Or like star fruit.

And I lied in the title. There are no other metaphors today. Maybe tomorrow.

2 comments:

  1. i can't believe you led me on with a promise of more metaphors. i don't have an answer, but chris rock describing his love for gwen stefani and singing "the shit is bananas" in his own ridiculous way is some of the funniest stand up i've ever seen.

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  2. But their shape is crazy? Just playing devil's advocate on behalf of bananas. Where are the rest of the metaphors?

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