1) In the 1980s, a home electronics store held a $299 sale on expensive stereo equipment. In the television advertisement, a wacky spokesman said the stereos were only "299 bananas." Thirty-two customers took them at their word, and entered the store with 299 bananas each in exchange for the stereos. The store owners were good sports about it, and allowed these customers to purchase the stereos with bananas. The bananas were donated to a local zoo, but the zoo would only take 1,000 of the bananas. A zoo spokesman was quoted as saying, "Most of our animals like them, but we can't just give them bananas in uncontrolled amounts."
2) I was raised Catholic. Every year in my home state of Nebraska, the Catholic Church held a statewide youth event for junior high and high school kids that featured activities, events, speeches, presentations, and a big dance. This event was called "Going Bananas for Jesus."
3) Woody Allen's movie "Bananas" is a hell of a lot funnier than Woody Allen's movie "Interiors."
4) In Lithuania, it is a symbol of patriotism and good luck to keep a banana in the right front pocket of a winter coat.
*One of these banana facts is not true. Can you guess which one? Win a banana!
3 comments:
I don't buy this Lithuania fact. It's good luck to claim the lump in your right front pocket is a banana, but not really to carry a banana. Unless your dick is small Josh. Unless your dick is small.
I'm going to say the 1980s are not true.
I'm going with Lithuania because I know for a fact that two of the others are true, and patriotism and good luck don't seem to go together.
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