One banana, two banana, three banana, four, four bananas make a bunch and so do many more, la, la, la, ...

[conflux]

The perils of Internet shopping. We meant to order 5 bananas and accidentally ordered 5kg. We now have enough bananas to stoke a medium sized elephant.

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[lovingboth]

Someone on the cix conferencing system once complained that if they asked a serious technical question, they might have to wait for a response. But when they asked a question about the Banana Splits, they got about sixty responses in twenty minutes...

You're too young for them, aren't you? Or were they repeated?

Oh, BTDT with flip-chart pads. How many were in a pack was in very tiny writing, he says after receiving them all.

[some_fox]

If conflux is too young how come I remember them?! Guess they were repeated. Generally they were followed by the Monkees on holiday mornings when I watched them. And sometimes Take Hart. God I loved Take Hart. Why was I never in the gallery? Why?

[lovingboth]

Ah, ok. I was in the lower playground at primary school when they started here, which would make me 8 or 9, so the year was 1970 or 1971.

[ciphergoth]

I remember the Banana Splits, and I'm younger than conflux.

yeah, take them to the LL! The Liquid Bunch!

[atommickbrane]

I think I can claim the youngness banana and *I* remember the dammed Banana Splits too - although I blame *your* generations retro-fetishisation (is that a word) of cartoons for my exposure to TBS when I would have been better off spending my time on Count Duckula.

Bananas r0XoR. Not only mashed up with milk for comfort food (yes, this is typically fed to infants with some rusks, my eating habits aren't that well evolved) and then chopped up with chocolate sauce or spread on pancakes, or even BAKED bananas! NB I have never tried baked bananas myself but they're recommended by Mr Slater. Mentalist.

[booklectic]

And allegedly banana skins can be used to get high, if properly prepared.

(From the time we tried this, I can safely say that frying them is *not* the way to do it...)

[atommickbrane]

Home made attempts to get high. Nothing like it. I remember T's home ground poppy seeds.

"It's opium!!" says he.

"It's bloody disgusting", say we, coughing and hacking and vowing newver to indulge in such nonsense again outside of the confines of an opulent opium den...

Hahah

[kingginger]

Got to mix em with a bit of tobacco and smoke it -

hard to keep light and you have be careful when drying the skins that they dont rot.

For another alternative... Eat SH*T loads (and I do mean Sh*t loads) of Nutmeg :-)

hehehe

That stuff makes you loopy too.

LOL
(killer hangover though!!)

[ciphergoth]

Considered inadvisable - there are some nasty lasting side effects.

The best, safest and most effective way to get drugs out of ordinary household items: sell the items on eBay. Take the money and go to your local reputable dealer, there to exchange them for proper bloody drugs.

[ciphergoth]

you'd be best advised waiting until you do know such a person, since you'll need their advice on the best and safest ways to use them anyway...

[jhg]

Hello Mr. Policeman (waves)

J

[ciphergoth]

You do realise that this is a public post, don't you? I'm glad I'm not related to you!

You might want to make use of this button here:

[conflux]

Hi, I'm going to delete this comment in case it gets your bro into trouble.

[ciphergoth]

This is an urban legend. See erowid:

Banana peel: A sixties con-trick, banana peel and the
other con of the period, saffron inspired
Donovan's hit record, Mellow Yellow.
Neither substance has any psychoactive
effects whatsoever