Sorry, I don’t really have anything to say, its just that I’ve been trying for quite some time to find even the flimsiest excuse to say these words, and failed. So I’ll just say it anyway.
Afghanistan Banannastan.
Ah… that felt good.
My mother says that almost every time we watch the new together.
Last week, she asked me if I ever thought “Come Mr Taliban / Tally me bananas…”
I hadn’t thought that yet. Enjoy!
I did. Thoroughly.
Fla-nana-nana-flan-istan, me-mi-mo-nistan.
I had to get that out.
Thank you.
Rose
I have honestly been thinking, and occasionaly singing that, for almost a week now.
Afghanistana Roseanne Roseanna Danna Ramabanana Bananaramastan
Freakin’ Barry Manilow at the Copacabana, man.
My brain is mush, it has been such a long, dreadful week.
Flan? Is that a bananna flavored flan?
Dude, at least I spelled it right 
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89616
Doh! I may have spelled it right in the subject line, but I misspelled it in my OP! :eek:
I’ve been thinking ‘Afghanistan Bananastand’ - similar, but not identical - ever since the Taliban became prominent news. Those of you who read the Dortmunder series (I can’t be the only one, they’re bestsellers) will understand why.
Oh damn, I didn’t even see this thread, at least I know I’m not the only person afflicted by this phrase running through my head. You know, come to think of it, doesn’t the movie scene where they use this phrase take place in the WTC?
Where’s Beetlejuice when we need him?
“Miasmo”. I wonder what the hell Robert Redford is talking about. Then it becomes clear–they will use a woman, named “Miasmo,” to hypnotize the bank clerk in charge of the safe deposit boxes where Zero Mostel has stashed the diamond. In the elevator of his apartment building (not the WTC) Miasmo hypnotizes the clerk with instructs to follow the orders of somone who will come to the bank and say the words “Afghanistan Bananastan.” Later RR goes to the bank and says the magic words. They get The Hot Rock. The End.
Hot Rock Trivia: 24-year-old Christopher Guest had a bit role as a cop.
Yeah, but the bank is in the WTC, I think. I remember seeing the elevator scene where he says the magic words, and ISTR over 100 floors on the elevator controls. Had to be the WTC. I gotta see the movie again sometime.