# I like bananas a bunch **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 4, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859 "2018-01-04T17:20:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 257
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5125 "2020-06-27T00:05:48Z")
the rabbit in a hat is a trick and a hatrick is something too. Did I do wrong? Oops, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5126 "2020-06-27T01:06:04Z")
Nothing to be sorry for, for sure. So, there was nothing in what you wrote to put the “rabbit out of a hat” idea into my head – I was kinda looking for a pun on the phrase “hat trick,” really – and a “hat trick” is three goals in a (ice hockey) game, again not really connected to anything. The way to present a pun that gets more groans and fewer question marks is to come up with a way to state one idea (like “that will bowl you over” in Intergalactic Gladiator’s contribution) that uses a punning word or phrase that reveals that you had something else in mind, like a bowler hat. Spoons and Siam Sam are (IMHO) grand masters at this. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5127 "2020-06-27T08:32:12Z")
Hey, my hat’s in the ring too! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5128 "2020-06-27T18:54:54Z")
Did you hear about the girl who wore a really cool hat while wandering the world? You know, Fedora the Explorer? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5129 "2020-06-29T03:10:05Z")
Was she a bowler, as well? ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5130 "2020-06-29T04:05:04Z")
More likely a boater. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5131 "2020-06-29T05:10:55Z")
I’d rather have a 10 gallon hat in a boat in case of leaks. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5132 "2020-06-29T21:02:04Z")
I’d rather have a 10 gallon hat full of leeks than a boat with a case of the leaks. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5133 "2020-06-29T22:46:12Z")
Did you hear about the wannabe-shoplifter who mistook a grocery store for a bathroom? Yep, he took a leek in it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5134 "2020-06-30T00:05:33Z")
I _steal_ don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5135 "2020-07-01T17:51:00Z")
He could have made the fruit and vegetable stands filchy dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5136 "2020-07-01T22:50:42Z")
I understand that cleaners getting a good celery could take care of that. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5137 "2020-07-01T23:57:32Z")
I couldn’t come up with another fruit-and-vegetable pun, but I figured eventually something would turnip. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5138 "2020-07-02T00:08:49Z")
Then lettuce try something else. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5139 "2020-07-02T00:48:36Z")
I don’t carrot one little bit. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5140 "2020-07-02T01:03:53Z")
Show a little enthusiasm, **Beck**. Somebody, pepper up! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5141 "2020-07-02T01:43:12Z")
Just don’t go bananas. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5142 "2020-07-02T02:56:36Z")
Yeah, don’t go plantain ideas in her head. [BTW, there was a real threat there of my responding to **panache45** by re-posting the OP just to see if we could re-start the whole thread over again…] ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5143 "2020-07-02T04:55:15Z")
I’ll do it: I like bananas a bunch… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5144 "2020-07-02T10:30:23Z")
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