# I like bananas a bunch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859>\
**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\
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**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:** [September 14, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5285 "2020-09-14T21:40:05Z")

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It rained coins here too, but we only got a quarter inch.

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**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:** [September 14, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5286 "2020-09-14T22:45:06Z")

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Is that what the Beatles’ song _Penny Rain_ was about?

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**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:** [September 15, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5287 "2020-09-15T12:46:25Z")

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I guess it’s dime for a change.

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**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:** [September 15, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5288 "2020-09-15T20:20:57Z")

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That makes cents.

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5289 "2020-09-18T01:42:30Z")

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You mean it stinks?

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**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:** [September 18, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5290 "2020-09-18T03:08:24Z")

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That joke could be censored.

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**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:** [September 18, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5291 "2020-09-18T03:16:27Z")

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Exactly. I’m sure some people are pretty incensed about it.

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5292 "2020-09-18T04:40:09Z")

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Maybe they’ll throw a Roma tomato.

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**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:** [September 18, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5293 "2020-09-18T08:18:38Z")

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That’s odorly ridiculous.

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**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:** [September 18, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5294 "2020-09-18T08:23:58Z")

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In fact, it stinks!

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5295 "2020-09-18T13:03:10Z")

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It doesn’t stink as bad as the now shuttered ol’ factory did.

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**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:** [September 18, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5296 "2020-09-18T14:03:09Z")

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I think that was because of the ore they were smelting.

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**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:** [September 18, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5297 "2020-09-18T14:32:13Z")

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If you really want to find a better way to smelt aluminum, you have to think outside the bauxite.

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5298 "2020-09-19T17:41:50Z")

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Smelting is a fishy enterprise.

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**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:** [September 22, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5299 "2020-09-22T05:29:17Z")

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Sure, but while the gross is great, you can still net a lot.

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5300 "2020-09-23T02:35:01Z")

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You’d have to cast lots of nets to net a lot, unless the net is vast or the lot’s a spot.

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**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:** [September 23, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5301 "2020-09-23T03:50:23Z")

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What is the sound of one castanet clapping?

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**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:** [September 24, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5302 "2020-09-24T03:38:26Z")

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I don’t know but I’m sure that it would come in quite handy, if you’re playing the sound of silence.

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**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:** [September 24, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5303 "2020-09-24T15:46:24Z")

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Anything that comes in handy gets a thumbs up from me.

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**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:** [September 24, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-bananas-a-bunch/805859/5304 "2020-09-24T19:11:11Z")

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Handy didn’t write _Sounds of Silence_. Handy wrote _St. Louis Blues_. (And here’s hoping we don’t restart the handy-D’Indy meme again.)

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