January 31, 2007

Oh no!
posted by xenmate 17 years ago
  • "It is a freakish, doped-up, mutant clone which hasn't had sex for thousands of years..." Good to see Margaret Thatcher in the news again...
  • darn.
  • In ten thousand years not a single mutation has occurred allowing its possessor to resist the dread black Sigatoka disease? Do the evolutionists know about this?
  • Almost all the varieties of banana grown today are cuttings - clones, in effect - of naturally mutant wild bananas discovered by early farmers as much as 10,000 years ago. Can't have a mutation when each plant is a clone. You need cross-pollination and gametes for that.
  • One possibility is GM bananas, but growers fear consumer resistance. We have a solution yet we resist it. We don't deserve bananas.
  • I just saw "An Inconvenient Truth." Bananas aren't the only things we'll be doing without soon. BTW I think everyone--EVERYONE--has a moral duty to view this film, regardless of political affiliation or feelings about Al Gore. Profound changes are coming to this planet, and we need to be informed, and to act. Right away. Sure am glad I don't have kids.
  • Al Gore also makes me not want kids...
  • I have Al Gore's kids in lieu of bananas.
  • You sick fuck!
  • This post isn't about Devo.
  • This has happened before. People of my parents' generation had arguably superior bananas of the Gros Michel variety, which were pretty much wiped out by fungi (though it's not extinct, just rare as it's no longer suitable for large-scale farming). The common "standard" banana now is the Cavendish, which is less hearty in transport than the Gros Michel, and from what I hear generally not as tasty as the Gros Michel. It just sounds like in 10 years we'll be eating another variety that's more resistant to the Panama fungi, and if past experience is a guide, probably not quite as tasty as what we have today.
  • I picked up some black Sigatoka in the changeroom at the pool, but the doctor gave me some ointment, and it cleared right up.
  • You mean... we've been eating CLONES all this time?!? *spits banana bite, coughs*
  • Cripes, I blogged about this at least four years ago! And you mean nobody has found a new variety of banana to cultivate yet? Obviously a monkey is needed for the job. And fast.
  • Can't have a mutation when each plant is a clone. You need cross-pollination and gametes for that. Read the sentence you quoted again. First they found a mutation, then they cloned it.
  • Ah, I am stupid. I see what you mean now.
  • I detect a little pants on fireness here. If all these bananas are CLONES as you people say they are, how come they are all not the same SIZE???!!! And what about the green ones that people always steal while I sleep and replace with cheap yellow ones hoping I won't notice the difference???
  • Oh, snap!
  • I hate bananas- but I love my hands. . . What the crap?
  • fooliosis, you just made me spit banana juice all over my keyboard. you owe me.
  • Read the sentence you quoted again. First they found a mutation, then they cloned it. posted by Wolof I was responding to the comment before mine: In ten thousand years not a single mutation has occurred allowing its possessor to resist the dread black Sigatoka disease? Do the evolutionists know about this? posted by Libertarian Yes. I pay attention.
  • But most of my attention is on credit, since I don't usually have enough on me to pay attention at the time of sale.
  • In the Next and Final Commune of the Monkeys, Nunia will be in charge of the banana garden. If you are curious as to what your assignment will be, reply with questions to this thread.
  • I am already in charge of the banana garden.
  • I hope this Commune doesn't have some Dear Leader we'll have to keep harvesting beans to keep pleased, is it...?
  • MonkeyFilter: Obviously a monkey is needed for the job. And fast. MonkeyFilter: I detect a little pants on fireness here. *opens trap door, tosses in lighted banana, covers ears
  • FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!
  • *Floomp!*
  • Yay! Banana custard for everyone!