hemingway

In a nutshell.

Don't worry, just buy a nice bunch of bananas for your physical and emotional well-being. However, you could further indulge. Perhaps try watching some repeats of Bananas in Pyjamas. You could take the opportunity to improve your knowledge on the banana. Its nouns, adjectives, synonyms, derived terms, foreign language meanings, pronunciation, racial significance, freudian relevance etc. There is also the banana's significance as a figure of speech, its allegorical meanings, not to forget its relevance as a metaphor or analogy. Really a limitless subject. Just think Red of all that time you will have researching, talking about and writing about bananas. Engage your analytical mind. You don't need to worry about footy or searching for salacious stories contained in case law and the ratio decidendi or obiter dicta of your extensive law library. We have enough salacious [censored] bits from other posters on this thread. That just lowers the standard and of course the tone. Wrong side of the tracks and all that.

Thought Febey's comment was not bad, but beware The Banana Thought Police. The barbarians are at the gates. They will take you down if you dissent or question the purity of the line.

we agree to disagree.

Must admit, I get a little sickened by the talk about trading in and out. I don't say don't do it selectively, but every time a name is mentioned, folks start talking about trading out players like a meat market. If a player like Tyson comes to the coach and wants out, that's another thing. However, if the mateship and culture is as good as is being stated, then it is important that we keep as many as our existing group as possible. We have a talented list and we will always need depth. Loyalty to the Club and to your mates is an important ingredient of any successful club.

This is pretty banal Red. Surely you can provide more detail. As a legal eagle, I thought you would have a more inquiring mind! The banana lovers are crying out for more. To engage us on this topic, we need a bit of titillation. What type of banana's were they? There are hundreds of varieties, all with different taste, texture and feel. Red Jamaica's, Cavendish, Apple, Dwarf Cavendish etc etc. Perhaps the boys enjoy Lady Fingers? I know I would, particularly post game. I could go on and on. How many do they devour? Just one at a time or an orgy of bananas? Are there any risks of enjoying too many? Do the boys feel satisfied after one or do they prefer having a couple. I am told that three can be enjoyable and beneficial for one's health and well being. Can be a cultural thing of course.

There are two possibilities : That ABLA (no, not my favourite Carlton restaurant but the banana brigade), is no more than a front for the marketing of Bananas. It has nothing to do with love, it is about profit. Better put, the organisation is a loosely knit brigade of profiteers. One rumour doing the rounds is that the head of this shell organisation is one of the Rakes of Melbourne's legal society. Apparently, there is also a well known entrepreneur (lets just call him Milo) who is making megabucks by shifting bananas around the country. The second possibility is that the organisation simply consists of a bunch of neurotic banana lovers who have become self important , obsessed, a little paranoid but with delusions of grandeur, and, who increasingly exhibit a strong authoritarian streak. They are not prepared to accept difference but are endeavoring to squash support for all other fruit and squash all opposition and dissent to their belief that the banana reigns supreme. It is about colour, body shape, taste and image. It is about deep seated prejudice. These people want all bananas to look the same. The bad bananas never make it to the supermarket shelf. They are simply eliminated along the way so folks only see the perfect banana. Indeed, when have you seen a misshaped banana in the supermarket? However, I am concerned about legal action and indeed much worse as sometimes legal action is accompanied by threats to the person. The fruiterers from the Footscray fruit and vegie market know all about the stand over merchants. It is possible that true banana lovers are being mislead and influenced by the propaganda from undesirables that have infiltrated ABLA. Apparently, secret banana parties are being held in the suburbs, where bananas are worshiped, devoured and often misused in all sorts of unmentionable ways, except to say that there are rituals with sado-masochistic overtones which have only recently emerged following the involvement of an undesirable character from Romsey. As everyone seems to be apologizing these days (politicians, heads of public sector organisations, police, footballers, banks, actors, film producers, and anyone else who gets caught out), I will take the opportunity to "say sorry"" and offer my apologies to the banana brigade and ABLA.

No perhaps not your Honour, but it’s definitely weird, perverse and even kinky. I see no evidence to suggest that the banana is superior to other fruit. It’s a fit up job, to keep up the morale of the banana or the banana industry. Perhaps even the consumer. With the greatest respect to the banana fanatics, it has got a little passé even tiresome to those with a broader and a more holistic view of the fruit industry. However, I do appreciate that it has Freudian significance but personally I detect a feeling of inadequacy from all the banana lovers.

Lacking imagination or creative writing skills. Sadly, the art of conversation is dying. Particularly, the art of making conversation over nothing. The on-going conversation over bananas being a case in point. As a good criminal barrister knows, you don’t need facts or evidence just very good imagination and the capacity to [censored] for days.

Thinking the same thing, must have wandered onto this thread by mistake. Is he trying to kill off this thread after all? Although he does tend to play the Bud Abbott to all the eccentrics who visit this place. Also appears to be a bit of a chameleon at times, which tends to be a characteristic of those in his profession. So lets not take him seriously. His sense of humour is very very dry.

The boys are back in form.

Recent threads from Earl and others and now your magnificent post show there is still life in the old dog.

Sorry Earl, I was thinking of another fictional character when I read your post. Apologies to you and Milo. Just make sure you observe the Royal Protocols, no touching or hugging the Queen, excluding Elton and Meghan (because Americans hug). Just hope the cucumber sandwiches that you are supplying from China are suitable for the Royal tastebuds.

Milo, the entrepreneur that you are, I had forgotten about your role in The Wedding. Of course, the old Country and indeed the Royals do not have the budget they once had, which is where you no doubt fit in. A quick visit to China, a lick of paint, and I'm sure the imitations look like the real thing!

Red, apart from your good self and a few other stalwarts, the posts on this thread seem to have dropped off lately. Many of the old characters with their peccadillo's seemed to have disappeared into the ether, with the result that the only thing to talk about is football. What's happened to all the chameleons, the perverts, the eccentrics, the boasters, the liars, the weirdos, the freaks, the nuts, the sad and lonely, the non conformists, the entrepreneurs, the drug peddlers, the pretenders, the psychotic, the delusional, the washed-up lawyers and academics and writers, the homeless, and the bizarre characters that used to come and go in the night on this thread. I think I have covered everyone. Oops, I forgot the dead. After 7 years, perhaps its time to close this thread. Let's face it, this is not a thread for mundane, boring or repetitious comments about football.

I don"t need to read this Frog. With our recent wins, I was just emerging from my MFC induced depression to some semblance of balanced mood state. I was even planning to go on Sunday, with a feeling of quite optimism tempered by the ever present trepidation. However,""there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.""

Tend to agree. I'm one of those old fashioned types that prefer to see our players as footballers not entertainers.

These comparisons between players is all a bit pointless. Players have different physical and mental attributes. In the old days, no-one compared Barassi with Dixon or any of the other Demon stars of the time. Barassi was Barassi, Dixon was Dixon. However, they made up a champion team. In the 80s, we did not compare Lyon with Viney etc. Lets hope we play in a Grand Final and Brayshaw dominates in the midfield all day and Petracca pops up in the last quarter and kicks 3 quick goals to win the match. They have different attributes, skills sets and different on-ground behaviours. Its about molding those individual attributes into a champion team.

People do make things up, every day, all the time. Sometimes its complete fabrication, sometimes there is an element of truth that is then misused to support an opinion. You also have liars, mischievous types, stirrers, and sometimes folks who believe a story but on incorrect or flimsy grounds. However, if you believe the story, you should provide a little more detail as to how or why you think the story true.

sure did Redders, but I am a day to day man. at a stretch week to week. I do not plan only hope to get to the next day or match. I must go to the Temple soon and seek redemption.

how depressing Biff. hope you are well and glad that you have resurfaced.

I never like wishing defeat on another team, in this case, on-going misery. Maybe wish a little but not too hard. Perhaps Essendon but not others. Bad Karma. We have been there ourselves and know what its like. Better to celebrate our wins.

You can tell that Brayshaw really wants it. He wants it bad. Petracca is a mercurial talent but whether that is fully realised depends on how much he wants it and how hard he is prepared to work.

What has always impressed me about Brayshaw is his intensity and work ethic.

No genuine contrition. Bit like Bank executives apologising without any genuine feeling or meaning. Heard CBA CEO say he was ashamed but he could have used any word as it had no meaning.