... aaannnnd, now I need to go find out how bananas grow.
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Aug 26, 2011 6:22:18 am PDT #22344 of 30001
Amy - Aug 26, 2011 6:25:12 am PDT #22345 of 30001
Because books.
The things you don't know:
The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant.[4] The plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy and are often mistaken for trees, but their main or upright stem is actually a pseudostem that grows 6 to 7.6 metres (20 to 24.9 ft) tall, growing from a corm. Each pseudostem can produce a single bunch of bananas. After fruiting, the pseudostem dies, but offshoots may develop from the base of the plant. Many varieties of bananas are perennial.
Leaves are spirally arranged and may grow 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) long and 60 cm (2.0 ft) wide.[5] They are easily torn by the wind, resulting in the familiar frond look.
Is Sara the only kid without an AG doll? Actually she has a Bitty Baby, courtesy of Barb, but not one of the girl dolls.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 26, 2011 6:26:03 am PDT #22346 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Well, 20-to-25-foot stalked flowering plants then. But aren't the fruits up high enough that they wouldn't be threatened by floodwaters? I didn't realize the flooding in Australia was that deep...
Ginger - Aug 26, 2011 6:28:14 am PDT #22347 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Now I'm wondering if I could open an American Girls cemetery. It could offer services appropriate to the doll's time period. There would be a variety of expensive caskets available.
JenP - Aug 26, 2011 6:28:22 am PDT #22348 of 30001
Well, now I know. Dole has a helpful video [link]
Also, there is latex, bagging, and deflowering involved in harvesting bananas, which my inner child finds giggle-worthy.
Jessica - Aug 26, 2011 6:28:45 am PDT #22349 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bananas don't grow on trees, BTW.
I was waiting for you to chime in on that!
smonster - Aug 26, 2011 6:30:46 am PDT #22350 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Best of luck, Maria!!
But Decadence and New Orleans are next week! I have my fingers crossed, though high expectations are hard to fulfill.
I know ONE lesbian here, who I haven't met yet (but might tomorrow at a burlesque thing) and knowing this town chances are good that she would be the one you would hook up with. She is going to the fetish party...
Gudanov - Aug 26, 2011 6:30:51 am PDT #22351 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Em never had any AG dolls. She has a gaggle of Dear America books, but come to think of it there's no relationship between the two, uh... never mind.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2011 6:31:28 am PDT #22352 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am still jealous of kids with American Girl dolls, even though I was already too old for them when they came out.
I also think they are a marker of being rich, since I'm sure my parents would never have bought me one. (See also: Cabbage Patch dolls.)
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2011 6:31:58 am PDT #22353 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You don't have to cover the whole plant to kill it by flooding.
I was waiting for you to chime in on that!
Verners is also a soda.