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January 16, 2005 |
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Unite!
FOUND by Andrea Marion
I found this sign posted along my road recently. A bike ride up the road revealed 7 more of these signs, each as incoherent as this one. One simply read "Grapes and Coconuts." Each of the signs were laminated, indicating that this was a well-organized group which meant business. I became worried that whoever was posting these cryptic signs was planning a revolution, probably involving guns, fruit, and angry mobs wearing faux preppy islander clothes. This mystery remains unsolved.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANANA
this reminds me of a game we would play at summer camp... it was a chant sort of thing
"banana republic unite! go banana, go go banana..."
Those two that you mentioned are the names of summer camp songs...I don't know if that actually has any correlation but its a possibility.
I learned "The Banana Song" from some American counselors that came to Japan to work with some kids from around the prefecture. I have since taught it to a slew of elementary school kids. They love it! So, the Banana Republic is spreading.
i worked for banana republic. no, that is not why my screename is conanabanana02.
I know so many people who would do something like this (and I'm so thankful for that).
"This mystery remains unsolved."
hahahaha I love this finder!
The bananas, grapes and coconuts are uniting against us.
Come the revolution, there will be smoothies...
those are definitely kid's cheers....
One goes Banana Republic Unite!! Peel Bananas, Peel Bananas Peel, peel bananas!!! Eat bananas, eat bananas, eat eat bananas!! Go bananas, go bananas, go go bananas!!!
And the other one is part of a cheer about Tarzan!
I think this has something to do with the south and central american countries known as the banana republics. These nations grew bananas as their staples crops, due largely to US corporate influence. So yes, its some sort of call for a revolution against American consumerism/imperialism.
Bananas have no lips!
Bananas UNITE!
Banana SPLIT!
Peel banana
peel peel banana!
I united my banana with a summer camp counselor when I was a 16.
Also learned this at a summer camp around 1994. This is how I remember it...
Bananas of the universe, unite!
Go banana, go go banana
Squish banana, squish squish banana
Peel banana, peel peel banana
Those may not be in the right order and I really don't remember the moves. Used to do it all the time though.
Banana's want to Unite the Republic.
I think it is
banana republic unite!
Peel bananas peel peel bananas!
slice bananas slice slice bananas!
squish bananas squish squish bananas!
eat bananas eat eat bananas!
GO BANANAS!go go bananas!
a camp song:
bananas of the wooooorld... unite!
peel bananas
peel peel bananas
squish bananas
squish squish bananas
and we eat bananas
eat eat bananas
and we barf bananas
barf barf bananas
bananas!
needless to say i was sick through most of that camp... we also sang a song that went "i like bananas, coconuts and grapes! that's why they call me TARZAN OF THE APES!"
Andy Warhol, anyone?
This sounds like a song my daughter's softball team sings in the dugout.
Um, Banana Republic is not a place to unite. It is a place of conspicuous consumption, economic stratification, gender division, and fashion homogenization.
That being said, this poster is charming.
um... i think they might have meant banana rapublic like, the islnd thingie that was sorta mentioned in one of kurt vonnegets books. when did u find this?
You've heard of the "Crips and Blood" gangs?
Add a new one to the list.....the NANAS.
Good comment, Lance Pants!
Had to add this as a fave.. not so much because of the picture.. intresting as it is..but the commentary is very entertaining.
You gotta peel bananas, peel, peel bananas!
You gotta eat bananas, eat , eat bananas!
You gotta GO BANANAS, GO GO BANANAS!!!
xD My Friend's drama group sing this song, they way they do it is:
BANANAS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
PEEL BANANA, PEEL, PEEL BANANA!
MASH BANANA, MASH, MASH BANANA!
GO BANANA, GO, GO BANANA!
sorry, "not just another mouth in the lipstick of vogue", but I really think this should be banana republics new logo! haaaaa. I'd buy their cute overpriced clothes then.
This is most definitely from some sort of camp. My guess is that the camp had 'teams' and needed to label their designated areas well, so they made signs and laminated them so they wou;dn't have to explain it to te kids 1,000 times.
Also, the song goes:
Bananas unite!
I like to....
peel bananas, peel peel bananas
mash bananas, mash mash bananas
eat bananas, eat eat bananas,
go bananas, go go bananas.
(with actions, of course.)
At my childhood day camps, the cheer was:
Banana, UNITE!
Banana, SPLIT!
PEEL! BANANA!
PEEL PEEL BANANA, HEY!
You peel it to the LEFT
And you peel it to the RIGHT
You peel your banana and
UMPF - take a bite!
...Good times, good times.
It's definitely the Fruit of the Loom guys gone wild!
in cheer camp we learned a version with motions
form banana, form the banana.
(you and your partner stand side by side and put your inside arm around each other. then while singing you bring you outside arm up to 'form the banana')
then peel banana, peel the banana.
(you slowly bring your outside arm down to 'peel the banana')
now go bananas, go go bananas!
(you and your partner go crazy!)
its wicked fun. there's also
rock the mullet, tip the cow, mash the potato, and squeeze the orange.
weirdest thing ever- me and my friend made up a nation in first grade....
it was called banana republic...
and the theme song was to "we will rock you" and included the phrase "grapes and coconuts"!!!!
dude we did the same thing in our drama class
peel bananas, peel peel bananas
mash bananas, mash mash bananas
eat bananas, eat eat bananas,
go bananas, go go bananas.
we also did the actions its so much fun
John Cleese was right! People *will* attack you with fruit.
You might know who posted the sign if you see them talking on banana phones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZUV2kiUZg4