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Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on April 6, 2012 at 1:08am

Clever Lisa--it does! But can you imagine a banana reaching that state without stinking up a travel case? Mike, had the banana's ability to give off smell disappeared in a sort of slow-motion implosion? For biology class I remember trying to grow a "chemical garden" in a glass pie-plate on my mother's kitchen counter, for weeks and weeks, and it became pink and so fragile that you couldn't even breathe on it, never mind pick it up and take it to school.  

Comment by Mike Dickau on April 6, 2012 at 12:30am

Nancy! I found this beautiful fungus covered banana at the bottom of my travel case. Anyway, I kinda liked it-I used to teach biology. Would have been a great specimen for my students to investigate instead of growing fungus in Petri dishes...

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on April 5, 2012 at 9:08pm

Or is it driftwood.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on April 5, 2012 at 7:51pm

Wow, Mike Dickau, that is some past banana. Wow. Looks like a science project. Which I guess it is at least partly.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 5, 2012 at 7:28pm

Thank you Mail Arting Martha. So you're lazy, and don't do these type of things? I'm lazy, completely uninterested in the technology of the keyboard and just about everything else, and have managed to live without umlaute for all of my life so far, and I think I can continue to do so in the future. Well, I hope I can. Dean says you might be making a film together? I was sort of in a film one, Pasolini's 'Canterbury Tales'. the 'sort of' is important, and I can bore you with it if you like. Bestest, Val

Comment by Mike Dickau on April 5, 2012 at 7:23pm

ALL THINGS MUST PASS-EVEN BANANAS....

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on April 5, 2012 at 5:26pm

Funny photos Ernï, is that my German Grandmother in the back of te banana?

Comment by Mail Art Martha on April 5, 2012 at 5:14pm

Val you can get all the umlauted vowels you wish in any key board. With those funny little numbers on the side and pressing Alt at the same time. I don't do it not 'cos I couldn't and not 'cos I wouldn't but because I am the laziest girl in IUOMA.

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on April 5, 2012 at 4:59pm

Wöw, all this just because I mentioned twö funny döts?  Amazing where the mind can gö!   Bare Bär with me ...

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 5, 2012 at 4:33pm

Right on, Erni B! You mght have heard of my Incredible Story of The Exploding Scrabble Factory and Language Differences in Western and Central Europe, but if you haven't it's so Incredible that I will tell it again.

Once upon A Time there was a Scrabble Factory located somewhere in the sky. It made Scrabble boards, Scrabble boxes, Scrabble instructions, and, most importantly, Scrabble letters.

One day, no one very sad day, there was an explosion in the Factory which was totally destroyed. All the letters -- billions of them -- were scattered all over the European continent. They did not fall randomly -- Finland, for example, got all the 'k's. France got a lot of very strange letters with accents -- é,è,ç,à, and ^. Poland ended up with a lot of letters with accents, and not many without accents. Ireland received all the capital 'o's: 'O'. Germany, quite obviously, got all the Umlaute. At this stage I should add in all the umlauted 'a's and'o's and 'u's, but they aren't on my keyboard.

There are several University Departments of Language and Linguistics that owe their continued existence to working all of this out, and contributing in their own academic way to this Incredible Story.

That's all, Erni B -- and because I don't have umlaute I can't put in your last name in full.

Vàléntinè Màrç Hérmàn

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