[SG] Armed bananas

16 posts ยท Jun 30 2004 to Jul 1 2004

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:57:00 +1000

Subject: [SG] Armed bananas

G'day,

I have a question for the parents (particularly Aussie parents) in the
audience. Over the last few years our kids have consumed enough cheesestiks in
their school lunches that it not only throws my ability to give them
nutritious food into doubt but we have a LARGE number of
bananas-in-pyjamas figures, enough for a decent SG force as it turns
out. We're getting some Eureka Teddys to oppose them (and even picking
up a fantasy Ratman figure to be Rat-In-The-Hat).

So the big question is what do you think Bananas would be armed with SG wise?
I thought they'd be close combat only but Lachlan and Janneke disagree so I
thought I would see advice further afield;)

Oh and we thought the Bananas in Spacesuits would work well as PA;)

Cheers

From: Edward Lipsett <translation@i...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:03:52 +0900

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

Obviously they have banana-peel-shooters.
They work like non-fatal mines, and halt movement by all enemy troops
within 2 inches.

> So the big question is what do you think Bananas would be armed with

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:04:54 -0400

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

Beth said:
> bananas-in-pyjamas figures

AK47's and booby traps.

From: Mark Sykes <tardis@b...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:23:04 +1000

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> At 8:04 PM -0400 30/6/2004, Laserlight wrote:

and neo-marxist attitude:
That's mine!

All suitable to be played out in a banana republic

from the land of the banana benders (Australian state reference)

MarkS

From: Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@d...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:23:07 +1000

Subject: RE: [SG] Armed bananas

For those that don't get what insanity is occuring:
http://abc.net.au/children/bananas/default.htm

Splurge Guns (Whipped Cream Tommy guns: see "Bugsy Malone") Cherry Grenades d8
armor (tough skin) Cause "terror" in close assault with teddy bears.

Brendan 'Neath southern skies

> -----Original Message-----

> So the big question is what do you think Bananas would be

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From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:31:50 -0400

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> All suitable to be played out in a banana republic

I was thinking of Viet Cong, actually, due to the "pyjamas" Beth mentioned.

From: Edward Lipsett <translation@i...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:34:54 +0900

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

I'd figured you meant the banana clips in the AK47s, and was trying to think
of what a booby trap had to do with fruit...

> I was thinking of Viet Cong, actually, due to the "pyjamas" Beth

From: Mark Sykes <tardis@b...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:33:28 +1000

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> At 8:31 PM -0400 30/6/2004, Laserlight wrote:

the pyjamas are blue and white vertical stripes if memory serves well not the
black VC types but...

there's a thought, bananas from:

...The Dark Side

(no, not MSWindows) with Darth 'Nana, and the casts (worm reference) of
thousands

HTH

MarkS

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:57:30 -0400

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> the pyjamas are blue and white vertical stripes if memory serves

there's always paint...

> there's a thought, bananas from:

I'd been wondering if I needed to mention FMA Sheep III ("Pod Racing Zombie
Pirate Sheep, con Queso") just to add a little silliness to the list, but I
see there's no need.

From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:39:26 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Mark Sykes wrote:

> At 8:31 PM -0400 30/6/2004, Laserlight wrote:

And for a proper Banana Republic, your force leader should have grossly
outsized eppuletes (shoulderboard thingies) with at least 5kg of gold lace
on them & his collar, and a grandiose title - Generalissimo Chiquita,
Grand Peel of His Nation, or something similar!

Or... no, I won't make a Banana Republican/G.W. Bush joke, Laserlight
would get mad at me again!

From: Lachlan Atcliffe <u1m87@u...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 05:21:59 +0100

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> Mark Sykes wrote:

> from the land of the banana benders (Australian state reference)

How about a dreaded European Union Mandate somewhere, after all that
silliness over banana curvature? I can just see the once-proud banana
civilisation brought low, B5-style, by the
killer-ultra-death-war-machines programmed to exterminate all impure
fruit...

From: Lachlan Atcliffe <u1m87@u...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 05:26:40 +0100

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> Brian Burger wrote:

> Generalissimo Chiquita,
So he'd lead the Peel-ple's Republic, then?

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:37:14 -0400

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> And for a proper Banana Republic, your force leader should have grossly

General del Monte. When he's feeling gracious, he likes for his people to call
him "Papaya".

From: B Lin <lin@r...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:25:57 -0600

Subject: RE: [SG] Armed bananas

That should be "cherry bombs" or "Pineapple Grenades"...

> -----Original Message-----

From: Phillip Atcliffe <Phillip.Atcliffe@u...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:37:59 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

Subject: Re: RE: [SG] Armed bananas

> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:25:57 -0600 B Lin <lin@rxkinetix.com> wrote:

> I'd figured you meant the banana clips in the AK47s, and was trying

> That should be "cherry bombs" or "Pineapple Grenades"... <

Why do I keep remembering John Cleese as the self-defence instructor
with the... um, interest in defending oneself against assailants "armed" with
fresh fruit?

Phil, thinking that at least one banana should be armed with a pointed
stick in tribute... ;-)
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From: Evyn MacDude <infojunky@c...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:13:45 +0100

Subject: Re: [SG] Armed bananas

> Lachlan Atcliffe wrote:

Wouldn't that lead to "Good" Fruit and "Bad" fruit.....