Whimsy: June 2008 Archives

I'm reading Dan Koeppel's excellent book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, so I'm in a Chiquita Banana kind of mood.

Note that in the original jingle of the mid-1940's, Chiquita Banana claims that because bananas like the climate of the very tropical equator, "You should never put bananas in the refrigerator."

This was nonsense, of course, and the company knew it, given that bananas had to be shipped to this country in heavily refrigerated vessels.

But it was a good way to boost sales...

Vanity Plate

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Driving back to Philadelphia this afternoon on the Schuylkill Expressway, I noticed the vanity license plate of the car in front of me:

VERDICT

Probably someone in the legal community, but I'm really curious as to who it might be.

I enjoy well-executed illusions like this one...

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