Talk:Banana in my ear

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I believe this comes from Sesame Street (?), and I see there is an Ernie and Bert link in the current article... this should be expanded to talk about the origns somewhat. ~leif 01:03, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] whoa, someone is talking out of his ass

it comes off as pretty pompous to me to talk about the prototypical americanness and far-reaching consequences for law and philosophy of a freaking sesame street skit!! if those are only in reference to a generic catch-22-type paradox, then those descriptions should be in the catch-22 article, don't you think? -Lethe | Talk 02:31, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

  1. This joke was old when my grandfather was young; it probably predates TV (not to mention Sesame Street).
  2. Spare me the gratuitous anti-American comments.
  3. Looks like someone thought they could write an article analyzing the banana joke but ran out of steam.
  4. I don't think anyone really knows what makes a joke funny, but surprise may have something to do with it: in this case the sudden realization that he knew all along about the banana.
  5. Darn! (Now it's not funny any more.) -- Uncle Ed, via Pocket PC
So what are you saying, you made this page as a joke? I guess that's what I expected. If the joke's over, maybe it's time to list this page on VfD or move it to Deleted Nonsense or something. -Lethe | Talk 15:55, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)