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Old 09-28-2015, 06:24 AM   #1
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A good friend of mine once pointed out that Turin had a knack for treading on every banana skin in sight. Therefore bananas must be canonical. (QED). Although I'd love to read about Bethberry's proof too!
I like that explanation quite a lot, actually. Bethberry's was more to-the-letter.

The backstory is as follows. Rune was taking part in a Paper Telephone game that Hookbill was modding, and didn't have time to do something that night (sleep? I forget) because he spent it drawing his picture, so when he sent it in he jokingly asked to beat Hook with a banana for him. Not too long after, there was a mini-moot, and Agan brought a banana and beat Hook with it, as she later reported here: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1119. Bethberry's response: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1121.

It's a long story.
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Old 09-28-2015, 08:12 PM   #2
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Old 09-30-2015, 06:17 AM   #3
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Old 09-30-2015, 03:03 PM   #4
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1420!
Seconded! Happy birthday, Lal, and a glorious party!

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I like that explanation quite a lot, actually. Bethberry's was more to-the-letter.

The backstory is as follows. Rune was taking part in a Paper Telephone game that Hookbill was modding, and didn't have time to do something that night (sleep? I forget) because he spent it drawing his picture, so when he sent it in he jokingly asked to beat Hook with a banana for him. Not too long after, there was a mini-moot, and Agan brought a banana and beat Hook with it, as she later reported here: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1119. Bethberry's response: http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...postcount=1121.

It's a long story.
It's even a bit longer than that. The, um, dare I call it a meme? of hitting Hookbill with a banana dates back to Finlandmoot 2011, when Mac and Rikae's daughter Annika Wereduckling found great delight in doing so, IIRC egged on by at least one parent. See here.
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Old 09-30-2015, 06:38 PM   #5
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It's even a bit longer than that. The, um, dare I call it a meme? of hitting Hookbill with a banana dates back to Finlandmoot 2011, when Mac and Rikae's daughter Annika Wereduckling found great delight in doing so, IIRC egged on by at least one parent. See here.
Oh hahahaha!!! I didn't even remember that! (Though I do recall the little Wereduckling learning a nice new word in Finnish that she apparently thought was a synonym for Hook's name). Oh the lore of the Downs!
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Old 10-01-2015, 05:26 AM   #6
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Happy birthday Hook! Have a cake! Have two cakes! Have a whole stack of 'em!

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Thanks, Galadriel!

THAT IS TOO MUCH CAKE! NOBODY SHOULD HAVE THIS MUCH POWER!! ... I mean cake...
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Behold, it is the Cake of Rassilon! Or the Cake of Omega? Anyway, happy birthday, Hookbill! (So tricky, not putting your birth date on facebook, but you can't escape the Downs' birthday tracker and Galadriel55, its keeper!)

Also belated best wishes to Mark 12-30!
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