Yes! We Have No Bananas
Okay, enough with the end of the world as we know it. Time for something jollier. A week or two back I was listening to New England radio colossus Howie Carr, who has an assistant at his Florida redoubt who helps him out with photocopying and whatnot. The rest of the time the young slip of a lad works at a Publix supermarket. I'm not sure which is the day job and which is what he really wants to do, but nevertheless Howie had him on air to talk about the great toilet-paper stampedes. And in the course of the conversation he mentioned that there was also a run on bananas. I don't know whether that's just in the Sunshine State or more broadly, and don't ask me why: Presumably bananas, like everything else, are all made in China now. And, as ... |
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