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Name: Yonatan E.
Status: student
Age: 20s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 10/5/2003
Question:
My grandfather used to sing a song in dutch which meant: why are the bananas crooked? I wonder if someone could give me a good answer to this question.

Replies:
Probably something useful here:

http://www.haroldbakker.com/vj/banana/morphology.php

http://galileo.spaceports.com/~banana99/

Anthony Brach, Ph.D


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