This is Steve Heffernan’s explanation for why unripe bananas are so sticky and not sweet at all.
Apparently bananas serve as host to colonies of minuscule sticky bugs, which feed off all that sticky, bitter syrup in the unripe banana’s peel and, well, excrete sugar. So as the banana matures, the colony continues to grow and convert unpleasantness to happy yumminess.
(The facts are not quite clear on whether the colony ever leaves the banana, or if you get to eat them too as an added bonus.)
So for our office Easter egg hunt, we were supposed to bring in a bunch of pre-filled eggs. My eggs were just the standard boring kind (not things like basketballs or cute chubby animals or Hello Kitty heads, like others’), so I decided to do a quick sketch on each of them, just to be strange.
Most of them made little sense and were nothing that great (boxing glove, anyone?), but these three were the ones I thought turned out the best.
And so another episode of Barefoot Kraken wends its way blogward.
Thanks to Mom for the suggestion of cacophony, which, I might (and shall) add, has been the trickiest to date. We persevered, however.
To be honest, the insinuation I’m making in regard to meerkat instrumental capabilities is not entirely fair. In actuality, many scientists dismiss the idea that a meerkat, having found a set of bagpipes, would produce what may be described as an assault on the ears. Others, however, question whether it’s possible to transcend the inherent qualities of the instrument in the first place.
Rachel’s entry › (maybe coming soon)
Caleb’s entry › (maybe coming soon)
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For those of you who didn’t see it, this is what I did for Grandma’s Christmas present.
This was all spawned from that strange Santa sketch, of course, but it seems to ring true at a certain level. Or all of them. Or something.
Now I just have to start churning out bumper stickers and get rich.
He’s a little less intimidating than he thinks.
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The topic for this episode of Barefoot Kraken is snowman, suggested by Rosemary.