Mark Steyn: Yes, we have no Bananas -

SteynOnLine ^ | November 18, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[gcruse]

but here's one guy hoping that's a permanent change.

Mark had a TV show in Britain.  You'd think Fox would be all over him.

[dighton]

Even the 1982 law forbidding jokes about the Presidential name couldn’t help him: who needs gags when you’ve got headlines like “Man Raped By Banana” (The Herald), “Banana Forced Officer To Have Sex” (The Guardian) and “Banana Appeals Against Sodomy Conviction” (the BBC)?

“Hand over Banana, Mandela is told” (The Telegraph).

[dighton]

Banana sex appeal rejected

[Billthedrill]

Yes, I saw that headline. I believe it meant that Mr. Banana had lost his a-peel.

[PLK]

Bates Erection Company

We have one better than that: "Steel Erection Company." Makes for lots of hoots and giggles when they advertise for help in the classifieds of the Sunday paper here in Iowa.

[gcruse]

If only Woody Allen opened up one, it would be the Woody Erection company.

[Oschisms]

Yeah, well all I can say is guessing from my last name, my family were barbarians (read Germans) who raided Ireland long after those naked wackos, and stayed there.

How we ended up in the middle of the island is anyone's guess.

[dighton]

The right girl might have kept him from slipping.

[paulklenk]

What a bizarre story.

[aculeus]

Steyn pulls it off brilliantly and seemingly effortlessly. What a beautiful piece of work.

Yes, but with Conrad Black out of the picture let's hope the new owners don't do something stupid.

[WarrenC]

Reminds me of an ad I saw many years ago, while riding down the highway: Ben Met Anna......Made a Hit ......Neglected Beard.....Ben-Anna Split......
Burma-Shave

[Pietro]

"Pecker brothers"

That's nothin'. In Pittsburgh the Dick family started a construction company, later the progeny split the company in two. Progeny #1 moved his office to a little town called Large, PA. Thenceforth they answered the phone:

"Large Dick".

[beckett]

Just an incredibly talented guy. The left has no one who can touch Steyn's virtuosity as a wordsmith. He is quite simply the very best chronicler of the passing scene working today, left or right.

[foreshadowed at waco]

Alas, when his guerillas saw fellow Christians, they didn’t always recognize them as kindred spirits: In 1978, in the Vumba mountains, Mugabe and Banana’s plucky “freedom fighters” slaughtered nine white missionaries, after raping the women and their four children - one a month old, another found with a boot imprint on her shattered skull.

Mark is just so brilliant...he mixes the comic and the profane in such a gut wrenching way...irony, word plays, they sparkle amidst the jagged and violent images of carefully selected hard hitting facts...he reminds me so much of Jonathan Swift, one of my very favorite writers...a master of language and political insight.

[ShorelineMike]

Mr Mugabe has accused Britain of a plot to impose homosexuality throughout the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth is a bit behind the curve. The plot is currently running out of the Supreme Court of Massachussetts.

Actually, he's more spot on than you might realize ... Massachusetts is not a "state"; it is a "Commonwealth."

[Joan912]

Awwww, yeah! Steyn is the best!