Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for May 26, 2024

It has no appeal.

""I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana" is a novelty song from 1926, written by Ted Waite."

About the same time a blight was wiping out the bananas that were eaten at the time (mentioned in several songs – the most famous being “Yes, We Have No Bananas”). Those bananas are close to extinct. There was some reluctance to accept the hardy hybrid now found in the grocery stores because the people who remembered bananas before the blight said ours have little flavor.

Good chiropractor or are you just glad to see me?

I’ve heard of a ‘second banana’, but not a ‘straight banana’.

You shouldn´t have said that, I bet he´s a real smoothy and now he´s going to split.

Straighten up and fly right!

I’ve heard Germany has laws about how curved a banana can be. It might have been interesting to eavesdrop on those discussions.

Well there goes Kirk Cameron’s argument.

Maybe the Plantains will be more accepting

this one’s no peach

No! That will completely change the universal banana-for-scale unit of measurement.

I hope the professional did not let the secret slip.

Maybe those commercials do promise a treatment for Peyronie’s Disease.

Chiropractic is dangerous quackery that should be outlawed!

He received stem cell treatment.

Curvature of the spine is normal in bananas.