Bananas

[TPD211]

I heard that here in Florida you dont take a banana with you fishing as it is considered bad luck.<br /><br />Has anyone else heard of this?<br /><br />Any other "wives tales" to pass along?

 

[jsfinn]

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That's a big one. I went on a charter in Hawaii a couple of years back. The captain of the boat next to ours at the dock wouldn't let anyone who had a bannana for breakfast on the boat. He said it was bad luck... I'd guess restricting people on your boat is bad for buisness..

 

[jklett]

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The banana thing has something to do with a banana boat and ghosts. I don't remember the exact story, but a lot of captains(especially old salts) will not let anyone on board with bananas. An excuse I've heard for getting skunked is that someone smuggled a banana aboard.

 

[Franki]

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LOL, <br /><br />years and years back (like about 35 of them), my father worked on a big boat shipping bananas away from the plantations in africa...<br /><br />Guess he is lucky to be alive.. <br /><br />Although from the stories he used to tell me,.. they had a bad time of it quiet often back then.<br /><br />rgds<br /><br />Franki

 

[JoeW]

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When I was a kid, my mother wouldn't let any of us kids eat fish and drink milk at the same meal. She said she had learned all of her life that the combination was poisonous.

 

[wilkin250r]

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Not quite boating-related.<br /><br />What types of things did your mother teach you? Don't take candy from strangers, treat others as you want to be treated, ect...<br /><br />I know a gal, her mother impressed upon her from day 1, "Do not eat bananas in front of old men."<br /><br />She didn't figure out why until she was 16.

 

[gaugeguy]

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"if you don't stop playing with that thing, you will go cross-eyed" My friend Brian had a lazy eye, I wonder what his mom told him <br /><br />I have heard the banana thing before also, don't know where it came from.

 

[kenjudy1]

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A lot of comercial fisherman believe it is bad luck Just like you do mention or talk about horses, leave a hatch cover upside down or whistle.These were enought to get you thrown off the boat or fired. Ken

 

[jtexas]

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"Bad luck havin' a woman aboard, sir."<br />"Be even worse luck not to have her."<br /><br />--Pirates of the Carribean<br /><br />Actually, it's a little known scientific fact that bananas absorb water - a single banana in a marine environment can absorb enough atmospheric moisture to wreak havoc with the captain's weight and balance measurements, causing a vessel to ride low in the water, affecting speed and fuel efficiency, or even in some cases capsize a small merchant vessel. In fact, the famous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has been attributed to two bananas secreted aboard by a crewman known to have been suffering from a potassium deficiency. The sinking of the Titanic has also been linked to a banana puddi

 

[ChrisMcLaughlin]

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Bunches of bananas can hide various poisonous spiders and a few scorpions. Try sleeping on a trip from any where far away with a cargo of bananas.

 

[jimchere]

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I remember being in the eastern mediterranean a few years ago, on the bridge of a frigate at night. Some merchant seaman, bored, with an accent, did nothing but clog up VHF channel 16. All night long, saying on the radio for hours on end, banana banana banana banana banana............. Suppose it could have been a demon or something.