I slipped on a banana skin

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on theobalds road. i didnt fall to the ground though. i regained my balance. i was pleased when i did not fall, but then somone threw a glass at my head. luckily it missed

have you ever actually slipped on a banana skin? i cannot believe this is the first time it has happened to me

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I've stepped on a rake and had the handle fly up to whack me in the face.

Also, when I see a hot chick, my tongue falls to the floor and I grow five extra sets of eyes which bulge in the air in front of me, which is really frickin uncomfortable.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never slipped on a banan peel.

why did someone throw a glass at you?!?!? That seems unnecessary assholish behavior.

― H (Heruy), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont know, i was just on the street. it is a saturday night, these things happen, i think it was just drunken behaviour. the banana skin thing bemused me more though. it is the first time something like that has actually happened

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

just go to bed you squat twat ;)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

so he finally arrives back. that was quick!

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

that was like less than an hour!

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh not bad tonight, it cost me double what it could've to get home tho, fuckin extortionate Ealing cabbies

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

haha stevem, you're making me miss ealing!

i slipped on a opened banana once in the lunchroom cafeteria in high school - i felt so mortified. it was totally comedic though, because i went flying forward and then back and landed on my ass. i also got squishy banana bits on my shoe. luckily, only like 5 people saw. i didn't wait around to see how hard they were laughing.

― sand.y, Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I've stepped on a rake and had the handle fly up to whack me in the face

Me too. It made me sympathise with poor, poor Tom.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

even though someone throwing a glass at gareth's head isn't funny, i couldn't help but laugh at this. or at tep and oops stepping on a rake and getting whacked in the face.

cartoons and the 3 stooges are so insidious, no?

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never had all the hair below my neck shorn off, though, so my sympathy is not what it could be.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The rake thing is one of those things where I think the sheer what-the-fuck-itude of "did I REALLY just do that?" distracts you from the pain for awhile. As long as no one saw you do it. Cause it's not like you can just nonchalantly shrug it off and look cool after that. Your cool is gone for the whole damn day.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ealing cabbies gotta hustle to survive, it's mean around these parts!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and as this about mishaps...I got splashed by a cement mixer yesterday.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth, please admit that none of this actually happened.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth, were you wearing th cowboy hat? That could have been what made you a target.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I finally slipped on banana skin a few years ago and had a similar reaction. Stepped on a rake and smashed my face when I was a kid, too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Anybody accidentally get hit in the face with a pie? And when I say pie I don't mean anything perverted, you perverts.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

it happened! the glass throw part is irrelevant really, its the banana thing that amused me (though the fact that i didnt actually fall probably allowed me to be amused). the glass thing was a weak and pissy attempt, it probably wasnt even aimed at me, it just smashed near me, there was no follow up attempt or shouting or anything

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

ok i was sat watching tv eating a banana and bcz i wanted to enjoy tv plus banana i threw the skin down onto the floor cz there were no bins immediately handy, plus actually i prefer to put it in the kitchen bin which has a lid — i would do it in a minute or two, ok? let me enjoy my banana!

i threw it into the doorway, so i wd see it and remember to pick it up when i next went into the kitchen

banana finished, i found tv absorbing and stayed to watch the whole prog

prog i over i got up to go to the kitchen - i did not look at the floor

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I still haven't tripped over my shoelaces, as far as I can recall.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've slipped on a banana skin and seen someone else do it.

And I've tripped over my shoe laces, seen a dog chase a cat and a cat catch a bird.

I must live in a cartoon.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the test case: have you ever been hit in the face w.a frypan and your face rang like a bell and looked like a fryingpan after?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 July 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

no but an anvil did fall on my head once, causing one of those long tall bumps too shoot up

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 27 July 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I misread anvil as avril. I'm sick.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 July 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I dreamed about you last night jel! You had a beautiful old baby blue sports car and the people in the bank who were interviewing you for a job refused to believe that you hadn't just borrowed it off someone.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I got splashed by a cement mixer yesterday

Did it immediately set, turning you into a statue until you were hit with a sledgehammer?

Also, Tad is wrong to suggest that someone throwing a glass at Gareth isn't funny.It wouldn't be funny if I were the target, obviously, but it was Gareth, so that's funny.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 July 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yr a cruel and unfeeling man martin! i have never slipped on a banana skin but i have seen someone else do it on a tube. it's not an everday occurence as cartoons would seem to suggest, but they are mondo slippy and v dangerous!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 27 July 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I've walked along the road, been distracted by something, looked the other way and walked into a lamp post. I have done this more than once, actually. I like to afford other people the opportunity to laugh at my expense.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 27 July 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i broke two ribs last year walking into a road sign on the corner of highbury and islington tube station. that really hurt but people who saw me do it laughed - bastards! (bet one of them was martin ;-)

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 27 July 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Objection To Being Stepped On
by Robert Frost - 1962

At the end of the row
I stepped on the toe
Of an unemployed hoe.
It rose in offense
And struck me a blow
In the seat of my sense.
It wasn't to blame
But I called it a name.
And I must say it dealt
Me a blow that I felt
Like a malice prepense.
You may call me a fool,
But was there a rule
The weapon should be
Turned into a tool?
And what do we see?
The first tool I step on
Turned into a weapon.

― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 27 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(It's slightly sad that the line "an unemployed hoe" can now not be read without titters from the class.)

― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 27 July 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I've totally walked into parking meters/street signs. That's the worst, it's so public.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 27 July 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't had a minor accident like this in a long time. Whenever I fuck up it's like hit the ground and don't move for a long time style.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

yes martin! I was trapped all night :(

Cool N! I need a sports car!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 July 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been hit in the face with a pie.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 27 July 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck the server - let's club together and buy jel an Aston Martin.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm in for that. I wasn't giving you bastards money for the server but I'm so down with getting jel an Aston Martin. Preferably with a license that reads "JEL BAR".

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 July 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i have left banana peels lying around, upturned a collander full of spaghetti on someone's head, and laughed at ppl who trip.

― minna (minna), Monday, 28 July 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone dropped an anvil on my head, then as I trudged away my torso became accordion-esque

― Nellie (nellskies), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Revive! I still don't believe this actually happened? But I do enjoy how the British boys all seem to be like, "Wow, it finally happened to me!" as if falling on a banana is akin to losing one's virginity.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Today, I became a man. I finally fell on my first banana skin!"

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I leave banana peels everywhere in the hopes that it will make someones day.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(note: I am not joking)

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Judging by everyone else I know from your town, I am not surprised by that.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, it's the word skin that especially makes banana skins sexy. That, and the fact that bananas are shaped like...

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

...the world's most bent penis?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The universe is more Jack Tripper-like than I had imagined.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

We really have to bring up Tra1n0 every couple months, don't we? I really wish I still had his emails.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG WHAT IS ON THE END OF THE PENISES YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING AT IF YOU FIND THEM COMPARABLE TO BANANAS??????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The part that resembles a tiny little cat tail?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

this whole slipping on foreskins thing is making me queasy

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

a man?

(fucking xposts bah)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

You have all set my sex drive up the bomb.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You have no chance to survive now make your sex

― Cat (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I point out that tossing around foreskins so that people can slip on them is a genius move in Gein-driven slapstick?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh great, now I've got images of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Norman! in my head. With Sarah Brightman singing the tender ballad "Turn On the Shower (Is There Rust in the Water?)"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Jesus. Can we picture Sarah Brightman choking on foreskins too, while we're at it?

(Irate Broadway lovers, attack Dan and Ned first, as tis their fault.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

After Silence the Musical, our conclusions are rather tame.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/445000/images/_448037_michael_sarah150.jpg

quick! give her the heimlich!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh to Silence the Musical. And slipping on foreskins.

Are unpeeled bananas circumsized?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot all about Silence! I admit I laughed (and shuddered) at the concept, though I thought Sweeny Todd portrayed the joy found in blood and gore better

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I've decided that the most disturbing thing about the "banna = penis" comparison is the DelMonte sticker.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, like Mount? Are that it's quality?? Come on, Dan, I need a follow-up!

http://frontpage2k.nmia.com/~kenk/Adpics/delmonte_banana.JPG

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, we needs the louche smuttiness,in a hurry

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Damnity Damn Damn!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Had I known in college about the DelMonte sticker's ability to reduce women to gibbering wrecks, I would have been one banana-dicked ho.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Instead of two.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure Dan does the work of ten men really.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, you'd have had to be decked out as the new "Banana Pimp", though....complete with gold medallions and Chiquita gold tooth.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=banana+pimp&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I fear the third entry. (But who doesn't?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan's head must be photoshopped onto this IMMEDIATELY!

http://www.sk-kultur.de/tanz/banane.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I fear the third entry. (But who doesn't?)

The first entry gave me the quivers: prostitution just doesn't appear to pay, these days.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I just hit my thumb with a hammer!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

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