Comments on The Prettiest Denny's Waitress: This Wet Banana is not a euphemism, so knock it of...

I think you should do an entire NaBloPoMo with a b...

2008-11-30T00:44:00.000-05:00

I think you should do an entire NaBloPoMo with a banana theme.

I had a slip-n-slide birthday party when I turned five or six. My friends recreated the experience for my 21st birthday a few years back, although it was a homemade slide, created from a very long tarp and garden hose. Best birthday ever.

I never had a Slip n Slide or a Wet Banana. One t...

2008-11-24T13:22:00.000-05:00

I never had a Slip n Slide or a Wet Banana. One time, my cousin and I emptied the contents of our huge bubble wand solution bucket on my grandfather's lawn and slid down it. We left two butt prints in the grass, and were never fully forgiven.

I would have no problem with my kid playing on a s...

2008-11-24T11:27:00.000-05:00

I would have no problem with my kid playing on a slip n slide. However, I would not set one up in my yard because the neighborhood kids would instantly flock to it like it was a free water park.

I remember the time on the slip n' slide when I be...

2008-11-24T11:24:00.000-05:00

I remember the time on the slip n' slide when I became just a little too old/heavy to enjoy the feeling of hurtling myself towards the ground. It was a sad day, indeed, but my parents were quite happy to let the lawn grow back.

It's true. I doubt very much that parents today wo...

2008-11-23T18:26:00.000-05:00

It's true. I doubt very much that parents today would allow the dangers. Chris... Meaghan... care to to prove me wrong?

I think we had a Slip n' Slide, not a Wet Banana, ...

2008-11-23T14:27:00.000-05:00

I think we had a Slip n' Slide, not a Wet Banana, but I can't recall for sure. I doubt most parents today would allow either anymore, though. We had to be tougher back then... We had tall, metal playground equipment on asphalt. Kids today have rubberized, smaller-scale things built over sand. Wusses. They couldn't handle the Wet Banana these days.

We had the regular old Slip 'n' Slide but we didn'...

2008-11-21T21:34:00.000-05:00

We had the regular old Slip 'n' Slide but we didn't have those fancy smooth, well-manicured lawns you guys had in suburbia, so we didn't use it often. Instead we took these smooth foam rubber floats that were big enough to lie on, put them at the end of the pier in our pond, dumped water on them and slid on them into the water. That was fun until I broke my pinkie finger by getting in caught in one of the holes at the end of the float on my way down. I went down into the water and the pinkie stayed back on the pier.

"Could that be Mom on Wet Banana? It is!"And that,...

2008-11-21T21:26:00.000-05:00

"Could that be Mom on Wet Banana? It is!"

And that, kids, is how you were made!

Yeah, well, I didn't even have a Slip n' Slide, si...

2008-11-21T15:53:00.000-05:00

Yeah, well, I didn't even have a Slip n' Slide, sir. I didn't even have a proper yard, you effete elitist.

But this post is a lot funnier if you read Wet Ban...

2008-11-21T15:25:00.000-05:00

But this post is a lot funnier if you read Wet Banana with dirty connotations. Preparing the yard for Wet Banana time? That's just too funny.

My parents never let me have any sort of plastic thing on which to slide headfirst. They said it would tear up the grass. So I went to my neighbor's house to play, knocked the wind out of myself on the first try, and went home crying.

Now my family wasn't poor growing up, but my paren...

2008-11-21T14:54:00.000-05:00

Now my family wasn't poor growing up, but my parent's wanted us to learn to do without and appreciate the toys that came with nature more than the kind that came with sugary cereal. We had no slip n slip. Instead we had garbage bags. Talk about a too short runway. Homemade slip n slides sucked so bad.

Well, I know college kids still do it. I don't kno...

2008-11-21T14:46:00.000-05:00

Well, I know college kids still do it.

I don't know about actual kids. There's probably a video game where you can build an avatar and then make it slide around on wet plastic. I'd guess that's how kids these days keep cool in the summer.