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Non-Tech : The Pineapple Thread
DOLE 12.74-0.7%Oct 31 9:30 AM EDT
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To: Skeet Shipman who wrote (6)2/19/2002 1:14:02 AM
From: Graystone   of 138
 
A couple of questions ?
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CQB vs MLP

Which investment offers a better opportunity ? From the point of view of a consumer it seems to me that a pineapple has a huge profit potential.

Individual fresh pineapples sell for up to $7CDN in a supermarket here and they may be months old when they arrive.

I am not sure I like getting the whole hat full of fruit that the chiquita lady has on, especially the bananas.

The pineapples and the bananas don't like each other, the French Bananas have never gotten over the choice of ananas as the French name of the pineapple. Canadians realized the phonetic difficulty of "pin pommes" first and made the Langues de Academie de Francais choose a new name for the friendly fruit. The unimaginative French Canadians hijacked the English word bananas and dropped the b (this co-incided with the French Canadian threat to make the b sound silent). Historians agree it was a thumb the nose gesture to the imaginative English Canadians. The loss of the letter b would have had a drastic effect on Canadian culture. The center of every major Canadian city is marked by The Bay, and a Canadian might say "I am going to the Bay eh ? A French Canadian could ask any English Canadian Ou est la Baie ? Try this type of cultural interaction without the "B" and everyone has a problem, "I am going to the ay eh."
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