Monty by Jim Meddick for September 09, 2012

I want a banana laptop.

Yeah, it is.

Yup. Obvious as your “Banana” laptop reference. I’ll bet Timmy B. in Sarasota wishes he had never written that email….

Lame. Just lame.

Don’t do this.

Compare to Frank Cho’s anquish in “Liberty Meadows”.

(Frank, Frank! Come back! We need you!)

“Dear Timmy B. of Sarasota, I often the habit of using a microscope high tech. This microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. Timmy, if I were using that microscope right now, I still wouldn’t be able to locate my interest in your question”.

Barry Longyear came up with an answer as well.“Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America are supposed to answer that question with a post office box in Schenectady. You send in two dollars and a self-addressed-stamped envelope, and you will be sent back an idea.He also claimed that “Roger Zelazny says that every evening he leaves a glass of milk and a dish of cookies on his back porch. In the morning the milk and cookies are gone and on the dish is a slip of paper containing an idea.”It’s in the forward of Longyear’s anthology “It Came From Schenectady”.

Foreword.

Ideas are like pimples. If you notice one, you notice another, and another, and so on, and pretty soon you notice ideas all over the place.

“I have no idea.”

That’s a pretty fruity looking laptop. You got any Pineapple laptops? I understand they’re a little dressier. No slips like with the Banana laptop that keeps falling off the lap.

Utica..Utica!…er…oops..that should be “Attica”

Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon..

Oh come on people! The banana computer is obviously an homage to Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County. Breathed created the Banana Jr. 6000 as a parody of the first Macintosh – a single unit, upright shoe-box looking thing… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_in_Bloom_County#Banana_Jr._6000