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Juan Albion
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¡Cereal Killer!
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ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!
KILL THAT BANNANA!
GOD I HATE BANANNAS!
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!
KILL THAT BANNANA!
GOD I HATE BANANNAS!
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Defenceless banana 'will be extinct in 10 years'
By Robert Uhlig, Farming Correspondent
Buy your bananas now. Scientists warn today that the world's favourite fruit could be extinct within 10 years because it is unable to fight off a rampaging plague of pests and disease.
Emile Frison, head of a worldwide network of banana researchers, warned that the world's favourite fruit was at crisis point, with yields in decline in much of Africa, Asia and central America.
He and other scientists warned that the regions most dependent on the banana, relying on the fruit for up to half their daily calories, are facing the tropical equivalent of the Irish potato famine.
The doomed banana's Achilles heel is that it is a genetically decrepit sterile mutant. One of the oldest crops, the first edible variety was propagated around 10,000 years ago from a rare mutant of the wild banana, which, with a mass of hard seeds, is virtually inedible.
But because all edible bananas are sterile - effectively clones of that first plant - they are unable to evolve to fight off new diseases.
By Robert Uhlig, Farming Correspondent
Buy your bananas now. Scientists warn today that the world's favourite fruit could be extinct within 10 years because it is unable to fight off a rampaging plague of pests and disease.
Emile Frison, head of a worldwide network of banana researchers, warned that the world's favourite fruit was at crisis point, with yields in decline in much of Africa, Asia and central America.
He and other scientists warned that the regions most dependent on the banana, relying on the fruit for up to half their daily calories, are facing the tropical equivalent of the Irish potato famine.
The doomed banana's Achilles heel is that it is a genetically decrepit sterile mutant. One of the oldest crops, the first edible variety was propagated around 10,000 years ago from a rare mutant of the wild banana, which, with a mass of hard seeds, is virtually inedible.
But because all edible bananas are sterile - effectively clones of that first plant - they are unable to evolve to fight off new diseases.
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YAY! My phobia can be finally ended once and for all!
Strike
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What did you think of this guy?
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Strike
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Same here, heard he was crap for England, this is what I would show him.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Cereal Killer said:
You sound like you must have had a bad experience with a banana as a child. Why don't you tell us all about it. We won't laugh.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Tee hee. Serves him right.
Strike
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That is offensive, Juan Albion, then again knowing you I am not surprised you would post this.
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Juan Albion said:
No really bad experiences, just teachers FORCING me to do litter dutie with my BARE HANDS and I had to pick up a load of banannas and I now REALLY hate them!
I can touch them fresh for a few seconds but when they are peeled I cant touch them at all, especialy the skin and when the thing inside is mushed. If they are on a table in my front room when my family have them, I always have to cover them up with something cos I keep looking at them and they are putting me off what I am doing, its like they are talking to me saying "im going to EAT you" then doing an evil laugh.
anyway moving on....
Alyson Hannigan anyone?
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or Cat Deeley?
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or Alicia Silverstone
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or Gabrielle Richens
Juan Albion
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Strike said:
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Juan Albions still not got over the Senators defeat in the play offs to the mighty Maple Leafs.
TORONTO (CP) -- Ed Belfour was the difference, and as he stood in his crease in the closing minute the 19,600 hockey fans let him know it.
"Eddie, Eddie, Eddie," they chanted.
Belfour relished the adulation as the last seconds ticked away on a 4-1 Game 7 victory that sent his Toronto Maple Leafs on to the second round of the NHL playoffs and eliminated the Ottawa Senators.
"It's a great feeling when you're up by that many goals and the fans are so excited," said Belfour, who described his effort as "definitely one of my best, for sure."
Every time they've met the Senators in the playoffs, four times in five years now, the Leafs have outworked the highly-skilled Senators. They've walked all over them when it mattered most.
"The guys came out hard from the opening gate," said Belfour, who turns 39 on Wednesday. "They just kept working hard and pressing, and they played a strong game defensively, too.
"We stuck with it, we had a never-say-die attitude, and home-ice advantage was huge for us."
Joe Nieuwendyk scored twice, while Chad Kilger and Bryan McCabe also scored for the Leafs, who led 3-0 after one period. Now they'll start anew Thursday night against the Flyers in Philadelphia. First, they'll savour this one.
"To get the lead was a huge boost for us, especially the way Eddie was playing the whole series," said Ron Francis. "The only thing he didn't do for us this series was score a goal.
"He was fabulous."
Nieuwendyk and Belfour were teammates when Dallas won the Stanley Cup in 1999.
"I played with Eddie a long time and he's a warrior," said Nieuwendyk. "He likes this time of year.
"He gets himself ready to play like no other. He's really got it going right now."
While Belfour was the MVP of the series, Ottawa netminder Patrick Lalime melted under the spotlight of the deciding game and was replaced by Martin Prusek to start the second period.
"Personally, it's very disappointing," he said afterwards. "I still thought we had a pretty good series.
"You can say it was this or that but you've got to give credit to their goaltender."
Coach Jacques Martin defended Lalime.
"Patrick didn't have a good night, we're not going to hide that, but at the same time I think you win as a team and you lose as a team," said Martin. "We had a chance to come back . . . but Eddie was the difference."
The Senators outplayed Toronto in many of the games and had an overall 238-154 advantage in shots on goal including 37-26 on Tuesday. But the Senators were baffled by Belfour.
"If you look at every year, this is the reason teams advance -- because of their goaltending," said Brian Leetch. "Eddie has a history of doing this before.
"When he's your guy, when you're a defenceman playing in front of him when he's making those saves, it's a good feeling. He's the strength of our team."
Now the highly-skilled Senators will have to spend yet another summer listening to critics describing them, rather fairly or unfairly, as choking dogs. Some things never change.
"We felt really good about our chances coming in here," said Todd White. "We had a really good effort in Game 6. but we got off on the wrong foot in the first period (of Game 7).
"It was a tough series. Game 5 was one we'd definitely like to have back. We're discouraged we didn't come through."
"We battled hard," said Greg de Vries. "It didn't go our way but I think the effort was there."
The Leafs didn't have to think about their effort. They knew it was there.
"There's nothing better than playing a game seven and winning -- it's awesome," said Tie Domi.
Toronto took out the Senators without two of its most potent weapons. Mats Sundin was absent since leaving Game 4 with a suspected left leg injury and Owen Nolan missed the entire series because of a knee injury.
"It was a tremendous effort -- a total team effort," said GM John Ferguson. "We got contributions from up and down the lineup."
Kilger opened the scoring at 6:19. Domi out-muscled Anton Volchenkov for the puck behind Ottawa's net and slid it to the front of the crease. Kilger banged it in.
"Tie had a huge series, right from the first game," said Leetch. "He was a factor every game."
Nieuwendyk beat Lalime knee high on the short side at 7:41 with a wrist shot from along the boards near the top of the circle to Lalime's right. Lalime should have had it.
"Joe has a heck of a shot," said Belfour. "He's shown that in the past.
"I saw him do it many times when we played together in Dallas. He's got a tricky shot. He's a big-game player and he proved it again."
Nieuwendyk then beat Lalime through the legs at 19:39 with a wrist shot from the centre of the same circle. Lalime should have had that one, too. It was Nieuwendyk's fifth goal of the series.
"Late in the period like that, I was just trying to get a shot on the net," said Nieuwendyk.
Lalime was on the Ottawa bench wearing a ball cap and a glum expression when the second period began as Martin went to his backup. Prusek had never appeared in an NHL playoff game -- never faced a shot let alone dealt with Game 7 pressure.
Vaclav Varada flicked in a rebound 22 seconds into the middle period to give Ottawa fans some hope. But Belfour quickly extinguished it during three Ottawa power plays in the period.
McCabe got off a high wrist shot from the blue-line and the puck whizzed past Prusek at 7:59 of the third for a three-goal Leafs lead. Robert Reichel won a faceoff in Ottawa's zone and slid the puck to Kilger, who relayed it to McCabe.
The Leafs weren't sitting back trying to protect the lead as they had previously in the series, and an aggressive forecheck frustrated the Senators time and again.
"There's a lot of character in this locker room," said Nieuwendyk. "That's a great team over there.
"They've been awfully close the last few years and we're very fortunate to get through this series. But, again, we've got a lot of veterans who handled the situation very well. We could have been a little tight coming into this game but the atmosphere was loose and we played that way."
Notes: The Leafs scored the first goal in all seven games . . . Toronto is 5-0 in seventh games at home since losing to Los Angeles in a 1993 conference final . . . Ottawa is 0-4 all-time in Game 7 of a playoff series . . . Toronto is 16-8 all-time in the postseason against Ottawa . . . The Leafs will play in Philadelphia on Thursday, fly back home, and return to Philadelphia for Game 2 Sunday. Games in Toronto are Wednesday and Friday . . . The Leafs will be looking to atone for a 6-1 loss in Philadelphia in Game 7 of a first-round series last spring . . . During the regular season, Toronto lost three in a row to Philadelphia before a 3-2 road win March 18.
TORONTO (CP) -- Ed Belfour was the difference, and as he stood in his crease in the closing minute the 19,600 hockey fans let him know it.
"Eddie, Eddie, Eddie," they chanted.
Belfour relished the adulation as the last seconds ticked away on a 4-1 Game 7 victory that sent his Toronto Maple Leafs on to the second round of the NHL playoffs and eliminated the Ottawa Senators.
"It's a great feeling when you're up by that many goals and the fans are so excited," said Belfour, who described his effort as "definitely one of my best, for sure."
Every time they've met the Senators in the playoffs, four times in five years now, the Leafs have outworked the highly-skilled Senators. They've walked all over them when it mattered most.
"The guys came out hard from the opening gate," said Belfour, who turns 39 on Wednesday. "They just kept working hard and pressing, and they played a strong game defensively, too.
"We stuck with it, we had a never-say-die attitude, and home-ice advantage was huge for us."
Joe Nieuwendyk scored twice, while Chad Kilger and Bryan McCabe also scored for the Leafs, who led 3-0 after one period. Now they'll start anew Thursday night against the Flyers in Philadelphia. First, they'll savour this one.
"To get the lead was a huge boost for us, especially the way Eddie was playing the whole series," said Ron Francis. "The only thing he didn't do for us this series was score a goal.
"He was fabulous."
Nieuwendyk and Belfour were teammates when Dallas won the Stanley Cup in 1999.
"I played with Eddie a long time and he's a warrior," said Nieuwendyk. "He likes this time of year.
"He gets himself ready to play like no other. He's really got it going right now."
While Belfour was the MVP of the series, Ottawa netminder Patrick Lalime melted under the spotlight of the deciding game and was replaced by Martin Prusek to start the second period.
"Personally, it's very disappointing," he said afterwards. "I still thought we had a pretty good series.
"You can say it was this or that but you've got to give credit to their goaltender."
Coach Jacques Martin defended Lalime.
"Patrick didn't have a good night, we're not going to hide that, but at the same time I think you win as a team and you lose as a team," said Martin. "We had a chance to come back . . . but Eddie was the difference."
The Senators outplayed Toronto in many of the games and had an overall 238-154 advantage in shots on goal including 37-26 on Tuesday. But the Senators were baffled by Belfour.
"If you look at every year, this is the reason teams advance -- because of their goaltending," said Brian Leetch. "Eddie has a history of doing this before.
"When he's your guy, when you're a defenceman playing in front of him when he's making those saves, it's a good feeling. He's the strength of our team."
Now the highly-skilled Senators will have to spend yet another summer listening to critics describing them, rather fairly or unfairly, as choking dogs. Some things never change.
"We felt really good about our chances coming in here," said Todd White. "We had a really good effort in Game 6. but we got off on the wrong foot in the first period (of Game 7).
"It was a tough series. Game 5 was one we'd definitely like to have back. We're discouraged we didn't come through."
"We battled hard," said Greg de Vries. "It didn't go our way but I think the effort was there."
The Leafs didn't have to think about their effort. They knew it was there.
"There's nothing better than playing a game seven and winning -- it's awesome," said Tie Domi.
Toronto took out the Senators without two of its most potent weapons. Mats Sundin was absent since leaving Game 4 with a suspected left leg injury and Owen Nolan missed the entire series because of a knee injury.
"It was a tremendous effort -- a total team effort," said GM John Ferguson. "We got contributions from up and down the lineup."
Kilger opened the scoring at 6:19. Domi out-muscled Anton Volchenkov for the puck behind Ottawa's net and slid it to the front of the crease. Kilger banged it in.
"Tie had a huge series, right from the first game," said Leetch. "He was a factor every game."
Nieuwendyk beat Lalime knee high on the short side at 7:41 with a wrist shot from along the boards near the top of the circle to Lalime's right. Lalime should have had it.
"Joe has a heck of a shot," said Belfour. "He's shown that in the past.
"I saw him do it many times when we played together in Dallas. He's got a tricky shot. He's a big-game player and he proved it again."
Nieuwendyk then beat Lalime through the legs at 19:39 with a wrist shot from the centre of the same circle. Lalime should have had that one, too. It was Nieuwendyk's fifth goal of the series.
"Late in the period like that, I was just trying to get a shot on the net," said Nieuwendyk.
Lalime was on the Ottawa bench wearing a ball cap and a glum expression when the second period began as Martin went to his backup. Prusek had never appeared in an NHL playoff game -- never faced a shot let alone dealt with Game 7 pressure.
Vaclav Varada flicked in a rebound 22 seconds into the middle period to give Ottawa fans some hope. But Belfour quickly extinguished it during three Ottawa power plays in the period.
McCabe got off a high wrist shot from the blue-line and the puck whizzed past Prusek at 7:59 of the third for a three-goal Leafs lead. Robert Reichel won a faceoff in Ottawa's zone and slid the puck to Kilger, who relayed it to McCabe.
The Leafs weren't sitting back trying to protect the lead as they had previously in the series, and an aggressive forecheck frustrated the Senators time and again.
"There's a lot of character in this locker room," said Nieuwendyk. "That's a great team over there.
"They've been awfully close the last few years and we're very fortunate to get through this series. But, again, we've got a lot of veterans who handled the situation very well. We could have been a little tight coming into this game but the atmosphere was loose and we played that way."
Notes: The Leafs scored the first goal in all seven games . . . Toronto is 5-0 in seventh games at home since losing to Los Angeles in a 1993 conference final . . . Ottawa is 0-4 all-time in Game 7 of a playoff series . . . Toronto is 16-8 all-time in the postseason against Ottawa . . . The Leafs will play in Philadelphia on Thursday, fly back home, and return to Philadelphia for Game 2 Sunday. Games in Toronto are Wednesday and Friday . . . The Leafs will be looking to atone for a 6-1 loss in Philadelphia in Game 7 of a first-round series last spring . . . During the regular season, Toronto lost three in a row to Philadelphia before a 3-2 road win March 18.
