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RUSH: Here\u2019s Jim in Dallas, Georgia. It\u2019s great to have you next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Twenty-eight-year dittos. I\u2019ve been listening to you since the beginning, August \u201988. You\u2019ve got a phrase… This is a perfect Open Line Friday call, by the way, \u2019cause I\u2019m not gonna talk politics. You got a phrase you\u2019ve been using for those years: “phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roller.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Where on earth does the term “plastic banana” come from?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: I Googled it. I can\u2019t find it. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) It just rolled out of my mouth back in 1985 sometime. I\u2019ve been using that since I worked in Sacramento, and I don\u2019t remember what it was that made me put “plastic” and “banana” together. Something had to spark it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So, 28 years of wondering and there\u2019s no answer?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there\u2019s an answer; I just can\u2019t recall what it is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Banana.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you remember, Snerdley? That may have been the germination for it. When I was growing up —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — we had all these plastic fruit displays. You know, the artificial fruit in a basket that you put on the table —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and it was designed to look like you had real fruit there, except that you didn\u2019t?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, it was all plastic, so, I mean, there were plastic bananas, and there were plastic apples.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh. (laughing) I just never know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Plastic banana,” it was all part of the alliteration of the phrase that made it attractive. It\u2019s just one of those things. It just rolled off, one day and I said, “Wow, that sounded cool,” and I endeavored to try to remember it. A lot of those great phrases that I… You know, I ought to sit down some day and write down all these things that I come up with over the years so I don\u2019t forget them. I appreciate the call, Jim, very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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