23-02-2003 06:33									#1
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Well, as I am new here, could someone please explain what the "banana" option on certain polls means (it seems this option is like on 80% of polls, and some polls has nothing to do with fruits). Is this considered a joke? If so, why does in certain polls I viewed when I browsed off-topic forums it gets so many votes?

	23-02-2003 06:35									#2
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it's a traditional poll option

	23-02-2003 06:38									#3
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OK, I see that, but what does it means and what are the origins of it?

	23-02-2003 06:42									#4
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It basically means abstain. You vote for it if you want to make a joke of the poll, or can't find an option to suit your needs.

In the Off-Topic forum, no polls are taken seriously if they don't have a banana option.

It's just an Apolyton tradition.

	23-02-2003 06:46									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Abdul-Aziz OK, I see that, but what does it means and what are the origins of it?

It's a nonsense option, it doesn't mean anything really.

A long time ago, someone included the option "Banana" in his poll.
The responses to it were positive, and a tradition was born.

	23-02-2003 07:06									#6
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OK, thanks, I understood it it seems... Thankfully tradition is only in Off-Topic, cause I already created a poll in civilization future forums without this option...

	23-02-2003 07:07									#7
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The equivilent to "bannana" over at CFC is "Giant Radiactive Monkeys"

Last edited by Lefty Scaevola on 23-02-2003 at 08:55

	23-02-2003 07:11									#8
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And at Something Awful, it's simply "Comedy third (or whatever option it is) option".

	23-02-2003 07:27									#9
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And at Civilization - Macintosh forums it is "Apple", isn't it? :-)

	23-02-2003 09:01									#10
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I'm surprised that you weren't run off for not having a banana option.

I remember Mr.Fun was trying to get people to switch to "Strawberry" but it never really caught on.

	23-02-2003 10:55									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola The equivilent to "bannana" over at CFC is "Giant Radiactive Monkeys"

CFC inferiority

	23-02-2003 13:00									#12
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you people should be ashamed of yourselves for not seeing through this obvious DL.


DL! DL!

* H Tower does the DL dance

	23-02-2003 13:03									#13
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H Tower, we've done that

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...&threadid=78107

	23-02-2003 13:33									#14
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It's a "phallic" thing

It has to do with the repressed homosexual urges of Apolytoners

	23-02-2003 17:13									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident It's a "phallic" thing It has to do with the repressed homosexual urges of Apolytoners

Still better than CFC's repressed bestial urges.

	24-02-2003 00:33									#16
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I think the "banana" remains the "abstain" or "make fun of" option even in the Macintosh forums here. An apple, though, would make more sense ...

Gatekeeper

	24-02-2003 00:45									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Abdul-Aziz OK, thanks, I understood it it seems... Thankfully tradition is only in Off-Topic, cause I already created a poll in civilization future forums without this option...

actually the tradition has spread outside the OT, though the banana option isn't necessarily expected in other forums

	24-02-2003 03:37									#18
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quote: A long time ago, someone included the option "Banana" in his poll. The responses to it were positive, and a tradition was born

That's stefu's fault... or someone else- it happened during bananagate around late summer 2001, I think... he made a poll about which type of fruit people liked... and many people copied the thread- we had about 20 or so polls with "banana" in their option lines
(over 6 people were 24-hr banned )

IT was an amusing day


banana appears quite often in the demogames for some reason??

	24-02-2003 03:45									#19
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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud banana appears quite often in the demogames for some reason??

i noticed that in the civ2dg, dunno why though. carried by OTers in search of +1's perhaps

	24-02-2003 03:48									#20
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...I doubt they even know where it originated... sigh... youth...

	24-02-2003 04:15									#21
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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud banana appears quite often in the demogames for some reason??

* DrSpike finds that not at all surprising.

	24-02-2003 06:22									#22
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Banana is an Apolyton tradition.

From simple poll option to synonym for Abstain to full-blown set of myths and legends (i.e. Apolyton sends you subliminal messages to buy bananas), it has become embedded in Poly culture.

But who started it? DarkCloud's been around enough to know, so I trust him. (Kinda.)

	24-02-2003 07:30									#23
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quote: banana appears quite often in the demogames for some reason??

Fear the banana All of our uncontested elections, (and some of our contested ones,) run a banana option.

Sometimes the banana even wins.

Banana is a tradition of the Civ2DG because it encourages people to vote for what they agree with, not simply the least-bad option.

Polls that are a waste of time are banana vote havens.

	24-02-2003 07:44									#24
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike better than CFC's repressed bestial urges.

Repressed?

	24-02-2003 11:44									#25
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well the reason that banana is so prevalent in the civ2 DG is because many of us are OTFers as well. Or it used to be that, but most of those who started the game have since dissapeared

	24-02-2003 14:41									#26
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If you do a poll in the OT-forum without a banana option, 9 out of 10 posters will ask "where's the banana option?"

	24-02-2003 19:35									#27
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Bannana is as valid an option as many of the "normal ones offered"

	24-02-2003 21:59									#28
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The SMAC Democracy Game's official polls always (IIRC) have a "Xenobanana" option. If a person who is an only candidate in an election loses to Xenobanana, he is "banana'd". Xenobanana even nearly won a region name poll (they were going to call a region "Xenobanan", oh the horror) but my aggressive campaigning finally made "Solaris" the winner.

	24-02-2003 22:58									#29
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Fear the Xenobanana... Doesn't sound good....

	25-02-2003 04:07									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Kassiopeia The SMAC Democracy Game's official polls always (IIRC) have a "Xenobanana" option. If a person who is an only candidate in an election loses to Xenobanana, he is "banana'd".

actually, the word "abstain" was changed to xenobanana after Archaic was defeated in the term II elections by him, and he complained that "abstain" meant a forfeit of your vote (which would have allowed him to win), not for xenobanana, which signifies that you don't like either candidate, but does not give up your vote....or something