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I quote from gcaptain: “According to AP Moller, the parent company of Maersk Lines, a single 20-foot vessel container on average can hold about 48,000 bananas. In theory then, Emma Maersk is capable of holding nearly 528 million bananas [aka 11,000 teu] in a single voyage – enough to give every person in Europe or North America a banana for breakfast.” So I wondered . . . if Emma and sisters carry that number of bananas, then
CMA CGM White Shark = 243 million bananas,
There you have it, a new measure for container ships, the banana. It’s right out there waiting to catch on . . like smoots, donkeypower, helens, and hedons.
All fotos recently by Will Van Dorp. Thanks to gcaptain for bringing up the banana idea. Now would those be Cavendish bananas, plantains, or something else?
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April 7, 2011 at 9:55 am
Les Sonnenmark
Probably metric bananas, which are equal to 1.137 US bananas. And the peels could be used to launch more ships, as was done in 1941 in Texas, shown here http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675053962_SS-Cape-Lookout_men-peeling-bananas_man-eating-banana_skin-of-fruit
April 7, 2011 at 10:03 am
tugster
les— thank you. that’s the funniest thing i’ve seen since april fools day!! preciosa! i’d rate that video at least 3 mega-hedons