Today my sister and I conducted an experiment combining brainwash of children and the common acceptance of bananas. The idea was simply to try and convince a three-year old, Daniel, that he was a banana (background research to be found here). We might have started out a bit rash by plainly starting to call him a banana. It quickly became clear, though, that that didn’t work, as he continued to vocalize a somewhat distinct “No!” for a three-year old. Fortunately his determination started to waver a bit when his own mother started to call him a banana and the before so confident denial of being so became more of a muffled grunt. After about a quarter of an hour there was an 80% chance of the boy responding to the name Bananiel. Had we only had more time, we do not doubt we could have successfully convinced him, that he indeed was a banana.

Somewhere out there somebody must surely be able to use this piece of information to something. I just can’t think of where, who or what.