{"id":1796,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/help-the-moldy-banana-i-accidentally-left-in-storage-has-achieved-sentience\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:34","slug":"help-the-moldy-banana-i-accidentally-left-in-storage-has-achieved-sentience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/help-the-moldy-banana-i-accidentally-left-in-storage-has-achieved-sentience\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! The Moldy Banana I Accidentally Left in Storage Has Achieved Sentience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Jacob Johnson\">Jacob Johnson<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>July 23, 2016<\/h6>\n<p>Look, we\u2019ve all been there. You open one of the boxes you stored before you left last June, and your nose is suddenly met with the pungent whiff of something organic you\u2019ve unintentionally left incubating in there all this time. Whoops! Here\u2019s an in-depth guide on what to do if the banana you left alone for months has somehow managed to attain consciousness. <delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"3\" data-time=\"1470503050197\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">(<\/delete>Note: these steps will also work for sentient grapes, apples, and kiwi, but not for melon, oranges, or pineapples<delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"4\" data-time=\"1470503054927\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">)<\/delete>.<\/p>\n<p>\t If your former midday-snack from the dining hall has been miraculously transformed into a gray pile of mush that repeatedly attempts to communicate with you telepathically, chances are it\u2019s been exposed to <i>Mucorales Illustratum<\/i>, a rare kind of mold that appears to prefer the damp, economically uncertain climate of college storage rooms. When this happened, a kind of symbiotic fusion occurred, in which fruit and fungus merged to become a higher life-form, with a definite degree of self awareness. No doubt, your former banana will have a lot of questions for you. Here are some sample answers to the most frequently-asked questions I have received over the past few years:<\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"7\" data-time=\"1469242967191\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">1<\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"6\" data-time=\"1469242967079\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">2<\/delete>. Q: Wh<insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"8\" data-time=\"1469242973063\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">o <\/insert>a<delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"10\" data-time=\"1469242976539\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">t is <\/delete>m<delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"30\" data-time=\"1469242986293\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">y<\/delete> <insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"31\" data-time=\"1469242987373\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">I<\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"15\" data-time=\"1469242982974\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">purpose in life<\/delete>? <\/p>\n<p> A: Great question! You are a pile of decomposing banana mush that has, against all odds, somehow become sentient. Congratulations! <\/p>\n<p> 2. Q: What is my purpose in life?  <\/p>\n<p> A: Wow, another excellent inquiry! Right now, you\u2019re on a backwater planet orbiting a completely ordinary star in the middle of galactic suburbia, so your purpose can be pretty much whatever you want. Nobody cares!<\/p>\n<p> 3. Q: Is love real?<\/p>\n<p> A: Eh\u2026 probably not. <\/p>\n<p>With that out of the way, it\u2019s time to start planning the demise of your telepathic moldy banana mush. While it may be easy <insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"41\" data-time=\"1470503582117\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">to grow sympathy for<\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"11\" data-time=\"1470503579208\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">to take a sympathetic angle to the state of<\/delete> your months-old slime, remember that there\u2019s only room for one self-aware species on this planet of ours, and it sure as hell isn\u2019t going to be that thing. <\/p>\n<p>\t As you may have guessed, telepathic banana mush can be pretty hard to kill. Just scooping it up and throwing it in the garbage will only piss it off, which runs the risk of it mind-controlling your friends and making them pledge allegiance to the almighty \u201cBanana Lord<insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"78\" data-time=\"1470503610837\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">..<\/insert>\u201d<delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"77\" data-time=\"1470503609780\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">.<\/delete> Talk about uncool! Your best bet is to take a large bottle of industrial-strength <insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"80\" data-time=\"1470503751905\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">&#8220;<\/insert>Febreeze<insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"81\" data-time=\"1470503754181\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">&#8220;<\/insert> and keep spraying the thing until it<delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"83\" data-time=\"1470503762073\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">&#8216;<\/delete>s pained, horrible screaming finally leaves the inside of your mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacob Johnson July 23, 2016 Look, we\u2019ve all been there. You open one of the boxes you stored before you left last June, and your nose is suddenly met with the pungent whiff of something organic you\u2019ve unintentionally left incubating in there all this time. Whoops! Here\u2019s an in-depth guide on what to do if the banana you left alone for months has somehow managed to attain consciousness. (Note: these steps will also work for sentient grapes, apples, and kiwi, but not for melon, oranges, or pineapples). If your former midday-snack from the dining hall has been miraculously transformed into a gray pile of mush that repeatedly attempts to communicate with you telepathically, chances are it\u2019s been exposed to Mucorales Illustratum, a rare kind of mold that appears to prefer the damp, economically uncertain climate of college storage rooms. When this happened, a kind of symbiotic fusion occurred, in which fruit and fungus merged to become a higher life-form, with a definite degree of self awareness. No doubt, your former banana will have a lot of questions for you. Here are some sample answers to the most frequently-asked questions I have received over the past few years: 12. Q: Who at is my Ipurpose in life? A: Great question! You are a pile of decomposing banana mush that has, against all odds, somehow become sentient. Congratulations! 2. Q: What is my purpose in life? A: Wow, another excellent inquiry! Right now, you\u2019re on a backwater planet orbiting a completely ordinary star in the middle of galactic suburbia, so your purpose can be pretty much whatever you want. Nobody cares! 3. Q: Is love real? A: Eh\u2026 probably not. With that out of the way, it\u2019s time to start planning the demise of your telepathic moldy banana mush. While it may be easy to grow sympathy forto take a sympathetic angle to the state of your months-old slime, remember that there\u2019s only room for one self-aware species on this planet of ours, and it sure as hell isn\u2019t going to be that thing. As you may have guessed, telepathic banana mush can be pretty hard to kill. Just scooping it up and throwing it in the garbage will only piss it off, which runs the risk of it mind-controlling your friends and making them pledge allegiance to the almighty \u201cBanana Lord..\u201d. Talk about uncool! Your best bet is to take a large bottle of industrial-strength &#8220;Febreeze&#8220; and keep spraying the thing until it&#8216;s pained, horrible screaming finally leaves the inside of your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}