Just look at this awesome banana Viking helmet.

Just look at it.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Just look away! He’s back at it again.
rhoderickj

Fail. I see nothing awesome about that.
- pupdog
  
  Some people are just so dead inside…
Cydonia

My god. I just want to put this on, walk down the street, and bask in the ambient jealousy of everyone around me who does not own such a hat. It even comes with a snack when you get hungry, but at the sacrifice of part of the charm of this wondrous headpiece.
- Bucket
  
  When you eat one of the bannanahorns, you can then turn it 90 degrees and poof! you’re a unibannanacorn.
  - Cydonia
    
    An excellent point and further proof of the greatness and versatility of this helmet.
Nelson.C

You’re aware, Cory, that the banana Vikings didn’t actually have horns on their helmets? That’s just an urban legend. The pineapple Goths, on the other hand, actually did have helmets shaped like pineapples.
- peterbruells
  
  Well, the legend harkens back to Roman times, though I guess Roman counts as urban.
  
  Well, actually it’s not a real legend, since celtic and germanic chiefs and priests did wear strange stuff on their ceremonial helmets.
  - Felton
    
    Carmen Miranda wore a formidable battle helmet.
Dave Faris

Mango the Merciless.
mwiik

With all these banana links, you keep missing the best one of all: ‘The Banana is Perfect’ http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1635001 Honi soit qui mal y pense
- seyo
  
  You’re a little late to the party. Here, have a banana.
Hagrid

Bananas again, Cory?
BrotherPower

Okay, that’s a nice wiffle egg and a clever bit of whimsy, but would I be a party pooper to point out that that thing would eff up your bananas pretty much instantly under real-world countertop conditions?
- pupdog
  
  Yes. It’s a helmet, didn’t you read?
  - BrotherPower
    
    Yeah, I did.
    
    Granted, I used freetranslation.com to make sure Cory was just being funny with the whole “helmet” angle, and that this is actually made and marketed as a “banana holder.” Which it is… for 150 Euros.
    
    Yayyyyy crap!
    - Nater
      
      And also replying to:
      
      Fail. I see nothing awesome about that.
      
      Just look at these humourless gits. Just look at them.
      
      But then again, we have this with every bananathing that comes along, and someone does this reply to them. Nothing like tradition, is there?
  - BrotherPower
    
    …or you were being charmingly facetious. ;-)
    
    All right, I need coffee.
lewis stoole

i’m dead inside, but that is what makes me beautiful.
oh dear
(squooshes banana)
oh dear
(squooshes banana)
oh dear