Just look at this banana fan.

Just look at it.

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There’s always money in the banana fan.
http://twitter.com/JerryWord Jerry Word

I am a fan of the banana fan.
http://www.frogworth.com/blog/ Peter Hollo

Just look at this banana fan.
Just look at him.
JProffitt71

I have spent five minutes of my life watching a banana fan.
I regret nothing.
http://twitter.com/spylark hapa

spaghetti squash fan NOW.
not a doktor

Ding-dong ding-dong BANANA-FAN! boop doop loop

Seriously, this is so stupid it’s brilliant.
Øyvind

I looked at it. Looking at it gave me the overwhelming urge to play the video, and see if such a wonderous thing could really be true. And it was! Where is my GOD now? He is in the shape of a banana fan.
IlluminatedOne

Move over Dyson Air Multiplier.
zero

I looked at the banana fan.
秀平月

So why isn’t this one “awesome?” You’re slipping, Doctorow. I’m afraid this meme is over now ;-(.
allybeag

I’m surprised the bananas didn’t fly off actually. I wonder how they were fixed on?
snagglepuss

Reminds me of an uncle I used to have. Hi-Yooooo!
princessalex

It’s dancing! :-)
Oliver Grinter

you drinking too many Jarritos
http://profiles.google.com/angela.meadon Angela Meadon

I want my click back. that sucked
akaaudio

is it for sale? I need the base…
Lobster

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring… banana faaaan…
jackbird

I like the guy’s other videos. Especially the one where he saws apart a chair while sitting in it. (note to the impatient – the payoff’s around 3:20.)
- Xopher
  
  A metaphor, clearly, for the federal budget process. He’s playing a Republican.
TooGoodToCheck

wow. I had something to say, but not a doktor & Lobster both beat me to it.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Iscopeu/100001837600848 Richard Iscopeu

Swing, swing, swing, swing, swing, bananfan.
Swing, swong, swing, swong, swing, baanaanaafaan.
bolamig

I’m just so happy to have leisure time to not only spend enjoying a banana fan but reading pages of comments about it,
Mister Juju

IT BEGINS.
Shibi_SF

If I put my face up to it and said: WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, would it warble like a plastic or metal-bladed fan? (I’d probably just get a rapidly reccurring face slap that sounds more like: FAP FAP FAP FAP, without the neat warbling of my waaahhhhhhhhhh).
Xopher

I just looked at it. Sat there, looking at it.

Sure looks like a good way to distribute banana bits evenly in a floor-wall-ceiling circle around a room.

Awesome.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Pishabh-Badmaash/100000345226234 Pishabh Badmaash

Dick Cheney would never have funded that
frankieboy

the “makers” are hard at it, peace and prosperity is just around the corner!
HenryPootel

Just look at THIS banana fan…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXVn5_OKFw

Banana, please
jimkirk

Is it just me, or is that vaguely erotic?
- 秀平月
  
  Yes. No.
pjcamp

Maybe Doctorow likes to whip his banana around in a circle, but that was just idiotic.
OJ Dingo

I made it to Boing Boing! I’m so proud.
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