It wasn't nonsense though. It was spot on. It was pre-internet, and yet it's very accurate about the state of our language today.
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Last year, I was eating in a fancy, large restaurant, when I began to hear a rumble and the distant sound of people chanting, 'potassium, potassium,' and suddenly hundreds of people dressed as bananas flood this restaurant chanting 'potassium' over and over, and we were trapped there for a very long time because the bananas would not leave and they were everywhere.