Bob's original Banana Pop was yellow and was marketed with the slogan "Like a fountain of gold." Later the spinoff product Bob's Black was developed and became so popular that it completely eclipsed the original. Bob changed his last name to Black to more fully identify himself with his product. Bob's Black was made with only the finest Bellyking bananas -- a detail that came from a dream of mine in which a supermarket offered four different types of banana, called John, Jane, Bellyking, and Native Kenjo.
The advertising jingle for Bob's Black ran as follows:
Like a fountain of crudeLike a fountain of crudeBut less than a dollarIt helps you be rudeLike a fountain of crudeLike a fountain of crudeIt's Bob's Nanner CollarTo drink with your food
This was derived from an earlier "fountain of gold" jingle, which in turn was based on a Pogo comic strip in which the characters try to come up with a jingle to sell Kokomo Cola, only to realize that it will only rhyme if cola is pronounced as collar.
More precious than goldBut less than a dollarMost freshest and coldIs Kokomo Cola
"It helps you be rude" was a reference to how drinking Bob's Black will make you burp. "Like a fountain of crude" was an adaptation of the earlier slogan, modified to fit a product that was black rather than gold. Thinking about it now, though, I'm reminded of the Flatt and Scruggs bluegrass song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," which I used to play on the banjo. It was written as a theme song for the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, which I've never watched. The opening verse is:
Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named JedPoor mountaineer barely kept his family fedThen one day, he was shooting at some foodAnd up through the ground come a bubbling crudeOil that is, black gold, Texas tea
After Yogi Berra came up in "That old 'Fire and Ice' sync," I searched for a list of famous Yogi Berra quotes. For some reason, one of these was on IMDb, where a sidebar suggested I might be interested in a list of celebrities that died in 2015 (the year of Berra's own death).
The photo accompanying that "Celebrities That Died in 2015" caught my eye. I thought she looked rather striking but had no idea who she was. I clicked through and found that she is an actress best known for her role in The Beverly Hillbillies.
Her surname, Douglas, means "black stream" and thus ties in with the "fountain of crude."
When I searched for photos of Donna Douglas, one of the first results was this one, which syncs with Anglin's latest bit of absurdist brilliance:
I guess that a soft drink that compares itself to petroleum is a link back to the other King of Pop, via the 1980s schoolyard rhyme:
I pledge allegiance to the flagMichael Jackson is a fagCoca-Cola filled him upNow he’s drinking Seven UpSeven Up has no caffeineNow he’s drinking gasoline
Note added: That Frankie and Johnny movie that Donna Douglas was in stars Elvis Presley (another musical "King"), and the poster has an Ace of Hearts and snake eyes.
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I've never heard that schoolyard rhyme, but the line 'Michael Jackson is a fag" caught my attention.
Jackson has been linked with the character of Abinadi, who was set on fire. A fag can refer to a cigarette, and not just a homosexual - something I didn't know until I served my mission in Australia, where on the first day in country I saw a sign advertising "fags for sale" and wondered just what kind of place I had landed in.
Cigarettes are things that are "lit up" or burned. In any case, fag is short for faggot, which ties to Abinadi. You find that word once in the Book of Mormon, where it says Noah's priests "scourged his skin with faggots, yea, even unto death." Which again gets to the imagery of the Burning Man.
That Elvis poster is great. My son created a picture of Elvis flying through the air, and he colored Elvis as dressed in red, yellow, and orange, which I had compared to the colors of fire, and this burning man symbolism. Here we have Elvis also dressed in those same colors, very deliberately for the fire theme given the text on the left:
"Elvis turns the land of the blues red hot with 11 great songs".
A blue land turning red hot seems relevant here, as does the association with the number 11. I had approached Eleven in a few different ways before, looking back in the comments on you Chubby Checker post. Namely, it being a reference on one level to the name Michael (El Even... one who is even with or like God, "Who is Like God"), but also to the Two Sticks (which are also represented by the Snake Eyes from the Caduceus). Thus, the "Great Songs" that will set the Blue Land on fire, or red hot, would be those that come from "Eleven", in the form of the person and also the Sticks (Stones).
Also, going back to that schoolyard rhyme, I had forgotten to note Coca-Cola, which had come up prominently on my blog and syncs, in both the symbol, name game, and theme song ("Perfect Harmony").
On the Perfect Harmony angle, and tying back to the Two Sticks, this morning in one very short dream segment, my youngest son came up to me and simply said "Peace Officer".
Per Etymonline, an officer can be a reference to a 'servant' and also to one 'entrusted with a responsibility or share of the management of some undertaking'. Thus, a Peace Officer in this sense would be a servant given a responsibility to bring about peace. This would tie with the Seer and the Two Sticks or Books mentioned in 2 Nephi 3. The sticks and their stories are intended to bring peace, said as a "confounding of false doctrines and laying down of contentions, and establishing peace".
Unfortunately, MJ had his own run-in with fire... and in connection with a soft drink.
michael-jackson.fandom.com/wiki/Pepsi_Commercial_Incident
I went back to my son's Flying Red, Yellow, and Orange Elvis picture, and noted that the symbol for Elvis was a Star. He had a large Star on his chest, within a circle, with a bolt of lightning behind it. And on his golden belt buckle was another star. Those were the only symbols.
This would be another pretty good link to Star Boy. The bolt of lightning, and it's association with Flash, would also be consistent with the Swift Messenger symbolism.
I looked into this last night, and then before going to bed two other very strong Star Boy links became apparent, one being a very strange and seemingly tangential memory from childhood.
Saturday's Warrior is a play that many Mormons from the 70s - 90s would be familiar with. But only slightly less well known is there was a sequel to the play called Star Child. I know this because I both read the book, and my parents had the soundtrack and it played in our regular Sunday music rotation (we also had a pretty strict Sunday observance, including music needed to be church related).
The image of Star Child is a constellation, comprising a boy sitting on top of a unicorn. The unicorn symbolism is likely purposefully chosen by the author/ artist due to its association with Ephraim (with that tribe being the more common tribe Mormons would hear they are a part of in their Patriarchal Blessings), but synchronistically it is super interesting given its further association with Joseph, and in other symbols we've used with Unicorns.
But even more so, is the fact that the boy and his unicorn are literally made up of stars, giving us this general "Star Boy" symbol, but more specifically, tying directly to an image of Joseph himself who, in Daymon's writings, was at one point described as have a man form that had stars which fell off from it:
"... rushed golden glowing, Joseph-shade, a new man-form taking, and into the sea dove he, to swim upon Machir, full in joy, father returned, and son all grown up - if a little sideways from Joseph's expectation; and trailing his wake of tiny stars, all a glitter, happy in full also drifted, Asenath; having arisen from resting in her arms, Joseph beloved."
The second Star Boy link also involved the name or title of Star Child, and that is from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which has been used several times in some links and symbols. David Bowman ultimately ends becoming an entity known as Star Child.
Here is that Star Child image from the play (just posting a random review that has the image):
https://ldscinema.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/review-star-child/
I at first misread David Bowman as David Bowie. Perhaps relevant given the “Starman” connection.
David Bowman itself is an interesting name given the Bow reference, and is also a link to Star Boy.
Part of the rationale for the Swift Messenger title in one aspect of the story comes from the ability to bend spacetime, or the warp/woof of reality, in order to travel great distances very rapidly. Bow, at its root, means to bend. So, with David Bowman you can have something like "Beloved man who bends". Further, the Bow or the Arch symbol, such as with the Rainbow and with Joan of Arc in your syncs, has been prevalent. It is interesting the dichotomy between bending something to make a straight road, but that is essentially what I imagine.
I suppose there is also the loose connection with Apollo, who was also a Bowman, or archer. Apollo has been tied with Joseph in my own thinking, and of course has been extremely relevant in recent symbols involving the Moon missions. I had actually specifically tied Apollo together with Mercury by means of the various NASA names (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo), and the very relevant name of Apollo 11 for the moon landing, in a comment over on your "Viper Dragon" post.
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-viper-dragon-lil-dragon-lizard-and.html
Just continuing with the tangent, it is perhaps relevant that the word "Bow" appears multiple times in my 2019 and 2020 words, both in the English and Elvish forms ("Ku" in Elvish), and its meaning or application is never straightforward or super clear.
However, Bow or Ku is directly associated with the Rose Stone, and it is this Stone that I have personally thought is linked with this ability to warp or bend spacetime. So, there might be something there.
On Feb 27, 2020, in words I've assumed are being spoken to the some faction of the other 82 Elves who apparently were being shuttled away during that time, there was first this, which seem to refer in some way to this plan to get folks away. You have mention here of both "Vanya" (which is the name for the tribe of those remaining 14), as well as "Starerios", which in some versions I've translated loosely as a "Star One" getting back to the Star Boy connection:
Vanya artu oblique contemplative spar look up starerios dar sul (and/or sar dul?) sat-um hanging on to every word ask il khamentheru so much so to invite one to depart
That was followed the next day by a dialogue that involved a concern by some that "the end" was near due to some outbreak they were observing, and their not being any "Holy Places" in which to stand. This was followed up by a commentary involving a "wain-wright aus" and a story (the "enyarne", which I sounded out in spelling, but should have been written just "nyarne"). "Aus", of course, is an Elvish variant of Ausir, or Joseph. The dialogue concludes with a reference to May 16, preceded by the word "Kuseru", and again one meaning of Ku is Bow. So, again perhaps the Bow has something to do with the Stone, since May 16 is the day I've guessed that the Rose Stone was recovered and brought up by the Disciples:
Everyone I love you freely
Is everyone ready?
Suteru instaru
Outbreak oh dear end near Holy places not here to stand
Emberu wain-wright aus suteru enyarne entuli
Kuseru May 16
I suppose following up with this further, in looking at them now, the very next day, the rescue itself as a result of the Stone is mentioned, or seems to be, I guess (I can never be sure), and some comparison to a "ticket" for somebody. The word that follows ticket is "nedyu". Ned is a word that means "First", and Yu can mean "also". Here is that phrase:
Rek-u darthonien sar di ticket Nedyu
Rek can mean "recover, get out/away, save from ruin/peril/loss". "Darth" could refer to "last, wait", etc. Sar means "Stone". Putting that all together with the mention of a "First also" as interpreted above, it is possible, in the Pharazon story we have thought through in whatever version, that this could reference that. In the story from last year, Pharazon was "the First", meaning he was both a Vanya and Ingwe, a name that means "First". Thus, the speaker may be referring to a Stone that rescues or saves one who will be last (number 96 of 96) but who was first. Might make sense, but who knows.
This interpretation is further strengthened by the fact that the words the very next day, March 1, were the ones about a change on Eressea needing to take place:
"As soon as change comes upon Eressea, thou shalt rise to it beyond
Keno ansilio insgwiliant osse enflorien finu Sun moon time Leon Egbert"
Last year, when you got those strange messages about stealing someone's pumpkins, my interpretation of what was going on was partially supported by this notion of Eresseans perhaps in a less than forgiving or charitable mindset toward Pharazon and the Numenoreans for what they had done.
I've wondered if that is part of the change on Eressea that needs to take place.
WW,
You wrote: "Elvis turns the land of the blues red hot
with 11 great songs".
A blue land turning red hot seems relevant here,
as does the association with the number 11.
****I had approached Eleven in a few different ways before,
looking back in the comments on you Chubby Checker post****
Namely, it being a reference on one level to the name Michael
(El Even... one who is even with or like God, "Who is Like God"),
but also to the Two Sticks
(which are also represented by the Snake Eyes from the Caduceus). "
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After my 2003 11:11 dream and a gazillion 11 'syncs' and research
over 22 years, and many comments about my perspective
regarding the meaning of 11:11 being EL-even, I too came
to that conclusion after connecting the puzzle pieces
about 8 or so years ago.
El-vis, El-ton, El-on Musk, El-liz-( snake eyes )a beth
are all clues regarding who are the shining ones as snakes 'shine',
which I've commented about the Shinning Ones many times
here.
William chose Donna Douglas from the list to explore
which lead to an El-vis connection, but there is
also another article on that list that got my attention
which coincidently has another 11 connection.
That article is titled: Celebrities that serve
in Operation Overlord.
Copy and paste:
"11 Famous People Who Served on D-Day
These recognizable names were part of the largest
****seaborne*** invasion in history on June 6, 1944,
which helped turn the tide of World War II."
~~~~~
Note the water and tide connection. Of course
anything having to do with water is a conduit
to a much deeper meaning, much like the ocean
itself.
Note the 'two sticks ' ( Roman numeral 2 ) after the end
of the words, World War.
In the article regarding the 11 celebrities who served in WW2
LO AND BEHOLD, Yogi Berra is included !!!
Which begs the question ( at least to me ):
what's the odds of a Yogi showing up in the elevens?
Of course the date 11-11 is Armistice Day.
Everything is connected. There is more than
one road in this duality dimension
which is also the meaning of 11:11 which
of course there are 2 Elevens. Two roads.
The Negative Polarity
( the 11's who manipulates the Sacred Science Knowledge
into Black Magic ) and the Positive Polarity
( the 11's whose 'mission' it is to use the Sacred Science Knowledge
to help humanity evolve by unveiling truth.)
Like the Bee that stings And produces honey
so does the ELs.
They both shine.
https://www.biography.com/military-figures/d-day-famous-people
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