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Originally Posted by Coqueiro
When they decided to name this project 'Banana' do you think they knew that Banana is slang for Mug, Fool easy target, etc in Brazil.
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The story goes something like this:
There was a wealthy guy sometime ago that owned all the land around the lagoon. At some point he married a very beautiful young woman, who over the years proceeded to have affairs with pretty much every man in the local area and spend lots of his cash. The wealthy land owner was apparently completely oblivious of all of his wife´s extra marital affairs, although everyone else knew about it. He was being played for a fool and so that became his local nickname ´The Fool´ aka ´Banana´, and the lake that he owned become known as... the fools lake... Lagoa da Banana. The name has stuck, and is still used for all of the area around the main lake.
I think in the end he found out about his wife, lost the plot and killed her or sommat, I can´t remember the end of the tale.
Given the saga of this development ´Fools Residence´ does seem a highly appropriate name for the project.