You are stranded on a deserted island: You have the following with you -

[LynneSin]

you can take with you: one book, one album, one person and everyday handtool.

What are your choices?

[ewagner]

1. From a purely practical standpoint:

the book: How to survive on a Desert Island

one album: Teach Yourself Morse Code

One person: Probably McGiver or someone like him.

Handtool: Probably a Gerber Tool

[trotsky]

2. Hmmm...

Book: some field guide illustrating edible/non-edible plants
Album: Depeche Mode, Violator
Person: my wife
Tool: saw (My initial reaction was to say hammer, but any good-sized rock will work as a hammer. A saw is what you'd really need if you wanted to do some construction.)

[Tweed]

3. Collection of Onion Articles, Short Trip Home, Girlfriend, Swiss Army Knif

[MrScorpio]

4. Book: Robinson Crusoe - How to live on a deserted island

Album: The Yam Who remixes (Love those remixes)

Person: Thor Heyerdahl - He knows how to build a raft to get off

Tool: An Axe - To threaten his lazy ass if he gives me some shit about building the raft all by himself.

[stellanoir]

5. spurious choices

the book: the very obtuse esoteric treatise by Alice Bailey called "Glamour, a World Problem" just for obtuse perspective and humor .

the person: the Dalai Llama

the everyday handtool: swiss army knife 'cause I don't leave home without one

on edit- forgot the album- soundtrack to the film entitled "Until the End of the World" (the film sucked) for intensely personal reasons but it's real versatile

[Marnieworld]

8. You forgot your CD

Just saying ;-)

[stellanoir]

9. yeah caught it whilst you were posting

thanks

[Marnieworld]

6. Here's my list

A book: A cookbook filled with recipes for seafood and island vegetation

My Dave Matthews Acoustic mix CD

David Cross would be my personal jester.

Everyday handtool? A lovely vibrator with an endless supply of batteries. :D

[LynneSin]

11. Don't they have solar powered vibrators yet

:shrug:

[Marnieworld]

27. A billion dollar idea if there ever was one!

Now if they only had a silencer! ;-)

[Left Is Write]

7. What am I going to play the album on?

:D

[johnnie]

10. Lol

Who said it was there to listen to?

[Left Is Write]

15. If it's just window dressing, might as well leave it behind.

:D

I want my deserted island to be like Gilligan's. They had EVERYTHING!

[LynneSin]

19. Imagine you found this on the island

[Left Is Write]

20. Oh, you mean now I have to answer for real?

Let me think about my response.

[calico1]

12. Book--"How to Survive on a Desert Island",

tool--a swiss army knife, I guess
person--Jackie Chan--because he can get out of anything! :-)
album--if you mean picture album I suppose I would take that with me. If you meant record album, what good would that do me without a record player? Unless of course I could use it as some kind of tool!

[underpants]

13. Book-Encylcopedia Album-Mitch Person-Selma Hayek Tool-Boston Whaler

I wouldn't take my wife because I wouldn't want her to be worried about being stranded. The Encyclopedia is for making a fire. The Boston Whaler would be hidden for a respectable amount of time :evilgrin:

ON EDIT- I would take Mitch Album to bust open coconuts with his massive cranium.

[Jessica]

14. Okay ...

Book: Portable Beat Reader. Kerouac, Ginsberg ...

Music: One of the Live Bonnaroo CDs so I can close my eyes & imagine I'm there.

Person: My boyfriend, John. He's handy & pretty cute.

Tool: Machete. Definitely not an everyday handtool, but John has one & would insist we take it. He'd finally have a use for it.

[forgethell]

16. Sounds like fun

Book: Air Force Survival Manual

Album: What the hell do I want an album for? I've got nothing to play it on.

Person: Robinson Crusoe

Tool: You need a cutting edge. Axe

[Ganja Ninja]

17. The book would be some kind of survival guide.

The tool would be a machete. I don't know what I would do with an album on a desert island. The other person would be Angelia Jolie.

[fob]

18. Here goes

If I'm stranded I'm gonna have a good time...

I assume since we get to pick an album we have something with which to play it.

Bartenders Guide to Mixed Drinks (there's always booze on these islands)

A mix album(cd) as long as it has "Atomic Dog" on it

I would like to have my family there but since I can only have 1, I wouldn't want to split them up so I guess it would have to be Elizabeth Berkley, there would be people sent to look for her and she could perfom "Showgirls" live as entertainment until we were rescued.

Barrel Bung Wrench: Because it's such a cool name and I'd get to say "It's a Bung Wrench" over and over to Elizabeth Berkley.

[Hugin]

21. My take on it...

One Book: "Pocket Ref" by Thomas J. Glover (Has everything in it)
One Album: Some '80s conglomeration.
One Person: Some gal who isn't afraid of 1) Snakes and 2) Spiders.
Everyday Handtool: Satellite Phone. (May not work out with One Person.)

[Brotherjohn]

22. Book: Edible Plants of the XXX Islands (wherever I am).

Album: David Garza - This Euphoria (though truth be told, any album would get old after a few weeks)

Tool: Swiss Army Knife (suitable for a thousand uses, most important of which would be carving hooks and spears for fishing)

Person: The Professor, from Gilligan's Island (he could use the Swiss Army Knife to rig up the CD player, which I'm assuming we'd get to play our album, into a transmitter; we'd be saved, because Gilligan wouldn't be there to mess it up)

[hoffmanmotors]

23. Let's see.....

book: Jessica Alba
Album: Jessica Alba
Person: Jessica Alba
hand tool: Jessica Alba

[jukes]

24. jukes' picks

book: blank journal

album: foto (duh! ELECTRICITY){if we're doing "let's pretend", a compilation of debussy}

person: what ever for? i'd rather have a cat.

tool: knife; camillus "talon" w/ 4" talonite (rustproof, cobalt alloy) blade Rc scale = 62-64. you can make damn near anything you need w/ a good knife, natural materials, & patience.

[Kenneth ken]

25. book: Snake Bites

because it just came in the mail.

album: makes no difference, since I didn't get to bring a player for it.

person: MacGuyver, of course

tool: swiss army knife.

I'm certain that if I give the swiss army knife to MacGuyver and stay out of his way, he'd be able to build an airplane to fly us out of there within two hours, no problem. :P

:hi:


Is the spelling MacGuyver or McGuyver? I dunno, but the tv guy who always whipped up implausible functional things to get himself out of tight situations. That's who I want to bring along.

[Burma Jones]

26. I would take

Book - The Riverside Shakespere

Album - John Eliot Gardner's Beethoven's Ninth

Person - My Wife

Everyday Handtool - An Axe

[SarahB]

28. Ah, the island...

1. Kama Sutra
2. Dark Side of the Moon
3. That same man I've wanted to spend time on an island with for the last 20 months who managed to get under my skin in a way no other human being ever has (and vice versa apparently), yet he... well.... nevermind... as last I knew we're both hoping for happy endings here?
4. Swiss Army Knife

[Shell Beau]

29. Island

Book- Bible
Handtool- axe or saw, something to cut wood and other stuff
album- I cannot decide (can I take alcohol instead?)
person- Hubby