The Desert Island Post

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Okay, this stuff used to be really popular on ye olde TYWC. In fact, this stuff is still popular, but it gets hidden away in blogs. But where's the fun in talking to yourself?

Any case, here it goes: the Desert Island post

The scenario: You are trapped on a desert island. There are decent food supplies, and edible native plants and animals and you don't know if you'll be rescued. Five YWS members are also stranded on the island.. choose YWS members to fit the following roles:

1. Someone to have philosophical discussions with as you lie awake listening to the strange noises of the island.

2. Someone to devise ways of surviving (getting fresh water, food, shelter, etc.).

3. Someone to eat in case food supplies run low.

4. Someone to collaborate on a bestselling novel with while you wait to be rescued.

5. Someone to form a tactical alliance with in case the others turn against you and you have to kill them.


also,

Choose one book, one CD, and one food item as well.




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I'll go first!

1. Denoument. The discussions would always be interesting.
2. Griffinkeeper. I'd need a fellow Eagle scout.
3. freakforchrist. He's never posted, so may as well put him to use!
4. Toss-up between Juniper and Snoink. Yet since I wouldn't want to be on an island with both of the twins, June!
5. Reyu. He says completely ridiculous stuff that everyone believes, so I'm pretty sure he'd be good at hiding our tactical plans.

Book: To be absolutely honest, the Bible. Everything else would just get really boring pretty quickly. Plus, it's like getting dozens of books in one! If I could take an anthology instead though, it'd be Shakespeare's Portfolio.

CD: Supernatural by Santana.

Food: Spaghetti. Doesn't go old, easy to cook, and very tasty.




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Oh, tough one.

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1. Perhaps Squall?
2. AquaMarine
3. jacob10 (or whatever your alter ego is Nate. :D)
4. gsppcrocks10
5. silented1 or JabberHut

Book: Awake and Dreaming - Kit Pearson
CD: (Nate, I love you for picking Santana.) Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Food: Hm. A massive bag of my homemade trail mix with chocolate >.>
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1. Dream Deep or Bob
2. Nate
3. Sachiko! *gnaws on*
4. Smaur
5. Jack. He's tall.

A book, eh? o.O Hm. Interesting. I have absolutely no idea. It would either be To Ride Hells Chasm by Janny Wurts, which I can read over and over again, Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson (it's huge, takes an age to read and is probably the best fantasy novel ever written) or Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

I would end up choosing whichever of these I could get to be made out of chocolate and which could then be eaten at some stage. ^^ I get sick of music easily so I pick no CD. I'd take an extra book.

Food? I'd take a cow and a bull and breed me some neverending store of beef, leather and cheese. Oh yeah.
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1. Dream Deep, though I'm sure I'd have trouble following her.
2. I have to say, Griff sounds like a pretty good choice here, being an Eagle Scout and all.
3. I'd eat myself before I eat another YWS member. So, Jenna.
4. Conrad Rice. We've been planning to start a storybook, a desert island would be a decent place to make some progress on it.
5. Bek. She seems like she'd be good at negotiations with Others.

I'd bring a Learn Spanish book-- having it be the only book around would force me to read it. Also, Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor as my CD, and a never ending supply of Nachos as my food.
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1. Well I don't know how philisophical they would be but Jiggity for the entertainment factor.

2.Pffft. I can do that myself, what do I need another person for? I suppose someone strong to do all the heavy work would be good so one of you manyly men. Reyu will do.

3. Jack. He's like way tall, he'd last forever!

4. Meggles or Jasmine Hart or Phoenix57flame ^^

5. Pengu and the other leaders of the NLA.

Book: Just So Stories, a childhood favourite of mine.

CD: I guess I'd bring the only one I own which is Disney songs, whooo!

Food: Chocolate to bribe the other islanders with, failing that I want the ingrediants for home-made brownies.
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1. Demeter.

2. Jack.

3. Cheez_burger. Yummy.

4. Snoink.

5. Jabber. ^_^

Book: How To Practice by HH Dalai Lama
CD: A Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars
Food: Crisps.
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Haha, I remember this from ages ago on YWS.

1. Omar. We argue about things, thus there would be endless debates to occupy me.

2. Nate, definitely.

3. Karina, because she's associate with pigs in my head, and pigs are tasty.

4. I'd need someone with great work ethic, because then I can be lazy and come up with the good ideas. So Writersdomain!

5. Definitely Dono. Not only is he built for it, he also plays COD lots, so there's no doubt he has some good tactical moves.


Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

CD: Probably ... The Stage Names by Okkervil River.

Food: Jaffa cakes. Lots and lots of Jaffa cakes.
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1. Ranger Hawk- We could talk about Fringe!

2. Nate- You're such a know-it-all! :P

3. Snoink, of course! She's so tasty-looking!

4. Writersdomain or Moriah Leila! :P

5. If Snoink was some other item besides pork, I'd choose her (she's so evil!). But I can't, so I'll definitely say Nutty (xX_white_shadow_Xx). She's so crazy like that. :D

Book: One of the Harry Potters.

Cd: Memento Mori, by Flyleaf

Food: Something really Italian, like eggplant parm. Oh man, you shouldn't have asked!
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1. Kylan
2. beckiw, or Matt Bellamy, or Nate
3. Aedomir
4. Blink
5. Adnamarine, or Stella Thomas, or JabberHut

Book: The Catcher in the Rye
CD: The 4-disc ABBA collection
Food: chocolate
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1. PenguinAttack
2. June
3. Adnamarine
4. Kitty15
5. Sachiko

Book - Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
CD - The SPEW Album
Food - M&Ms
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Ooo Hm...

1) Lucinda! We have very similar views on things and it invokes really interesting conversations.
2) Nate! Because hes wicked smarticle.
3) Hm... I'd have to go with Adrian. ( :twisted: )
4) Pudin! Cause shes wicked smart and fun!
5) Gsp definatly because shes awesome!!

The book I would bring would probably be a Juiliet Marillier book. Because I love her works but they take me FOREVER! Probably if someone had a collected works from her then I would bring that and it would last me for the rest of my life. (Which would be short if someone dicided to eat ME :shock: )

One CD?!? -_- Thats a very sad thing for a music addict like me. Uhh I'd probably go with 3 doors down - Seveteen Days! Because they never get old!

Food: A boatfull of scalion pancakes =3
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1. Prokaryote or Sachiko (philosophical... hmmm)
2. Siiri or Adam
3. Kamas (I eat punctuation)
4. Holly
5. Becki

Book - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, or... a book of poetry by T.S. Eliot or Samuel Menashe
CD - my AZ mix
Food - M&Ms xD
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1- Dreamer
2- Nate
3- Can I not answer this?
4- Conrad
5- Jabber

Book- Autobiography of a Yogi
CD- Awake by Josh Groban (You should have seen that one coming. :P)
Food- Vega energy bars.
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1. Hard one... Well, Ranger Hawk agrees with me, and I'm rubbish at debating, and I hate arguing. I'll have Hawk.
2. Snoink. Always Snoink.
3. AquaMarine, every time. Payback for all the chat-nomming.
4. Junie. <3
5. Jiggs. That would be... fun...

Book: Emma by Jane Austen. My favourite novel ever.
CD: The Killers - Day and Age.
Food: Hard to decide. What would last in the desert? Do we get a fridge? Oh, well. I'll have endless prawn cocktail crisps.

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