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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 30, 2008 12:48:16 GMT
I might just go for David's 'Conan' on the grounds that I would require light hearted cheering up and I can read Conan like conveyor belt. I would seriously consider the poems of Yeats on the grounds that short apposite sentences rebound shining through the brain like gems.
In the end, after concluding that i would rather die than be without a choice of books, I'd go for the Zimmiavian Triology (One volume paperback) by Eddison
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2008 13:03:34 GMT
I need some more information on this 'exile' business: does it mean we haven't got anybody with us like our partners and friends? Are there any Off-licences? What about a Sainsburys? Is there a local football team? Have we got a telly?
Also, what other stuff can we take with us? I mean are we stocked up on the essentials like booze, fags, etc, or are we going to wherever we're going with no supplies and just the gear we're dressed in?
Please advise as it may have some bearing on my selections.
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Post by coral on Jan 30, 2008 13:08:21 GMT
Oh I know, I'm forever shaking diamonds out of my ears!
A dictionary please, and some smelling salts for mr Demonik, he appears to be in a swoon.
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Post by coral on Jan 30, 2008 13:19:08 GMT
Right then, I see I should have been a great deal more specific here.
OK, you go in the clothes you stand up in, you're allowed a case contining a razor plus strop, a flannel and a toothbrush. You'll have to discover how to make your own soap! You may also take a knife, cup and bowl. You will be finding your own food.
Your destination is a little known Polynesian island populated only by native ladies aged 18 to 24, and small furry fruits resembling anchovies.
If you haven't starved, exhausted yourself, or in the case of the ladies, died of boredom, you have access to the entertainments hut, which will house your one book, a tv with integral dvd player, which is capable of playing your one cd and dvd. This is powered by a windmill on the roof!!
There is no postal service, no electricity, and no airport. (You were dropped off by a passing albatross.)
I hope this makes things easier?
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Post by Steve on Jan 30, 2008 13:26:46 GMT
If there's no off-licence, that simplifies things no end - I'll take the Encyclopedia of Homebrewing & Winemaking.
For my one album, if I can get away with it, I'll take the TG24 box set - 24 hrs of live Throbbing Gristle and a steady supply of home-brewed anchovy-fruit beer and I won't really care where I am...
On second thoughts, if this island's populated only by native ladies aged 18 to 24, I'd better take Barry White's Greatest Hits.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 30, 2008 13:36:22 GMT
I want to know exactly where this island is. I might go anyway.
Films, it would have to be Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai...or eh ...metropolis or the Good the Bad and the Ugly. Okay I'll settle for the Samurai.
Album: In the Court of The Crimson King. King Crimson
Can I exchange the razor for some kind of toy? I like toys.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2008 13:39:20 GMT
If there's no off-licence, that simplifies things no end - I'll take the Encyclopedia of Homebrewing & Winemaking. For my one album, if I can get away with it, I'll take the TG24 box set - 24 hrs of live Throbbing Gristle and a steady supply of home-brewed anchovy-fruit beer and I won't really care where I am... On second thoughts, if this island's populated only by native ladies aged 18 to 24, I'd better take Barry White's Greatest Hits. Hah! That's stumped you, Miss clever bloomers! Also, we could play football with the Polynesian women so that's another potential stumbling block successfully negotiated or something.
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Post by coral on Jan 30, 2008 13:49:46 GMT
Not so, mr Clever Underpants! Footballs were banned in 1653 as unhealthy for the native ladies, a kind of puritan backlash against spherical objects. As for the box set, I'll let that pass, seeing as I let the Conan through, but definitely no homebrew, the furry fruits don't ferment well. They do however have a very high pectin level, so you and the ladies will be able to make some ever so nice jam!
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Post by Steve on Jan 30, 2008 13:50:19 GMT
Are we all going to be on the same island? If so, we could set up a sort of primitive library.
Now we just need something to smoke...
I assume these Polynesian women are probably dab hands at rolling cigars, are they? When they're not catering to our every whim or playing 5-a-side...
Oh, no ball games allowed you say... this isn't fair, you keep moving the goalposts - which, if we haven't got a ball, becomes less of a problem admittedly...
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Post by coral on Jan 30, 2008 13:53:10 GMT
No way, the island is cut up into sections, each impenatrable to the others. you ARE allowed to take a packet of tobacco seeds though, so can I have a fag please, when you've grown them of course:)
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Post by Steve on Jan 30, 2008 14:03:15 GMT
No way, the island is cut up into sections, each impenatrable to the others. you ARE allowed to take a packet of tobacco seeds though, so can I have a f*g please, when you've grown them of course:) Well, I'd be only too happy to crash you some fags, Coral, but unfortunately your section of the island is impenetrable from my section... Haha! Hoist by your own petard, Ms. Smarty Thong!
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Post by coral on Jan 30, 2008 15:04:11 GMT
Ahem. You can shoot them over the wall with your bamboo grenade launcher dear, everyone knows that!!!! Besides, I don't have any of these underwear things you keep mentioning, I don't like to be trussed up. I'm a woman not a christmas turkey!
And Craig can take a medium sized bag of toys with him for being so sensible.
Hee hee, I knew trying to choose one book would cause a kerfuffle.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2008 15:53:19 GMT
"kerfuffle"? It was playing on my mind all the way through Bear Behaving Badly! Thanks much for that. Hell, I sure hope the Polynesian women like my amusing anecdote about that time I said 'Hi!' to Mike Ashey and he said 'Hi!' back but it was all a crazy mix up .....
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 30, 2008 17:32:20 GMT
I just read that Steve's taking Barry White's Greatest Hits and I fell off my chair laughing.
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Post by sean on Jan 30, 2008 17:40:57 GMT
Shhhhhhh... some of us are trying to read here... My plants with the funny leaves are doing well in this climate though...
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