# Islands **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859 "2003-08-04T11:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/21 "2003-08-04T16:38:02Z")
So, if **Rue** said he didn’t want to be on a deserted desert island, would we know that he didn’t want to be on an unpopulated island with an arid climate, or would he just be being repetitive? And if **Rue** or any of us were stuck on an unpopulated island with an arid climate, could we still have dessert? ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/22 "2003-08-04T17:24:54Z")
**Poly** , I don’t know how to thank you for that update. But the leather things? They still go in the horse’s mouth so you can steer, right? (At least you didn’t pretend to sit on that tidbit for the better part of a week. For that, (among many things) I respect you.) Another good island would be Maura Tierney Island. (She was just on TV last night (that I saw) and so I thought I’d say. It was the movie _Instinct_ with Cuba (also an island) Gooding, Jr. Man! How did he win an Oscar? Anthony Hopkins acted rings around him and Tony didn’t say a word for the first half hour. Maura was better too.) Maura Island is most likely near Scantily Clad Wimmins Island. (At least in my mind.) There are rumours that S.C.W. Island is near the American side of Beer Island, but there have been no confirmed sightings. -Rue. (charting the uncharted waves) ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/23 "2003-08-04T18:06:16Z")
I want to go the the Dessert Island populated by Scantily Clad Men Who Love Women Who Eat Too Much Dessert, i.e. the SCMWLWWETMD Island. This island is connected to the Breakfast in Bed with formerly Scantily Clad Man Island. And also Library Island, because woman does live by dessert alone. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/24 "2003-08-04T18:58:45Z")
Well, I’m glad we’re moving on to Scantily Clad Man Island because frankly Bacon Bushes and Porkie Products Island were starting to make me ralph. **swampy** will no doubt join us there, **Kallessa**! The rest of the vegetarians can move over to the dessert part of the island with me, where we will eat the normal things that plants grow, unlike the things **calm kiwi** imagines! Kiwis! Yum! Did you know that kiwis are actually Chinese gooseberries, but they changed the name for marketing reasons, figuring most people would rather eat something called kiwi than a big giant furry brown berry from China. -Ellen. (not ralphing) ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/25 "2003-08-04T20:24:57Z")
I live on a small island. It’s far from deserted though. Bloody tourists traipsing around like they own the place. Trying to walk into my house thinking it’s a tourist attraction. Littering the place up and peeing in the bushes. Day I get a boat that damned bridge is so getting blown up. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/26 "2003-08-04T20:36:58Z")
_Islands in the stream That is what we are No one in between How can we be wrong Sail away with me To another world And we rely on each other , ah ha From one lover to another , ah ha_ Well, someone had to do it! ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/27 "2003-08-04T20:59:34Z")
Oh, I could go for a breakfast island (served by scantily clad men, why not?). But it’d definitely have to have a grits well. The good, stone-ground ones too. But not with any stone actually in them. And I think LurkMeister has an excellent point with the mimosas. We’d need a champagne spring for that, right next to the orange juice river for convenience. I also have got to have a pepper vine and a salt mine. Or a salt lick. I’m not that picky. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/28 "2003-08-04T21:13:51Z")
Well, if the Scantily Clad Men got all hot and sweaty . . . mmmmmmm Scantily Clad Salt Lick mmmmmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/29 "2003-08-04T23:16:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kallessa \* > \*\*Well, someone had to do it! \*\* No, that’s not quite true **Kallie**. No one really had to do it, but you did it anyway. That makes it extra special. If… when you do blow up the bridge, don’t do it on a Monday, OK **Iteki**? At least don’t tell us about it until Tuesday. I’d hate to be eclipsed. -Rue. (tetchy) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/30 "2003-08-04T23:40:34Z")
I volunteer to be the leader of the scantily clad men on SCMWLWWETMD Island, as long as I get paid in… something. The island next the island I grew up on (Port Royal Island) is called Lady’s Island. I never did meet her. ---
**Author:** ![with\_withholding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/58956e/32.png) [@with\_withholding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/with_withholding)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/31 "2003-08-05T03:37:36Z")
I would want an island with up and down to it, not all one surface. Caves, grottos, reefs, a volcano with lava tubes… places for little creatures to hide and be discovered in. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/32 "2003-08-05T05:36:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*I volunteer to be the leader of the scantily clad men on SCMWLWWETMD Island, as long as I get paid in… something. \*\* Consider yourself scantily clad. Better yet, let me consider you scantily clad!😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/33 "2003-08-05T10:39:40Z")
Hmmmmm scantily clad men Isalnd does sound better then Piggie-Product Island (well depending on which men are cantily clad of course). I’d love to be a vegeterian really I would but bacon is just too yum. Though given the choice between piddie products and scantily clad men I vegeterian all the way. And in my continuing programme of educating Yanks I would just like to point out to **Ellen Cherry** if you are eating kiwis you are not a vegeterian. Kiwis are people or birds, neither of which are edible or yummy (ok the birds could be edible but that would be sacraligous!). Kiwfruit however are delish, and called kiwifruit cause no one else was clever enough to sell ugly fruit to the world 😃 Kiwi (not ralphing at the thought of Ellen eating our national bird or dining on my fellow citizens) ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/34 "2003-08-05T10:43:55Z")
OOPs now I see why rereading ones post before posting is a good thing. Piddle products sounds a wee bit yuck 😉 (and yes I know there were lots more typos I’m just not acknowledging them) ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/35 "2003-08-05T11:49:56Z")
I thought the typos were from you getting just a little _too_ excited about Scantily Clad Men Island **kiwi**. You know **Bill** , if you put your pants on once in a while, the Lady of the Island might have come out from hiding behind the hedges muttering about “that Bill boy”. That’s the trick to meeting Ladies, keep your pants on. Once you’ve met them though… -Rue. (with pants at the moment) ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/36 "2003-08-05T12:00:02Z")
Guess what, **Calm Kiwi** , they actually have a fruit called the Ugli fruit! It really isn’t _that_[ugly!](http://www.ugli.com/home.htm) 🙂 Yup all those produce tests finally have a real world use. Ok all the years I managed to remember my fruits and veggies and be a nice and efficient cashier was a real world use too but I’ve still retained a little trivia from then just for fun! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/37 "2003-08-05T12:01:42Z")
How close is this Scantily Clad Men Island to Dessert Island? Oh, and do they have high-speed net access? **Rue** - what kind of pants? Are they kinda tattered like every shipwrecked man has to wear? Are you wearing a shirt too? How about a beard - do you have a little stubbly growth? Um, no reason - just wondering… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/38 "2003-08-05T12:20:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > \*\*I’ve got dibs on Beer Island. \*\* Give me a holler and we’ll move Beer Island and Snack Food - Huge Screen TV island together. It’ll be a little paradise. Welcome back by the way, I was just going to get on today and find out if you were dead again. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*Anyone else now frantically trying to re-work ‘Big Rock Candy Mountain’ for Rue? \*\* Psh. Must you challenge me? _The Big **Rue** Desert Island_ One evening as the board went down And the Dopers all were burning, Along the thread came a **Rue-dog** posting, He said, "Boys, I’m not turning I’m heading for a land that’s far away After a drink from the water fountain I’ll see you all this coming fall On the Big **Rue** Desert Island On the Big **Rue** Desert Island It’s a land that’s fair and bright, The pork chops grow on bushes So you can eat out every night. The health clubs all are empty And there’s warm brownies every day I’m bound to go Where there’s ice cream snow Where the wives don’t call And the beer always flows On the Big **Rue** Desert Island. On the Big **Rue** Desert Island **Rue** never changes his socks And little streams of daiquiris Come trickling down candy rocks O mountains sport baklava mines And the wimmens are scantily clad There’s a lake of stew And of whiskey too And you can paddle All around it in a big canoe On the Big **Rue** Desert Island On the Big **Rue** Desert Island There’s a library for the geeks And big brown furry Chinese berries Grow on the trees all week The farmer’s trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of beer I’m bound to go Where there’s ice cream snow Where the wives don’t call And the beer always flows On the Big **Rue** Desert Island. On the Big **Rue** Desert Island. The roofs are made of tin. And you can listen to the soda pop rain And look for scantily clad men. There ain’t no bosses to answer to, And the Internet always works, I’m bound to stay Where you sleep all day, Where they hung the jerk That invented work On the Big **Rue** Desert Island. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/39 "2003-08-05T12:27:58Z")
**Welby** , the effort you went to. I’m touched. -Rue. (a little teary) ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/40 "2003-08-05T12:32:44Z")
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