# 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:** 4
**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 6, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/61 "2003-08-06T17:45:50Z")
Let me just say I love the word “pelt.” ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/62 "2003-08-06T20:46:52Z")
Hump Day Bump ---
**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/63 "2003-08-06T21:00:58Z")
Does anyone pronounce the letter “s” in “island”? Just wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/64 "2003-08-06T21:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dwyr \* > \*\*All right, listen up! > > I hereby hijack this thread to my own special island, filled with [these](http://home.earthlink.net/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/show_image.html?linkedwidth=actual&linkpath=http://home.earthlink.net/~dwyr/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/baby2.jpg&target=tlx_new). > > What do you think about that? > > [sub]Actually, I only have the one. Wouldn’t want to overdose on cuteness you know.[/sub] > 🙂 \*\* Look at the baby! Oh, hims is just the cutest! Yes, hims is! ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/65 "2003-08-06T21:24:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*I wouldn’t necessarily want to cover any part now that I think aobut it. How about making a pillowcase instead? \*\* There’s probably enough there to make a fur bikini, if I went Brazilian. But I’d really rather the fur was faux, and the kitty kept his pretty coat. You could give me one of those with a jewelled collar, **Welby** , and just see how appreciative I can be. Heck, give me one of those without a jewelled collar, and see how appreciative I can be. :wiggles eyebrows suggestively: - Winter. (off to cuddle her own kitties) ---
**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 6, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/66 "2003-08-06T22:28:00Z")
Pelt as in fur or pelt as in hurl, Ellen? Alternately, how do you feel about spelt? My Nameless Kitten is kinda attached to his coat, Welby, but I’ve got a boxful of orange fur from my adult cat I could let you have. Cheap. Oh, and Rue? I’m not touching that one with a ten-foot coconut. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/67 "2003-08-07T01:06:44Z")
See, **Rue** missed the point of the Coconut Shy completely. The idea is to throw little balls in a vain attempt to knock a coconut off a pole, which is a sucker game, because they’re usually nailed up there. The idea is most emphatically _not_ to wing coconuts at my head. That happened to me once, on Sexy Intelligent Woman Island, and I’m still bitter. Harumph. I’ve thought about this, and I have to offer some apologies, particulaly to **welby**. I don’t believe that I can even visit these tropical islands, much less mount a project to rearrange their placement. Tropical islands may evoke romantic images of white-sand beaches and loose women in bikinis, but there’s a downside. That blazing sun is murder, and I am weak. I just got back from a fantastic vacation in Maine, where I spent a good deal of time on the beach swimming and sunbathing. I figured I could handle it, because, you know, I swam and sunbathed on the same beaches as a child. I was wrong. Please keep in mind that Maine is in the Northerly Latitudes, and is thus far from tropical, when you read the next sentence in this post. My skin is peeling off of me in big whacking sheets. I am about as white as you can get. I don’t tan, I turn red and peel. As an added insult, if I spend too much time in the sun my hair turns this goofy straw-yellow color. I have done the same stupid thing every year since I was born. My only excuse is that my whole danged family lives there, and they talk me into it. So you can see where tropical islands are out of the question. I’d just bake-and-peel until I was just some sort of zombie/skeleton monster that you guys would let out on the weekends to scare the tourists. “Watch the zombie monster eat live kittens, only $5.” Dang, this post wandered off into inanity pretty quickly, didn’t it? That’s appropriate for the MMP thread, right? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/68 "2003-08-07T10:55:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wintermute \* > \*\* - Winter. (off to cuddle her own kitties) \*\* I knew our lust was too good to last. But you’re a (shudder) _cat_ person. **Ex** old buddy old pal, there’s this really cool stuff called sunscreen. You rub it in (or have **Kalessa** do it) and, if you are careful and reapply early and often, you don’t burn. ---
**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 7, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/69 "2003-08-07T12:03:07Z")
And use the sunscreen on your hair, and it’ll stay it’s “natural” color. (Heh.) How can you like the word “pelt” **Ralp** h? It’s a meat-based word. I thought you didn’t go for that sort of thing. Why _wouldn’t_ you say the “s”, **yoyo**? It’s there, you should say it. We’re not like some countries I could name that flagrantly wastes letters by putting them in words when you’re just supposed to pretend they’re not even there to start with. Sheesh. **dwyr** honey, you’re a big chicken. -Rue. (here kitty kitty kitty…) ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/70 "2003-08-07T12:37:58Z")
I use sunscreen… it is called a roof 🙂 Seriously I burn through my clothes… even denim. It sucks. I have horribly fair skin and I also take medicine that makes me more sun sensitive than I already was … I didn’t think that was possible but it is. 10-15 minutes in blazing sun makes me physically ill for the rest of the day at minimum. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/71 "2003-08-07T13:52:52Z")
Well then, **Ex** and **tanookie** , you two will just have to sit under the nice, big beach umbrella and eat Nutty Buddies while the rest of us frolic in the sun. ---
**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 7, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/72 "2003-08-07T14:35:23Z")
I guess I’m going to have my citizenship of Sexy Intelligent Woman Island revoked, because I have no idea why **Rue** is calling me Ralph. But one of the reasons I like the word ‘pelt’ so much is Frank McCourt’s use of it in “Angela’s Ashes.” Is there anyone here from the land of Eire? He uses it frequently to describe what we here in the U-S prefer to call “nekkid.” -Ellen. (getting things back to nekkid, where they belong) ---
**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 7, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/73 "2003-08-07T16:57:21Z")
We were talking about pork-bushes on the last page (privious page, this is currently the ;ast page) and you said you wanted to be called “Ralph” **Elle** n. ( **L.N.**? Naw.) I was doing it for _you._ I wanted you to be _happy._ Is that wrong? -Rue. (all for you) ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/74 "2003-08-07T18:06:21Z")
Now I want brownies with walnuts and icing. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/75 "2003-08-07T18:12:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tanookie \* > \*\*I use sunscreen… it is called a roof 🙂 > > Seriously I burn through my clothes… even denim. It sucks. I have horribly fair skin and I also take medicine that makes me more sun sensitive than I already was … I didn’t think that was possible but it is. 10-15 minutes in blazing sun makes me physically ill for the rest of the day at minimum. ☹ \*\* Ohh **tanookie** I hear ya. The teen takes (or is supposed to take) a med that does that do him. He’s a football player, competitive swimmer and a lifeguard. He opts not to take the med, rather than be that ill when he goes outside. Even wearing football clothes and a helmet, he gets ill in the sun because of the med. ☹ I’m sorry for both of you. ---
**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 7, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/76 "2003-08-07T18:20:14Z")
Oh now I see! The pork bushes were _ralph-inducing_, **Rue McGoo** – as in, making me ralph! Barf-a-roonie! I didn’t want to be _called_ Ralph, ya maroon! 😛 But you know I must disagree … pelts are not meat based, they’re animal based! Animals do NOT equal meat. Sheesh. What a carnivore. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/77 "2003-08-07T18:21:58Z")
That’s not really a choice for me as this particular med is all that stands between me and early kidney failure… I just stay out of the sun. I’m currently risking things to have our second (and last) baby but that’s as daring as I’m willing to get 🙂 After he’s born I’m back on all the drugs never to deviate from them again! ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/78 "2003-08-07T21:51:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > **I knew our lust was too good to last.** Yeah, I know. :sigh: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > **But you’re a (shudder) _cat_ person.** I have had my suspicions about you for while, now. I’ve seen you posting cat-hating sentiments around the board, but I bit my tongue. I tried to let it not bother me, to be with you. I ignored the vicious things you said because I loved you. And this is how you treat me. You just throw me away at the first sight of cat hair. Haven’t I been good to you? Haven’t I let you do anything you wanted? All those, dirty, twisted things, and I never complained. You are a cruel man, **Welby**. - Winter, melodramatically. ---
**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 7, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/79 "2003-08-07T22:02:50Z")
Oohhh, things are starting to get really interesting now. May I watch? (Cluck, cluck) ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859/80 "2003-08-08T00:18:17Z")
Okay, now I’m really irritated. **FairyChatMom** was kind enough to e-mail me (the address is right there in my profile, folks) and I spent a good deal of time composing a long and detailed response. And what, pray tell, do you suppose happened? Yahoo! crashed on me again, that’s what happened. Except it wasn’t really a crash, so much as a sudden dissapearance. There I was, typing, and the window just evaporated for no apparent reason. I SWEAR TO GOD I AM NOT IGNORING YOU PEOPLE. It’s just that inexplicable weird things keep happening, because I have XP Home. So, just for **FairyChatMom** , I post the following, and I’ll try the e-mail again tomorrow:[ul] - Lori is taking it much better than I am. - What’s her major? - I feel guilty for not helping **Fairychatdad**. Heck, I didn’t even go for an interview. - getting the house laid out in Maryland=super. - relying on conjugal visits=crap. - temporary demise of the “Captain Steve” persona=poopy poo poo. - You realize that you will be the Visiting Sorority Queen, right?[/ul] Now, back to the thread. I am stunned by you people. First, **welby** steals **Wintermute** away from me, and then he tosses her aside over her love of cats. That’s weak, man, really weak. Of course, I really dislike cats too, but that’s neither here nor there. Thank God I found **Kallessa**. Finally, a woman who understands me. Of course, if she turns out to be a vegetarian the wedding’s off. Gotta’ have my steaks. Also, I’ve tried sunscreen, smartass. It does’nt seem to work. Uh, sorry guys. As it turns out, I’ve got nothing. Again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/islands/192859.md?page=5)