# Trapped on a Desert Island with all the SDMB members? Virtual SDMB Civilization! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 25, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113 "2003-04-25T14:10:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/41 "2003-04-26T00:10:17Z")
Since Dopers can’t seem to agree on a religion, all existing ones need to be left behind with the old civilization and everyone shall worship me! ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/42 "2003-04-26T00:30:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monica \* > \*\*Since Dopers can’t seem to agree on a religion, all existing ones need to be left behind with the old civilization and everyone shall worship me! \*\* I’ll need to see a picture before I can agree to that. And, what form does worshipping you take? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/43 "2003-04-26T02:54:03Z")
Anyone else here read the books 1632 and 1633? They are about a town in West Virginia that is transported, along with it’s people and about a 6 mile in diameter circle of land, to Germany during the 30 Years War. The theories I’ve seen here remind me of the dilemma faced by the Americans in those books, do we isolate ourselves or do we adapt? With all the talents of Dopers _I_ think we could be a real power! Snort, giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/44 "2003-04-26T05:57:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RandMcnally \* > \*\*ooooh,oooh. Mr. Excellent, can I be your incompetent lacky who, just as you are at the height of your power, I betray you and start a reign of terror over the island for a thousand years (or until I get taken out)?😃 \*\* One word for you, my friend: GULAG!!! In other words, no. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/45 "2003-04-26T06:49:48Z")
Do we have robot monkey butlers? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/46 "2003-04-26T07:00:58Z")
Honestly, I’ve often pondered things of this sort. I imagine things would get real ugly, real fast. A bunch of folks would become pretty much useless. Imagine that rather drastic shift from a modern, high tech life to a bare stone-age existance. I have a basic knowledge of stone knapping. Things would be interesting, if nothing else. And in the quasi-fantasy world where we don’t have to worry about food, etc. I track down **NinjaGirl** and anyone else with a decent amount of Martial Arts training and try to convince them to come live in hills with me, while I set up a Temple to train any who would wish to come. In 30 years or so, I would wander around **Cecilville** in robes and a walking staff, and folks would call me “Old Master Tristan”. Ahhhh… that would be sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/47 "2003-04-26T14:22:40Z")
I’d probably want to wander around with Kane a.k.a **Tristan** , talk philosophy and beat up random doper thugs who show hints of ignorance. But I’ll not be anyones Huckleberry thats for sure. I’d wish my wife were a dope so she could be on the island as well. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/48 "2003-04-26T19:40:06Z")
I would probably strike off on my own, until someone trips over me, or I get seriously ill, or starving. Then I would have to be looked after. I would then milk it for all it was worth, being that: " You should all look after me, I’m so small, skinny, innocent etc." Basicly being a bum. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/49 "2003-04-26T20:13:12Z")
I can organise the hunting and gathering groups. Then teach people how to fish, how to make bows and arrows and how to create utensils (bowls, spoons, etc) from wood. So you can find me helping **Forbin**. Can also act as nurse and general booboo bandager. Am good in the kitchen as well in case **Mangetout** and **DeVena** need any help. Just point out whatever needs done and I’ll either do it, or organise a group to get it done… Always glad to help 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/50 "2003-04-26T21:32:57Z")
Wellllll… I guess I’ll help with the drinking water/sanitary sewer operations. I would wish that Sweety could be there too, for hunting wild critters. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/51 "2003-04-26T22:49:45Z")
I’d form the Legion of Posters Who Don’t Post Often Yet Lurk, a.k.a. the LPWDPOYL. Also, I’d be a member of the Star Trek Thread Clan. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/52 "2003-04-26T23:17:34Z")
We gay Dopers would have tastefully decorated huts. I’d open a cruisy gay bar with a dimly-lit back room. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/53 "2003-04-27T00:16:51Z")
Just in cast this does happen I’d like to announce that auditions for the Tropical Recitation Society will be held at noon on the 2nd day at the fashionable west end of the lagoon. While “The Simpsons” and “Star Wars” are high on our list people who have memorized any complete movie are encouraged to show up. Hmm. Scott, if you ever get the urge to do monologues, do drop by. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/54 "2003-04-27T01:05:15Z")
**Fern** , I have entire episodes of Absolutely Fabulous memorized… with voices and accents. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/55 "2003-04-27T01:20:06Z")
Does this island have any abandoned temples built in worship of terrible, blasmphemous gods, by natives in ages that have long since pasted? If it does, I know where I am headed to go live. 🙂 I will bind any Shoggoths that live there to my service, and rent them out in exchange for food for myself/ use them make myself the political power on the island. Of course, they will eventually rebel, so someone better be working on a coconut-flamethrower for when that happens. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/56 "2003-04-27T05:08:35Z")
Hmm… would we celebrate birthday son this island? F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/57 "2003-04-27T05:09:48Z")
That should have read “…birthdays on this island”… excuse me! (typing on a keyboard that’s on one surface, while the actual monitor is on the table next to it is no good at all) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/58 "2003-04-27T07:36:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > Can I be Mrs. Howell? Mrs. _Thurston_ Howell, I’m sure? [cue Little Roger and the Goosebumps’ “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island.”] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > I’ll cook … Of course you will. Let’s see … Twenty minutes per pound, stick a fork in you and _voila_, you’re done! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > … That is of course if you are able to best _me_ in a cocnut throwing game of dodge ball!!! Throw your **cocnut** s, see who cares? Well, maybe **Esprix** and **matt\_mcl** … > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeVena \* > … Don’t worry **Mangetout** , I’ll be your sous chef/organizer. Ahhh, the first course has arrived! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AskNott \* > … **Zenster** would find a way to brew beer after a couple of days … How else are we to wash down **Mangetout** and **DeVena**? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Excellent \* > … It would be an honor, sir, to repress the masses with you. Just so long as I get to cook 'em. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TTT \* > … _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe_ … But, what about “The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul?” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by XJETGIRLX \* > … and I’d bring in **Ukelele Ike** for accompaniment. Just keep him away from that d@mned saxomaphone! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fern Forest \* > … The whole S thing is **so** last civilization. You’ll be quite the [S]hit! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > Oooh, oooh, I’ll forgo my army of monkeys if I can be the John Cleese/Basil Fawlty guy who just shouts at everyone. [Darth Vader] [gratuitous extra noisy breathing] Leave that to me! [/gratuitous extra noisy breathing] [/Darth Vader] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RandMcnally \* > ooooh,oooh. Mr. Excellent, can I be your incompetent lacky who, just as you are at the height of your power, I betray you and start a reign of terror over the island for a thousand years (or until I get taken out)?😃 Just so long as I get to cook your sorry @ss when it’s all over … > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > … do we isolate ourselves or do we adapt? … No, we merely brine you before grilling. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Excellent \* > One word for you, my friend: GULAG!!! … NO! **Goulash**! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tristan \* > … and folks would call me “Old Master Tristan”… Better than “Old Tasty Tristan!” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Washte \* > … Am good in the kitchen as well in case **Mangetout** and **DeVena** need any help… If you’re not needed for sauce, we’ll let you serve. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/59 "2003-04-27T10:07:56Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Phlosphr … whilst **Libertarian** and \*\* Collounsbury_ just sit in the sand, staring out at the sea, waiting for the hoards to digress back into the forest to look for food so they can have a _ **Rational** _ conversation and try to make sense out of whats happening. … I am bemused by the mention and the context. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113/60 "2003-04-27T10:58:55Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Aenster_ > If you’re not needed for sauce, we’ll let you serve. Are you calling my saucy? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trapped-on-a-desert-island-with-all-the-sdmb-members-virtual-sdmb-civilization/171113.md?page=4)