This is a favorite from August 2005. And I can’t wait to hear your choices!
OK, time for something fun… If you were shipwrecked on a desert island, (a “Blue Lagoon” type paradise with sandy beaches and a deep blue ocean, as opposed to a “Lost” type island with scary marauding polar bears,) who would you want to be your fellow castaway? You get 1 choice and enquiring minds want to know why you chose that person.
You also get to choose 3 items that you wouldn’t be able to live without on said island.
OK, lets hear it!!!
My fellow castaway? AAAACK! SO many choices, so little time.
I’d need entertainment of all sorts, and some kind of brilliantly clever guy who could make anything out of a coconut and some palm fronds. McGuyver isn’t real, so I’ll have to think up a substitute. He has to be cute, too. Um. Er. That carpenter guy from “Clean Sweep.” (don’t tell me he’s gay either) Naaah.
I’m going to sink to the lowest level here and say, “CLOONEY,” because even if we had no survival skills and were left to die, I’d die looking at him. yeah, baby!
3 things?
A knife.
A case of waterproof matches.
A “how to survive in the wilderness” book.
Umm…well I’m not going to pick my husband and kid cause it’s two people so I guess a phone! Does that count??
Here are my three items:
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. I crack it about once a year and never make it all the way through before someone else demands more of my time. It does, however, keep my brain pretty sharp.
The Oxford English Dictionary. I’ve never owned the real deal, but I’d like it. Word games, too, will keep me from going insane.
A microplane.
The person I want to bring with me is Rachael Ray. Really.
I’m going to grate her face with the microplane and say, “It’s that little thing in the background that makes ‘em say, ‘Hmm, what IS that?!”
Then I’m gonna hit her upside the head with the Shakespeare, crush her ribs with the OED, and drown her in the lagoon, and if they come and catch me, they’re gonna have to rescue me and bring me back to civilization anyway, so it’s a win-win.
Anyway, I’ll get off on a technicality because everyone will be grateful to me for getting Rachael Ray off all the freaking billboards. What, Dunkin Donuts suddenly can’t sell coffee without her? Since the frig when?
(Who, me? Tired of Rachael Ray? How could that be? She’s so very perky.)
Well since my husband in unlikely to read this blog, I think its safe to give my answer as….Prince William because he’s really important, and I figure if he went missing, they’d pull out all the stops to find him, and we’d get rescued (but not before I’ve had few days to work my older woman feminine wiles on him!!!)
Stuff to bring? Contact lenses (because I am practical AND vain)…matches…. and a knife.
Oh I know!
I would want to take my ex husband with me. For a while i can use him as bait for my hunting. A girl’s gotta eat you know. As far as three items.
1. Laptop so that i can write
2. Internet access so that i can describe in detail how fine the sand is
3. of course electricity …this battery only lasts 2 hours
I would like to have any person that is tough and wouldn’t lose it. But I suppose in the spirit of the question I would say Uma Thurman – she seems like she could handle it and would be fun to hang out with. There might be better looking celebrity women, but mostly they seem like useless whiners who would cry without their favorite purse.
For the items – maybe none. I could make my own knife, start my own fire…how’s that for bragging?
I’d have to say my husband. Or in the absence of my husband, Johnny Depp.
I’d bring my guitar for sure, and then also a knife and a lifetime supply of matches.
I’m going to bring Denis Leary. I am imagining he would keep me happy and smiling for quite a while
I’m assuming there are plenty of knives on the island so I’m skipping that one. And no matches cause Denis can make fires, right?
My laptop preloaded with lots of games and stuff.
A helicopter to drop off pizza, potato chips, batteries, and lots of booze – daily.
Ally da Pup to chase away flies, and scare off wild animals, (ok she’s not technically an item but it’s my blog so my rules.)
Person: Kate Moss
3 Things:
1) A fully loaded Power Mac that runs on solar energy
2) An Italian restaurant that serves breakfast and stays open until 4:00 a.m.
3) A yacht
Duh, the Wife. I’d finally get her all to myself.
I’d need:
1. Guitar (and/or guitars)
2. Who the fuck needs anything else? I’ve got the Wife and guitars.
3. Well, maybe the Queen catalog on an Ipod for listening pleasure.
A good first aid kit
Water filtration kit
Basic toolset
My island friend would be a foxy, straight, Navy Seal doctor and survivalist
An acoustic guitar, Emeril Lagasse-(who let’s face it, can create a 5 star restuarant in a rainforest), and his wife so he won’t chase after Demi Moore assuming she and Ashton call it quits! (I tried to keep this one neat and simlple, Lisa)!
Why Brooke Shields of course, the original Blue Lagoon girl, LOL Who else?
Items would be:
Indestructible shoes
Shades
Large Knife
This is my favorite blog of all time.
Check’s in the mail, Retro
No need to pay me. Just reading this is reward enough.
Ah Retro. Never a dull moment with you, Darlin’.
How funny — I didn’t see one (specific) mention of a Swiss Army knife. Multiple use out of one item. I was thinking that there isn’t one living person whose cmpany I would enjoy on an island (I’m not gonna be the one who has to fix what s/he’s complaining about).
But… because my mind works that way…. maybe Alton Brown, who preaches multiple use out of one item, because (1) he’d teach me something and (2) he’d keep me fed.
I would bring spouse (yes i know boring!)
things:
1. Guitar
2. Frisbee
3. Pro Kadima Paddles and Ball
Nothing and no one.
It would not be right to expect another to go.
Anyway, I’m a Hermit.
My first thought was – I’d hate to be stuck on a desert island with anyone who gets bored easily!
And I’d want my companion to be calm and resourceful.
Luckily my hubby doesn’t get bored easily, and he’s calm and resourceful.
Plus, he’d keep me warm
The three things I’d bring:
A vat of sunscreen with SPF 100
A Swiss army knife
A waterproof case of Zippo lighters
the guy, he already has my soul…. we might as well get down to the rest of it.
things?
the terrier at the age she is now…
acres of books
a supply of food and good water… i can make fire. see the first comment.
I would bring:
Jack Bauer
Waterproof matches
A set of knives
An endless supply of birth control (wouldn’t want anything to spoil my fun)
You know, all we really need in life can be whittled down to one person and three things.
The person — Sean, because, well, if you met him, I wouldn’t have to explain.
Things:
1. acoustic (natch) guitar
2. a lifetime of strings for that guitar (hey, people, they eventually wear out!)
3. I can’t decide between a knife (it helps with the eating thing) or a book of Billy Collins poems. Help! This is exactly why I don’t go and get myself shipwrecked on islands …
“tell me, ms quin, why do you feel gw should go free on the murder of rachel ray?”
“buzzzzzzzzzbeeepppbzzzzzzzzz”
“you are in ‘dabiz’, lean away from the microphone. don’t you people every learn that professionals wire those things? why do you feel the need to put your mouth on TOP OF THE DAMN THINGS when we’ve techs WHO CAN PICK UP A GNAT MATING?”
“sorry. i’ve been on a deserted island. i forgot. i feel for the dunkin’ donuts commercials alone, it was justifiable homicide.” *tears well in quin’s eyes* “I mean, have you seen it? she’s there, she’s going on about a fairly light schedule…suddenly, a little yawn. little. a mass exodus like moses high tailing it to the red sea takes place. four, not one but f o u r of those horrid iced coffees are shoved in her face. ‘oh, here rachel, now you can make more money!’. if the president was taken care of that quickly when he messed up, chaney would be president by now because bush would have od’d on caffine.”
‘your honour….” the courtroom has erupted in cheering..”your honour….even i, the prosecution, believes gw should go free. let’s go to bob’s corner papaya shop and have coffee and one of those .50 dogs. they are all beef now!”
“court adjourned”