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Desert Island

Mr E · 2003-08-29 08:44:41

OK, you're about to be stuck on a desert island for one year.... You're allowed to bring ONE of each of the following: One CD (Audio Only!). One Movie/DVD. One Game. One Book. One Drink. * One Item of Food. * One Person of the Opposite Sex. (* Unlimited Supply) What would your choices be? - Dave. (I know, I know.... lets…

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OK, you're about to be stuck on a desert island for one year.... You're allowed to bring ONE of each of the following:

One CD (Audio Only!).
One Movie/DVD.
One Game.
One Book.
One Drink. *
One Item of Food. *
One Person of the Opposite Sex.

(* Unlimited Supply)

What would your choices be?

- Dave.

(I know, I know.... lets say there is a solar panel on your mudhut providing electricity, and a computer/console and CD player mysteriously washed up on the beach intact and in perfect working order!)

[Edit - Edited to specify Audio CD (not MP3s!), and change "One Movie" to "One Movie/DVD" in case you'd prefer a TV series on DVD....]

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#2 29-08-2003 9:03am

dod

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CD: Wagner/ Der Ring des Nibelungen (Solti recording)
Movie: On the Waterfront (Kazan/ Brando)
Game: A deck of cards (for versatility)
Book: Where I'm Calling From (Raymond Carver)
Drink: Chateau Lynch-Bages, Pauillac 1982
Food: Cheese (a selection of cheese is allowed?)
Person: Angela Gheorghiu

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#3 29-08-2003 9:09am

Havelock

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CD: mp3 or wav? (just being a bastard) anyway hum...Sci-fi Theme Tracks CD
Movie: Chicargo
Game: Sims (not my favorite but you'd be absorbered)
Book: Aurther C.Clark Compendium
Drink: Kumbacka
Food: Potateos
Compainion: Liz Roddy

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#4 29-08-2003 11:59am

Lukin Black

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One CD -> Pearl Jam - Live, 11 July 2003 (it's a triple cd, that ok?)
One Movie/DVD. -> Pearl Jam's Touring Band 2000 DVD (not a repeat movie fan)
One Game. -> Can I take another DVD instead?
One Book. -> Teach Yourself Raftmaking
One Drink. -> Water (Milk if there is constant water. Have to bring the cow though, I'd say..)
One Item of Food. -> Chicken Supreme sandwiches
One Person of the Opposite Sex. -> How discriminatory

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#5 29-08-2003 3:59pm

Kappar

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One CD -> Maybe a good R.E.M one
One Movie/DVD. -> Dumb and Dumber
One Game. -> Sim City 4
One Book. -> Two Birds; One Stoned
One Drink. -> Coke
One Item of Food. -> Chicken Curry no Onions Fried Rice and Chips
One Person of the Opposite Sex. -> Not going to say here who it would be but celebrity wise maybe Britney.

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#6 29-08-2003 4:08pm

tman

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One CD - prolly make a compilation...
One Movie/DVD - donnie darko
One Game. erm... vice city, or pretty good solitaire
One Book. - lord of the rings, i've been meaning to re-read it for ages now...
One Drink. carlsberg
One Item of Food. curried chips with cheese... can't imagine myself ever getting sick of that.
One Person of the Opposite Sex marisa tomei... or 1 of 100 pornstars...

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#7 29-08-2003 4:38pm

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One CD (Audio Only!). The Boy With the Arab Stap - Belle and Sebastian
One Movie/DVD. The Wickerman
One Game. Pro Evolution Soccer 2
One Book. The Stand
One Drink. * Stella Artois
One Item of Food. * BBQ ribs
One Person of the Opposite Sex Alyson Hannigan

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#8 29-08-2003 4:55pm

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One CD - Al Stewart : To Whom It May Concern
One Movie/DVD - Taxi Driver [or castaway, for research purposes]
One Game - Lego
One Book - How To Make Sandcastles
One Drink - Paddy
One Item of Food - Banoffi Pie
One Person of the Opposite Sex - ?

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#9 29-08-2003 5:23pm

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CD: Placebo-Placebo
Movie: Casablanca
Game: The Sims. As Havelock said, not the best, but you would definitely be absorbed.
Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four-George Orwell
Drink: Jolt. Am I a cliché or what?
Food: Stir fry with satay sauce.
Companion: That's nobody's business but my own.

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#10 29-08-2003 5:39pm

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One CD (Audio Only!). hmm probably make my own mixed one
One Movie/DVD. Lotr ttt
One Game. q3,id need a reliable net connection
One Book. lotr i really should read it
One Drink. *hmmm coke
One Item of Food. * a big peperoni pizza
One Person of the Opposite Sex. Liz hurley!!!!

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#11 29-08-2003 6:21pm

doctor evil

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One CD: Jeff Buckley Grace
One Movie: The one where a group of boys try to fing the body of a missing boy, River Phoenix is in it, so is Wil Wheaton.
One game: Tetris! (I dont play games)
One book: All Anne McCaffrey books in one big book

One drink: something pineapply
One food: Decent nan bread
One person of the opposite sex: Now that would be telling would`nt it :cool:

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#12 29-08-2003 6:58pm

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Originally posted by doctor evil
One Movie: The one where a group of boys try to fing the body of a missing boy, River Phoenix is in it, so is Wil Wheaton.

stand by me
the bit with the leeches still gives me nightmares 8 years on:(

and change "One Movie" to "One Movie/DVD" in case you'd prefer a TV series on DVD....]

in that case, every episode of the sopranos:)

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#13 29-08-2003 7:22pm

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CD: Solesides Greatest Bumps
DVD: Donnie Darko or City of God
Game: Championship Manager 4
Book: Lord of The Rings
Drink: Coke
Food: Fried Rice + Beef in blackbean sauce with cashew nuts
Person: In real life I'm not saying but celeb Rachel Stevens

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#14 29-08-2003 9:35pm

doctor evil

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Cheers tman, it was nagging at me for a bit. When they find the dead boy it frightened me the first time I saw it. Be strong the leeches cant get you!

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#15 29-08-2003 9:58pm

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Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip ( the whole 2cd set, if possible)
Wake Up And Smell The Carcass.
Chess tbh
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra & Simulation
Not to sound "ard" but Jolt.
Ramen.
Karen Berger (The editor of Vertigo comics)

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#16 29-08-2003 10:50pm

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One CD (Audio Only!): Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs

One Movie/DVD: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Now that’s what I call a film to go mad watching on a desert island)

One Game: net connection: Rise of Nations /If not something like Sim City 4

One Book: One of the longer books by the author I’m currently reading (can’t remember his name)

One Drink: BUCKEY (I was drunkenly told I was not aloud to call it Buck Fast)

One Item of Food: Chips with curry and cheese

One Person of the Opposite Sex: err… Liz Hurley as the devil so she could get me off the island.

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