Who are your "desert island 5?" (a totally frivolous post)

[bikerchick68]

OK... so you're on a deserted island and you get to have 5 men of your choice with you... they cannot be your current BF/DH... comeon, we know your real man is great, but play along... so who are your 5?

Me?

Pierce Brosnan
Keith Urban
Jake Owen
George Hincapie
Ivan Basso

[margo49]

Richard Virenque
Omar Sharif
King Abdallah of Jordan
Dalai Lama
Rin Tin Tin

[Bluetree]

I second Ivan!

• Ivan Basso (to look at and play with)
• Ian Adamson (can help me survive anywhere)
• Jon Stewart (to make me laugh)
• The guy from This Old House (he can build the hut)
• Alton Brown (someone has to cook)

[indysteel]

Seconds and thirds on Ivan and Jon Stewart.

I'd add Gael Garcia Bernal (the only man on my fridge), a younger Paul Newman, and the "Hot Racer" (as I like to call him) from my bike club. He's married (I think), and I've never actually met him, but this is fantasy right?

[chickwhorips]

- one that will cook whatever i want
- one to keep me in shape and modivated
- a mr. fix-it guy
- a massage therapist
- one to clean and keep everything in order

those are my 5 guys. now if i can find names for them i'll let you know.

[Bikingmomof3]

This is so sad, I cannot think of 5 men. :o

[crazycanuck]

Please don't think i'm nuts ok..I can only think of people who are dead...

Sir Winston Churchill
Freddie Mercury
Jimmy Stewart
John Lennon
Terry Fox

c

[margo49]

So do what I did, BMo3
I personally chose Rinty but you could add in Flipper or Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (tho' I think that was a girl) or whoever

[DebW]

I was just going to say Flipper. If I was on a desert island, the best part would be being alone. But if I got lonely, I'd go swimming and Flipper would keep me company.

[pepe6599]

Channing Tatum
Keith Anderson (County singer who I think can't sing, but he sure does look good)
Josh Turner
Andy Garica (It's the hair)
Stephan Baldwin

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Jimmy Stewart
Jimmy Cagney
Edward Gorey
Tom Hanks
Rene Magritte

[Deanna]

Edward Norton (for many, many, many reasons)
Tommy Malone (to sing to me)
Jon Stewart (to make me laugh -- good one bluetree)
Chuck Pahlaniuk (to keep me entertained with good stories)
Jamie Oliver (to cook for me)

[CyclChyk]

That's sick Canuck. Just sick. Unless, of course, you meant it in a strictly platonic sort of way and not in a necropheliac sort of way....

My 5 are strictly platonic as well:

1. Stephen King - his mind is amazing
2. Anthony Robbins - motivation at its finest
3. Adam Sandler - I love his movies and would like to see what he's like in real life
4. Matt McConaughey - just to LOOK! Geez people, I am married here!!
5. Ummm.... Eliza Dushku - same reason as #4 ;) :D

[bcipam]

Frankly girls... some of the choices worry me!!!!

My 5...

Richard, my best friend who can do everything and is funny to boot.
Mike, by other good friend who is brilliant and also very funny
and well ummm OK...
Hugh Jackman, my one actor - brilliant, handsome and funny (tho I might trade him in for Stephen King. What a masterful story teller!).
Professor Fracnoid (sp?) a local astro-physicist who teaches at Cal Poly
(he tells the most fascinating stories about the heavens).
and last but not least, Neil Savaedra, aka Jesus Christ, a local radio personality. What interesting discussions we could have sitting around a camp fire.

I know a weird list but if stuck sitting on a Island I want to have good conversation.

[wannaduacentury]

Oh let's see

Sean Connery(loved him in the Medicine Man-wild jungle-a survivor-007 Bond Man)
Keith Urban & Josh Turner(Nice lookin fellas who can bring guitars and sing)
George Clooney(he's funny & Charming)
Harrison Ford(Mr Indiana Jones himself-another survivor type to kill things I don't like)
Jennifer

[Xrayted]

Hmmm... only 5? Honestly, I need at least 6. Bare minimum.

1. Louis Armstrong
2. John Lennon
3. Tom Hanks
4. Richard Pryor
5. Fred Astaire
6. Carey Grant

Geez, only one of my guys is alive. Disturbing in a way...

I'm a McGuyver type so I can build, fish, cook whatever we need. But having someone romance you, make you laugh and able to put you in a rose-colored haze with their music is my idea of a dream existance anywhere.

[pooks]

Well, if we're just talking hot guys --

Geo. Clooney
Brad Pitt
Robert Redford
(young) Peter O'Toole (or, oh hell, even old Peter O'Toole)
Hugh Grant



If we're talking platonic, then I go for the talkers.

Michael Irvin
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Jon Stewart
Stephen Fry
Hugh Laurie

[LBTC]

tough one, but here goes (in their prime, of course)

Bif Naked
Georgia O'Keefe
Anais Nin
Marla Streb
Johnny Depp

;)

~T~

[pooks]

What was I thinking?!?

Okay, I'm trading Redford in for Depp.

[doc]

I second Ivan!

• Ivan Basso (to look at and play with)
• Ian Adamson (can help me survive anywhere)
• Jon Stewart (to make me laugh)
• The guy from This Old House (he can build the hut)
• Alton Brown (someone has to cook)

I count Jon Stewart twice. Once to make me laugh, and once as eye candy. I think he is HOT. And when I see old clips of him, mmmmm even hotter.

but I must admit I'm one of those people who is strongly influenced by personality. I cannot think of mean people as good looking, no matter how perfectly constructed they are. And conversely, a wonderful person gets more and more handsome all the time.

[emily_in_nc]

I'd take (only considering living people now):

* My brother Adam, whom I can talk with about anything and who understands me like no other

* My step-father Dal, who makes me laugh, makes me think, and really loves me

* One of the "ones who got away" -- one of several guys from my past who could still make my heart flutter (I am happily married for 21 years, but this is a fantasy, right?!)

* Clay Aiken, to sing to me

* A guitar player to accompany Clay -- gotta have music!

~Emily

[Trek420]

thanks cwr, those are really good categories but guys?
do i have to?

since my island has bike trails I'll need someone who can keep me in shape, motivated and likes to ride a bike, can cook, and she knows massage so i'll pic knotted for my team thus saved 3 choices in one! ooh more choices now. :::rubs hands together, thinks:::

since I'm not ms. fix-it, I'll take my plumber, she seems to be able to fix most anything, she's smart and lefty, she was saying the country's going to heck in a handbasket and she'd like to leave so might not mind being stuck on the island. My friend Tammy is more the Jill of all trades but I don't know if either of them can fix bikes and that's important on my island so DebW can you be stranded with us?

Now who needs to clean and keep everything in order? It's an island for gosh sakes the Queen's not showing up for lunch

We'll need a gardener and I pick Vita Sackville West or if she's not available then M. F. K Fisher. Both cook, garden .... and write. I'll need a lot of stuff to read.

So now I'm on an island, riding, eating spam and lentils, soaking in the hottub the plumber built, helping Vita or M. F. K with the weeding and reading what they write what else to do?

I'll want to draw, might as well catch up on the drawing ... my favorite artist really is Alexander Calder but I'm on a roll here....I pick Mary Cassat plus she sould teach me French, might as well pick up a language. What are we on, 4?

We need music so I'll bring my best friend Theresa she plays just about anything.

Oooh Oooh other gals get 6, I'm getting 6....the gardens are fine but what am I a vegan?! (apologize to any vegans on board) but I'll want meat and fish so Chickwhorips can you clear your schedule to be on the island with us? Knotted sez you'll get massage (and lessons in French, concerts, access to the hot tub....)

[DebW]

since my island has bike trails I'll need someone who can keep me in shape, motivated and likes to ride a bike, can cook, and she knows massage so i'll pic knotted for my team thus saved 3 choices in one! ooh more choices now. :::rubs hands together, thinks:::

since I'm not ms. fix-it, I'll take my plumber, she seems to be able to fix most anything, she's smart and lefty, she was saying the country's going to heck in a handbasket and she'd like to leave so might not mind being stuck on the island. My friend Tammy is more the Jill of all trades but I don't know if either of them can fix bikes and that's important on my island so DebW can you be stranded with us?


Why I'd be honored, Trek. Life on a desert island with bike trails, bikes, Knotted, Trek, and a plumber. What could be better? I assume I'll get my share of those messages, right? :D I better start assembling my supply of spare bike parts...

[KnottedYet]

Hee hee hee!

what flavor of massage oil should I bring?

(and puh-lease don't say "vanilla", cuz I ain't bringin' it!)

And I can cook more than just spam and lentils. Many many years ago I did MFK's trick of putting mandarin orange sections on the heat register. That was divine! Never tried toasting lumps of chocolate on the end of a hat pin, but I'm game! I love all her books. Unfortunately, I "lost custody" of them...

[wannaduacentury]

Well, if we're just talking hot guys --

Geo. Clooney
Brad Pitt
Robert Redford
(young) Peter O'Toole (or, oh hell, even old Peter O'Toole)
Hugh Grant



If we're talking platonic, then I go for the talkers.

Michael Irvin
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Jon Stewart
Stephen Fry
Hugh Laurie

I like Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie too

[biking4health]

How about:
1. George Clooney
2. Sean Connery
3. Patrick Dempsey
4. Pierce Brosnan
5. Hugh Laurie

Ok, so I like good lookers...I am happily married for 31 years, but still like to look :eek:

Carol:D

[Hub]

1. Matthew McConnaughey- yummy looking and a sweet talker
2. Tommy Silva from This Old House- he's more versatile than Norm
3. Jimmy Buffett- for music, shrimp, margaritias who knows more about tropical islands
4. Jeffrey Dean Morgan- Denny from Grey's Anatomy - Yummy looking, great deep voice and he cooks!
5. Lance- to keep me motivated and Matthew is his bud. :cool:

[chickwhorips]

Oooh Oooh other gals get 6, I'm getting 6....the gardens are fine but what am I a vegan?! (apologize to any vegans on board) but I'll want meat and fish so Chickwhorips can you clear your schedule to be on the island with us? Knotted sez you'll get massage (and lessons in French, concerts, access to the hot tub....)

no problem. can do. just let me know when and where. :cool:

[hellosunshine]

sean connery,at any of his ages,sigh
billy connolly
jason stratham (out of the film snatch)
paul merton
god..........id quite like a bit of time to interrogate him.




......Quite surprised,i initailly thought id not know any of your USA men,but seems its a small world:)

[pyxichick]

Sondre Lerche
Paul Theroux
Jimmy Buffett
Deepak Chopra
Will Farrell

[Offthegrid]

1. Lance Armstrong, of course. And he will be required to run around in Speedos.
2. Orlando Bloom, required to sunbathe at all times
3. Emeril, to cook fish in mysteriously delicious ways
4. Seth Green, for laughs
5. Tiger Woods to teach us to golf with rocks and tree limbs (plus he is FAR hotter in person, trust me on this)

[Kitsune06]

Mmmkay. I'm thinking an island of 5 men (and me) would be less than fun. 5 women (and me) would have one week of pure hell. Less than fun.
SO
I'm mixing it up. I'd like to have friends, but after awhile it'd get weird, I think... and they can all leave their flavored massage oils at home, thanks. ;)
Since some of them are dead, we'll imagine Janis and Jim are 27.
1. Jack White. He's handsome, eccentric, and probably a lot of fun to talk to.
2. Janis Joplin. She's beautiful in her own way, soulful, and would probably also be fun to talk to.
3. Jim Morrison. Hot. Probably would have a lot to talk about, and interesting views.
4. Clara DuVall- Just... you know... to look at. ;)
5. Jeri Ryan- Also to... y'know... look at.

...I'll bring the flavored massage oils and suntan lotion. :D
I'm probably enough of a hunter/fisher/builder that things would be fine with just interesting and eccentric folks to accompany me.

[KnottedYet]

billy connolly


I met him about 30 years ago, and he taught me how to pour beer into a glass without it going all foamy.

Important skill for a child to learn!

[Kitsune06]

Head is important. You have to get *just* the right amount. Isn't this done by inverting the bottle in the pint glass, so as it pours, the mouth is kept below the surface of the beer?

[KnottedYet]

Uh, wouldn't the beer remain in the bottle if you did that? That's the principle by which our critter-waterers worked.

No, he just showed me to tilt the glass and pour very carefully.

[Trek420]

thought it was done by tilting the glass slightly and pouring into the downward side of the glass. :confused:

[KnottedYet]

Great minds post alike, dear Trek!

[Trek420]

But what would I know about giving good....oh never mind. Now back to the island. :rolleyes: :cool: ;)

[Xrayted]

Head is important. You have to get *just* the right amount. Isn't this done by inverting the bottle in the pint glass, so as it pours, the mouth is kept below the surface of the beer?


Uh, wouldn't the beer remain in the bottle if you did that? That's the principle by which our critter-waterers worked.



thought it was done by tilting the glass slightly and pouring into the downward side of the glass. :confused:

Uh, yep what Knotted said. Beer won't pour if the mouth of the bottle is below the surface. Same principle as bell helmet diving. Oh, and what Trek said too. Keeps the head from building up from the carbon dioxide. A clean glass will give a bigger head normally than a used one because the CO2 releases to the surface rather than clinging to the sides. So refills are typically smaller heads if poured the same way. I love going to all the micro breweries around here. You can "learn" so many new and important things about beer and life in general. :cool: (I'm just full of useless facts like that. It's the worthwhile intelligent stuff I can't retain.)

**Ahem - staying away from the rest of that discussion. :rolleyes:

[HipGnosis6]

If I had to choose five MEN, they would be:

1. My dad. He can be a proper jerk sometimes, but even so he'd go to the end of the world for me, including willingly allow himself to be stranded on a desert island. And he can build ANYTHING and would probably have a heck of a good time making "roughing it" into "home."
2. My recent ex, whether or not we are split up - he grew up in Hawaii, he'd damn well better know how to pick coconuts. And besides - it'd be really good for him to learn that he really CAN live more than 500 feet away from the nearest Starbucks.
3. George W. Bush, so that when we get resuced we can LEAVE HIM THERE.
4. The Dali Lama. Spiritual guidance in times of crisis.
5. Johnny Depp, for being so damned pretty.

[Trek420]

oooh, good choices HipGnosis6!! ok gals I like men, really I do, even just to uh...look at...yeah, that's it. So if I had to choose five MEN, they would be:

1. My dad. I think my brother said it best at Dads memorial that "many people say "I had the best Dad in the world" but we actually DID". Dad was smart, funny, warm and witty and he could design, fix and build anything. He also was an extroardinary gardener and...he cooked. Since this island seems to be able to bring people back from the dead....my Dad.
2. My paternal Grandfathers, really both of them but especially paternal, never knew them and supposed to be very special guys.
3. George W. Bush, good idea HipGnosis. He can bike ride with ....
4. Lance! (I'd prefer Gorgeous George to uhm look at, yeah right but don't know I can lure Dubya to the island with GG so in the interest of whirled peas pick Lance) they can go off and ride together while the rest of the world sits down over chocolate and really good ale and fixes things, repairs levees, negotiates, sings Kumbaya etc.
5. Johnny Depp, yeah, just to uhm look at.