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

[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.
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.

[KnottedYet]

Great minds post alike, dear Trek!

[Trek420]

But what would I know about giving good....oh never mind. Now back to the island.

[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.

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. (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.

[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.