Imagine I'm Sue Lawley
Charles Anthony
communicate with anyone, anywhere.
In the pukka Desert Island Discs you are allowed to take a number of
records with you, a single book and a luxury.
Well, this is *my* Desert Island, so my rules apply.
You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
You automatically get a Complete Works of Shakespeare. You can't
exchange it for another book, but it doesn't count as one of your
five. (The Bible can go hang, quite frankly)
Yes, it's difficult.
* Books:
The books I'd take (at the moment), in no particular order:
- Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
* Record:
Fuck knows. Um, since I have a total lack in musical taste, it would
probably be my Danny Kaye : Hans Christien Anderson/Tubby The Tuba
Record, 'cos of pleasant memories of childhood.
* Luxury:
Pencil & Paper, so I could see if I had a novel inside me. When I find
that I do, and it's crap, I'd try to learn to draw properly.
* If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
Badly, I think. I'd get bored of myself after a short few weeks.
--
Charles Anthony
Sue
Sue.
This Way Up
>* Books:
Replayer
Adolf Hitler - My Part In His Downfall
The HitchHiker's Guide to The Galaxy
A Thousand Ways To Cook Fish
How To Survive On A Desert Island
>* Record:
American Pie.
>* Luxury:
Wife (Or does this count as a "Communications Device"?)
>* If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
#1
>* Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
I'll grow mariju^H^H^H^H^H^H flowers.
And sit around dreaming about Sue Lawley with a beard and glasses.
Charles Anthony
(Charles Anthony) wrote:
>* Books:
>
>The books I'd take (at the moment), in no particular order:
>- Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
>- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>- Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
>- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
>- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Upon reflection, I've realised that I must take a dictionary of some
sort. I love 'em, and have spent many a happy hour just browsing
through 'em.
So, sorry Mr Irving, I'm afraid you've got to go. Replaced by "A
Decent Dictionary".
--
Charles Anthony
Charles Anthony
wrote:
>>* Luxury:
>
>
>Wife (Or does this count as a "Communications Device"?)
Can't allow that, I'm afraid, on the basis that it's a person and you
would not be alone.
--
Charles Anthony
Shereen
> I'm going to cast you away, alone, on a Desert Island. You cannot
> communicate with anyone, anywhere.
>
> In the pukka Desert Island Discs you are allowed to take a number of
> records with you, a single book and a luxury.
>
> Well, this is *my* Desert Island, so my rules apply.
But you won't be there to check that we're not cheating.
> You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
> means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
Are anthologies allowed or is that cheating?
1) The collected Lord of the Rings.
2) The Susan Cooper 'Dark is Rising' series (I have them all in one book).
3) One of my Fortean Times collections - probably the earlier one with Fort
on the cover because I haven't read it all yet.
4) Bloom County but which one? Hmm 'Seven Years of Basic Naughtiness' or
'Classic of Western Literature'? OK - the latter because it covers most
of the years BC ran.
5) The Book of Lost Worlds - I'm reading it at the minute and I hate
leaving
books unfinished.
I hope you appreciate how difficult this is, as I sit in my book room with
all the books shouting "Me! Take me!"
> * Record:
"Heart of Saturday Night" - Tom Waits. No "OK Computer" - Radiohead.
> * Luxury:
A tube of toothpaste that never empties.
> * If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
Ooo - you total, utter bastard! Umm... Err... (just the _one_?).
OK - "The Dark is Rising" - Susan Cooper.
> * Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
Badly until insanity set in. Then I imagine I'd be quite happy.
Shereen
--
"I don't have a drinking problem, 'cept when I can't get a drink"
- Tom Waits
Charles Anthony
wrote:
>Are anthologies allowed or is that cheating?
Yeah, I'll let you, if they are published.
>I hope you appreciate how difficult this is, as I sit in my book room with
>all the books shouting "Me! Take me!"
I do.
>Ooo - you total, utter bastard! Umm... Err... (just the _one_?).
Yep.
--
Charles Anthony
Sue
>* Books:
'It' - Stephen King
'Chimney Corner Stories' - Enid Blyton
'Notes from a Small Island' - Bill Bryson (although it might make me
homesick)
'The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles' - latest edition.
'The Kenneth Williams Diaries'
>* Record:
It's impossible for me to pick just one. I think it would have to be a
compliation of some sort.
>* Luxury:
My cat.
>* If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
'Notes from a Small Island'.
>* Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
Pretty well, I expect. I'm used to, and on the whole quite happy with,
my own company. Provided I have the cat to cuddle.
Sue.
simon gray
--
"Of course we should interfere - always do what you're best at,
http://www.star-one.org.uk/ that's what I always say" - the doctor
Where do baby newsgroups come from, mummy ? uk.net.news.* !
ickle da sheep
simon gray wrote in message <0qZKOLtJztdn7z...@4ax.com>...
Ian Henden
<Cha...@backstage.demon.co.uk> writes
Would it be ok if he had a blow-up one?
--
Ian Henden
Liam
>You can take 5 books,
Don Quixote - Cervantes
If This is a Man/The Truce - Primo Levi
Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
A History of the World in 10 and a half Chapters - Julian Barnes
> 1 record
White Album - The Beatles.
> and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
>means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
A (one way) radio, with a huuuge aerial.
>* If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
Hmm...probably 'If This is a Man/The Truce', for it's breadth, and
depth.
>* Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
Quite easily I think....wibble...
Liam
ian potter
>* Books:
The Boy in the Water - Stephen Dobbyns (well, I'm reading this, I want
to finish it)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - GGM (because it's shimmery and
brilliant)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
A big Atlas
War and Peace - Leo 'the lion' Tolstoy (I'd wrip out the pages, tear
them into strips and make them into papier mache with my spit, and use
this to construct a glider, so I could get to Pizza Hut for lunch)
>* Record:
Pixies - Doolittle (music to make Tolstoy and spit gliders by)
>* Luxury:
Lots of orange bubble bath.
>* If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
A big Atlas
>* Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
Pizza.
ian.
Kathryn Quinn
<Cha...@backstage.demon.co.uk> writes
>I'm going to cast you away, alone, on a Desert Island. You cannot
>communicate with anyone, anywhere.
>
>In the pukka Desert Island Discs you are allowed to take a number of
>records with you, a single book and a luxury.
>
>Well, this is *my* Desert Island, so my rules apply.
>
>means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
That's not a desert island, that's hell.
I'd just take one thing: a fucking big sword. And commit hari-kiri fairly
quickly.
I must be a pleb. I can't even think of 5 books at the moment, let alone 5
books I'd want to have with me in solitude, but then i have had rather too
many ales this evening.
But the record would be Jane's Addiction, Ritual de Lo Habitual.
And the item would be a solar-powered vibrator.
--
"So here we are on the day of the Grand National.. and we're
talking to Bob Cancer.. Er.. _Champion_.." - Des Lynam, 1992.
http://www.quinnster.demon.co.uk
Alistair Mann
news:YnEhtIA9...@quinnster.demon.co.uk...
> In article <384b34d...@news.demon.co.uk>, Charles Anthony
> <Cha...@backstage.demon.co.uk> writes
> >I'm going to cast you away, alone, on a Desert Island. You cannot
> >communicate with anyone, anywhere.
> >
> >In the pukka Desert Island Discs you are allowed to take a number of
> >records with you, a single book and a luxury.
> >
> >Well, this is *my* Desert Island, so my rules apply.
> >
> >You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
> >means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
<snip>
> And the item would be a solar-powered vibrator.
That /would/ be hell: you wouldn't be able to use it in the day as you'd be
too busy scanvenging for food, and when night comes around it would have no
power! Or are you a masochist?!
--
Alistair Mann
uk.local.london website at http://www.london-online.org.uk
Charles Anthony
>Is this supposed to be some w13rd sex game ?
Surely everyone dresses up as Sue Lawley, smears their chest with LARD
and balances Rowntree's Fruit Pastels on their nipples ?
--
Charles Anthony
www.backstage.org.uk/personal
Charles Anthony
>In article <384c6392...@news.demon.co.uk>, Charles Anthony
><Cha...@backstage.demon.co.uk> writes
>>On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:44:00 -0000, "This Way Up" <Ju...@the.chance.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>>* Luxury:
>>>
>>>
>>>Wife (Or does this count as a "Communications Device"?)
>>
>>Can't allow that, I'm afraid, on the basis that it's a person and you
>>would not be alone.
>
>Would it be ok if he had a blow-up one?
Yep.
I'd even let him have a puncture repair kit, 'cos I'm all heart.
--
Charles Anthony
www.backstage.org.uk/personal
Charles Anthony
>In article <384b34d...@news.demon.co.uk>, Charles Anthony
><Cha...@backstage.demon.co.uk> writes
>>I'm going to cast you away, alone, on a Desert Island. You cannot
>>communicate with anyone, anywhere.
>>
>>In the pukka Desert Island Discs you are allowed to take a number of
>>records with you, a single book and a luxury.
>>
>>Well, this is *my* Desert Island, so my rules apply.
>>
>>You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
>>means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
>
>That's not a desert island, that's hell.
>I'd just take one thing: a fucking big sword. And commit hari-kiri fairly
>quickly.
>
>I must be a pleb. I can't even think of 5 books at the moment, let alone 5
>books I'd want to have with me in solitude
That's what I feel about Desert Island Discs - I could never think of
5 records that mean that much to me. So long as I'm not stuck with
Keith Orvill and Whitney Houston (Now there's a duet album waiting to
happen) I'd be OK.
But books - now we're talking.
And to take just ONE book ? Now *THAT'S* hell.
--
Charles Anthony
www.backstage.org.uk/personal
A Plantigrade Omnivore
> You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Trout Fishing In America
Molesworth (Whizz for Atomms if you won't let me have the quadrology
volume)
The Home Lover's Encyclopaedia (1934ish - would allow me to recreate
1934...)
um........dunno: 3 Men In A Boat, just to fill the list up.
whichever Steely Dan album has Boddhisattva on it, if I can't have the
Citizen boxset
3 tonnes of plain choc coated coffee beans
--
What is the Y2K bug?
A problem caused by shortening a 4 digit number to 2 digits.
Why is it called Y2K ?
To shorten it.
Victoria
> I'm going to cast you away, alone, on a Desert Island. You cannot
> communicate with anyone, anywhere.
> You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
> means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
> * Books:
Ooh, dunno. That's hard.
Err. I'll think about it.
> * Record:
> Fuck knows.
TheThe - Infected. I've managed to like it since it came out and have
never got bored by it.
> * Luxury:
>
> Pencil & Paper,
Same here.
> * If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
see books above
> * Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
I would start talking to myself and inanimate objects within about 2
hours. But I do that anyway.
Mike Warren
> On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 10:29:34 GMT, Cha...@backstage.demon.co.uk
> (Charles Anthony) wrote:
>
> >
> >You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
> >means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
> >
>
A book on star watching
Assimovs 'I robot'
Erotic 'fine art'.
A book on 'how to survive on a desert island' ;)
'A christmas Carol' Dickens.
Beatles white album.
My guitar.
Mike Warren.
Charles Anthony
>All except the luxury are fairly arbitrary choices, and would almost
>certainly not be exactly the same tomorrow.
But of course; the same goes for me too.
Wish I'd remembered House At Pooh Corner. Though it woud be a toss-up
between that and Now We Are Six.
--
Charles Anthony
www.backstage.org.uk/personal
Ian Henden
writes
>
--
Ian Henden
Mike Warren
Ian Henden wrote:
>
> >
> >
> You would *have to* take Mike Warren...
> >
>
Not in the biblical sense...PLEASE..(err unless ya a girlie of course!).
whoops.came over all Alexy then...
oh god...look what I just wrote...
ok...who will be first!....
Mike Warren.
Ian Henden
writes
>
>
Oooh look... an orderly queue...
of zero........
>
--
Ian Henden
Iain Coleman
> > You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
> > means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
Books:
Nietzsche, "Daybreak"
Misner, Thorne and Wheeler, "Gravitation"
Norton anthology of English poetry
Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings"
Philip K Dick, "Valis"
Record:
Marillion, "Clutching at Straws"
Luxury:
Complete set of "Doctor Who" videos (plus VCR and TV)
Iain
This Way Up
>>>>Wife (Or does this count as a "Communications Device"?)
>>>
>>>Can't allow that, I'm afraid, on the basis that it's a person and you
>>>would not be alone.
>>
>>Would it be ok if he had a blow-up one?
>
>Yep.
>
>I'd even let him have a puncture repair kit, 'cos I'm all heart.
It was once suggested, at a hall of residence meet, that we purchase a
communal sex-doll.
The request was turned down on the grounds that half the residents couldn't
even clean their pubes out of the bath...
Do students still have little anecdotal japes these days or is it all drugs
and house-keeping music?
Chris Eilbeck
> Charles Anthony <Cha...@backstage.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > * Record:
>
> TheThe - Infected. I've managed to like it since it came out and have
> never got bored by it.
Good choice! Must go and play some TheThe, probably start with Dusk.
Chris
--
Chris Eilbeck mailto:ch...@yordas.demon.co.uk
ian potter
>TheThe - Infected. I've managed to like it since it came out and have
>never got bored by it.
But utter spooky coincidence, I am listening to this right now.
ian.
Shereen
> >
> >I hope you appreciate how difficult this is, as I sit in my book room
> >
> <snip>
>
> Sorry, I am married and those bloody priests won't let me kill <snip>
> my wife.
<in the style of Louie the Budweiser lizard
How about someone else does it for you?
</in the style of Louie the Budweiser lizard
Shereen - death to the frogs
Shereen
> 1. Six counties really, given that North is North and Donegal is north
> in Ulster but in the Free State.
Picky, picky, picky.
Ever thought of entering politics in Norn Iron?
Shereen
Lindsay Endell
Charles Anthony wrote in message
>You can take 5 books,
The Stand, Steven King
Complete Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Complete Molesworth, by, oh, can't remember, Searle?
Complete Robot, Asimov
Complete, annotated, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer.
If I'm going to be there any length of time, I need *big* books.
I've never read the Canterbury Tales so this could be my chance. And
I like books I can read again. And again...
>1 record
Mozart's Requiem, there's a particular recording, but for the life
of me I can't remember what it is.
>and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a means of escape, nor a
communications >device e.g. two way radio)
A radio, so I can listen to Bob Harris and Terry Wogan. Although I
was quite taken with the idea of the solar powered vibrator. I
reckon after a hard day's hunting and gathering my muscles would be
in need of a good massage.
>
>* If you had to pick only *one* of the books, which would it be :
Can't choose. Toss a coin. No. Spin a five sided spinner. The Stand,
apparently.
>
>* Finally, How would you cope with solitude ?
>
>Badly, I think. I'd get bored of myself after a short few weeks.
I'd be better with internet access but you won't let me have a
communications device. So I'll probably do badly too. I like to talk
to people occasionally.
Linz
Harry Grove
ackstage.demon.co.uk> writes
>I'm going to cast you away, alone, on a Desert Island. You cannot
>communicate with anyone, anywhere.
>You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury. (That luxury cannot be a
>means of escape, nor a communications device e.g. two way radio)
>You automatically get a Complete Works of Shakespeare. You can't
>exchange it for another book, but it doesn't count as one of your
>five. (The Bible can go hang, quite frankly)
You wouldn't say that if you were in a Beirut cellar instead of dreaming
of being on some (beautiful ?) deserted desert-island !
And I have McCarthey's word for that !
Amyway - there are some terrible desert islands;
... they are vastly over-rated.
My favourite game is:-
which one record and which eight women would I chose to play frizbie
with on my beach (using the record, or course) ...
Now ... let me see ... this week I choose ...
Harry Grove
"There has always been a small minority of 'wantons'
- loose women of easy virtue -
who have brought great joy wherever they have been !"
Auberon Waugh
Lindsay Endell
> "Lindsay Endell" typed:
>
> > The Stand, Steven King
>
> Did you see "Omnibus" about King last night?
> I hadn't realised his drink/drugs problem was that advanced.
> Or that his issues about his missing father ran so deep.
> Still, seems like a nice guy.
I saw the photo in the Guardian and didn't recognise him without the
facial hair. But I didn't watch the programme. I went to bed instead.
Linz
cobo...@my-deja.com
> You can take 5 books, 1 record and a luxury.
Could we then barter with the others?
I've got to have my 3G's: Girl, Guitar, and Mac G3!
We can make a difference,
RB
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