You're on a deserted island/planet...

[ShadowMaat]

FH's post got me thinking... You know the old "If you were on a deserted island (or planet, for 'Gaters), what [fill in the blank] would you want with you?" questions, with the blank being top five books, movies, person, etc. So I'm wondering what choices folks here would make.

My top five books (in no particular order):
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Eyre Affiar by Jasper Fforde
Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Josh Piven and somebody else (hey, something practical!)
Collected Stories by HP Lovecraft (being lost and alone isn't scary enough)

Top five movies (don't ask me how I'd play 'em without electricity):
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Galaxy Quest
Princess Bride
Secret of NIMH
Bringing Up Baby

Top five choices of who(m) I'd like to be trapped with (real or imaginary):
1. Jonas (betcha we could find ways to keep ourselves busy while waiting for rescue :D)
2. Luke (might be handy to have my own personal chef)
3. Jeff Corwin (dude can be annoying, but his knowledge could be useful)
4. MacGyver (not for his looks, but 'cause he'd get us home fast and he could probably also figure out a way for us to watch those movies)
5. Rupert from Survivor (don't like him much, but he can catch food)

If anyone has any other ideas for desertion lists, feel free to go wild. ;)

[Shipperahoy]

Top Five Books

Watership Down
Enders Game
And whichever 3 of the Harry Potter books I feel like reading at the time

Top Five Movies

The Princess Bride
Galaxy Quest
Dark City
Pitch Black
Love Actually (for my fluffy side)

Top 5 People

Jonas-(eye candy-he would look great in a loin cloth)
My son-(I've never spent the night away from the wee one I think the withdrawl might kill me.)
James Bond-(he could fix me drinks and he would have all sorts of nifty little gadgets)
Sam-(I would need a break from all of the testosterone and besides she could probably build a Stargate out of some palm trees.)
Vin Disel-(more eye candy. What can I say? I'm a shallow shallow person.)

[ShadowMaat]

Jonas-(eye candy-he would look great in a loin cloth)
Mmm... loincloth. I like the way you think. :D

[MartoufMarty]

My top five books (this list is a little hard. I don't really read all that much anymore):
A Thin Red Line by Tami Hoag
any Animorph book
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
hmm... if you really think about it, it's more than five right there lol.

Top five movies:
Master and Commander The Far Side Of The World
Lord of the Rings: Return of The King
X2
Gladiator
Run Lola Run

Top five choices of who(m) I'd like to be trapped with (real or imaginary):
1. Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys (haha teh funne)
2. my sister (we'll probably laugh ourselves to death before we even find food)
3. Osiris (cause she's awesome, plus she has an Asgard transporter thingy)
4. Ba'al (for looking so hot :P)
5. Aragorn, Faramir, and Legolas (... hehe :P)

I know that's more than 5 but hey lol.

[Capt. Rivet]

Books:
US Army Survival Manual
US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook

Movies:
LOTR Trilogy
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke

People:
Till Lindemann of Rammstein
Sascha Konietzko and Raymond Watts of KMFDM
Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris of Iron Maiden

[ShadowMaat]

US Army Survival Manual
Hmm... y'know, that's probably a lot more practical than the Worst Case book. And I actually own a copy of it. Maybe that'd be the better choice. MUCH better detail about edible plants and animals, setting snares and traps, how to start a fire... Smart idea, Capt. ;)

[Newbie]

Books:
Star Trek Section 31 series (4 books)
and one more ;) whatever it is

Movies:
Haggard
CKY mocies (4 og them)

People:
All my girl frineds ;)

[Sela]

This is going to take some thought....

Top Five Books:
The Bible (Study Version)
Sting: Broken Music


Top Five Movies:
Spartacus (Kirk Douglas Uncut Version)


Top Five People:
Dylan Hunt
Sting
Tim Russert from NBC


Working on the rest....

[Sparki101]

Top 5 Books

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
SAS Survival Guide, a nice fat book used for kindling for my fire or stunning small rodents and other tasty, unlucky animals ;)
Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor
Bible
*looks randomly around for inspiration*
Aha. Delia Smiths Chinese Cook Book for deprived students.

Top 5 Movies
Romeo+Juliet
Gladiator
Monty Python Classics
Ice Age
Cold Mountain

Top 5 Poeple

A raft maker.
A sail maker
A man who can climb up coconut trees
A medic
my room mate so she won't suspect me when we eat her out of desperation

Top 5 random objects

My saxophone (makes a LOUD alerting noise)
My surfboard
Compass
A penknife
waste paper basket. (really random!) or my excavation trowel.

[Bagpuss]

After some thought,here goes! Listed in no particular order in their categories,
then:(Setting this as being stranded on a deserted Alien Planet."M" Class,of course! ;) )

My Top 5 Books.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett.I'd take the lot,if poss! ;)
Herb/Plant Encyclopaedia.Try to bring the best version available.No sense in risking getting ill in the search for edibles.
S.A.S. Survival Guide.Same reason.Also helps to be able to consult the experts at living rough. ;)
Any Erma Bombeck book.Love her humour!
Lords and Ladies,by TP.Had to take an extra!

My Top 5 Movies.
Groundhog Day.
Jumpin' Jack Flash.
ST:First Contact.
The Green Mile.
Coming To America.

My Top 5 People to be stranded with.(Hubby + the Gatelets don't exist in this Fantasy btw ! ;) )
Patrick Stewart.He could recite as much Shakespeare as he liked,and give me all his tales of making TNG!
"The Rock".Hunky,V.Hunky! Also he could do the heavy chores. ;)
Lya of the Nox.Love her quiet wisdom and dry wit.She could maybe use her "Powers" to help us all,in case of emergency.
Robin Williams.Love his brand of "Hyper" humour.He'd keep our morale up!
Oma Desala.She'd be able to keep us all stimulated,by setting riddles.Then when we all got bored,she could turn us all into Beings of Light and lead us home.Just as long as she "Descended" us with our memories intact.I'd want to remember the whole experience!!

5 Random items to take:
Swiss Army Penknife.
P.90. Plus: see below.
Ammo and plenty of it,as shooting rabbits etc is far more humane than using Snares.Or, if Lya vanished these little extras,I'd go Vegetarian.
2x Large Tents,including all the Pitching equipment.To use as a Base and keep everything P.G. Rated!! ;)

Like your Thread,Shadow! Good idea,and fun to think out lists, IMO. :D

[sgeureka]

Top Five Books
- a paranoia book: "1984" by George Orwell
- a fantasy book: "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende
- an encyclopedia (I could spend hours with reading all the interesting stuff inside)
- a religion book: Bible, Koran, or the Tibetan Book of the Dead (I'm not religious but there are a few interesting stories inside and they are really fat)
- and another fantasy book: Harry Potter IV (IMO best of the series)

Top Five Movies
- Blade Runner
- The Virgin Suicides
- Shining (Kubrick version)
- Memento
- Apocalypse Now Redux

I don't need people on my island so I'll take five music albums instead
- "Blade Runner O.S.T." by Vangelis
- "The Virgin Suicides O.S.T." by Air
- "MCMXC a.D." by Enigma
- "Le roi est mort Vive le roi" by Enigma
- "Oxygene" by Jean Michel Jarre

[Jane]

Top five books:
Witch Child by Celia Rees
Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Belgariad books by David Edding
Lord of the Rings

Top five films:
The Lord of the Rings
Spirited Away
Moulin Rouge
Practical Magic
Gladiator

Top five people:
My best friend Carly because she is so funny
Micheal Shanks - he is a babe
My best friend Stephanie because she is Resourceful
Aragorn
this might not count but my cat Meeko. :D

[Odens återkomst]

Top Five Books:
Who need's 'em?

Top Five Movies:
There is a dvd or vcr on this planet?

Top Five people:
Sam Carter (Amanda Tapping)
Dr. Fraiser (Teryl Rothery)
Osiris/Sara (Anna-Louise Plowman)
Young Linea/Ke'ra (Megan Leitch)
Zenna Valk (Allison Hossack)

:D

[Kaiylan]

Top 5 books:
Wheel of Time series (4 of them anyway)
Bible

Top 5 Videos:
Stargate
Independence Day
The Last Samurai
A couple of season's worth of SG-1

People:
My best friend Lisa
My best friend John
Teal'c
Carter (she and I would have fun talking Astrophysics hehe)
and finally, Thor (just because he is cool)

Random stuff:
My swords
My knife
My dvd player (for the movies of course)
A naquadah reactor (power is good)
A zat

[shinyredpants]

Top 5 Books

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
The Bell Jar - Silvia Plath
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Rainbow Six
Ulysses (because i have wanted to finish this damn thing)

Top 5 Movies

The Core
Legally Blonde
Oscar
Attack the Gas Station
Star Trek VI

Top 5 People

my boyfriend!
that's all i want on this island...heehee

Top 5 random objects

swimsuit
issue of cosmo
toothbrush
razor
knife

[ShadowMaat]

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Is that the book of haikus (or it includes some) by Japanese kamikaze pilots? Or is there some other reason I recognize Murakami's name?

[Sparki101]

Ahem
Top 5 things to do to when you get bored

Rewrite the dictionary (throw in a coupla made up words for good measure)
Dig a hole
Bang two empty coconut shells together and pretend you're a horse
Have a fireworks display with those pretty flares you managed to salavage
Stop the tide coming in with an impenetrable barrier of pebbles

[Teal'c]

Most pointless things to do when trapped of an island:

- Calculate e to as many decimals as you can using a Maclaurin series, keep doing it every day while you're there... you might get a world record :P
- Re-enact everything from Stargate to the last episode of SG-1 you read spoilers for. You play Chevron Guy, use various island items as the rest of the cast.
- Start building a bridge... it might be long enough someday.
- Use the thousand degree furnace you brought with you to create bottles. Place maps to hidden treasure in them, guiding them to your island. Kill the treasure hunters and steal their pants.
- Dig a ravine to cut the island in two, then declare war on the other side of the island.

[Sparki101]

- Dig a ravine to cut the island in two, then declare war on the other side of the island.

Dude! That's so cool. Here are some more

Walk around the island trying to catch up with your footprints before the sea washes them away
Try and catapult yourself onto neighbouring islands using a supple bent-back palm tree.
Poke unsuspecting washed up jellyfish with a stick
repeat many times until they sting you and attempt to suck up your paralysed leg.
Put two crabs in a ring and watch them do battle until death. Eat the loser.

[Wrathox]

All I need is:

rubbing oil
Oprah Winfrey
and a copy of how to train your horse

[shinyredpants]

Is that the book of haikus (or it includes some) by Japanese kamikaze pilots? Or is there some other reason I recognize Murakami's name?
not that i can recall...he may have had haiku in some of his stuff...

there are other writers with the name murakami though, there is Ryu Murakami...but who knows =)

[Thoth]

5 Books:
2 Harry Potters
2 John Grishams
How to make a Stargate, for beginners

5 movies mmm tough one
Matrix
Gladiator
not a movie but, all of my Stargate DVD serieses, that'll count for loads

5 poeple:
my girlfriend, Alison, for um...obvious reasons. I mean would you go without for months, maybe years.
Sam, to make our stargate and a bit of competition for Alison
my friend, John for a laugh
Jack, to do jobs and generally be the strong guy, horribly disfigured of course so as not to distract Sam from me.
a ressurected Janet Fraiser for John.

[Pharaoh Atem]

dusting this off

[Syera]

Books:
Anything the army's got on Survival and Getting Off a Deserted Island.

Movies:
All right, I'm assuming we have some kind of player here. Anything pertaining to Survival and Getting Off an Island. If no player is available, I really don't care as long as it's something I don't like. I'm sure I could find a way to use them to Get Off The Deserted Island.

People:
Anyone who would be useful in the quest of Survival and Getting Off an Island.

[buckner]

Books:
Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Don't Know Much About History
Physics text book
Something Star Trek

Movies:
Equilibrium
Truman Show
Matrix
What Dreams May Come
Star Trek:TMP

People:
My family.

[_WraithQueen_]

books:
the four largest books i can find (handy for building those firse at night)
and ''How to Build a Boat: Desert Island edition''

movies:
Matrix
X-men
Serenity
Star wars
Shaun of the dead

People:
MacGyver (always handy to have around)
Steve Erwin (good for finding animals to eat, or to prod)
A good chef
A boy scouts leader
Capt.Jack sparrow (to hunt out that secret bunker full of rum that are so frequently found on desert islands) :P

[Otera]

hmm, let's see.... I'd take:

Books
The wizards manual,
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (it tells you how to identify certain plants and which ones are edible),
The Young Wizards series (compiled to be one book)
The Phantom Tollbooth

MOVIES
hmmm....none, but instead:
Supplies
waterbottle, extra shirt, penknife, tent, and water purifier

people:
hmmm...
camp counsler called Spaz (she's smart and knows alot about nature as well as she knows how to build shelter)
Daniel Jackson (he's gotten buff lately, he'd be some help, right?)
Kit R.
Nita Callahan
Dairine Callahan

[Wraith Scientist]

Items
A book about plants, which ones are edible/useful etc. (Gatemage's idea, but a good one)
A general survival book
A book on first aid and general survival medicine

Penknives
Night-vision goggles (light enhancement + infra-red settings)
First aid kits
A couple of tents

Wraith stunners?

Wraith digestive system reactivation hormone injections (so my Wraith guests don't go eating everybody)

People
Maybe a couple of loyal ex-SAS soldiers/survival enthusiasts
Some people for conversation:
- McKay
- Ellia
- Michael

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Silly Items
Oma's Guide to Ascending
Explosives
A sonic screwdriver
Some sort of spaceship (preferably the Forerunner ship from Halo 2)