[Leica] Re: desert island

["Xavier Van Ingelgem" <xvi@tecnibo.be>]

Bonjour Cher Lucien,
comment vas-tu ? Je suis désolé de ne pas avoir pris de tes nouvelles plus
tôt !
Veux-tu déjeuner le jeudi 7 octobre ??
A bientôt
Xavier
- -----Message d'origine-----
De : Lucien <lucien@ubi.edu>
À : Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>
Date : vendredi 1 octobre 1999 09:59
Objet : desert island


>
>Stranded on a desert island a million miles from nowhere in
>particular in
>the Pacific, we have:
>2 Italian men and 1 Italian woman
>2 French men and 1 French woman
>2 German men and 1 German woman
>2 Greek men and 1 Greek woman
>2 English men and 1 English woman
>2 Bulgarian men and 1 Bulgarian woman
>2 Japanese men and 1 Japanese woman
>2 American men and 1 American woman
>2 Irish men and 1 Irish woman
>2 Belgian men and 1 Belgian woman
>
>One month later it appears that the following events have transpired:
>One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.
>The two French men and the French woman are living happily
>together in a
>menage a trois.
>The 2 German men have a strict weekly schedule of when they
>alternate with
>the German woman.
>The 2 Greek men are sleeping with each other and the Greek
>woman is
>cleaning
>and cooking for them.
>The 2 English men are waiting for someone to introduce them
>to the English
>woman.
>The Bulgarian men took a long look at the endless ocean and
>one look at
>the
>Bulgarian woman and started swimming.
>The two Japanese men have fused beach sand into transistors,
>which they
>used
>to build a satellite transmitter and have faxed Tokyo for
>instructions
>about
>what to do next.
>The two American men have formed a joint-venture to start an
>island food
>distribution company and are collaborating on cornering the
>coconut
>market,
>while the American woman keeps bitching about her body being
>her own, the
>true nature of feminism, how she can do anything the men can
>do, about the
>need for spiritual fulfilment, the equal division of
>household chores, how
>her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her
>much nicer and
>how
>her relationship with her mother is improving. But at least
>the taxes are
>low and there is enough shade that her complexion is not
>suffering unduly.
>
>The Irish began by dividing the island into North and South
>and setting
>up a
>distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture
>because it gets
>sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut Whiskey,
>but they are
>satisfied in that at least the English are not getting any !!!
>But finally the Belgians
>Used the Japanese transmitter to order a large quantity of
>Belgian beer.
>Had the Bulgarian woman guard the beer.
>Did not introduce the English woman to the English men.
>Started learning Greek.
>Taught martial songs to the Irish and gave them a lot of beer.
>Tried to speek faster and sing better than the Italian man.
>Gave
>Microsoft
>scheduling software (version 0.01 full of bugs) to the Germans.
>Convinced the French to see it bigger than just three.  Made
>the American
>woman queen of the island with no constitutional power and a special
>assignment to relax the rules on sexual harrassment.
>