This is a teaser.

Itchy and hung over, the passengers and crew were awaken by a bright morning sun that was relentless in its torture to the poor castaways.

http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1367

Don't ask me how, but I did a Goole search

and found this.

Early afternoon, Captain Maxim and tude dog have completed assessment of the damage to the good boat SfD, and otherwise taken inventory. Maxim calls everybody together for a meeting. Maxim: This is our situation here. We are not able to repair the boat, the radios are damaged and it is doubtful that they can be fixed. I ordered tude dog to take an inventory of supplies,,,tude, would you please report what we have? tude dog: aye aye, we have four cases of Foster's beer, three liters of wine, and a fifth of Jack Daniels. Maxim: How about food? tude dog: Oh, something like a few cans of tuna, some corned beef hash and some spoiled mahi mahi. headrock: What is that all about? You bring us to this island and have a bunch of booze and no food? Maxim: You paid for a three hour tour, not a survivalist expedition. In the meantime, I suggest that we all face the reality of our situation and remain calm. There is no reason to believe that help isn't already on the way, in the meantime we should all work together. Genosse: Sounds reasonable, cooperation and understanding is what we need now. twiw: Exactly, we should figure out who can do what to insure the survival of everybody. Engineer Soldier: Sounds like a bunch of European socialist crap to me, I just want to know who elected Maxim as leader. Hibakusha: This has to be done democratically, we must elect leaders. ES is correct, nobody elected Maxim as supreme leader! tude dog: Can't we all just get along? Engineer Soldier: No, we must all agree as to leadership. Genosse: Fine, so we will have elections. Who wants to run? (if there were crickets on the island, their voices would be the strongest) twiw: So that is now settled, so what do you suggest we do Maxim? Maxim: headrock and Engineer soldier will go out and scout the island- headrock: Scout for what? I never agreed--- Maxim: Please, just go with ES and be of some help. .............................................Genosse and Hibakusha, please collect some wood for fire, and perhaps see if there is any vegetation that can be eaten. tude dog, salvage the boat for what may be of use on land, secure anything of value. twiw, come with me, we have to discuss administration. ------------------------------------------------------------ - As the sun sets everybody is sitting around a camp fire. Having their ration of corned beef hash and a ration of one beer each they settle into groups. Geonsse and twiw speaking earnestly with each other in German, Engineer Soldier and Hibakusha giggling in a corner of palm trees while tude dog and headrock (seems that tude dog got some extra ration of Jacks for the two of them) arguing animatedly over problems thousands of miles away. Maxim sits alone, the fate of a leader who must stay aloft, contemplates the future. ------------------------------------------------- Will the small party of castaways be rescued by civilization? If not, can they rescue themselves? Can they create a working relationship? Are they already to fractured? Time will only tell,,,so stay tuned for the next episode of SfD Isle,
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tude dog Bigger than the Beatles (Troll Task Force) poor me,poor me, pour me another one Joined: 13/February/2004 Location: United States Posts: 5701 Online Status:	Posted: 17/May/2004 at 02:00 | IP Logged  |   < down="insertQuote('tude dog');" border=0 alt="To insert quote highlight it and click here" align=absMiddle src="http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/scheme/Invision/forum_images/hl_quote.gif" =image>  Hey, that's funny,,,
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EngineerSoldier Bigger than the Beatles (Troll Task Force) The spirit of the times Joined: 12/November/2003 Location: United States Posts: 12240 Online Status:	Posted: 17/May/2004 at 03:15 | IP Logged  |   < down="insertQuote('EngineerSoldier');" border=0 alt="To insert quote highlight it and click here" align=absMiddle src="http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/scheme/Invision/forum_images/hl_quote.gif" =image> tude dog wrote:  Hey, that's funny,,,   hmm, small party trapped on an island with limited resources? Socialist crap is going to come up.
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sfdlover Guest Joined: 23/July/2003 Posts: 1938	Posted: 17/May/2004 at 03:36 | IP Logged  |   < down="insertQuote('sfdlover');" border=0 alt="To insert quote highlight it and click here" align=absMiddle src="http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/scheme/Invision/forum_images/hl_quote.gif" =image>  This is frickin' hilarious!
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EngineerSoldier Bigger than the Beatles (Troll Task Force) The spirit of the times Joined: 12/November/2003 Location: United States Posts: 12240 Online Status:	Posted: 17/May/2004 at 04:34 | IP Logged  |   < down="insertQuote('EngineerSoldier');" border=0 alt="To insert quote highlight it and click here" align=absMiddle src="http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/scheme/Invision/forum_images/hl_quote.gif" =image>  I can't believe that we forgot to pack the dried and salted European children meat. We'll have to breed twiw and Genosse and just wait patiently
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Genosse Bigger than the Beatles (Troll Task Force) trotzdem wars schön Joined: 24/August/2003 Location: Germany Posts: 3730 Online Status:	Posted: 18/May/2004 at 16:40 | IP Logged  |   < down="insertQuote('Genosse');" border=0 alt="To insert quote highlight it and click here" align=absMiddle src="http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/scheme/Invision/forum_images/hl_quote.gif" =image> Compared to little AmiPorky and AmiPorkette, little Hans and little Lise are mere appetizers. So lets be resourceful and feast on Porky RedWhiteandBlue. Hehe, love the story.
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twiw Bigger than the Beatles master of the chimps Joined: 29/August/2003 Location: Switzerland Posts: 7513 Online Status:	Posted: 18/May/2004 at 21:52 | IP Logged  |   < down="insertQuote('twiw');" border=0 alt="To insert quote highlight it and click here" align=absMiddle src="http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/scheme/Invision/forum_images/hl_quote.gif" =image>  Yeah, I can't wait for part 3.
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Biggi Senior Member Joined: 27/November/2003 Location: Germany Posts: 534 Online Status:	Posted: 19/May/2004 at 22:07 | IP Logged  |   < down="insertQuote('Biggi');" border=0 alt="To insert quote highlight it and click here" align=absMiddle src="http://www.studentsfordemocracy.net/sfd/forum/scheme/Invision/forum_images/hl_quote.gif" =image>  We should have something like a poetry forum here. These "SFD isle" threads will be classics soon!
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The end of an era. 

 A most important item in my life,is going the way of the dodo .

In its place we get these mercury filled things,  so in future years we all can read about the mercury crisis necessitating new controls on our daily lives to combat the new threat.

More immediate is the loss of jobs in the U.S. to our friends in China and Mexico.

Thanks GE, you SOBs.

Quote: Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s. The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs. "Now what're we going to do?" said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful. During the recession, political and business leaders have held out the promise that American advances, particularly in green technology, might stem the decades-long decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs. But as the lighting industry shows, even when the government pushes companies toward environmental innovations and Americans come up with them, the manufacture of the next generation technology can still end up overseas. What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs. The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences. Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China. Consisting of glass tubes twisted into a spiral, they require more hand labor, which is cheaper there. So though they were first developed by American engineers in the 1970s, none of the major brands make CFLs in the United States. "Everybody's jumping on the green bandwagon," said Pat Doyle, 54, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. But "we've been sold out. First sold out by the government. Then sold out by GE. " Doyle was speaking after a shift last month surrounded by several co-workers around a picnic table near the punch clock. Many of the workers have been at the plant for decades, and most appeared to be in their 40s and 50s. Several worried aloud about finding another job. "When you're 50 years old, no one wants you," Savolainen said. It was meant half in jest, but some of the men nod grimly. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html?hpid=topnews&am p;sid=ST2010090707038

Lights out for ordinary bulbs made in the U.S.

Hi Artemy, nice to read you again.

Hope you are keeping well?