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Jack is shipwrecked.


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Jack is shipwrecked

Jack finally decides to take a vacation. He books himself on a Caribbean

cruise and proceeds to have the time of his life - until the ship sank.

He found himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other

people, no supplies... Nothing. Only bananas and coconuts.

After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the most

gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to him. In disbelief, he asks

her, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?"

"I rowed over from the other side of the island," she says. "I landed

here when my cruise ship sank."

"Amazing," he says. "You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up

with you."

"Oh, this?" replies the woman. "I made the rowboat out of raw material

found on the island. I whittled the oars from gum tree branches; I wove

the bottom from palm branches; and the sides and stern came from a

Eucalyptus tree."

"But ... but ... that's impossible," stutters Jack. "You had no tools or

hardware. How did you manage?"

"Oh, no problem," replies the woman. "On the South side of the island,

there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed. I found if I

fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into forgeable

ductile iron. I used that for tools and used the tools to make the

hardware."

Jack is stunned.

"Let's row over to my place," she says.

After a few minutes of rowing, she docks the boat at a small wharf. As

Jack looks onto shore, he nearly falls out of the boat. Before him is a

stone walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white.

While the woman ties up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, he

can only stare ahead, dumbstruck.

As they walk into the house, she says casually, "It's not much, but I

call it home. Sit down, please. Would you like to have a drink?"

"No, no thank you," he says, still dazed. "Can't take any more coconut

juice."

"It's not coconut juice," the woman replies. "I built a still. How

about a Pina Colada?"

Trying to hide his continued amazement, he accepts, and they sit down on

her hand-woven couch to talk. After they have exchanged their stories,

the woman announces, "I'm going to slip into something more comfortable.

Would you like to take a shower and shave? There is a razor upstairs in

the cabinet in the bathroom."

No longer questioning anything, John goes into the bathroom. There, in

the cabinet, is a razor made from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a

hollow-ground edge are fastened on to its end inside of a swivel

mechanism. "WOW! This woman is amazing," he muses, "what next?"

When he returns, she greets him wearing 'nothing but vines'

strategically positioned, and smelling faintly of gardenias. She beckons

for him to sit down next to her.

"Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "We've

been out here for a really long time. I know you've been lonely.

There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right now,

something you've been longing for all these months. You know..."

She stares into his eyes. He can't believe what he's hearing!

"You mean ...", he swallows excitedly, "We can watch the Bulls game from here?"

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Good one

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good one Doug!

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