2006-10-24 06:37:48 · 21 answers · asked by ALAN B 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
They assume that you aren't allowed one.
The question is usually asked to find out what things someone values, not to find out how practical they are!
2006-10-24 06:41:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think that is b/c a lot of people only think of there immediate survival and not the long term picture. I personally when asked what would I bring if I was stranded on a desert idalnd or the wilderness say a shovel. I have no survival skills, I woulnt eat anything that I have to kill and I dont' trust the "safe" plants. I would want a shovel so I can dig my grave and by the time I had that done just fall in lol.
2006-10-24 13:41:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anjanette A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's the use of being on a desert island, away from the stress of the normal world if you've used up one of your 'wishes' on a way to get right back there again? People don't forget the boat, they purposefully don't remember it because they don't want to go back to normal life!
2006-10-28 02:42:48 · answer #3 · answered by Kari 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don`t take a boat to a desert. It would work on a deserted island.
2006-10-24 13:40:40 · answer #4 · answered by Hamish 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The state of the world now , the desert island seems the better option !
2006-10-24 13:46:49 · answer #5 · answered by Bill L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mmmm...quite a philosophical and good comment. I would take a luxury yacht rather than a wooden row boat though.
Maybe people don't say boat because they like the idea of being on a permanent beach holiday!!
2006-10-24 14:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by Inky Pinky Ponky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who would want a boat with the state of the world today and all this politically correct rubbish I'd be happy to stay there and do and say what I liked.
2006-10-24 13:47:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are only allowed one luxury, and IMHO it would be crazy to want a boat! After all, what is there to go anywhere else for?
I think the best answer I ever heard to that question was, "My 40 gig iPod with all my music on it".
2006-10-24 13:49:17 · answer #8 · answered by The Lone Gunman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a Far Side cartoon from years back, showing the skelton of a shipwrecked sailor on a beach.
Washing up on the beach are three crates; one marked food, one marked boat and one marked outboard motor-with gas!
2006-10-27 15:19:13 · answer #9 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have discovered that when these surveys take place that no-one ever asks a sailor, they all must be up the old sea dog or something.
Write to your MP, start a revolution, think of the sailors (and their dogs)
2006-10-24 13:42:23 · answer #10 · answered by itinerantblue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting thought - but you are right - I have never heard anyone say a boat - maybe they don't wish to be found....lol
2006-10-24 13:41:52 · answer #11 · answered by soulful thinker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋