...I bet if they publish pictures of them there'll be the obligatory girls with nose rings tie-dye dungarees and optional "ethnic" style dreadlocks, scrawny looking blokes with robinson crusoe beards who can just about lift a banner between the pair of them , and the de-rigeur village idiots blowing whistles and banging tambourines with a ...

...skipper too, will do their very best To make the others comfortable in a tropic island nest No phone, no light, no motor car, not a single luxury Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be So join us here each week my friends, you're sure to get a smile From seven stranded castaways, here on Gilligan's Isle ...

...skipper too, will do their very best To make the others comfortable in a tropic island nest No phone, no light, no motor car, not a single luxury Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be So join us here each week my friends, you're sure to get a smile From seven stranded castaways, here on Gilligan's Isle ...

... his skipper too, will do their very best To make the others comfortable in a tropic island nest No phone, no light, no motor car, not a single luxury Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be So join us here each week my friends, you're sure to get a smile From seven stranded castaways, here on Gilligan's Isle ...

... his skipper too, will do their very best To make the others comfortable in a tropic island nest No phone, no light, no motor car, not a single luxury Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be So join us here each week my friends, you're sure to get a smile From seven stranded castaways, here on Gilligan's Isle ...

...mate and his skipper too, will do their very best To make the others comfortable in a tropic island nest No phone, no light, no motor car, not a single luxury Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be So join us here each week my friends, you're sure to get a smile From seven stranded castaways, here on Gilligan's Isle "The ...

Hi Gerry, Yes, I made a Robinson Crusoe joke. In my country, Arjen, Arjan, Arian, Adriaan, Arijjan (!) and Arien (with a " on the e) are rather common names. Add to this ingredient the fact that we dutch scientists have a huge heritage in Fortran- code, and you can understand the origin of your observation. Once, when I started to work as a postdoc at a local university, they gave me an e-mail ...

... look like. Well, there can't be one. Is there honestly an Arjan and another Arjen in c.l.f. or simply alternate spellings? BTW, isn't that a Robinson Crusoe joke? -- Gerry Ford "Anybody who says, that a high-speed collision with water is the same as with concrete, likely has more experience with the former than the latter."...

... hat to attract new fans. Look at how many castaway movies and TV shows there have been: Literally for centuries: Gulliver's Travels. Mysterious Island. Robinson Crusoe. The Swiss Family Robinson. Lost Horizons. Gilligan's Island. Lost in Space. Survivor. Lost. The basic concept of "contemporary" (at the time of production...

... old hat to attract new fans. Look at how many castaway movies and TV shows there have been: Literally for centuries: Gulliver's Travels. Mysterious Island. Robinson Crusoe. The Swiss Family Robinson. Lost Horizons. Gilligan's Island. Lost in Space. Survivor. Lost. The basic concept of "contemporary" (at the time of production)...