BBC Radio 4 has the most excellent programme "Desert Island Disks", where celebrities get to have a conversation and choose (amongst other items) the eight most significant music tracks they would select to accompany them in their long time of abandonment on the fictitious desert island.
These are the tracks that punctuate particular memories and turning points, like the birth of a child, or the receipt of a major award. All are intended to make the stay on the island one of pleasant recall, but I detect a missing opportunity here, and that is the motivation to escape from such an isolated existence.
This is solved by the selection of another set of recordings being determined under the title of "Desert Island Dicks" as these are the tracks permanently associated with bad memories, as well as being the most hated of tracks guaranteed to motivate escape from their incessant playing on a perpetual loop with no off switch.
For me the first of these tracks would be the insufferable "Hallelujah" by the equally insufferable, boke generating, Leonard Cohen. Cockney Rebel's "Make me smile" would certainly join the mix and I can think of many more. (please don't make this into a list)
The point is that this idea is the direct opposite of Desert Island Discs. Bad memories are recalled. "This was playing when the car went into the back of the Bentley". "This was playing when the Trump moron was elected." "This was playing as the fish hook sunk into the back of my head"..... I'm off to build a boat from coconut shells and seaweed strips.-- xenzag, Nov 04 2016 We thought (indeed hoped) this would be a reality TV show about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown marooned together on a tropical island, and their incompetent and ineffectual attempts at survival, culminating in one of them killing and eating the other.
This is a bit soft by comparison, but we will proffer a pastry nonetheless.-- 8th of 7, Nov 04 2016 Bun. Although the thought of a desert island with just enough infrastructure to listen to music is quiet appealing about now, in view of the coming of Hillarump.-- the porpoise, Nov 04 2016 //Hillarump// - why not "Trumpary"?-- hippo, Nov 04 2016 If Roy Plomley were alive today, he'd spin in his grave.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2016 I thought it was a scheme to send autonomous, solar-powered drones around the world to draw dicks - big enough to be seen from orbit - on beaches. oh well.-- FlyingToaster, Nov 04 2016 How about "Desert Island Desks", where we gather together all the HR personnel, Health 'n' Safety staff, and other people who spend their lives sitting down, and strand them on a remote island? The program could closely monitor their progress with updates every fifty years or so.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2016 Rockall.-- 8th of 7, Nov 04 2016 How about Tongue of Gangsta? It's in the Orkneys.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2016 ////Hillarump// - why not "Trumpary"?//
Or indeed "Clitrump"-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2016 That's ... unpleasantly suggestive.
Quite what of, we're not entirely sure. But it's quite definitely unpleasantly suggestive.
It would be possible to make a TV or radio programme about the waterfowl on the island. A good working title would perhaps be "Desert Island Ducks".-- 8th of 7, Nov 04 2016 Hey wait, I like Cohen...-- RayfordSteele, Nov 04 2016 Cohen induces instant vomit.-- xenzag, Nov 04 2016 //Clitrump// Is US politics currently in it's pubescent faze?-- wjt, Nov 04 2016 More like its death throes, seemingly.-- 8th of 7, Nov 04 2016 //Hey wait, I like Cohen...//
I respect that. I used to like Cohen. However, as my life has got better, I've found that my appreciation of Cohen has diminished.
Therefore, if your life is in an "I like Cohen" place ... then I hope you're OK. The tree where the doves go to die is perhaps not a place to linger too long.-- pertinax, Nov 04 2016 random, halfbakery