Once upon a time, a man decided to vacation on a cruise shipin the Caribbean. 

It was wonderful--the experience of his life!  

He was  waited upon hand and foot.  But, alas, it didnot last.  

A hurricane came up  suddenly and the ship wentdown. 

The man found himself, he knew not how, swept up on  the shore of an island.

 There was nothing else anywhere to beseen.  

No  person, no supplies, nothing.The man looked around.  

There were some bananas and coconuts,but that  was it.  

He was desperate and forlorn, but decided tomake the best of it.   

So for the next four months he atebananas, drank coconut juice 

and mostly looked to the seamightily for a ship to come to his rescue.

One day, as he was lying on the beach stroking his beard and looking  

for a ship, he spotted movement out of the corner ofhis eye.  

Could it be  true, was it a ship?  

No, from aroundthe corner of the island came a  rowboat.  

In it was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen . . . or at least,  

within the past four months.  

She was tall and tanned, and her blond hair flowed  in the sea breeze, 

giving her an almost ethe real quality.  

She spotted him  also (since he was waving and 

yelling and screaming to get her attention),  

and she rowed herboat towards him.

In disbelief, he asked, "Where did you come from?  

How didy ou get  here?"

She said, "I rowed from the other side of the island.  

I landed on this island when my cruise ship sank.

""Amazing", he said, 

"I didn't know anyone else had survived.

How many  of you are there?  Where did you get the rowboat?

You must have been really  lucky to have a rowboat wash-up withyou.

""It is only me", she said, "and the rowboat didn't wash up,

nothing  else did.""Well then", said the man, 

"how did you get the rowboat?"

"I made the rowboat out of raw material that I found on the island,"  replied the woman.  

"The oars were whittled from  Gumtree branches, and I wove  the bottom from Palm branches, 

and the sides and stern came from a  Eucalyptus tree.

""But, but...," stuttered the man, 

"what about tools and hardware, 

how  did you do that?""Oh, no problem," replied the woman, 

"on the south side ofthe island  there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rockexposed.  

I found that if I  fired it to a certain temperaturein my kiln, 

it melted into forgeable  ductile iron.  I used that for tools, 

then used the tools to make the  hardware.

""But, enough of that," she said, "where do you live?"  

Atlast the man  was forced to confess that he had been sleeping on the beach.

"Well, let's  row over to my place," she  said.

So they got into the rowboat and left  for her side of  island. 

The woman easily rowed them around to a wharf that  led to the approach to her place.  

She tied up the rowboat with a beautifully woven hemp rope. 

They walked up a stone walk andaround a palm tree, 

and  there stood an exquisite bungalowpainted in blue and white.  

"It's not  much," she said, "but Icall it home.  

Sit down, please.  

Would you like a drink?"

"No thanks," said  the man, "one more coconut juice and I will puke.

""It won't be coconut juice, the woman replied. 

"I have astill; how  about a Pina Colada?"  

Trying to hide his continue damazement, 

the man  accepted, and they sat down on her couch totalk. 

After a while, when they had  exchanged their stories,

the woman asked, "Tell me, have you always had a beard?"

"No", the man replied, "I was clean shaven all of my life,even on the  cruise ship".

"Well if you would like to shave, there's a razor upstairs inthe  cabinet in the bathroom.

" The man, no longer questioninganything, went upstairs  to the bathroom.  

In the cabinet was arazor made from a bone handle, 

with two shells honed to ahollow-ground edge fastened to its end inside of a  swivelmechanism.  

The man shaved, showered and went back downstairs."You look great," said the woman, 

"I think I'll go up andslip into  something more comfortable."  

The man settled in towait, continuing to sip his  Pina Colada.  

After a short time,the woman returned wearing strategically positioned fig leaves

and smelling faintly of gardenia."Tell me something," she said, 

"We have both been out herefor a very  long time with no companionship.  

You know what I mean.  Have you been  lonely?  

Is there anything that youreally miss?  

Something that all men and woman  need?

Something that it would be really nice to have right now?"

"Yes there is," the man replied, moving closer to the woman

while  fixing her with a long, intense gaze.

"Tell me... Do you  happen to have an internet connection?"

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