So eventually artists will lose the “guy(s) on a tiny desert island with one palm tree in the background” option, but I imagine the Law of Conservation of Comic Strip Tropes will mean that in its place we’ll probably get twice as many “guy(s) crawling through a parched desert with one cow skull in the background” settings,
It’ll just morph from tiny island with one palm tree on it and nothing else to tiny island with one traffic-light tree on it and nothing else. Instead of a coconut falling off it, a street sign will fall off it.
. . . at least ’til that desert is flooded . . .
Does anybody really understand the concept of “desert island” in the first place?
According to Wikipedia (usual caveats there):
Uninhabited islands are sometimes also called “deserted islands” or “desert islands”. In the latter, the adjective desert connotes not desert climate conditions, but rather “desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied”. The word desert has been “formerly applied more widely to any wild, uninhabited region, including forest-land”, and it is this archaic meaning that appears in the phrase “desert island”.
So comic gold here (why has no one mined it yet?): the guy crawling through the desert (complete with cow skull) finds himself actually on the desert island (complete with single palm tree)..!
“Desert” islands are islands with no source of fresh water on them. But in parts of the world, it rains a LOT, so plants will grow on them, but they still aren’t a good place for people to hang out.
In French, desert (adjective) means empty of people (you can have a desert street), and desertic means (very) dry; so we can have desertic islands full of (thirsty) people and desert islands with lots of water.
Here’s a discussion of the subject from Merriam-Webster.
It also states that “desert” in this case is an archaic form of “deserted”. Nothing to do with water or lack of it. Of course, that would be a good reason for lack of human occupation.
A “deserted” island is one which had people on it at one time, but now does not.
Well, whenever I go to an all-you-can-eat buffet room, I tend to fill up at the meat/main course island counters and at the side dishes island counters, so sometimes I never get around to visiting the dessert island at all.
‘Emily Littella voice: Oh . . . desert, not dessert. That’s different. That’s very different. Never mind.
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So eventually artists will lose the “guy(s) on a tiny desert island with one palm tree in the background” option, but I imagine the Law of Conservation of Comic Strip Tropes will mean that in its place we’ll probably get twice as many “guy(s) crawling through a parched desert with one cow skull in the background” settings,
It’ll just morph from tiny island with one palm tree on it and nothing else to tiny island with one traffic-light tree on it and nothing else. Instead of a coconut falling off it, a street sign will fall off it.
. . . at least ’til that desert is flooded . . .
Does anybody really understand the concept of “desert island” in the first place?
According to Wikipedia (usual caveats there):
Uninhabited islands are sometimes also called “deserted islands” or “desert islands”. In the latter, the adjective desert connotes not desert climate conditions, but rather “desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied”. The word desert has been “formerly applied more widely to any wild, uninhabited region, including forest-land”, and it is this archaic meaning that appears in the phrase “desert island”.
So comic gold here (why has no one mined it yet?): the guy crawling through the desert (complete with cow skull) finds himself actually on the desert island (complete with single palm tree)..!
“Desert” islands are islands with no source of fresh water on them. But in parts of the world, it rains a LOT, so plants will grow on them, but they still aren’t a good place for people to hang out.
In French, desert (adjective) means empty of people (you can have a desert street), and desertic means (very) dry; so we can have desertic islands full of (thirsty) people and desert islands with lots of water.
Here’s a discussion of the subject from Merriam-Webster.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-the-desert-in-desert-island
It also states that “desert” in this case is an archaic form of “deserted”. Nothing to do with water or lack of it. Of course, that would be a good reason for lack of human occupation.
A “deserted” island is one which had people on it at one time, but now does not.
Well, whenever I go to an all-you-can-eat buffet room, I tend to fill up at the meat/main course island counters and at the side dishes island counters, so sometimes I never get around to visiting the dessert island at all.
‘Emily Littella voice: Oh . . . desert, not dessert. That’s different. That’s very different. Never mind.
Here’s one I’ve not seen before . . .
https://assets.amuniversal.com/88a40d2026960137890f005056a9545d
Shurg – Not even the soft ice cream machine?