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Title: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2012, 01:19:29 PM
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/ephemeral-islands/#ftn10

Quotethe sea boiled and bubbled and a column of smoke was visible from Sciacca on the Sicilian coast, where the pervasive stink of brimstone turned the silverware black. When a basalt-like chunk of land rose above the waves and stayed there, no less than four European countries rushed to claim the island, strategically located in the Strait of Sicily between that island and the coast of Tunisia


QuoteAnother eruption briefly resurrected the island, and its powder keg potential, in 1863. In 2002, as seismic rumblings suggested yet another reincarnation of the island, the Italians pre-emptively lowered a marble plaque onto the summit of Empedocles, emblazoned with the slogan: "This piece of land, once Ferdinandea, was and shall always belong to the Sicilian people"
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: meadbelly on June 06, 2012, 01:51:45 PM
Note to self: get italians to send plaques to asteroids before Cameron gets there. Change "ferdinandea" to "meadbelly."
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 01:55:08 PM
Leave it to the Japanese to out-do the Sicilians in geographic ephemera.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2012, 02:14:59 PM
^Nice job working 'ephemera' into a sentence.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 02:21:32 PM
I have been waiting 35 years to do that.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2012, 02:23:38 PM
I'm just glad I was around when you did.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 02:31:05 PM
I could not have done it without you.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2012, 02:31:50 PM
I am the wind beneath your wings.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 02:32:28 PM
^That's crossing the line.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2012, 02:34:22 PM
What can I say? I'm a line crosser.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 02:36:28 PM
^You should be banned for bringing that song up.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2012, 02:44:38 PM
You may have a point about that. At least I didn't bring up the related movie.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 02:47:05 PM
^You just did.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2012, 02:48:14 PM
^Damn. Let the banning commence!
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 02:55:49 PM
You know, I think only one person has been banned since this shop has been opened.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2012, 03:06:45 PM
I believe it's two, but I'm not official scorekeeper.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Staggerwing on June 06, 2012, 03:12:59 PM
Two it is, first ***** and *****, also known as *****. Not sure who got the business end of the BanBoot first though.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: meadbelly on June 06, 2012, 05:41:14 PM
Note to self:  Ephemera already used -- excellently -- in sentence. Curses, beat again!
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: LongBlade on June 06, 2012, 07:59:40 PM
You guys are hilarious. I'm LOLing.

Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 08:34:02 PM
Well now that I shot my wad of ephemera I probably won't use it again for another 37 years. It's all your meadbelly.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: meadbelly on June 06, 2012, 09:46:18 PM
So long loofa. . .
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Martok on June 07, 2012, 11:21:23 AM
Quote from: Gusington on June 06, 2012, 02:21:32 PM
I have been waiting 35 years to do that.
I'm trying to think of some way to snarkily comment on your knowing the word "ephemera" when you were only 2 years old, but I'm coming up blank right now.  Pity. 



Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: Gusington on June 07, 2012, 12:32:26 PM
^I'll wait. I have time.
Title: Re: How do you claim an island that doesn't exist?
Post by: besilarius on June 07, 2012, 06:23:21 PM
Mirth, as a line crosser are you a Bluenose, or a Shellback?
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