The image of a Single Coconut Tree Desert Island (SCTDI) easily evokes, as Glowing Fish wrote, a situation of extreme isolation or desperation. This condition makes it perfect for a number of absurd jokes, rather than a setting for despair. Credit for these two goes to Spanish-Argentinean cartoonist Quino
LONE MAN
(LONE MAN Turns his head.)
(Stands up and looks to the horizon.)
(Cups his ear as if trying to listen)
What?
(Cups his ear again)
No!
(LONE MAN mumbles to himself)
Brushes. What do I need brushes for?
ONE
Man, it's been ten years
TWO
Ten years?
ONE
Ten years. Don't tell me you've forgotten?
TWO
About what?
ONE
What do you mean 'what', you muppet? The Queen Victoria! The iceberg! The crash!
TWO
Queen Victoria?... The iceberg...?
(A few seconds of silence between the men)
TWO
A MUPPET!?
ONE
I'm sorry, Captain sir.
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