Fantasy Cave Team
To to take my mind off of all of this nonsense (basically my entire day) I'd like to introduce something even more nonsensical and to invite contributions, including if you like lists of your own. It's a game we've (Big Boy and I) sort of been playing for quite a while now, and not even when drunk, that you could call Fantasy Cave Team. Like Fantasy Football League, but it has a cave and is about who I'd invite to join me in the unlikely event of the total collapse of civilisation. So get those flint rocks at the ready and think about who to include, if you can be arsed.
On my team:
Big Boy - for the sex, the love, the Adam and Eve-ing, the fact that he's just about the cleverest yet most modest person I know, and the fact that if anyone was going to be my caveman it would be him.
Next, I'd have to bring along my favourite sister (plus her husband and children) not for the fact that she can cook (she can't), has a natural curiosity that would help us succeed (she doesn't), or for any other reason other than that I adore her and wouldn't like to think she'd been snatched from someone else's cave by a lion.
Next (since no one really old can come, and no one so young that they couldn't contribute to our immediate survival) I'll have to start picking from my friends and later from Big Boy's relatives. Next is J, who would bring his natural curiosity and creativity, plus his companionship until I drive him up the wall with my lack of anything useful to contribute personally.
Next we have R, J's boyfriend, and my friend, who would be a good peace-maker, and so delegate to the other caves, cook, and highly effective cleaner.
I think now I might have A, my brother-in-law, who like Big Boy is an egghead, would make just about anything work, and has a very potentially useful PhD in engineering.
Other options are R2, who'd likewise be a very good inter-cave delegate, and who'd probably put his mind to anything like fire or tool making that is needed. P is over in the Netherlands but if he wasn't he'd very good on the team, for much the same reasons. J2 is out (much would I be if I had to choose me) along with most other people.
I might also bring Farmer Sharp from Borough Market to butcher our meats.
I'm getting a bit stuck now and might have to think about Bushtuckerman style celebrities...
This is of course an ongoing project and anyone who thinks they have
been unfairly missed out please feel free to say why you'd make a good
caveman/cavewoman. Of course I'll need more cavewomen because we don't
want the (our) club-wealders getting tetchy. I might also want to recruit a dentist and a medical doctor or at least nurse.
Is it only me who thinks about this?
Comments
I'm interested to note that you rule out J2 because he's in the Netherlands - and yet talk about living in caves and people being snatched by lions. It's an interesting mix of reality and fantasy there!
I like this game. I shall have to get thinking.
Pog - oh excellent. I shall have to try that one.
Kat - Yeah there's another in Australia who can't come but I think that with enough planning we could rescue P in the Netherlands to join us.
BBN - That's true - and every cave needs a cave painter. You're in.
Also, I must also sometimes make you feel better about yourself too. So on that account may be?