Xanadu?

Franklin Delanor Bluth: Xanadu?


Crikey...

Tiny country that maybe has a population of 3 that no one has ever heard of before until a couple weeks ago trifecta now in play.

Vubetcha!

We can only hope it stops production on any further Tolkein snooze-fest movies producing in the region... :-)

I like the "Did you feel it?" link...hee hee hee

What?
Xenu is dropping bombs in volcanoes in the South Pacific?

"Bob" is punishing them for their lack of sin.

Wait, what?

/...WTF, mate

Hey, isn't this the home of Cthulhu? He must have a little gas or something.

Everybody panic, mate

That's two different things, I'll take B thank you...

Pffft, I didn't feel anything.

I remember readin' about the Pacific Ring of Fire 30 years ago & it said the Ring went off every 1100-1200 years & it was about time.

For having a population of 11, that island chain makes the news a lot. There are stories about volcanoes, internet gambling, and Survivor all the damn time.

Frantic Freddie 2007-08-01 02:26:44 PM
I remember readin' about the Pacific Ring of Fire 30 years ago & it said the Ring went off every 1100-1200 years & it was about time.

Pacific Ring of Fire, can't you get a cream for that?

Actually, I have some good friends down there. They moved there to help some villages establish schools and do construction and provide healthcare. So I certainly am hoping everyone is safe.

THAT'S A LOT OF EARTHQUAKE!!!

Or mate, then panic. Either one's fine.

OH NOOO IT'S BUSH'S EARTHQUAKE MACHINE AGAIN

The quake was at a depth of 107.3 miles (172.7 km), USGS said. The epicenter was also 1,240 miles (1,996 km) northeast of Brisbane, Australia.

"Based on all available data a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii," read an advisory from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

So - probably one of those - "Hey, did you feel something" events.

Why do we need to mate?

"Is that an earthquake? No, it's Rrrramon! Oh it's Ramon."

We must pray for Omarion!

J. Maarten Troost, unavailable for comment

In other news, there's a strange low tide. I'm off to collect some free fish!

BRB...

Ïa! ïa!

Smitty put 'Mate' in the headline. That's a FAIL.

Been there. No one out in the atolls uses Aussie slang - they have their own. Vanuatu people say stuff like 'I ka nan mongai kidjrik kolole'.

/Emon emon

Love is a burning thing
and it makes a fiery ring
bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire...

I fell in to a Pacific ring of fire
I went down,down,down
and the flames went higher.
And it burns,burns,burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire.

The taste of love is sweet
when hearts like our's meet
I fell for you like a child
oh, but the fire went wild..

I fell in to a Pacific ring of fire.

Anyone else notice that the national anthem there is called "Yumi, Yumi Yumi"???

Now I'm going to have that 60's bubblegum pop song "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" in my head all day. Yeah, I know it's not the same thing.

/and now you're going to have it too
//you're welcome

Foolish unbelievers, it's John Frum waking up to give cargo to those who avoid white men and keep kastom.

right in the middle of the islands too... awesome.

probably tens of people dead and hundreds of rodents homeless.


Kidding aside that had to be farkING NASTY to be near. Quake obviously occured in the island chain's root, with that level it is likely a magma event as well.

That's not an earthquake. THAT'S an eartquake.

/got nothing

dukcracka: Actually, I have some good friends down there. They moved there to help some villages establish schools and do construction and provide healthcare. So I certainly am hoping everyone is safe.

this.

my cousin is in the peace corps there. :(

Cthulhu awakens, pissed he missed the Survivor taping.

J. Maarten Troost are you floating around out there?

Seriously man, what about the Kava. We gotta save the Kava.

/yummy root chewed up by underage boys
//seriously yummy

slipperyrockdawg + DFWPhotoGuy

beat me to it

/stupid meeting
// i thing about that book everytime im crushed on a 4 car metro train next to some stinker

growing up in Australia we definitely had ads on TV for vacations in Vanuatu... I can still hum them

They used to go like this!

"Vanuatu! Vanuatu!
Vanuatu! Vanuatu!"

/unforgettable

I wasn't expecting to be the guy to mention Vanuatu was a Survivor location.

100+ miles down. Must be magma moving around.

Do you feel it?

I felt it!

All right Janet!

Vanuatu used to be (and may still be) where a lot of international adult phone calls were placed to. back in the day when I worked at AT&T I had to explain many times where little johnny was calling and that the odds were it was an adult orientated phone call.