Posted on 02/01/2014 6:47:54 AM PST by BenLurkin
Fjeldstad said the man, dressed only in a pair of ragged underpants, claims he left Mexico for El Salvador in September 2012 with a companion who died at sea several months ago. Details of his survival are sketchy, Fjeldstad added, as the man only speaks Spanish, but he said his name was Jose Ivan.
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Watched a couple of episodes on Antenna TV just last evening. Still hilarious after all these years. Jeannie later on, too.
LOL! From what I read somewhere else, they got 1 phone line and (OMG!) no interweb. How in the hell do they get on their facebook page?
Master!
Send him to San Diego. Spanish is all I hear at the Walmart I go to.
Ivan is a Christian male given name that is primarily associated with Slavic languages. It is the most common Slavic variant of the name "John".
Well, I was just kidding...and probably it was somewhat inappropriate.
Seriously, after checking into this a little more, apparently it is legit.
He apparently caught sea turtles and fish with his hands and ate them to survive and lived off of rain water and the blood from the turtles for the moisture.
16 months. Amazing he did not die from exposure to the sun.
Pretty incredible.
One would have thought the production crew would have given Gillian et al a ride back to the mainland.
17 months on a 26 ft. boat with another person would be kinda stressful. I mean really, how many times can you listen to the same jokes?
yes--that is so... German settlement goes back to the time when Texas was under Spanish rule and Mexican rule... many settled in Mexico City and Veracruz... Frida Kahlo and Vicente Fox both are part German... a lot of Irish also settled in Mexico... tracing my maiden name, i learned that it is a common name among Irish-Mexicans...
which race are you talking about? i am sorry... i am lost... i do not recall anyone mentioning race... personally, i still go by the three races... caucasian, nigroid and mongoloid... i guess there is another one called australoid--but to me, australoids should be grouped with the negroid race...
ha!!!
perhaps we will learn more...
The government airline’s only plane that can land at Ebon is currently down for maintenance and is not expected to return to service until Tuesday at the earliest, with officials considering sending a boat to pick up the castaway.
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No thanks. I’ll wait for the plane.
I guess my confusion comes from the rallies I see concerning those in the US without going through the “proper” channels. (Trespassers) It seems every time there is such a rally and any talk of deporting people or “preventing” them from entering the US I see signs saying to do so is racist. From what I’ve read the organization using the title/going by “La Raza” translated means “the race”. So, yeah. I’m confused too. I also thought there were only 3 or 4 classifications but it would appear that some folks now classify race based on where you or your ancestors were born. That’s why I must be “Dutchish”. ;>}
Hope he doesn’t try to use obiecare when he goes to the dermatologist to get checked out for a vicious sunburn. After that long he’s probably pretty well “tanned” by now.
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