First birth in 17 years on troubled Pacific outpost

The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 09/17/03 | Hugh Macleod

[Pokey78]

Pitcairn Island, the tiny Pacific outpost colonised by the mutineers of HMS Bounty in the 18th century, has announced its first birth in 17 years.

Emily Rose Christian, weighing 8lb 4oz (3.8kg), takes to 48 the population of the British administered island, which lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Peru.

Emily, born on Sunday, is a ninth generation descendant of Fletcher Christian, the English seaman who led the infamous mutiny against Captain Bligh in 1789 and then settled on the fertile two square mile lump of rock, establishing a puritanical community in which dancing and drinking were forbidden.

Now the islanders fear the life of Pitcairn might be coming to an end. Last month seven men pleaded not guilty before a British convened court to multiple charges of sexual assault on women and children.

[tiamat]

That episode gave me nightmares.

(shudder)

Tia

[cyborg]

Yeah and eeewwww... it was just gross. I should have known when my sister said, "Renee I can't watch this episode alone." Not even the thickest tinfoil hat could block out those vibes.

Chris Carter has a weird sense of humor. That was supposed to be the mother's day one. The Chanuka one was when the Hasid girl's husband comes back to life... strange.

[Our man in washington]

If Nordhoff and Hall's research is to be believed, Pitcairn Island didn't start off as a puritanical colony. The colony included some Tahitians who came along. The Tahitian men and English had a fight over land rights on the island, which resulted in the death of all the Tahitian men and five of the original nine Englishmen. Nearly all the Tahitian women survived.

The remaining Englishmen soon all got addicted to alcohol, thanks to one of their party who could brew grog from roots. Eventually, three of the four Englishmen died, and the surviving Englishman (John Adams) established the puritanical rules. At the point, everyone else was either a Tahitian women or a child with an English father and Tahitian mother.

John Adams had seen how alcohol had nearly destroyed the colony. Now, I have nothing against raising a glass myself, but after reading Nordhoff and Hall's book, I could see why Adams would have laid down such rules.

[PJ-Comix]

Eventually, three of the four Englishmen died, and the surviving Englishman (John Adams) established the puritanical rules.

What a dope! He's stuck on an island full of booze and hot Tahitian women and suddenly he comes up with those puritanical rules? Talk about BAD TIMING!!!

[Ditto]

Nadine Christian, and Emily Rose Christian, born on Sept. 14, 2003, the first child born on Pitcairn for 17 years!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What a dope! He's stuck on an island full of booze and hot Tahitian women and suddenly he comes up with those puritanical rules? Talk about BAD TIMING!!!

It was for the Children...

[shotgun]

The Peacock Family. It was rated as the "Number 1" on all the 24 hour X-Files Marathons.

[shotgun]

The mother kinda resembles Marlon Brando too....

[Saundra Duffy]

Anyone have photos of this place? I heard that Youth With A Mission was going to build a road or something.

[CatoRenasci]

I loved the books of the Bounty trilogy when I was in high school: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island. Powerful stuff.

[PJ-Comix]

How big is Pitcairn's Island?

[cyborg]

Didn't Marlon Brando marry the same lady in the movie?

[shotgun]

Not from this picture it doesn't!!

[Chemnitz]

He married a beautiful woman from the area. I think his daughter and son were both from this woman. The son supposedly shot the daughter's boyfriend. The daughter went back to the islands and killed herself.

At some point the Academy told Marlon to gain 300 pounds. And he did.

[shotgun]

Oops! I thought you were referring to the gal in #25...DUH, now I get it...

[jigsaw]

Al Franken's yearbook photo ??

ROTFLMAO!!!!!! It sure looks like him!

[WarmLiquidGhoo]

Emily Rose Christian

[shotgun]

Here is a recent photo of Marlon in another famous role.

[Our man in washington]

Eventually, three of the four Englishmen died, and the surviving Englishman (John Adams) established the puritanical rules.

What a dope! He's stuck on an island full of booze and hot Tahitian women and suddenly he comes up with those puritanical rules? Talk about BAD TIMING!!!

Actually, the one Englishmen who knew how to make alcohol was killed before these rules were made. It's a lot easier to be pure when you know the rules can't affect you.

[af_vet_rr]

Cousin, brother, uncle, his own grandpa..... takes your pick

I’m My Own Grandpa
(written by Moe Jaffe & Dwight B. Latham)
Most hear it as sung by Willie Nelson

Now many, many years ago when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter, had hair of red,
My father fell in love with her and soon the two were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother ‘cuz she was my father’s wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little boy then became the brother-in-law to dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, that also made him brother of the
Widow’s grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

Chorus:
I’m my own grandpa, I’m my own grandpa,
It sounds funny, I know, but I really is so,
For I’m my own grandpa.

My father’s wife then had a son that kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter’s son.
My wife is now my mother’s mother and it makes me blue,
Because she is my wife, she’s my grandmother, too.

Chorus…

Now if my wife’s my grandmother, then I’m her grandchild,
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild.
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw,
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa.