31.   If they were ever to be shipwrecked on a desert island, they would soon seek each other out, contentedly awaiting rescue beneath the same coconut palm.

32.   If you had to spend some time on a desert island and could choose just one plant to sustain you, which would you choose?

33.   In his new novel, a voyager in the South Seas is shipwrecked not on a desert island but on a deserted ship.

34.   In the latter segment, footage of a nearly nude Andy Dick was interwoven with shots from the movie of Hanks building a fire on the desert island.

35.   Karen Jespersen, the interior minister, recently boosted her popularity by saying that asylum-seekers who commit crimes should be banished to a desert island.

36.   No wonder people would rather watch yuppies eat rat meat on a desert island than watch a convention.

37.   No, apparently what inquiring minds want to know is what would Harrison Ford take with him to a real-life desert island?

38.   Now, a spokesman for the World Bank compares the task to landing on a desert island and trying to build a nation from scratch.

39.   One such serious conversation dealt with the preference of being stranded on a desert island with an overweight Elizabeth Taylor or the waiflike Brigitte Bardot.

40.   Q If a woman is marooned on a desert island, what should she have in her handbag?