Why is Diego Garcia Considered an Island ?

“Come on people, we all know they is a land bridge only a few inches under the ocean connecting it to land elsewhere. Why can't people just admit it's more of a penninsula?”

“and all this time I thought it was a cigar”

“I think its actually an atoll(sp?).”

“Maybe because its surrounded by water?”

“But with global warming and the already rising ocean levels, those few inches will become much deeper in the decades to come. It'll grow into it's island status more and more, I could only imagine. Which raises the question (pardon the bad pun), if it eventually becomes totally submerged, will people still call it an island?”

“The committee on geographical nomenclature pondered long and hard on this very subject. There were those who said it is obviously an island and some who said it might be part of a continent.

Debate raged for months and committee members from the various factions were quite exasperated.

Finally, somebody suggested they get somebody to swim around the island, if indeed it was an island, underwater and report back on their findings.

So they sent out a swimmer and he never returned.

"See, we told you," said the continent theorists. "He's probably not even up to the Med yet!"

But the island theorists suggested that maybe the swimmer had gotten cramps and drowned, so they sent out another, and another after that.

This went on for some time while debate raged back and forth, neither side giving in. Finally the body of the latest swimmer washed up onshore at the precise point where he had gone in, so the island theorists shouted, "See, it's an island. He's been around the whole thing and washed up exactly where he went in."

What nobody realized, however, was that Diego Garcia is the conning tower of a huge Raellian submarine come from the planet Wooshgarter in the Phlubdarian galaxy. They are waiting for their leader, identified only as Buddha Bear, to lead them to victory over the French!”

“LMAO Geobeet!”

“Why is Australia considered a continent?”

“and I thought it was just a floating airfield/arsenal”

“I was in England when we used their airbases to bomb Libya.


They (the liberal students)

were pissed.


England America's aircraft carrier.”

“Yeah, the B-52s rehearse there...”

“if Diego Garcia is not an island.....then why don't people walk to it”

“I always thought Diego Garcia was on our janitorial staff..... I'm sure I've seen him on the payroll list...”

“no you morons....he's the catcher for the texas rangers....geesh!”

“I thought he was the guy whose head everybody wanted...”

“When I was in the Navy, before many of you were born, a memo came around looking for volunteers to go to Diego Garcia to help build the installation there. The CPO and I were not getting along so I volunteered to go, but he was PO'd at me and did not submit the paperwork. Lucky me.”

“I can answer Must Hike's question by simply pointing out that with all the animals that can kick human butts in Australia, it's a continent. Wanna make something off it? Go talk to a cassowarie (read about them in the latest edition of "Outside").”

“i think jerry garcia was an island”

“Jerry Garica was a very great man!


But Trey is WAY BETTER!!!!!

8)”