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Shaken, Not Stirred

More than one event rocked Vanuatu this week. First, a minor earthquake that scattered the wildlife and awakened those Americans that have been quarantined on the beach. As a result, it's rumored that the Americans are re-thinking their application for permits to mow down the forests, build some condos, strip malls and highways. Business aside, this reporter wanted to get the skinny on our visitors' reactions to the tremors.

Twila: Hell, I thought it was a jack hammer! It was an earthquake?

John: I'm a California guy, no biggie.

Leann: Well, I was sitting on a log at the time, and the camerman started to fall over, and the log shook and I got real excited and had to get up 'cause I didn't want me and that log filmed together.

Chris: I just closed my eyes and imagined Ami and Julie in red Baywatch tank suits while the ground was rockin' and rollin'.

Sarge: That earthquake is my new work partner. None of us Fat Dudes can get up those trees for coconuts.

Ami: Mmmmm. That's the best thing I've felt since I got here. Who needs men! That's just ONE of our secrets.

The other shake-up this week was MB moving past the "boys on this side, girls on the other", a/k/a high school, phase of his television show. Tribes all over Vanuatu are wandering through the marketplace muttering the phrase "Drop Your Buffs" -- just to see what happens.