From a link of a link from the newsletter
this page on the BBC produced this nugget about the Pitcairn Islands.

1800: Murders and illness leave only one man, nine women and a number of children alive

So, if you were that man, what would you make of that situation?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 23:25, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

If the wiki entry is to be believed
turn to the bible, apparently. Seems a bit of a waste...
(berk, Sat 5 Dec 2009, 0:03, Reply)

I'd turn into Ileh Tanasul.
Legend has it that when Ileh Tanasul's people went to war in a distant land they left him behind as guardian of the women and children since he had only one-arm and could not go to fight. It was 4 years before the army returned and they were furious to find that Ileh Tanasul had impregnated most of the women in the village and they had borne him children. In a rage the men seized Ileh Tanasul and were on the point of killing him when Ileh Tanasul asked if he could say anything to say in his defence prior to his execution. When allowed to speak he informed his compatriots that he had thought them killed in battle and his intention was to rebuild an army to avenge their deaths. These words saved his life and Ileh Tanasul was subsequently revered as the God of Fertility.

I'd stand there, tall and throbbing, and roar "Brace yerself! I'm comin' in!"
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 5 Dec 2009, 0:12, Reply)

also if
it was his wanking arm that was missing, what else was he to do?
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Sat 5 Dec 2009, 12:35, Reply)

Probably what he did.
The population of the Picairn is officially the most inbred in the world.
The Royal Navy in the 19th and early 20th century were under discreet orders to boost the genepool by taking shoreleave every time one of their ships patrolled near there.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 5 Dec 2009, 19:53, Reply)