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| Farlie A <ba124@city.ac.uk> wrote in message news:FpDAL2.F5E@lugnet.com... (...) theme (...) Pirates are a disreputable sort as well. Why do we have pirates? (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) You could say the same about the bandits in the ww sets or about a lot of other minifigs. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, D M Garcia (<FpDrBo.65B@lugnet.com>) wrote at 00:43:28 (...) No they're not! Pirating (as a privateer) used to be a reputable profession. And think of books like Peter Pan and Treasure Island. Pirating is jolly good fun, if (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Also ask anyone who has been on "Pirates of the Carribean" at any of the Disney Theme Parks. Marvelous! "Dead men tell no tales" (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) But if you called a privateer a pirate, you'd probably get a sword though your tripes. The two things where quite different. Jonathan is right - the real pirates were a very nasty lot, just as bad as the Vikings. Peter Pan, Lego and Disney all (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B0A61.B5C7C29C@...erve.com>) wrote at 17:20:33 (...) It depends whose side you were on. (...) Ahh. Because Pirates have already been romanticised by others into friendly, mostly harmless sailors and scallywags. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| "Tony Priestman" <Tony@you-rang.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:GirkWYAmbym4Ewr...n.co.uk... (...) I agree. I always thought of and read about Vikings in the same light you shined on this thread. Pirates on the other hand, have almost always been (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hey, some of my best friends are (SCA) Vikings! :-) Seriously, the Vikings are being "rehabilitated" by historians at the moment but I suspect that the pendulum is doing what it normally does and swinging too far before ending up somewhere in (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Kevin Wilson (<389B97CE.70494074@...erve.com>) wrote at 03:23:58 (...) That's my point. If you look at all the LEGO themes, they've already *been* romanticised. eg. Western, Pirates, Castle. Give the historians a few more years' (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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