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Re: Lego-Ideas.
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:20:33 GMT
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Tony P wrote:
> > Pirates are a disreputable sort as well. Why do we have pirates?
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> No they're not! Pirating (as a privateer) used to be a reputable
> profession.
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 take the same romanticised view
of them. Given that, why not romanticised Vikings?
Kevin
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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. (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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