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Subject: 
Re: Pirate Gaming
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats
Date: 
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:27:37 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote:
> 
> Mr L F Braun wrote in message <385F388B.AA3ED961@pilot.msu.edu>...
> > 
> > 
> > Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> > 
> > > In lugnet.pirates, Steve Campbell writes:
> > > > Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > And fitting 30+ ships into a Miata would truly be hell on wheels. :-)
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 30+!!!!
> > > > I guess you'll be entering the 'brute force' category at PirateFest'00.
> > > > Are those all 'real' Pirate ships or did you make them up?
> > > > Or are you (sadly) counting all of your rowboats as Pirate 'ships'? If
> > > > so I have well over 1,000. Or so it seems.
> > 
> > I like that coinage, "PirateFest '00."
> > 
> > In all seriousness, though, I'd be up for a trip to VA to engage in • piratical
> > endeavours--the only problem being that I don't exactly have a wealth of • "proper"
> > pirate hulls (4 Armada Flagships and a Flying Time Vessel).  The closest • thing I
> > have to a genuine pirate ship is a recent ironclad, the _Olympus_:
> 
> Hm, it's sounding like Virginia would be a reasonably central location that
> most of us could get to. I really need to start building so I can have a
> firmer idea of just how many ships I have (a very quick estimate shows at
> least 30 hull sets of actual pirate ship hulls, plus 9 or 10 10 wide hull
> sets, plus who knows how many 6 wide, and then there are all the rowboats
> and canoes - I won't try and count the 5848, 4011, 4031, etc that I
> have...).

Hmm, we never did manage PirateFest '00 (though we had a good time at
Brickfest 2000). Should we try for Piratefest '00 (can we manage it
before Lindsay heads off?)?

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Pirate Gaming
 
Mr L F Braun wrote in message <385F388B.AA3ED961@p...su.edu>... (...) piratical (...) "proper" (...) thing I (...) Hm, it's sounding like Virginia would be a reasonably central location that most of us could get to. I really need to start building (...) (27 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)

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