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Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!
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lugnet.pirates
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Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:16:31 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> _The Art of War_ makes that one of its central tenets--not the "manhandle the
> horses" thing, but "don't hit them where they're strongest". Wheel out the • long
> carronades and circle 'em with sloops! Arrr...1588 all over again.
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> I can perhaps understand the horses--after all, there's only one pirate wench.
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> LFB.
Them carronades be throwing a big ball a short ways. Good fer poundin' in
close. "Long carronades" be what they call an oxymoron (I be an eddicated
pyrate).
Cap'n Redbeard
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| (...) Nor does mine--for some reason, I can't build an attractive sailing ship. I always end up having to stuff a funnel on it somewhere. (...) Mine too. And your thingy would most likely sink them. (...) I'm going to try to hijack my mother's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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