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Re: Does anyone know if pirates are coming back in 2001?
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Date: 
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:30:55 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> 
> 
> Richard Parsons wrote:
> > 
> > In lugnet.pirates, Gerry Venteicher writes:
> > 
> > > When you think about it the Ninja theme was just as much Pirate as Castle.
> > > Muskets and cannons were featured.
> > 
> > I understand where you were coming from, but to my mind, an essential part • of
> > any Pirates theme would be SHIPS!  I don't really care what they fought with • -
> > arrows, stones, fireships, rams, quicklime, carronades, self aiming 20mm
> > gatlings, exocets or emps - as long as they fought on or from .... SHIPS!
> > 
> > And before some bright spark tells me that some of the space themes would
> > qualify as Pirate on this basis, I mean ships that got wet ;-)
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Richard
> > Still baldly going...
> Does this mean that a police boat counts as pirates? I think we need to
> further specify that the boat needs to have a wooden hull to qualify.

He did explain that they would have to fight with something.  Excluding Police
except as a modern Armada.  The only fighting would be if the criminals
resisted.

Sean



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  Re: Does anyone know if pirates are coming back in 2001?
 
(...) There's always one isn't there? Thanks for the support Sean :-) However, I'm more than happy to entertain the idea of town pirates and steel hulls, as long as they float about on SHIPS - 12 and 16 wide hulls (why not wider ;-). I'm not talking (...) (26 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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(...) Does this mean that a police boat counts as pirates? I think we need to further specify that the boat needs to have a wooden hull to qualify. (26 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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