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Subject: 
Re: A new pirate ship.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 22:19:19 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Timothy D. Freshly writes:
> 
> Richard Parsons <rparsons@hinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:FnwvCu.Hx7@lugnet.com...
> > Gentlemen,
> > 
> > With all this Captain John E. Doolittle stuff (and that's not over - go
> > http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/doo.htm and see where its up to and make
> > your mark), I find myself hankering for a decent pirate ship.
> 
> Richard:
> 
> This is a marvelous little piece of storytelling.  You've done a great job
> of weaving the story lines developed here in lugnet.pirates and meshing them
> into a very clever story.
> 
> If you will allow one criticism (in the editorial sense only).  In the
> paragraphs preceding the one which begins "And these weren't all his
> problems...", you were talking about the widower Waite, Doolittle's former
> law partner.  However, in this paragraph, you appear to switch back to
> Doolittle without using a proper noun to indicate a switch - "his" still is
> linked to Waite even though I think you mean Doolittle.  I had to read it
> twice because the first time through, I thought that you were still speaking
> about Waite.
> 
> If I am reading this incorrectly, please feel free to throw a third grade
> grammer book at me.  Again, an excellent story.  Keep up the good work.
> 
> Tim

I feel off my chair laughing about sailing with Impunity!  It was a great
amalgam of the ideas bandied about here.

Bruce



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  Re: A new pirate ship.
 
Richard Parsons <rparsons@hinet.net.au> wrote in message news:FnwvCu.Hx7@lugnet.com... (...) Richard: This is a marvelous little piece of storytelling. You've done a great job of weaving the story lines developed here in lugnet.pirates and meshing (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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