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RE: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:48:12 GMT
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Since we're on the topic of all things pirate-y, here's something that
uproot your mizzenmast faster than a gale:
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000690.html
Richie, I do hope that they at least taught your daughter
Attila-the-Hun's Maxim of Piracy: Pillage first, THEN burn.
Arrr!
David Drew.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com] On • Behalf Of
> Richie Dulin
> Sent: Friday, 18 July 2003 11:16 AM
> To: lugnet.pirates@lugnet.com; lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
>
> In lugnet.pirates, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.pirates, Kerry Raymond wrote:
> > > Ahoy, maties! Shiver me timbers! 19 Sept is Talk Like a Pirate Day!
> > >
> > > http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
> > >
> > > What can I say but "Arrr!"?!
> >
> > Or: "We decided then and there that what the world really needed was • a new
> > national holiday...."
> >
> > Hmmmm something doesn't seem quite right there....
>
> My daughter went on a school excursion last term to the • <http://www.anmm.gov.au/
> Australian National Maritime Museum>, and came home proudly bearing an • official
> 'Certificate of Piracy'.
>
> One can only wonder why five year old girls need to know how to • conduct acts of
> piracy. From what I gather, they concentrated on booty, language and • diet(1)
> rather than on rum drinking, rape, pillage and plunder but even so...
>
> Cheers
>
> Richie Dulin
>
> ~ <http://www.lugnet.com/loc/au/~1285/PortBrique
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/LUGNET/legeaux.jpg>>
> ~ [Port Brique] ¬
> {Somewhere in the South Pacifique}
> ~ <http://www.lugnet.com/loc/au/~1285/rd/miserable
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/LUGNET/miserable.jpg>>
> ~ [Misérable] ¬
> {Building a safer South Pacifique}
>
>
> ~^ (1)
> ~ Pirates apparently often existed on a diet of rat. Generally, the • nose would
> be cut off (the rat, not the pirate), and then the rest chopped up • and
> perhaps fried. Captains seemed to not have to eat rat - but it is • not clear
> what they did get to eat.¬
> It's amazing what great father-daughter bonding you can have when • you have a
> new {Black Seas Barracuda} to play with together. If only Hazel'd • let me be
> the captain for once - I'm getting tired of the rat diet (2).
>
> ~ (2)
> ~ We had to raid a few rats from the miscellaneous animal container. I • am
> thankful for Harry Potter® sets!¬
> My wife has expressly forbidden me to form meatloaf into rat-like • shapes and
> bake them for dinner. :-(
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| (...) My daughter went on a school excursion last term to the (URL) National Maritime Museum>, and came home proudly bearing an official 'Certificate of Piracy'. One can only wonder why five year old girls need to know how to conduct acts of piracy. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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