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(...) Yes, but they'd look good while dying. J. o---...---o | Jeffrey Watts | | watts@jayhawks.net o---...---o | Systems Programmer | [On going to war over religion] | | Network Systems Management | "You're basically killing each other to | | Sprint (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) *boggle* Their marines wore *red*? Wouldn't that make them excellent targets? ;) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I've only seen one set of indifferent pirates, on Silly Songs Volume II of the Veggie Tales series. They're a bunch called, "The Pirates that Don't Do Anything" and they sing a song about what that means. IT's worth a looksee, but you need (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) pirate (...) Which is why I typed "indifferent pirate movie" rather than "indifferent pirates" - I sure wouldn't want to give some smart-alec an opening. ;-) Oh alright, I fell off my chair laughing. Satisfied? Bruce (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Somehow I can't imagine too many indifferent pirates. "Plunder, me hardies?" "Nah, maybe later, I dunno." ;) LFB (wiseacre on half an hour of sleep) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) It's kind like politics: to the English he was a national hero, to the Spanish he was a pirate. :-) Since he had direct or indirect sanction from Elizabeth ("Oooo, I'm sorry about that sea-dog Mister Spanish Ambassador, I'll punish him (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Mr L F Braun wrote in message ... (...) As I'm sure someone posted somewhere else (URL) Well, you pack up your weapons, gather your crew (press what you must), get yourself embarked on 'La Gloire', and get yourself down here! My navy would feel (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Ack, yes. I wrote on the Circumnavigation (1577-80) as a lowly undergraduate. ;) I've always wondered if Drake can be considered a true "buccaneer" or pyrate; he was operating under marque from Elizabeth, and was a privateer very much in the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Want to hear a mindblower? I didn't really start to read up on Carribean or pirate history until the mid-nineties. It wasn't until then that I read about Sir Francis Drake and the buccaneer raids on Panama. What's interesting about that? In (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) We be the Jerky Boyz 2 Pyrates. We be cool. (...) Under the Black Flag was good general overview of Pirates and their mythification. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson (there (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Right, and "to smoke-dry" or "to cure" is "boucaner". So one could call the Caribbean pirates from Hispanola the "Jerkys". :-) By the way, anyone interested in a good historical pirate book (other than _A General History of the Pyrates_, which (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) (sanctioned (...) seen (...) just (...) dhow, (...) to be (...) corsairs of (...) from (...) Arrrrrrr, Chance-Vought Corsairs tain't pyrates, ye lubberly comedian. Though now that I think about it, that was primarily a Marine fighter, wasn't (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) The ship type "corsair" is derived from the type of boat--a semi-militarised dhow, if I'm not mistaken--that the pyrate sort of Corsair would use. Later it was extended to other ship types used by such raiders. IIRC it's a motile (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Don't bother to look - you are correct on all accounts. "Corsair" is most often related to the Barbary pirates, but it also meant a privateer (sanctioned piracy - but again, usually associated with north african pirates). I've seen the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Corsairs were the pirates of the Mediterranean - specifically of the Barbary coast (what is now modern-day Libya). Buccaneers were a group of pirates that originated on Hispanola - but the term later became used in a general sense for (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Markus Wolf wrote in message ... (...) A most worthy and most helpful contribution to the might of the Brikish Empire. Now, I can distribute this list to my men, as a kind of 'Pyrate Recognition Manual', so that when they hear these telltale (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) production (...) I (...) soul (...) in (...) or "one (...) Aye, Thanks for the corrections. Sure and certain, I always thought Corsair were a type of ship, but Webster uses the word for both a ship and a pyrate. One quick question regarding me (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Arrrr, ye be violatin' the rules awready, ye lubber. This be 'im, Cap'n. Ye be conjugatin' the bloody verb. (...) Aye! Uh, nay, arrr, this be a trick question. (...) Aye-aye, Cap'n. (...) Tisn't! Always be argumentative-like. We pyrates be (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Alarm) (...) I understand what you mean. I just don't understand why they say Aaarrr all the time. I guess I read too much Charlie Brown. (...) as (...) replaced (...) stereotypical (...) As in Cap'n Crunch? And speaking of the world's (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) "No, not 'aargh,' it's 'aaaaaaarrrrrrr.'" (Not "ooo!" as in Surprise or Alarm) sorry, had to. (...) You may also want to note that "Captain" is usually said "Cap'n." Vowels in unstressed syllables tend to drop out in the debased Midlands that (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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