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Re: Help me with some vocabulary...
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 5 May 2000 23:02:58 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
> Markus Wolf wrote
> > I'm working on a story about a reformed pirate who is still in
> > search of a buried treasure.
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> Cool!
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> > What would he refer to himself as? A privateer? (I think
> > they're just pirates paid off by a government) A treasure
> > seeker? (Kind of boring) Or is he just considered a ship
> > captain?
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> Well, as a Colonial Governor, and duly appointed representative of the
> Exchequer for the purposes of the collection of tithes and taxes, it seems
> to me the position is clear. Your captain is either:
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> a taxpayer (paying the appropriate proportion of the value of his finds
> in tax, preferably to me personally)
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> or
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> a pirate of the most foul variety, who must be pursued to the ends of
> the earth, brought to justice, and made to pay his taxes (plus penalties,
> preferably to me personally).
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> He might call himself a mischievous merchant, an ardent adventurer, a
> fantastic finder of lost and valuable things, a perspicuous privateer, a
> rascally renegade, a treacherous treasure hunter, a cunning captain, a
> Yankee Trader, John E Doolittle, or a spotted daffodil.
Ye forgot conniving corsair. Our pyrate-treasure hunter be a Freebooter by
trade, he be. I be feelin' less smart-alecky at tha moment.
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> Fact is there are only three kinds of sea captains: British Naval Officers,
> Taxpayers and Pirates.
Ye be right that thar be only three types o' cap'ns, but ye be mistakin' 'bout
tha rest: Thar be good'uns, bad'uns, an' dead'uns.
Besides, us piratical types be Libertalians (not to be confused with
Libertarians).
> Take your pick. ;-)
Cutlass an boardin' axe, matey.
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> Richard
> Still baldly going...
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> Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/
> Tax payments may be made at Government House any time any day. Bags of
> money should be clearly marked with the words "A present for the Governor,
> from <<your name here>>". The your name thing is entirely optional.
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| Markus Wolf wrote (...) Cool! (...) Well, as a Colonial Governor, and duly appointed representative of the Exchequer for the purposes of the collection of tithes and taxes, it seems to me the position is clear. Your captain is either: a taxpayer (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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