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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

― Tom, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the ones with an eyepatch over BOTH eyes

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: kids animated TV show, where they say nothing but Yo-Ho, whatever the demands of the circumstance. I canot remember its name: something like Poop Yer Deck? Karakters hav komikal pirate- related names.

Real-life pirates were all queer and ran away to sea for free buggery and rum. Grate Lesbian Ikon Pirate Leader = Anne [something]. [1st tht: Barton, but she = leading Oxford Shakespeare scholar, and has not the time...]

― mark s, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ME HEARTIES. Fetch me my parrot.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Great Book Called :
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition : English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
by Barry Richard Burg
It is fairly academic but fascianting. Well researched and well written. It also gets looks when you have it in your bookshelves.

― anthony, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wuv pirates. Any pirates out there?

― Emma, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yo-ho Ahoy. The only words in said cartoon are Yo-Ho and Ahoy. It is remarkably good.

― Pete, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the educational pretense for Yo Ho Ahoy? I should ask Isabel this, she was always very good at defending the Teletubbies. Or have they just dropped the notion that their TV output is in any way educational.

― Tom, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Yoho Ahoy is good, pleasant fun - and there is nothing more educational than fun. Actually the show is particularly good for pre- schoolers as it teaches them lots about tones of voices. When the only words are Yoho and Ahoy you need to get good at working out whick is a question yoho or an declarative ahoy.

― Pete, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anne Bonney .

― Kerry, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This forum becomes sillier by the day. My roommate had a dream the other night about pirates, or something like that, I wasn't really listening, I was thinking about what color to do my pedicure.

― Ally, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I now have the unfortunate vision of Baran doing his grimace / grin and saying in that particular voice "there's nothing more educational that fun, you know". Ew.

― Tim, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

great song by the sailors called swashbucling faggots; also vid of rock hudson's "autobigoraphy" - something about well-tanned men, whips and earrings...yumm!

― Geoff, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Ere, 'Opkins me lad. You know thar's nothing nore educational than fun. Want to see some puppies? Your Ma is busy so she's arsked me to pick you up from School. Fancy some sweeties? Yes, I know my Ford Cortina seat is sticky, it just gets like that in the sun. Aarrrghh.

― Pete, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You've only started this thread because YOU ARE a pirate, Tom, hijacking my nice clean categories and getting them all dirty.

― DG, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ragnar Danneskjold!

― Lyra, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

I still think pirate day is a better idea that boring old thread revival day.

― Tim, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Me too, would I have to be a GALLEY WENCH??? How stand pirates with the booze situations? Surely lots of BOTTLES OF RUM but we are civilised and would like our mixers you know. Mans rum but LADIES COKE is my preffered way of tippling, but as a wench would I even be allowed to partake?

ILE Pirate Ship Rules need to be drawn up.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No Sarah provided you are a roistering blood-washed LESBIAN (*see Anne Bonney above)

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As Mark S sez above there were Ladypirates too, whether the ships were mixed I kno not but this being OLDEN TIMES it was of course possible for any woman to disguise herself as a bloke and all men to be too stupid to notice (see: all Shakespeare comedies).

They had not invented ladycoke though in those days - you would have GROG and like it.

― Tom, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I be a New Romantic pirate with a glittery eyepatch and Adam and the Ants style outfit?

― Nicole, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely that is the outfit of a dandy highwayman, not of a pirate?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think we should perhaps see highwaymen and pirates as a continuum, RickyT.

― Tom, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why I Chose to Join the Pirates by Fritz

1)they knew how to accesorize(parrots, earrings, treasure maps)

2)early rolemodels for the disabled (eyepatches, hooks & peglegs)

3)punk attitude, new romantic styles

4)skull & x-bones = still the #1 flag of all time

5)hit single "Shakin' All Over"

― fritz, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"possible for any woman to disguise herself as a bloke and all men to be too stupid to notice": surely the truth is that they were too sophisticated to care?

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/17/oil-tanker-pirates

― the pinefox, Monday, 17 November 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago)

Snakes on a plane!

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 17 November 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago)

I don't get it

― the pinefox, Monday, 17 November 2008 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

It remains true that pirates have just seized perhaps the biggest vessel ever to be seized by pirates.

― the pinefox, Monday, 17 November 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

Tiger by the tail situation.

― Aimless, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/technology/27iht-nec.html?pagewanted=all

At first it seemed to be nothing more than a routine, if damaging, case of counterfeiting in a country where faking it has become an industry.
Reports filtering back to the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese electronics giant NEC in mid-2004 alerted managers that pirated keyboards and recordable CD and DVD discs bearing the company's brand were on sale in retail outlets in Beijing and Hong Kong.
Like hundreds, if not thousands, of manufacturers now locked in a war of attrition with intellectual property thieves in China, the company hired an investigator to track down the pirates.
After two years and thousands of hours of investigation in conjunction with law enforcement agencies in China, Taiwan and Japan, the company said it had uncovered something far more ambitious than clandestine workshops turning out inferior copies of NEC products. The pirates were faking the entire company.

― j., Friday, 3 July 2015 06:21 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

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― calzino, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 08:47 (six years ago)

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