Posted on 09/19/2016 4:18:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
YARRR... hand over the sweet confections ye land lubbers!
So, who first started talking like a pirate? Wallace Berry or Robert Newton?(Treasure Island)Yes!
Obviously it was NOT Errol Flynn or Basil Rathbone! (Captain Blood)
Maybe Captain Francis Barclay ( Sir Cedrick Hardwicke) in CARIBBEAN? No!
John Payne? (Raiders of the Seven Seas)NO!
Tyrone Power ( The Black Swan)? No.
Charles Laughton (Captain Kidd) Again no.
Seems we pretty much already knew what pirates were about: rum, sodomy, and the lash ... and then more sodomy.
Now I hate pirates too.
In the 17th century, you could include the British Navy in there as well.
Obviously it was NOT Errol Flynn or Basil Rathbone! (Captain Blood)
Maybe Captain Francis Barclay ( Sir Cedrick Hardwicke) in CARIBBEAN? No!
John Payne? (Raiders of the Seven Seas)NO! Tyrone Power ( The Black Swan)? No.
Charles Laughton (Captain Kidd) Again no.
There was a pretty good TV series called ‘Crossbones’ which had John Malkovich as Edward Teach.
N.B.: Talk like a pirate day is a creature of the Flying Spaghetti Monster pseudo-cult.
All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster for my free glazed donut!
Oh, but Smithsonian magazine said pirate ships were bastions of democracy where the captain was elected, didn’t have his own cabin, and plunder was distributed equally and that pirates were equal opportunity and would seize any cargo that could be traded in a friendly port. Oh, and that Blackbeard was a victim of his own P.R. and wasn’t nearly as fearsome as made out to be.
I swear by my tatoo, matey!
Precisely. There is a modern PC love affair with piracy (chuckled to hear the research from the book “She Captains” brought up)and a bevy of laughable “new research” that is completely inconsistent with over 500 years of meticulous and precise naval and merchant record-keeping.
Hey, Hillary could have been a Pirate!
What a minute - she is!
And pirate crews were both diverse & multicultural as they practiced radical redistributionism; from each pirate according to his ability, to each pirate according to his need. Could highwayman Dennis Moore have done any better?
For a progressive, what’s not to love?
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Arharr!
Strike the Jolly Roger, the bloke is an ornery limey!
(no donut ferr the likes of ye)
For a progressive, what’s not to love?
At my local Krispy Kreme I get a free glazed donut for walking in the door. Now I gotta be a pirate too? What if I don’t wanna be a pirate? Is a puffy shirt required?
Who needs Somalian pirates? We have our own in Louisiana, and they are legendary.
Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre were heroes of the Battle of New Orleans when they weren’t plundering ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
If you take a boat ride thru Barataria Pass, down in the swamps south of New Orleans, you can visit The Temple, where Jean Lafitte held auctions to sell their plundered loot to the fashionable families of Louisiana.
There’s a Krispy Kreme shop not far from there.
And on Boubon Street in the French Quarter, you can have a drink at the piano bar, in what was once the blacksmith shop of Jean and brother Pierre Lafitte. The old building where they worked and lived is said to be haunted by the two pirates and some unidentified women, probably mistresses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte
http://www.lafittesblacksmithshop.com/Homepage.html
http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/la/lafitte_blacksmith_shop.htm
I do the pirate impersonation, and it's really not all that embarrassing if you walk up to the counter, get as close to the cashier as you can, then do the impression as a combination closetalker/lowtalker.
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