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MonkeyJohn

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About MonkeyJohn

  • Birthday 09/21/1947

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    http://www.johnbushore.com

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    Chesapeake, Va
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    I'm an author - http://www.johnbushore.com - who sometimes reads (in pirate costume) to local schoolchildren. I've finally acquired a basic pirate outfit and am interested in pirate reenactments, etc. I've served aboard 4 different U.S. Navy ships and consider myself a salty dog.
  1. The name link gave me Dirty Morty Flint. I'll stick to MonkeyJohn. When my nephew was but a wee lad, his cousins told him that the man he called "Uncle John" was the oldest person alive and was the original monkey everyone had evolved from. From then on, I was Monkey John to the kids. When I began writing childrens books and stories, it became MonkeyJohn. Then I began reading to schoolchildren as MonkeyJohn the Pirate and kept acquiring more pirate garb.
  2. I've decided not to attend the Ocracoke event, since it's going to be 4 professional pirate crews and all staged events from what I've gathered. I don't know if free-lance pirates will be welcome. (Not to mention that I'm not on good terms with the Hyde County Sherrif's Dept., for reasons I won't mention here. Suffice it to say they don't appreciate it when you turn North Carolina law against them.) I'm also amazed that they're going to have a "battle" in the harbor with black powder cannon, since they had a major firework accident on the island 4 years ago and fireworks are strictly forbidden. I attended "Pirates Pack the Park" a couple of weeks ago at the Maritime Museum in Newport News and was mostly disappointed. It was an effort to break the Guinness Record for most pirates in one place at the same time. They originally said you had to have a reasonable pirate outfit, but in the last week they changed the rules. If you wore a t-shirt, rolled up pants and a patch, you were considered a pirate. Even so, they fell far short of the record.
  3. I lives on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Chesapeake, VA. and spends my shore leave time on Ocracoke Island, N.C. every summer, where I pretend to rake the clam beds in Teach's Hole, dredging for ... well, none of your business what I'm looking for, is it, matey?
  4. Ahoy there. I've signed on as crew and I'm looking for a beam to hang me hammock. I'm an ex-navy Vietnam vet (That's salty dog to you, matey) and fiction author. I got into the pyrate gig because I work for a school district and often read to schoolchildren in costume (imagine Green Eggs and Ham with lots of "arrghs".) I'll be lurkin' about to learn the ropes of this vessel, so to speak. JohnB
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