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Just a reminder to everyone here that May 2 is International Scurvy Awareness Day! Eat a lime and celebrate being scurvy free!

Visit http://www.limestrong.com/ to learn how YOU can help spread the word!

Captain Jack McCool, landlocked pirate extraordinaire, Captain of the dreaded prairie schooner Ill Repute, etc. etc.

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"That’s what a ship is, you know. It’s not just a keel, and a hull, and a deck, and sails. That’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is… what the Black Pearl really is… is freedom."

-Captain Jack Sparrow

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Aye Captain. I've ordered plenty of limes for the day, though I'll probably be serving them in margaritas!

~Your humble Quartermaster

"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."

H.P. Lovecraft

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Remember that things "Pickled" also helped prevent Scurvey...many kegs of Pickled Vegitables made it onto ships manifests...and would last longer than fresh fruit....course ya would have to eat 'bout twice as many pickles as fruit

so how am i preventing scurvey on May 2...????....i'll be getting thoroughly "pickled"... :P

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I shall be celebrating by drinking a few G&Ts with lime. So civilized. :P

...schooners, islands, and maroons

and buccaneers and buried gold...

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You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott.

"Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow

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Haha, M.A.d'Dogge, why do I think you're a little pickeled already? tongue.gif

Captain Jack McCool, landlocked pirate extraordinaire, Captain of the dreaded prairie schooner Ill Repute, etc. etc.

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"That’s what a ship is, you know. It’s not just a keel, and a hull, and a deck, and sails. That’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is… what the Black Pearl really is… is freedom."

-Captain Jack Sparrow

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The most effective, easy to store and long lasting preventative of Scurvy turns out to be Sauerkraut. Like M. D. d'Dogge said, "pickled veggies" will work but the Cabbage has the most Vitamin C. I just thought about the daily sodium intake our preceeding shipmates must have had.

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I hope everyone had a healthy and safe Scurvy Awareness Day!

Captain Jack McCool, landlocked pirate extraordinaire, Captain of the dreaded prairie schooner Ill Repute, etc. etc.

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"That’s what a ship is, you know. It’s not just a keel, and a hull, and a deck, and sails. That’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is… what the Black Pearl really is… is freedom."

-Captain Jack Sparrow

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