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Sadly, it's not the first time I've heard such things. I worked the Maryland Renfaire and witnessed many political backstabbings and a similar proposition to not pay actors.

The most astounding thing I ever saw was when the leather merchant I worked for was constantly harrassed and even assualted by another leather merchant and the Faire owner refused to do anything about. It wasn't until said merchant attacked my boss and his wife off-site that anything was able to be done and that was by the authorities. The Faire owners STILL took the side of the offending merchant.

For a while we had a nice alternative with the Virginia Renfaire but for some reason that just can't seem to stay open.

ack! ffffftttttt! oi, me head...

wife and I went to the in-law's yesterday for T'anksgivin'

Father-in-law plied me with some sort of Korean Moonshine. I kid you not, he mixed the stuff on the balcony of his apartment. Told me it was "Korean wine".

Wine me arse... I still haven't recovered.

God, I love being married to a Korean

*hic*

Games, educational, or whatnot . . .what have you found to be the best app for your device?

My device prefers a good wench!!!

Yar! Mah ha ha ha, good one!

My favorite apps:

Comiczeal reader, lets you read comics in CBR format.

Winterboard with Pirate theme, arrr!!

http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Pirates-Privateer-American-Revolution/dp/0375422846/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259002843&sr=8-1#noop

The first page of the introduction had me giggling like a drunken pirate... oh.. wait.. that's normal for me...

anyhow... floggin' good book so far

o.O

missed me by ... that much...

*hides his incantation of rum summoning and tries to look innocent*

Thanks all,

I think Jas is going to fit my needs

They have a nice little brown tricorn for $25.

Iv'e pretty much hit every pirate merchandise site out there and have to yet to find a nice tricorn that I wouldn't be embarrassed to wear to an event at a reasonable price.

Anybody know where I can look for a respectable tricorn for less than $50?

Well, I just got back from my cruise on the Disney Wonder... and by "just got back", I be meaning some time last week. The entire journey, including the drive from D.C. down to Fla, was amazing. We stopped over at Myrtle Beach for a night. We left in the pre-dawn hours and our GPS took us on a strange and somewhat scary adventure through the coastal back roads of South Carolina.

You know in movies how you see a dark scary swamp with lots of spanish moss and water all around and then there's the one run down shack sitting by itself...? And then some guy in a top hat and his face painted like a skull come out? Yah, we saw that place. A few times. Seemed to keep going past it for some reason like we couldn't get away from it...

anyhow...

after boarding and having crew call out our name and draw all attention to my terminaly shy wife, we scuttled off to our cabin. Being our third Caribbean cruise we splurged and went with a larger state room with it's own balcony. Best decision, ever. I spent lots of time on that veranda sipping Pyrate XO and Coke and enjoying the beauty of the ocean.

Our first night at sea we ventured to the bow of the ship and sighted a dolphin splashing along side us.

I've loved dolphins my entire life and that was a truely magical moment for me.

Despite a forcast of thunderstorms the whole time, the weather was beautiful. Sunshine every day with a warm breeze to drive off the humidity.

Another highlight was Castway Cay and especially seeing the Flying Dutchman.

And the service... holy smokes...

let me give you an example. My wife went to dinner and she ordered something with shrimp. The head waiter came over, pulled out a fresh set of silverware, picked the shrimp out onto a side plate, cut the tail and shells off the shrimp and then returned the shrimp to my wife's plate.

That night was the Pirates IN the Caribbean party. Ok, it was Disney, it was hollywood kitchy, but it was fun. Props the Christian, the Cruise Director who had a beautiful brocade frock coat as opposed the holloweeny costumes everyone else was wearing.

All in all, it was fun and perhaps even piqued my wife's interest in pirate type things... so that can't be bad.

I used to sail around the Chesapeake quite regularly some 20 years ago. It was just a tiny little sunfish but hey, it had a bow, a stern, a rudder and a sail... I think that meets the requirements. Nothing beats the feeling of catching the wind in your own sail and dashing off through the water.

Aye misses it, aye does

A few months ago there was a "Tea Party" rally in D.C. A whole freaking horde of them came through the spy museum where I work.

They were, without par, the most self-righteous, rude and obnoxious bunch I have ever had the displeasure of crossing. They acted like they owned the fucking city and treated the museum staff like shit.

Whatever your political motivation and proclaimed goals, if you act like a bunch of assholes, you get no sympathy from me.

I've had several friends work for them at various fairs and such. Their blades aren't the prettiest you'll ever find but they're sturdy and functional. They'll last a freaking a life time.

errr.. and what michael said... all of the stuff I've seen is 15-20 years old.

Chocolate cinnarum coffee????

* Faint! *

Abso-floggin'-lutely

I had the same reaction when saw it... I still haven't come down from drinking it *bounce bounce bounce*

So, fresh back from disney cruise where put in at nassau. Anyone who's been there is sure to have seen tortuga rumcakes. My wife and I stopped in the store just a block away from the Straw Market.

well... here's what I can say

rumcake - yummy

chocolate cinnarum coffee - ZOMG... super yummy *bounce bounce bounce*

Tortuga Gold Reserve Rum - mixed with coke... I could not taste it... seriously, no taste at all... but I sure felt it ^^

I be sailing to Nassau on Sunday and spending the day about the town on Monday. Is the Pirates of Nassau Museum worth spending time and money on?

I'm not an easy man to scare. I used to eat, sleep and drink "creepy". I was a ghost hunter. All those shows you see now, "Ghost Hunters", "Ghost Adventures", all that stuff. I used to do that. I'm very familiar with things that go bump in the night, manifest shadows and mists and even pull your hair an breathe down your neck. Been there, done that.

All those years I did that stuff, there was always the question, "What if"? What if this goes wrong? What if this goes REALLY wrong? What if this entity turns nasty?

The movie "Paranormal Activity" answers that question… and then some. It presents a text book haunting with all the elements I've experienced in real life. Maybe that's why this movie scared the bejeezus out of me.

Visually, it's like a cross between Blair Witch and The Grudge. It's presented documentary style, with a home camera. The motion sensitive need not worry too much as the camera is on a tri-pod most of the time and the "shaky cam" is kept to minimum.

I can't say if I enjoyed this movie or not. I loved the way it was presented. The scares were genuinely scary. Even the acting was good. I should like this movie.

But it put too many "what if's" in my head. What really goes on in my house when I'm asleep? What would I see if I set up a camera when I'm off in La La Land?

Those kind of "what if's" make sleeping difficult.

arrrr.... being in the employ of a respectable museum in Washington DC, myself, this really burns my buttocks. If you are going to open a "museum" and call it a "museum" and poor taxpayer money into it, there should be a law stating that the museum have some historical accuracy.

Perhaps a call to the media would be in order?

yar! yes, I believe I found that one too, on the Brute Force website. As far as I'm concerned, she's the Grand Queen of all pirate wenches.

I can't tell you how many people either family members or friends or just people I know that've had their lives hijacked by cancer in the past few years. As with each and every one of them, I'll be storming the gates of Heaven for your nephew.

He and your family are in my prayers.

well, I just got my package for the disney cruise I'm going on, last week of october. they're deffinately doing the holloween thing all this month but no mention of "villain season".

ok, I'm confused. I had previously thought that the trio had been captured and tried in Nassau, Bahamas by non other than Woodes Rogers. Of course, I haven't checked dates or tried any validation checks on that, it's just what I had previously heard. Now the wikipedia entries on both Jack and Anne state that they were capture in Jamaica.

We all know that wikipedia has it's flaws so which account is correct?

All my best to ye, Lass. I know what it's like to go through lots of poking and prodding

I had thyroid issues last year and they did everything from zapping me neck with gamma rays to sticking lots of needles in through my neck. Ultimately they removed the whole damn thing.

And oh yes, you know the scene in Iron Man where Tony wakes up in the cave and yanks the tube out of his nose?

*nods*

Yah, I know exactly what that feels like now

in the first movie, he was just the obligatory bad guy, a very well presented and acted bad guy, mind you, but still...

in the third movie he was just plain old fun.

just got back from there fri.night hit all 4 parks in 4 days, the pumkins are out and the buildings are getting a light wrap.

wonder if that applies to the cruise ships, as well. My Lady and I are taking the Red Boat to Nassau in late October

Hmm. Then Stynky is definitely out. I'd trust Captain Jim with my card, though. And Brig. Maybe Jesse. If there was a drunken photo of me with my best imaginary internet friend, I could use that, but there isn't.

"Hey, I seen a rabbit."

"Ya see?!"

"Where?"

"He's right here in the bar. Say hello... Harvey."

is suddenly reminded of why Brody jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge

"Time flies when you're having rum"

that one just kills me

but nothing gets me blood pumpin' like a good ole...

"HOIST THE COLORS"!!