Beowoulf

What is it?

revenuers

Wha'cha gut left?

Must be a Hare Re-enactment group

I ain't good fer nuthin'. Can I still come?

Well, why in hell aren't we teaming up for beer swilling and the like?? lolol

Cuisto, are you IN Montreal? (or near?)

Very very tempting ... Only a 12 hour drive...

200 bucks! now that is a serious sugar jones!!

What days are our folks likely to arrive? We can start sleeping in the fort by.....?

hmmmm .... $503 round trip on Delta to St. Louis. One hour+ drive from St. Louis. Anyone else flying in? Details? Advice? (If I go, I want a spot next to Iron Jon and Paula! LOL)

Cuisto! I was gonna say the same thing! Based on the only book on pirates I've read so far (Under the Black Flag), pirates were armed to the teeth - though probably not generally sailing around the oceans. Good Americans in the making! lolol Now! Get a load of the chests here! None of them proper period, I would guess, but amazing nevertheless. Of course, they ship from Oregon ... the complete other side of the country to where I would have them shipped (Maine). http://www.woodchest...px?CategoryID=1

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HOLY COW!!! Now THAT is a chest!!!!!! Where do you have this set up? I loved your spirited post! Well Auhh Gee ..Maybe Eye can sell you this one from my pirate cove. Just add more Iron pretties. IT IS BIG & HONKIN ~ AHHH Eye think we need a Bigger Trailer! And You can fit 3 dead bodies in it plus your Cooler! Eagh eagh ~

Heh .. been called a LOT of things in my life, but never "precious"

Offer some MAN sizes! 52-54! Size 8 hat! ;-) Heh .. I ain't been called BIG JOHN all my life fer nuthin'! And if you think my HAT is big .... uhm .... well ... nevermind....

I wanna buy a 4 wheel trailer like Iron Jon's or Crudbeard's and haul a whole beach encampment around with me and set it up just like those two do (my HEROES!!! lololol) I am goin' for it! I am serious. I have snapped. (Been looking at trailer prices! Also gonna start buying cannons .... gonna give Crudbeard a run for his money! ;-) Anyway, I ain't carryin' around no sea chest from ship to ship .. never have, never will, I imagine. I want a big, honkin' chest that SCREAMS PIRATE!!! Maybe 5 or 6 of 'em! Now fellas ( and fell... uhm .. fell... what would be the feminine of fella??) .. anyway, now fellas .. I know I have said this before and it probably irks you to have me say it again, but ... period stuff is just BORING! BOR-ING... I was looking at some of the camp shots I took - especially the clothing - and it dawned on me: much of this clothing just makes the people look like plain ol' everyday simple countryfolk of the period - tricorn hats, baggy shirts, dresses, bodices, pants, "pilgrim" shoes ... yup, yup, yup .... The question came to me, what distinguishes these people as PIRATES? Were we so obviously piratical that if we had flown an early American flag over the camp, visitors would have asked, "Why are these PIRATES flying a colonial America flag??" (BTW! I was looking at all the pics I took of the camp and of various groups at FTPI. I have been editing out all the trash cans, green trash bags, pepsi bottles, HYDRATION bottles - christ, how did we EVER live before HYDRATION bottles!! - generators, baby strollers, cigarettes, Tiparillos, pickle jars, etc., etc., etc. For a period correct camp, you guys sure give a PhotoShopper like myself a lot of editing work! I guess a better photographer, though, would have set himself up in a way not to get those things in the picture, huh?) So, don't get all indignant and start flaming me - or flame me in some highbrow way in an effort to disguise an emotional reaction - I am a noobie, sharing noobie thoughts, observations, and questions. Pls allow me the luxury of enjoying my rightful days of blissful ignorance. P.S. You are stuck with me now! Never feed a stray cat!

Wha'chu think? http://www.woodworkersworkshop.com/store/Treasure_Chest_Large There is also this one from a 1927 Popular Mechanics magazine, but COMPLICATED! http://books.google.ca/books?id=YdgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA516&lpg=PA516&dq=pirate+hinges&source=bl&ots=VZWHJciYgt&sig=oAM8UesFynSGxHyW35cjBSEXsEk&hl=en&ei=kc0gTcOqMYGKlweX5cjCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=pirate%20hinges&f=false

"... full grown adult like Beowoulf ..." HAHAHAHAHAHA you don't know me very well, do you! ;-)

Hurricaine! You shouldn't have deleted your post! I thot it was a good point!

Wow! My head is spinning! Man this is complicated... Here's what I want to do .. tho I am sure there will be a variation or 30 that I did not account for... I live in Quebec (pronounced as QWEE-bec by us Mainers). I want to own black powder weapons of SOME sort that go BANG!!!!!!! (and I DO mean BANG!!!!!!!!!!) - Flintlock pistols, blunderbusses, rifles, CANNONS (not real big cannons as transportation would be an issue - not to mention cost) I want to SHOOT these weapons - at very least at pirate events (including the PC ones and the fantasy ones). FTPI & its bastard sister PiP would be a prime examples. (Or is it PiP and ITS bastard sister?? LOLOL) Qweebec is WAY too stupid to have anything like this, so Ontario is more likely for Canadian events. These weapons would need to cross the Canadian/American border regularly. Obviously, I need to transport them freely. I'm not really interested in bullets or cannon balls (at this point ... I just want loud BANGS!!!) Ok .. MAYbe tennis balls.... I want to buy black powder. I would love to go out to a BIG farm I know and shoot off a cannon til it glowed red! (Relax, dear Crudbeard, I am joking about the glowing red part! I don't want to BLOW MY HEAD OFF! LOLOL) From what I have found, antique pistols cost three and four (and more) thousands of dollars apiece!! I like BANGS, but not THAT much! Btw, how do they know if it is a GEN-YOU-WHINE antique, anyway?? Seems it would take a nutcase like Crudbeard to know that!!! (Sorry, Tom! Couldn't resist!) Ok, what did I leave out?

A VERTICAL LINE, DAMN YOU ALL!!! So! New York, Mass, CT, RI, Ontario, Maine, part of MD.. I'll talk to Crudbeard .. he tends to manage the NorthEast

Anyone know of good festivals to go to in the northeast (like ... draw a line from the western NY border straight down to the Atlantic, more or less). I have found a few that offer the likes of "cardboard boat races for the kiddies" and "face painting" and "fun with balloons," but I am afraid that FTPI has ruined anything like THAT for me! LOLOL If you know of a good one (or two .. or ten) and you are (might be) GOING, all the better! Would be nice to hook up with "old" friends again. I'm not asking for stuff even *I* could just find by chance with Google. I am referring to ones that you KNOW are worthy of a FTPI veteran! ;-) BTW, my HAT came in! WHAT A NICE HAT!!!! :) :) :)

I'll be there! If the Mercury crewe will have me, I'd like to bunk with them .. preferably right next to Iron Jon and Paula again! lolol (Paula is a good and gracious cook!!! lolol)

Welcome, lad! hard to find a nice crewe than the pyrates that put kin at this Pub!