piratelassie

Nope, it was actually my first real project. As long as you have basic knowledge of a sewing machine and access to someone who can walk you through the more complicated piecing, it's pretty simple...just time consuming

Your preferred mode of transportation is a boat...even over land.

You are not fazed by music/movie piracy. After all, you're just carrying on a proud tradition.

You have had nautical/pirate expressions on the whiteboard on the door to your dorm room for over a week...and your roomate is afraid to erase them.

Your main question while clothes shopping is Can this look piratical?

me likes!!! 'ow much did those beauties set ye back?

thank you for fixing it. I can't get me mind around technology

One of my friends sent me this site and thought I'd share it with you

www. tellnotales.com

enjoy!!!

your pics just don't do the work justice.

These are some of the finest costumes I've seen in a long time.

And the ship in your wig was...well... a ship in your wig!

great work

I agree! The ship in yer wig reminds me of a book wot I had when I were a wee thing. twas called "The Lady With A Ship On Her Head". Twas about a lady dressed like you in the picture, and she goes down to the beach to get sea shells fer a headdress fer a fancy dress ball and a ship sails onta her 'ead and she doesn't know it. Tis quite amusin' really, but I don't remember who tis by. Anyway, great work anyway. I gots ta put up a pic of me coat that I sewed from the pattern, but I must warn ye, the work pales in comparison ta yers.

Adam Nicolson's first book is really good too. Not on the same lines as God's Secretaries though. It's called Sea Room, and it's about him inheriting and living on the Shiant Islands in the outer Hebrides. Really interesting, and evocative of the place and the myths and stuff surrounding it. And, it's now in print in the US!

nicely put

Jenny, I definitely see your point, and agree that it is a good thing to imagine and fantasize about history. That, in some form or other is why we're all here. However, I think that it is important to realize that there is a fundamental difference between the history that there actually was and the history that many people wish there was. That said, as long as you don't mistake the romanticised for the real, which was often drudgery and completely unromantic, I say fantasize all you want. I know I do. I don't think anyone here was meaning to knock anyone, I know I wasn't, so calm down. put up yer cutlass and have a glass to friendly debate

Cheers!

I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right -- it's just my taste in imagining myself in the piratical days of old never involved a fantasy wherein my dashing pirate captain husband sets off once more to sea while I remain at home with our eighteen kiddies to clean the house, milk the cow, churn the butter, weave the wool, tend the gardens, beat the servants, give birth to the nineteenth kid, etc etc etc.

It's not the wishing-for-days-of-old that bugged me, it was what parts of the days of old were being wished for. I have a passionate loathing of romantic novels, historical or otherwise:

This (besides the bit about wanting to stay at home with the kids while the husband has a life) is what really bothered me. I read in a psych textbook once that the majority of rape scenes (and that's what this is, because "sex by force" is the definition of rape, okay) in romantic stories are portrayed as forced and violent -- but the woman enjoys it anyway. Oddly enough, ACTUAL rape incidents are enjoyed by 0% of the victims. (Actual statistic. Believe me.)

I'm not trying to be negative ... I suppose there's nothing wrong with liking a story like this. But it really bothers the heck outta me. I don't dream of the days when a husband could go off and see the world while the woman stayed at home and raised the children, and I don't like glorified rape scenes. The very idea offends me.

*climbs off of soapbox* Okay. Sorry. I'm done now. This is just one of my biggest pet peeves of all time (I take my literature seriously), so I couldn't help it. Sorry to all you romantic literature readers out there if I offended you. I didn't mean to offend anyone; I'm just venting about the genre itself, not its readers. Feel free to take a pot-shot at the formulaic approach of every heroic fantasy novel since Tolkien's "Ring" series if it'll make you feel better. (You wouldn't get any arguments from me on that subject anyway.)

I completely agree! I worked at the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace (the guy who painted GW on the dollar bill) and had to dress up in colonial costume and guide people around demonstrating the stuff in the house. I don't care how much hard work builds character, those irons were heavy. And women really didn't have much of a life back then, as you said. Oh, for a book that is serious and literary as well as romantic, involving, not pirates sadly but whaling and a woman at sea, I would definitely recommend Ahab's Wife. And if you're still looking for historical fiction with a bit of romance, Pirates! by Celia Rees is good. Lots of adventure, enough romance to satisfy those who are looking for romance, and a pretty quick read, despite its 300 some odd pages. Pretty well written for YA stuff too.

well that's me tuppence worth on the topic

good score, good battle scenes. I liked the beginning a lot, but I don't remember much else besides liking it, and laughing hysterically at the corny dialog (bad dog, anyone?) I saw it a while ago. maybe I'm due for watching again

absobloodylutley hysterical!!!

Never seen the movie, but the book were one of me favorites. Yer opinion o' it makes me want ta watch it. In me boatloads o' spare time (really I gots none whatever). Do you know if they made a movie o' the sequel, Catriona?

I've just started "Pyrates" by George MacDonald Fraser. It's fiction and not new, c1983. ANyone read it? It's hilarious!!

Probably one of my favorite books!!!!! It's completely hysterical! Especially the whole bit about page 115. Y'know, I think it would make a good movie, sort of along the lines of Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Like Maria, I found mine at a thrift store. They're actually womens size 7 rainboots, but they're made out of something that looks and feels like distressed leather, and they're waterproof! And they were only $4!

The only problem is that they don't have buckets. Oh well, can't have everything I guess.

I wants one. Hmmm... P'town is only 3 hours away from me house...

I loves it!!!! Nice work on it. What kind of cloth did you use?

I knows there's been lots o' rumour swappin' hereabouts concernin' POTC 2 an' 3. I were wonderin whether anyone knows if Klaus Badelt will be composin' the soundtracks again.

I unnerstands if taint possible ter tell, but I were curious the same

I just saw another pirate book by Barry Clifford in the store. The Lost Fleet. Any good?

As i be tellen ye before and i restate ye need not worry about such little bilgerats that hide behind their brothers chances are they gots enough shit from them.

Aye. I thinks tis best not ter notice 'em. They ain't worth yer time. Or, wot I finds works, smile an' wave, then throw 'em the finger. Their reactions ter that's always a scream ta watch!

I'd be 'appy ta post some pictures...once I figures out 'ow!

I guess I'm just worried about the fact sequels are usually weaker than the original. Although that seems to be turning around with Shrek 2 and Spiderman 2 apparently

I gotta agree with you Hawkins, I am a computer "geek" by profession, but I would gladly throw it all away to enjoy a more simple life of the ocean, "weathering" the elements, looking up to a night sky full of stars so bright you can make out the milky way, and falling to sleep to the rocking of a ship/boat. The knowledge that is required to "run a ship" or boat (navigation, charts, rigging, sails, etc) is not something that is not easily learned, and does take alot of education by actually experiencing the events. Books can only teach so much, but just like anything else, it takes experience to actually be a master of the subject. Although the days of the Golden Era are long gone, there are those who want to "learn the ropes" of what it would have been like to handle a ship powered only by the winds in the sails, your hands raw or calloused from hauling on the lines, your arms and back aching from hauling on the lines, where you are at the mercy of mother nature where you have no control. Do you know they found the skeleton of a sailor that was in Cromwell's army, and by the bones that found the man had the body of a trapeze artist? He had a hip condition that was from jumping around six feet? And at the early age of around 22-25 the man already had arthritis? It wasn't an easy job or life to be aloft in the rigging.

Being a computer geek is nice, but to be able to look up at the clouds, the way the birds fly, the way the sails are hanging and know that you are soon going to need to change tack or change sails is a knowledge that I envy of those who have it.

And Z, I wouldn't advise to posting information regarding pirating of music on a public website.

D'you realize what a literary field day you could have wi' that?

The best is knowin' both worlds so's ye can appreciate both. Although I confess that I do not have enough experience wi the real end o' it. But the condition o' bein' a wannabe pirate who wants as close to the real thing as she can get while still furtherin' that seemin'ly necessary thing nowadays known as a college degree IS possible...

wait a second... Jack shot 'im in the end o' the first one. Wouldn't havin' im come back from the dead be just a little awkward ta pull off plotwise?

O' course, we never actually know fer certain tha' he died, just tha' he were shot in the chest...

fer my part, aye, I be on the young side. I knows bein' 18 doesn't entitle me ta havin' any kind o' real experience wi' anythin' whatsoever, but I thinks that if'n we discourages young'ns (meself included) then there's no possible way any o' us will get excited abou' pirates, which is the reason I joined this forum. I'll allow that sometimes we can be annoyin' an' sometimes we show our greenness an' maybe unwittlingly embarass oursel's, but I'm willin' ter wager that somewheres back along, every one o' the adults has done tha' too.

That said, I agrees completely wi' the fact that sometimes there seems ta be an excess o' posts tha' are completely inconsequential an' annoyin' by the pups in question. An' I ain't sayin' I'm innocent o' that, but methinks tis a wee bit o'erboard (pardon the extreme corniness) ter ban genuinely interested young folk from the pub.

[steppin down from oerturned barrel]

So pass the gingerale! An' reg'lar ale too.

PS I HAVE been without internet fer more'n a week. Six weeks in fact, an' I were doin sea turtle taggin. on a boat.