PirateQueen

The quote in its entirety is:

"In an honest Service, says he, there is thin Commons, low Wages and hard Labour; in this, Plenty and Satiety, Pleasure and Ease, Liberty and Power; and who would not ballance Creditor on this Side, when all the Hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sower Look or two at Choaking. No, a merry Life and a short one, shall be my Motto."

It's from the 1734 edition of :

A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c To which is added, A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Noted Pirates

by Capt. Charles Johnson

The quote, attributed to Bart Roberts, can be found on p. 196. Here's an image of that page:

P. 196

You'll find the quote in the second column, about 2/3 down the page.

12 out of 12. But I already knew I was a pirate geek.

There be a fine german resturant right here at the port o' Anahiem.

You're thinking of Jagerhaus on Ball Road at the 57 freeway (less than a mile east of where I work). It's an excellent German restaurant.

The port is Cayonne, on the south coast toward the east end of the island, not far from Basse-Terre, across the channel from Saint-Louis-Du Nord. All that remains of the fort are its masonry foundations, on a hillside above Basse-Terre.

The picture you've probably seen is this one:

I've not seen any others, on the Internet, at least.

It's got glowing reviews at amazon.com. I'd get it just because Bart Roberts is probably my favorite historical pirate, and there aren't too many books out there about him.

If a Pirate I Must Be

Hey, I knew my Antwear would come back into vogue eventually!

No, I wouldn't wear it now. I looked cute in it when I was 18, but now that I'm old enough to have an 18-year-old of my own, I couldn't quite carry it off as well.

Ah, those halcyon days of Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow, Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren. I remember them fondly.

And speaking of genetic body types, when I was 18, I couldn't get myself to weigh less than 150 and no smaller than a size 12. I was lean and my face looked gaunt (I'm 5'10"). I never understood how those beauty queens could be my height or taller and weigh less than 110 or be size 6.

There are several "corsair carols" in the Pirate Songbook published by No Quarter Given, including one called "A Pirate's Night Before Christmas." Other parodies include "Pirate Ships Are Coming to Town" and "Have a Jolly Roger Christmas." I don't have it handy, so I can't provide any more details than that.

James L. Nelson's books are well worth it. (He also wrote "The Sweet Trade" under the pseudonym Elizabeth Garrett.)

For more discussion of pirate fiction novels, check out this thread started last year:

Pirate Novels

For anyone who's never heard of it:

Pirates of the Plain (1999)

Info from IMDb.com. Read the viewer comments.

Yes, I agree, Tim Curry makes a great pirate. Loved him in Muppet Treasure Island.

This series of 3 books by Laura Renken isn't bad:

My Lord Pirate

Night Shadow

Heart of the Condor

I liked the first two better than the last one, but the last one ties up the loose ends.

http://scribesworld.com/renkenmorgan/laurarenken.html

Any pirate romance novel by Marsha Canham is fun, but I also particularly recommend Across a Moonlit Sea.

I heard Gail being interviewed on the radio last weekend, forgot to see if anyone else heard it too. You can listen to it here:

NPR: Buccaneer Trends and the Truth About Pirates

(Gail Selinger, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates, offers her insights on what's fact and what goes a bit overboard.)

That's Portuguese, doll. Not Spanish. Much less spicy...

Apparently, you've never sampled the linguiça my Portugee husband loves. Its spiciness will rival a Spanish chorizo any day.

speaking of Nightmare, I guess they're going to do it again this year to the Haunted Mansion huh? <snip> Any chance they won't do it this year? <snip>

Nope, they're doing it this year too. The flyers for it are already up on our bulletin boards here at work.

French corsairs were active in the Caribbean in the mid 16th century. Here's an informative web page:

The French Corsairs

Oh, all right, I wasn't going to post to this thread because I was embarrassed to admit, but what the hell: I've been collecting pirate romance novels for many years. I had a database of my collection at one point, but I'm not sure where that ended up. The books are packed away right now, not readily available so I can't offer more than a few favorite authors. In the meantime, check out this site:

Romantic Reads of Pirates

Not an exhaustive list, but a good start.

I think it's any very large knife, and there were ones that folded into the handle.

Widescreen format should be OK on your little TV. That's the format that fills up the screen. It's Letterbox that looks better on bigger TV's, since it shows the whole screen as it was seen in theaters, so there's usually a band of space at the top and bottom of the screen.

I've read 'em all. Posted about them a couple of weeks ago here:

Speaking of Sabatini

I was going to say, who cares how much they changed it, Anthony Delon as Jean-Benoit Aubery... Anthony Delon as Jean-Benoit Aubery!

But I see you acknowledged that important fact at the end of your post.

Speaking of Rafael Sabatini:

The only thing the movie, The Sea Hawk, has in common with Sabatini's novel is the title. The novel is a terrific story about a nobleman who's betrayed and ends up turning Turk--becoming a corsair. Takes place in the Elizabethan era.

Sabatini wrote three books featuring Captain Blood. The one most are familiar with (and the one on which the movie was based), is Captain Blood: His Odyssey. He followed this one a few years later with Captain Blood Returns, which recounts various of the captain's piratical adventures. It's a good read. The last one was The Fortunes of Captain Blood, the weakest of the three.

I found my copies while prowling used book stores. The first book is usually common; the others take a little more work to hunt down.

From the Rafael Sabatini web site, check out this review.

I have seen passable shoes made using old riding boots, or cowboy boots with snipped toes. Remove the top part (shaft), which, if the design is right, leaves a shoe with a long piece that looks like a tongue. Disguise that with a large buckle and there it is.

What you want is an international money order, available at your bank or at your local US Post Office.

Edited to add: Hmm. I just looked at the list of participating countries at the USPS site, and England isn't on the list of countries.

I'll second the recommendation for anything by Rafael Sabatini, one of my favorite authors.

Anything by James L. Nelson ("The Guardship" author), including "The Sweet Trade" that he wrote originally under the pseudonym Elizabeth Garrett.

Also try "The Requiem Shark" a dark tale from the point of view of Bart Roberts' fiddler. (I forget the author's name.)

I don't mind, doesn't offend me. I've been called worse.

Ravenswood Leather

I've never purchased through their site, but I've patronized their booth at faires. I absolutely love their shirts (the Swordsman, the Highlander and the Rogue I can vouch for), and their leatherwork is tempting.