PyratePhil

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Acupuncture (I love it)

She IS a cutie...

The original poster did. (my bolding)So if Patrick did indeed mean that the pyrate would remove the patch prior to meeting a foe, then it isn't a moot point for discussion.

Night vision, yes...avoiding flash blindness, yes...and yes, a pyrate patch looks cool on a kid (or an adult) - -but I still maintain that for actual hand-to-hand fighting, you're at a decided disadvantage. As part of my martial arts training we did both dark-room (no lights at all) and one-eyed fighting (eyepatch), and let me tell you that it's almost impossible to keep your bearings. Don't believe everything TV tells you.

So, what, the pyrate would fight his enemy with one eye closed? Closing one eye gives you severely reduced peripheral vision as well as distorted depth perception - neither of which is exactly useful in a fight. I understand the need to preserve night vision - but would that really be a valid method?

Great Pumpkin

I suppose you're right - I hadn't thought of it in those terms.

Already done, m'lady.

Nugent

Fran, I'm so very sorry. Love and sympathy goes out to you.

Blue Man Group

I'd leave milk and cookies out for her...

As usual, the History Channel has a great premise for a show; they present the facts in an entertaining and educational fashion, complete with wonderful footage of skilled re-creators; then at the end of the show, they get preachy and claim how pyrates are basically scum of the earth or, as I believe they put it from a quote, "the enemy of all mankind". To me, this is like having a group of scientists run a controlled and well-designed experiment all the way to the conclusion, only to present their summary as "although the data claim X, we believe it's really Y". Is it just me, or does anyone else notice this?

Um, I guess I've been alone longer than you, m'lady - Do MANY men wax these days?

This is nowhere near as good as Christine's, and there's no voice, but if you want nightmares... Elf Phil

I'm not even going there.... What? Just because I used to hang out in karaoke bars in Chinatown, don't get all crazy on me... Oddly enough, it just so happens that both Christine and several male Asians have sung "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" to me, and I most assuredly prefer Christine's version... :)

ruins

Christine, you have a far better voice than any Asian male I've ever met... ...and I've met a lot of them.

mouth-watering

regimental stripe

Richard Kiel

Typically weird weather here in northeast PA - it was 50 today, very foggy this morning, yet last night was clear as a bell - in fact I watched a meteor shower. ...until it pulled the curtain closed...

Shark!

You and me both, bro...