Red-Handed Jill

Maybe I'm just odd, but I have no unresolved love issues with any of my exes. I wish them well and think of a couple of them fondly, but have no lingering romantic feelings for any of them. My heart belongs completely to Iron Jack.

^ The heart, of course! < Trying to perfect my tomato chutney recipe (sweet, NO RAISINS!) V Favorite pirate activity - sailing or fighting (notice that I didn't add drinking, or I'm sure that would be a shoo-in)

^ Was recently the recipient of something sparkly

Both movies are full of great lines! Okay, my turn: "One day you'll be cool."

Um... did I guess correctly? I'm pretty sure I did - just saw that movie a couple of months ago.

Isn't it the second Addams Family movie? Addams Family Values is the name, I think. Lots of good lines in both movies...

^ I once got a great discount on some really nice furniture by fixing the store owner's e-mail and internet connection (it's good to be a geek...) I was walking by the store at the time, admiring the goods when I overheard his computer woes. < Just found out I'll be sailing and firing cannons on Labour Day Weekend! Woo hoo! V What are your "words to live by"?

^ Life, Liberty and the pursuit of good beer < Just now got back from sailing on the SF Bay V Scruffy or resplendent piratical look?

Hey - did you know that the world/U.S. average height for women is 5'3"? So cheer up; you really aren't that short!

Iron Jack and I just bought a 30' Clipper Marine with another piratical couple (the founder of our pirate group and her husband.) We had a few things to fix, but we're taking her on her first sail this weekend! Her previous owner named her La Pescada Azul, but since pescada isn't quite a word (it's supposed to be pescado) and tends to mean the fish on your plate rather than the fish swimming in the ocean, we're renaming her La Sirena Azul (the blue mermaid).

Me too! Maybe not a fear, per se - more like a marked dislike. I'm trying to remember where I saw this, but there was a short film about a kid eating an ice cream cone and a mime came up and started mimicing him, getting in his face and being really obnoxious. The kid's dog leaped at the mime, clamping down on his crotch area. The mime started shrieking and leaping up and down, the dog still attached to his family jewels. I couldn't stop laughing. Good dog!

Actually, Johnny Depp is a late boomer (no pun intended - heh). The baby boom went from 1946 to 1964 (good way to remember those years is you switch the last two.)

Thanks! Was it at the San Jose Inflation Celebration and was I fighting with a Spanish mackerel?

I have some waist cinchers that go under my breasts, but I cheat and tape them up for additional support (no, not with duct tape.) And speaking of spoobage, at the Bakersfield Faire, I saw a woman striding by who was kind of... unusual is the best way to describe it. Her breasts had the consistency of not-quite congealed jello. And I don't know how she did this, but it was as if she held plates under them and they had spread out on the plate to a thickness of not quite one inch (they stuck out about 4".) And they jiggled VERY loosely, as if they were mostly skin, not much tissue underneath. And she had them thrust out in front of her and she looked mighty proud of them. I realise that breasts come in all shapes and sizes and not every woman can have perfect ones, but this woman was really doing herself a disservice.

When I was a kid, all the time. As an adult, I don't do that any more, but that's just because I developed better impulse control. I still want to ask, but I restrain myself.

Jack Sparrow did pilfer a number of things from Tia Dalma - perhaps one of those items has protective properties. And it seems to me that typically, the second movie in a trilogy is generally the weakest, particularly when it is a trilogy situation and not just a series of shows about a group of characters (i.e. Star Trek, 007 etc.) or a semi-trilogy with a kind of story arc, but the movies can stand on their own (e.g. Terminator, Alien, etc.)

I'm kinda of that sensibility myself, except it's about measures, statistics and such rather than counting. When I was a kid, I was always asking people questions about their height, weight, age, etc. And no, it wasn't the typical "kids ask the darnest questions" sort of thing. I did this even when I was old enough to be well out of that stage (fortunately, I eventually learned to stop doing that.) And not just with people - I look at anything that can be measured and must know those numbers. So could each of you tell me your height and weight? Just kidding...

TWENTY DOLLARS On their wedding night, the young bride approached her new husband and asked for $20.00 for their first lovemaking encounter. In his highly aroused state, her husband readily agreed. This scenario was repeated each time they made love, for more than 30 years, with him thinking that it was a cute way for her to afford new clothes and other incidentals that she needed. Arriving home around noon one day, she was surprised to find her husband in a very drunken state. During the next few minutes, he explained that his employer was going through a process of corporate downsizing, and he had been let go. It was unlikely that, at the age of 59, he'd be able to find another position that paid anywhere near what he'd been earning, and therefore, they were financially ruined. Calmly, his wife handed him a bank book which showed more than thirty years of steady deposits and interest totaling nearly$1 million. Then she showed him certificates of deposits issued by the bank which were worth over $2 million, and informed him that they were one of the largest depositors in the bank. She explained that for the more than three decades she had "charged" him for sex, these holdings had multiplied and these were the results of her savings and investments. Faced with evidence of cash and investments worth over $3 million, her husband was so astounded he could barely speak, but finally he found his voice and blurted out, "If I'd had any idea what you were doing, I would have given you all my business!" That's when she shot him. You know, sometimes, men just don't know when to keep their mouths shut.

According to the docent at the San Diego Maritime Museum, that's the plan.

Too bloody funny, Phil!

Or maybe one of the pieces of jewelery he pilfered from Tia Dalma has some protective properties.

A 90-year-old man said to his doctor, "I've never felt better. I have an 18-year old bride who is pregnant with my child. What do you think about that?" The doctor considered his question for a minute and then said, "I have an elderly friend who is a hunter and never misses a season. One day when he was going out in a bit of a hurry, he accidentally picked up his umbrella instead of his gun. When he got to the Creek, he saw a rabbit sitting beside the stream. He raised his umbrella and went, 'bang, bang' and the rabbit fell dead. What do you think of that?" The 90-year-old said, "I'd say somebody else killed that rabbit." The doctor replied, "My point exactly."

I was in San Diego a couple of months ago and got to see the Rose. Took lots of pics - here are a few: It's still named the Surprise - Fox's lease on it has not expired, so they aren't restoring it back until it is. According to the docent on board, the plan is to turn it into a pirate ship and do piratical sails. Gunports: Their cannon display: On deck: And last but not least, the Seat of Ease:

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William - that's a great shot of the pirate (you?) waving to the ship offshore!