Mission

Try Firefox. It has a built in spell-checker that underlines misspelled words in red and provides other, correctly spelled options when you right click on misspelled words. (Firefox rocks.)

Mention the word "snood" again. That's a great word. Snood. It's actually more like Stynky vs. Mission, although madPete says any resemblance is purely coincidental. (The real question is...where is Duchess?)

Indeed, especially in the privateering journals as I recall. (Although I believe I have seen the term navigator as well.)

Our little pirate lord did more than just declare himself such... Lest we forget, he actually left (of his own accord, I might add) because of the outrage created over some of his other, more serious offenses like bragging about stealing from vendors at an event and sword-fighting while drunk. This is essentially a fantasy thread, after all. If BB wants to try to claim the title of chief... er, whatever he said... I say may God be with him in his quest. (The best gunfighter usually becomes the target of all those who want to make a name for themselves. ) ____ We could probably use a navigator more than a mapmaker, anyhow. You know, someone to guide the vict... traders into the port, right? Local folks who knew the waters were often paid to be navigators. And gibbets are always among us.

This is a kind of interesting overview article about the history of barbers with a bit about surgery. The more interesting bits (to me) are primarily about the organization of the guilds. (The barbers and surgeons were in the same guild during period.)

I'm with Wayland. 20+ years of creating haunted houses and dealing with various alleged ghosthunters and I'd have to say they're ookier than the supposed ghosts. There's a logical (and often simpler) explanation for almost everything that appears mystical.

Off to See the Lizard. A personal favorite. I bought the whole album just to get that song. (It's not on the Boats, Beaches, Balloons and Bucky compilation for some strange reason.)

The third panel is priceless!

Not that I'm aware of. I got it from a library database. See this post for how you can go about doing that.

I have noticed that surgical manuals tend to refer to same things (tools in particular) by different names. Usually they call them different things in different books, but, like everything else in the splendid world of 16th/17th c. grammar, they sometimes refer to the same device by two different names in the same book. The trephine/trepan/trapan/trepain/etc. comes to mind. One of the authors very specifically delineates the difference between a trephine and a trepan (I believe it's Woodall) while others use the terms interchangeably.

Ok, one person. What's all this stuff about the voodoo potions and man behind the curtain. Wounded, I am.

Wow...no one recognizes that? Shameful... It's actually one of my favorites.

I own it because everyone prattled on and on about how great it was. To be honest, I almost never listen to it. (Alas, I don't rip unpurchased music for myself or for others. Not much of a pirate, am I?)

I was looking for some photos of me for the newspaper article when I saw this one. I just had to make it into a motivational poster.

I was just wading through the 1639 edition of Woodall's The surgions mate (All previous quotes I entered are from the the 1617 edition) and I found this neat bit on barbering. “If the Surgeons Mate cannot trimme men, then by due consequence there is to be a Barber of the ships Company, and he ought not to be wanting of these following necessaries. One Barbours case, containing, Rasours foure. Scissers two paire. Combes three. Combes-brush one. Bare-picker one. Curling Instruments. [Rods for curling hair. Yep - a curling iron. No kidding.] Turning Instruments and Spunges. Mallet one. [For the fleem. Although that WB cartoon about the cavemen where the barber pounds the one long hair in with a hammer certainly came to my mind.] Gravers two. Flegme one. [Fleem for bloodletting.] Paring knives two. [For nails.] Looking glasse one. Aprons three. Shaving towels twelve. Water-pot one. Sweet water one. Washing-bols lesse or more. Hoane one. Whet-stone one. Basons two. And what else is necessary to the Barbers profession, as the expert Barber better knoweth.” (Woodall, 1639, p. 70?)

"Darling, I don't know how to tell you this but...there's a Chinese family in our bathroom."

madKimm? Ah. Not a pub member?

What, exactly, is beneath you? (I'm just curious.)

Hey, Brig! Are you done yet? Brig! Brig? Did'ja finish the song? :D

Off to see the lizard Off to see the lizard Deja deja deja vu Believe it and it will come true Veja veja veja du What works for me might work for you

!! Looking at the prices, I can see why. I really like this one, although I think my blacksmithing friend could make it for a minuscule fraction of that price.

How did you get plaster casts of your teeth? Very nice job you did there. I once had teeth made for me that looked like "The Mask." (Er, the Jim Carrey version.) In fact I still have them somewhere. (They were painful to wear after awhile.) They didn't look near as nice as yours do, of course. Yep, I should bring the ol' dental pelican onto the battlefield with me in the future. If you're lucky, I'll remove a few bonus teeth in the process. (I understand the pelican had a tendency to remove neighboring teeth if the surgeon wasn't careful.) For those curious about the pelican, check out this post.

OT Admin stuff (sorry). Hey, bloodyblade...welcome to the forum! I went into your post and fixed it for you. I think you were using the link button at the top of the posting box instead of the photo button. (The link button looks sorta' kinda' like a chain link...ok, it really doesn't, it looks like train wheels with a ball in front of them to me, but I think you can see what I mean. It's for creating links to outside website pages.) If so, you can get what you were trying for by using the thing that sorta looks like a Polaroid photo of something vaguely orange and green. There was another problem with your post. It had some extra stuff at the end of the photo's URL address. (I don't know what this is called, but it always starts with a question mark.) The forum is realllllly picky about that. It wants things that end in ".jpg" or ".gif" or some other 3 letter photo file name. I've had problems with it many times when I've tried to post photos. The best way I've found to get a photo into the forum is: 1) Open the photo in new tab on your browser 2) Right click on the photo and select "Copy image location." 3) Switch back to the tab containing the Pyracy Pub forum where you're entering your post. 4) Click on the Polaroid button. A pop-up will open. 5) Press the "shift" and "insert" keys at the same time to paste the location into the pop-up. Hope that helps (and doesn't sound patronizing.)

What book? You've been holding out on us!