Mission

How odd. Some psychology studies suggest it is actually bad for you because it focuses your attention on negative outcomes. http://www.markck.com/articles/Success%20T...derstanding.htm

Not if you don't hold the door open...... I always hold doors open for people. I was taught that at a military boarding school. (However, I still think Calypso should have been written right out of the script. Davy too. ) (I'll bet half your responses directed at me use the eye rolling emoticon.)

How about if we start a new topic in here and see who's interested? If the thread needs to be moved later on, it is possible to move it.

Yes, but can you bellydance?

Mission, are you on some sort of body painting kick lately? First you in woad as Doctor Manhattan? Then Brig in green? Blue and green - the colors of...well, I got nothing. No, body paint holds no special fascination for me, except when it's funny. (It's ok as long as you leave a small bare patch at the base of the spine.) I was just trying to think of how you could get both Mae and Brig on the stage with the Leia motif. And all I could come up with was Oola. She was painted green and the image of Brig painting herself green seemed humorous to me. (And I would not like to be Dr. Manhatten, that was just a humorous topical reference. I would like to be a Woad!!)

Iron Bess is my hero...she's one of the people I've always wanted to meet, so she could properly eviscerate me for comments I've made in Pirate Pop about certain movies and particular certain characters.

Someone posted a video of a woman doing a belly dance in the Leia Slave Costume around here a year or so ago. I think it was in Beyond. The woman didn't look like Fisher, though. Mae could totally pull that off. (Although my amazingly witty friend Brig would be out of picture then. Well, she could paint herself green, sport that giant headdress with tails thing and go as Oola...in fact, come to think of that, I think that would be really cool. If only because I want to see Brig have to paint herself all green. )

I do a little writing. I was also curious. Ah. Well I think you can consider yourself as having almost complete artistic license. Extrapolate from what you know about human nature and you're golden.

I have to agree with what several other people have said - it's not your problem. Just make that part of the situation very clear from the start - it's primitive camping and... (spell out as many details as you are able). Those who decide to go can figure things out for themselves. Otherwise I think you're just making trouble for yourself. Besides, from my camping daze, I noticed that the second day sans shower is a bit (very slightly) uncomfortable, but by the third day you forget all about it. (Of course, this is primarily (although not exclusively) experience from all male events. The co-ed events featured women who understood the situation and decided not to worry about it. (Such women - provided they aren't the sort who never shower - are often more interesting anyhow.))

People who complain annoy me. (Which means this post is a recursive loop.)

Cool! Thanks! I booked the Best Western in Canal Winchester since it's the closest to your place.

Yay! Conch chowder! Conch chowder! We'll leave right before the first battle.

He didn't mention it, but Boo lives in Florida.

Do you mean with Europeans, or are you looking for accounts of bad eggs amongst the American aboriginals? Both. Just curious about 'Indian' pirates (not to be confused with East Indian pirates from India, that is another topic). The essence of stealing at sea suggests to me anyone with a boat could have been the first person to take to piracy. It isn't a group activity at first, that happens as the successful individual pirate spreads the news to a group who is morally capable of regarding stealing as a valuable group activity. So if you were omniscient and could time travel, you could probably find many examples of some guy taking his canoe out and stealing from some other guy in a canoe. Whether that spreads through the group or not is another thing entirely. The nature of the American Indian history adds an immensely complicating factor to determining the answer to your question. Since Indians in the Americas before the GAoP didn't write any books at all (that I know of), I think you'll have a fun time trying to research facts. As far as I know, their history was entirely oral until we came and wrote bits of it down. (Black Elk Speaks comes to mind. I believe it was written in the 1930s.) However, I would tend tend put oral tradition slightly above fiction in terms of accurateness. No doubt you've played that game where you tell someone something and they repeat it to the next person and so on and after 4 or 5 people the message is usually so garbled you can't make heads or tails of it. Imagine how well oral history which is passed through several generations works. No doubt some people would try and argue that those transferring the knowledge would rehearse the story over and over, but then you have the nature of human memory to contend with. The understanding of human memory based on recent research is that a person's memory is made up of a few important points that are mentally stored and recalled. All the rest of the story is filled in based on things that have happened to that person in the last day or two. Because a 'story' from your memory is in your head, you can be absolutely convinced that something happened a particular way whether it did or not. (Elizabeth Loftus has done some outstanding research on the nature of memory and false eyewitness testimony if that interests you.) No doubt you've had the experience where you were sure so and so was at X event and a photograph proved you wrong or some similar incorrect memory event. So I don't think you can rely very much or oral traditions that have been written down generations after the original story took place as being all that factually correct. When you combine the nature of memory (where the events significant to the person recalling a memory are the only reliable bits) with the nature of the pass along story (where what is important in a story or statement depends on the interpretation of the person hearing it), you're extremely likely to have many, many incorrect facts in a story. Why do you want to know this anyhow?

Ah, yes, Kiera Knightly. Now that I think about it, she was actually the reason I picked up that movie. She looked pretty badass in the stills and I wanted to see if she could actually pull it off. (Ehh...not so much so...her voice doesn't quite cut it.)

Thanks for the tip! I should see that; I actually did know it existed. I first want to read the book so I know fact from fiction, as you suggested. Alas, I have postponed my trip to a more opportune time for various reasons. I want to check into getting a small cannon, though...

Woad is a sort of blue dye that is gotten from flowering yellow plants. There is a rumor that the Picts painted themselves or maybe even tattooed themselves with woad. Then there was a movie where the northern Europeans were savages who painted themselves blue and were actually referred to as 'Woads.' (I do not recall the name of the movie. It was supposed to be a 'more realistic' tale about knights. I give it *** of five, whatever it is called.) For me, it basically comes down to the fact that woad is a funny word. Woad, woad, woad. And when you combine it with the only hero worth noting in The Watchmen, it has a topical reference that I think is really funny. (We are amused.) Plus it makes Diosa uncomfortable, which is no mean feat. Usually, that happens the other way 'round. Woad is also an Elmer Fudd-ism, as in "I woad my bike on the woad to school."

Don't buy liquor. Hang around with Stynky. Then somehow it just appears. (No, I don't want to know how. That would make me culpable.) You're pirates! Hang the code, and hang the rules! They're more like guidelines anyway.

To Tracy, whom I hope one day to meet. (Soon. Like this year!)

Where's the skeleton in pirate garb sitting on a bench? Such a thing would look right nice on my front porch. Remember that the pound is currently at about $1.40 from about $2.00 a year ago. It's a good time to buy life-sized pirates.

"Such a day, rum all out: — Our company somewhat sober: — A damned confusion amongst us! — Rogues a-plotting: — Great talk of separation — so I looked sharp for a prize: — Such a day found one with a great deal of liquor on board, so kept the company hot, damned hot; then all things went well again." -advice from the Man hisself

The price isn't my primary concern. I'd like to find somewhere midway between your place and the ship. Unless that's a bad neighborhood or something.

Oddly, our phone discussion created some doubts in my mind which has sort of dampened my adventurousness. Plus I spoke with the woman in the Philippines about the possibility of future tours and that looks highly likely. Plus plus after talking with my dad about it this morning, it turns out that he wants to go (he's a WWII history nut) but he can't make it during that time period. Added together, it means I am temporarily shelving the Philippines project. (As quickly as I decided to do it, I have undecided to do it.) What hotel do you recommend this time Michael? I felt like I was too far away last time. I'll probably come down Friday night so we can dress Becky. (You can't make an effective Surgeon's Journal out of a couple hours.)

ACK!!! We really will need a surgeon now... to tend to all the people who are going to be violently ill when Mission comes naked to camp... UGH... stomach is turning already Ah, but you forget. I will be thin and beautiful this year. And I'll be wearing blue paint. (Heck, they do it on Duvall during Fantasy Fest, so it's allowed...sort of...)

You know, I have the impression people think others are far more upset about this than anyone actually is. I absolutely took Silkie's comments as being to me and I understood the nature and tone of them and am not in the least offended. Keep in mind that The Hide is Silkie's brain child - she thought of it (with some help from her fellow Archangels), she sacrificed and bought the canvas for it instead of a tent last year, she did a stupendous job organizing the meals last year and she made sure everything got done. So if she requested that The Hide be PC when the event was going on and I was dressed as a movie pirate, I would most certainly respect her wishes - as I hope would everyone else. Now enough about this. Silkie feels pretty badly and I do not want to be at the root of making our beloved Mistress McDonough unhappy. Wow... did you have to make that last statement? I feel the need to go gouge my eyes out :) Sorry Mission. Based solely on this comment, I have decided to go ahead with my plan to be 300 years out of place at PiP. I am going as a Pict dressed entirely in woad this year. (Quick, someone fetch me some blue paint...Dr. Manhatten, you got nothin' on me. (Except enormous strength, a gigantic...intellect and the ability to alter matter at will. But other than that...))