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Articles? I don't have to sign the articles. Read up on ship's surgeons, sir!

Not the brown one, the gold/yellow one. Yahhh! Ugggggly! (Ok, it's a neck scarf on this day.)

A joke is practically an order in Stynky's warped mind. What scares me is now he knows he can wake me up in the middle of the night...I may have to move my phone.

Blue! (And, just like that, we all wave as Mission's period correctness flies right out the window.) I've got to get rid of that gold, shiny damned head scarf. Uggggly!

You could come to Michael's Columbus events.

It captures your essence or something.

Thanks everyone. This is an education. Some more stupid questions: What kind of bird does Crudbeard have here? What is its name? What is the name of the woman? What is the title (and name) of this guy. (Not Harry, I know his name and title.) Was he the Admiral? What's this guy's name? He's with Bone Island. Who is the girl on the plank in this photo? What crew is she with (if any)? How do I go about gettin a neato torpedo Sacred Heart head scarf? What's the name of the guy from Pirate's Choice Rum? Is that his wife in the photos of him? No doubt they'll be more...

This is a nice picture of Lily: I like this one of Michael: And this one of Anna: This one is just freaking hilarious: And I'm making this my new screen background on my work computer:

You can't! He's sending it all to me! (Anyone missing a wooden brown mug should report to the Surgeon's dark, dank surgery on the bottom deck of the Mercury.) He called me last night at 12:30am (at Mary's behest! Do you people not have jobs?) to tell me he was going to send me the pewter one too, despite the fact that I already explained (three times!) that I had found mine in my stuff!

Look, he's been poisoned! He's adopting the PiP mentality of shedding all worldly cares and responsibilities when he enters a pirate event...

Alas, I doesn't look like I'll be at BB this year. (Besides, you're too busy running around like a chicken with his head cut off to have a table. )

Oh Nell...I must tell you that the 'twin faction' of the Archangel crewe has done this...Sadly, it does not help. You find your so called 'other' wanting to stay up and join in on the fun...Sigh. But it is well worth it though! True enough, but you get twice as many pictures of yourself that way, with twice as many handsome pyrates... And with Captain Jim, too!

Oh, I like this one:

Ok, some dumb questions (I'm sure I'll have more). Who is this? I thought it was Crispy at first, but now I'm pretty certain it isn't. Also, are Robin and Leatherback of Bone Island a couple or are they just playing? I thought I met her beau, but after looking at the pics (there are another set of them as well), I am becoming confused. And is this Nicole Andryko? If so, what's her boyfriend's name? Or is it Sharon? I don't think it's Sharon. Can I use the photos by Sharon, Nichole and your son on my web page? Who is this?

Whoa! It's even better than I thought. I figured it was those two leaves of needles, but it arrived today and the needle display kit actually looks like this: It'll take up a 1/3 of my table space all by itself!

N. Isreal/Keizeragracht 539/Amsterdam C. & Da Capo Press, a division of Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York Printed in The Netherlands in 1969. It's from a series called "Bibliotheca Australiana." So was the Funnell book about Dampier's first voyages, as a matter of fact. Apparently the Cooke volumes are numbers 51 and 52 in the series. I've found them for as cheap as $120 through Bookfinder. But that's too rich for my blood. My Woodall reproduction only cost me $100 shipped from England and I can always get this from the library if I need it. I must say that it has beautiful foldout maps and many illustrations reproduced from the original in it. I should note that it doesn't contain an extraordinary amount on Rogers per se. It refers to him a lot, especially in the reproductions of the voyage's Committee Actions, but tells you very little about the man himself. It does feature the other side of the argument about putting Dover in charge of the prize which they named the Batchelor. However, it doesn't tell you much about Rogers himself, it talks more about why Cooke thought Dover would be fine as the Captain of the vessel. He doesn't dwell on supposition, he just records the facts as he sees them.

The Hide was extraordinary, William. It made the campsite a destination at night. (It also kept people up till the wee hours...)

You must have moved them? All I can find is birds and motorcyclists. (Two good things that go good together.) However, I did find your main page working once again. Huh. You must have really dredging the bottom trying to find someone to photograph on this day. (J/k. There are some really awesome shots of him in there! If only you'd have gotten one of him stealing the wallet from the purse of an unsuspecting tourist. I myself am working on a portfolio of drunken pics of him for the Epilogue page of the Surgeon's Tale for PiP '08. Heh, heh, heh...)

Ewwwwww... While reading through Cooke, I recalled your interest in Rogers. Then it occurred to me that Rogers had his cheek badly wounded and I wondered if you were not basing your character, at least in part, on Woodes Rogers? If so, you really must procure a copy of Captain Edward Cooke's two volume book. It is rather expensive, so I recommend the library. That's how I got mine. Curiously, I only just realized that there was a second volume (despite the fact that the spine of this book clearly says, "Volume 1" at the bottom). He tends to go off topic and get wayyy deep into the history of the lands the privateers visited, but because of the opening summaries for each chapter, it would be very easy to skip these asides. (I am reading them because I knew almost nothing about the history of Mexico up to that time and find Cooke to be a most easy-to-read author. He does a very nice job summarizing other men's work as well.) He also covers many things that Rogers' account doesn't mention and, like I said above, lists the full content of every single document relating to the voyage.

Time to dredge this hoary old topic up and examine the state of my avatars since last July. (Has it been that long?) Note that since Stynky changed the size format of the Avatars, you will find these to all be random sizes. I used to make them all the same size which made for a nice clean format, but I can now be lazy. Ah, the wonders of our modern life! First, we have this: which I captured from a Youtube video of the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon Feather Dusted. I decided it made me look fat (Isn't it strange how we tend to think people look like their avatars?) and I changed it to this: which is what I like to tell myself I am like when nobody's looking. Then I learned that a new edition of the Sam & Max graphic novel Sam & Max Hit the Road came out with a few extra bits in it, including another one on pirates, so I rushed out and got that. This lead to a series of Sam & Max avatars including: and: and finally, just Max (who I know I am nothing like, but whom I sometimes tell myself I would like to be like when nobody's looking): Then Duchess and MadL started teasing me about sounding and somehow looking like Paris Hilton ( ) based on one of those somewhat cheesy airbrushed pictures which can be found in this important thread. So I swiped the image of the dog, who I have named "Butch." (You better not make him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry): Which brings us up to date. Just in time for the new year!

By Jove if Cooke doesn't spell the entire list of stolen Cargo out! This man is fastidious in recording every document that resulted from the voyage of Woodes Rogers! I was going to type it in, but the format would be extremely funky and the list tiresome to enter. So I just scanned it all in and created one big list. These would be the things that were not distributed to the men as discussed earlier. (Cooke, p. 345-6)

Someone call the men in the white coats! Stynky's sitting there in the dark giggling to himself again! Oh, I forgot to mention...I found my mug. I had packed it in my surgical stuff before you showed up. So who's dented mug do you have? And whose wooden mug do I now have?

Who needs Sterling? That stodgy old pirate hunter...I like ya! Here's proof: You'll never have a better friend than the Mercury ship's surgeon. It'll get you right to the front of the line when the amputations and mercury applications begin.