Mission

Are you teaching these days, then? Gunsmithing? Physics? Trolling?

Mission you have yet to find who pub member looks like that mustachioed fellow with dark suit There is a guy at PiP (Pirates in Paradise in Key West, FL) named Aldo Barrios who could totally pull that one off. He'd have to apply a fake mustacio, though.

I merged the above post with this one since they're about the same thing. Just to keep things tidy, you know.

Look at the detail on that last painting: There's a cowboy hat on the ground. What is the seated guy holding? It almost looks like a cigarette. (To bring up that hoary old topic...)

Blackjohn could totally be this guy. SB1700 keeps finding period drawings of pub members.

OK, OK, but we're awful close to my pet historical topic of interest and I have to state the facts.

If you could loosely organize that (like jazz musicians do with solos - pre-select who's going to talk, but let them decide which story they wanted to tell), it might make a neat thing for the public to watch. The only problem is that you'd have to make it formal enough that they know they could listen in, but informal enough that it doesn't seem staged. Well you would if you wanted to do it the way I'm thinking.

Eyes eyes...." silly decorations"!! :o take that back there is nothing silly about hat decorations..... Maybe you don't think so, but you wouldn't catch me dead in a hat with those things on it outside of a spirited (by which I mean drunken) hat swap game. A cross stitch, possibly. A rosette - no. Damned silly looking to my eye. (OTOH, so are knee pants and yet I wear those... ) Well it is silly but it is also fun...... come on people do more silly things........ I am in no way suggesting people shouldn't wear them. I'm only saying i wouldn't without good cause.

Well, my knowledge is limited to medicine. There may be period evidence of intravenous drug abuse, but I'm not aware of it. But I'm pretty sure they said he was showing the 'P' which was allegedly used when they branded pirates. (Although no one ever presented any proof of that being true. It didn't really make sense given that pirates were hung if convicted - something I know because Foxe and I participated in a rather drawn out discussion about it on another pirate forum.)

I found one via that looks quite like those in the paintings on a website called the American Duchess. Looks like a lot of work, although the Duchess claims they are "surprisingly easy to make!" Claudine de Montigny gives another tutorial with a boatload of photos. (My fingertips hurt just looking at them.)

Eyes eyes...." silly decorations"!! :o take that back there is nothing silly about hat decorations..... Maybe you don't think so, but you wouldn't catch me dead in a hat with those things on it outside of a spirited (by which I mean drunken) hat swap game. A cross stitch, possibly. A rosette - no. Damned silly looking to my eye. (OTOH, so are knee pants and yet I wear those... )

Considering they didn't have syringes like we think of them at that time in history, it was my impression that he was showing her his Pirate branding. Opium was considered medicinal and it was taken orally.

Oke-doke, I updated the second post in this list to include the 2010, 2011 & 2012 topics that we have to date. I tried to stick to the more widely trafficked and important content threads. With the changes that have occurred since 2010 to the event, I'd say most of the event-focused info before then should be considered interesting mainly for its historical rather than informational value. This is excepting the Surgeon's Journals, which everyone should go read right now.

Okay, fine. (This is a great idea for a thread. It should definitely be stickied IMO.)

I see your point, but with women in movies it's sort of different. (Which you could legitimately argue is not necessarily a good thing.) Then again, Depp had to fight for his gold teeth and scruffy appearance in the first movie. I read somewhere or another that they wanted him to be clean and purty.

This is actually a pretty old thread about hats, specifically the cross on them. (Lately expanded to the silly decorations on hats.)

Astrology was also an important part to some doctors in the Humoral Theory. (You "should not bleed when the stars are thus" and other such nonsense.) One can't help but wonder what they'll look back on in the future and say, "They actually believed thus and so at this time in history."

We need to update the PiP index thread.

Too bad Edward James Olmos isn't a woman. According to Wicked Jim's theory, he would be perfect. Hollywood isn't about to use a woman with a bad complexion in such a role. It doesn't play well with the general public. I remember seeing Shrek with a girl and she didn't like the movie because Fiona "turned ugly" at the end of the story. And this was not a vapid, flighty girl but a woman with a Masters degree and more than a little savvy. Although I never thought Emma Stone was stunning or anything. She's just got that fiestiness about her that would work with lines like "If you'd have fought like a man you needn't hang like a dog" (Yes, yes, it's Read's line.) while still having the humor to see what Depp saw in his character. OTOH, if you wanted to make her deadly serious, you'd probably want a different actress. OTOOH, if you wanted to make her deadly serious, you wouldn't put her in a POTC movie.

Yeah, the awning of my porch at the condo. I estimate that I have spent about 150 nights sleeping out - in tents, under the stars, in teepees, in the broiling heat, the freezing cold, on rocks, on hay, on snow, in a canoe, in the mud and even, once, in a tree. I did that all before my back started getting creaky and I'm glad of it. (Because now I never need to do it again)

How about Emma Stone? (She's awesome and she can play anything.)

If I gotta... Mercury, offsite.

Wow, thanks for posting these, William! This is most useful for a project I am working on for Easter (of all things.) Check this one (The Loss of the Royal George by John Christian Schetky, c 1840) out: (Yeah, not period, but it's a shipwreck!)

Patrick is usually pretty good about his stuff being PC. I wonder if he has a source?

Yeah, leather tricorns are right out. I've also seen re-enactors wear the two parallel line style of lacing. Where it the surviving example located?