Mission

It's a fine photo. Legos, huh? I got interested in pirates because of the Zap! action models of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

I sometimes grind metal and you have to dip in a little dish of water which is usually located on the grinder to cool it down (it does get red hot sometimes.) I have to tell you, based on what that water looks like... you're adding more than fizz to that mixture. The water gets pretty scummy after a bit. (Just a thought.)

And yet, according to this website (which I believe is using data for 2010 based on what I saw on some other sites), here are the 10 most popular US beers: 1. Bud Light 2. Budweiser 3. Miller Lite 4. Coors Light 5. Corona Extra 6. Natural Light 7. Heineken 8. Michelob Ultra Light 9. Busch Light 10. Miller High Life And here are the top 3 beers in Canada (which I find sort of fascinating given what various Canadians have told me): 1. Budweiser 2. Coors Light 3. Molson Canadian I can remember the guys at one of the Haunted Houses I was running switching to lite beer because it meant they could drink more of them. (Which thus allowed them to brag about how many they drank, I suppose.)

I actually have links to most of the albums I was allowed to use in the Journals at the end of each Journal (in the Epilogue). Unfortunately, as I discovered when trying to update the PiP 2007 Surgeon's Journal with album links (which it had not had before the update), many of these albums have disappeared since people started moving stuff to Facebook.

Just FYI, I had the same problem when I changed to this latest image and clearing the cache solved it. So I think the Pub is fine on that front.

OK, then I want a quadcorne. Or a unicorne. I guess I should have known there would be such a thing but since it's out of the period I study, I had no idea. I had seen that style of hat on Wellington in the Sharpe movies, though I didn't know its name. Why he brought it up, I don't know. I have never seen a bicorne associated with a pirate that I can recall... I believe I have been told (or read here) that tricornes didn't really appear till the late 17th or early 18th century and then wouldn't haven't have been in as widespread use as one often finds at reenactments. (Unlike planter's hats. ) Naming all the things pirates didn't have would take an awful long time. Perhaps this is about citing the things pirates wouldn't have worn that they are sometimes credited with? (Although we then have dozens, possibly hundreds, of topics about each individual item that would fit that bill.)

Anesthesia. They had no anesthesia. I would really like a bicorne hat, tho'. (I presume you meant tricorne, but the concept of a bicorne strikes me as amusing.)

And then you sit and drink all that and post here on the pub. (Well, you should...)

This is from Captain England's account in the 3rd Edition of the General History. I don't think it proves anything one way or the other, but I find it interesting that the Captain and QM were both commanding the prisoner, who played James Bond in one movie. (If I remember correctly, the QM had charge of the prisoners according to one account I read.) "Mr. Lasinby, who was one of Captain Mackra's Officers, and detained, was under the Deck at this Time, and commanded both by the Captain and QuarterMaster of the Pyrates, to tend the Braces on the Booms, in hopes, it was believed, a Shot would take him before they got clear, asking the Reason why he was not there before? And when he would have excused himself, threat'ned on the like Neglect to shoot him, at which the other beginning to expostulate farther, and claim their Promise of putting him ashore, got an unmerciful beating from the Quarter-Master. Captain Taylor, who was now Successor to England [because the pirates deposed England], and whose Priviledge it was to do so, being lame of his Hands and unable." (Johnson, p. 130)

Edward Barlow was pressed out of a merchant ship, although I don't have the exact quote. It would have been in the 1670s or 80s. That's the only one I can recall coming across, but I don't read period stuff from after 1730 for the most part.

It probably worked when you did it, but you needed to clear your cache.

Ha ha ha! Go look at post #3 in this thread. (Pirate geek!)

We have an existing thread for this question. In fact, if no one objects, I'd like to combine them so that all the answers are in one place.

Really?! In California? Who would have thought... If you like the garb and fun and you get some of each, you're pretty much a reenactor, Joe.

Here's another interesting quote from Captain Martel's section of the General History. "...for so many idle People employing themselves in Privateers, for the sake of Plunder and Riches, which they always spend as fast as they get, that when the War is over, and they can have no farther Business in the Way of Life they have been used to, they too readily engage in acts of Pyracy, which being but the same Practice without a Commission, they make very little Distinction betwixt the Lawfulness of one, and the Unlawfulness of the other." (Johnson, p. 65, 3rd ed.) Swashbuckler 1700, you might also say this proves your assertion that Privateers and Pirates were the same, but 1) Johnson is talking specifically about individuals who see no difference between privateering and piracy and 2) I would argue back that Johnson is over-generalizing with his sweeping statement, "being but the same Practice without a Commission". But feel free to run with it if you like.

The Santa Maria events were always (Sept) the weekend closest to TLAPD and in May it was usually the fourth weekend. This year it will be the third weekend. Michael, Kate and I were sort of shanghai'd into the Archangels when I went in 2008. I was told you needed to be a member of an existing crew. However, as I said, I always tell everyone I am the Mercury ship's surgeon. (This is mostly because I like the Mercury's Captain so much.) You should also stick Put-in-Bay 2010 and 2011 in there. Those were both the weekends before the 4th of July weekend 6/24-26, 2011 and 6/25-27, 2010. This year it's June 22nd - 24th.

What constitutes a Mercury event? How about the Santa Maria events? Much of the crew is Mercury and many of those who aren't don't have a crew affiliation that I'm aware of other than the Scioto Pirates (Michael & Kate and Mark & Jennie (who are also Mercury Crew members), Thomas and Dan. Maybe George/Ken, although he's really part of the Santa Maria crew.) You might also look at the various Surgeon's Journals for reference. (I think the dates may even be on them for the PiP events.) If anyone asks me which crew I'm at during any of those events except the BB thing, I say Mercury.

It's funny, but this is all the material I never thought would make much sense putting into a book. (I can't see the general public going for it.) That's why I'm publishing it on-line.

This month's article is the first of a two-part article about amputation. (There is so much information about amputation that it's going to run 10 pages once I finish it in April.) This part looks at pirates & amputation, reasons to perform it and how the surgeon and patient prepare for it. Next month I'll talk about how the operation was performed, different ways to stop the bleeding, post-operative procedures and the prosthetic.

No, I've learned that as simple as some historical fact may appear to be, it is rarely so once you start to dig into it. Of course, I've learned the same thing about many things we think are 'facts.' But now we enter the dim realm of perception and consciousness which is so far OT that I'm not going to continue rambling any more.

From the wiki entry on false colors: "This practice [displaying false colors] was considered acceptable in naval warfare, provided the false flag was lowered and the national flag raised before engaging in battle." The wiki entry seems focused on the 20th century, but I'll bet it happened more than once in the regular navy during the GAoP. All's fair in love and war.

Yeah, I think I saw another reference to it as well, but now I can't find it for some reason. So I'd say we've proven it in this case. :)

You clearly haven't been doing this for very long...

Thanks, Foxe. Although we know who they were, but we don't know what did they did with their share. (Hearkening back to the original question about pirates as savers.) Some of them must have saved their Moidores against the future, but the inclination from that passage seems to lean towards short l. and m. one.

I'd like Williams post too, if I could. Besides, being the captain wasn't always such great shakes if you go by this passage... "I shall consider their military Officer, the Captain; what Privileges he exerts in such Anarchy and unrulyness of the Members: Why truly very little, they only permit him to be Captain, on Condition, that they may be Captain over him; they separate to his Use the great Cabin, and sometimes vote him small Parcels of Plate and China, (for it may be noted that Roberts drank his Tea constantly) but then every Man, as the __ Honour takes him, will use the Plate and China, intrude into his Apartment, swear at him, seize a Part of his Victuals, and Drink, if they like it, without his offering to find Fault or contest it..." (The Schonhorn edition of the General History of the Pyrates)