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Yeah, it's sorta' like... Pleasantville. Also, on behalf of the coconut clique, please insure Candi is wearing the correct subspecies of coconut when you illustrate her wearing her field expedient brassiere.

Hyvää syntymäpäivää! Looks like we missed the party again.

Wow. I wonder what it looked like before it got washed?

Ha, I can already see the wife's eyes rolling.

A decent article on period lighting... http://clanntartan.s...l/lighting.html Have not done business with these folks before but product looks good... http://www.twojs.me.uk/Lanterns.htm Interesting electric alternative where fire isn't allowed or practical... http://www.oocities....ern/lantern.htm

Is there an animated short in the works?

MadMike was making a silly film reference. (In Finnish... Monty Python Hullu Maailma... niellä ja kookos) Google translation rocks.

Hey, "Avast thar ye punk grummets, belay that!" Hummmm... it has possibility. Jas. Hook You're a natural JH. And now we know who to leave them with during their summer break.

Thanks Capt. Good timing too. We were just having some dialog about this.

This was something that surfaced during our studies last year. We had a link to a cool illustrated poster showing assorted samples of different coconuts but it has since vanished. If it resurfaces, we'll post it. "Cocos nucifera Linn. was introduced to Mexico by Spanish navigators in the middle of the 16th century, from Cape Verde and Santo Domingo to the Atlantic coast, and from the Solomon Islands and the Philippines to the Pacific coast. These populations remained isolated from one another for almost 500 years. Morphological studies on fruit characteristics show that coconuts from the two populations are contrasting forms. The Atlantic coast populations show a wild type fruit, with angular shape, thick husk, thick shell, thick endosperm and low water content. The Pacific populations have a domesticated type fruit, with fruit and nut more spherical, with a much thinner husk and shell, and higher water content. The higher variability observed in the Pacific coast raises the possibility of later introductions, also from the Philippines or other Pacific islands." - Economic Botany, 1993 New York Botanical Garden Press

One would think that if the parrot was to be employed in providing proper upward thrust/lift, it would be worn over the shoulder on whichever side the leg was missing. (I'm no rocket scientist, this is just a humble opinion based on observation.)

We'll pass this along to the missus. It'll make for a better period impression than "hey you punk bastids!"

Link to local traffic updates for a weekend adventure... http://www.sigalert....=-122.20228&z=3

Per Ryan at the Science Museum of Minnesota, it'll be departing September 3rd. Spoke with Ken with the Whydah Museum... http://whydah.com/ He states it'll be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in December. http://www.mpm.edu/

An engraving from a Dutch book on fire fighting. The recently extinguished ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam. (Brandspuitenboek - Jan van der Heiden 1690) Detail showing what appears to be a man wearing braces or suspenders. This reinforces earlier input about their employment on the continent. "It depends upon whom you are portraying. Prior to the 1800's, they would be most common with Germanic people. Outside of those cultures though, they were not popular..." - Quartermaster James, Pyracy.com (August 2009)* *Reference http://pyracy.com/in...749-suspenders/

Happy B-Day Mister H!

Big Bear Pirate Faire - June 2-3 2012 in southern California Info: http://www.bbvrsinc.org/ or... 1-909-237-0448

Understood. The one's above should perhaps have a bit more fading to achieve the proper Hello Kitty hue.

"It's Ham Nite!" Caught the matinee show with the family. Very entertaining! Later, over lunch, I got to put the Four Yorkshiremen spin on how, when I was a lad, all we had in the way of claymation comedy was The Gumby Show which was seen irregularly on a medium-sized, black and white tv screen.

Cottage (Not the first thing that came to mind. Just playing "Keeping up with the Jones's.")

We'll pm you with our mailing address.