landlubbersanonymous

We'll pass this along to the missus.

It'll make for a better period impression than "hey you punk bastids!"

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.

Hope this isn't a double posting, but found this and wanted to get it down before I lost it...at work so time is limited...

Found here: http://www.college-o...tacles/side.cfm

Scroll down to see the photos, sorry no time to transfer them here yet...

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

Wish I could do the one crutch thing......but I'm as clumsy as a bear.

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 https://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

Not sure about men's fashions, but red shoes for ladies were high fashion at one point If you look hard enough you'll probably find a man or two in artwork sporting them as well.

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.")

Eye just contacted that Dutch web site..for the buckle shoes..those look grand!

We'll pm you with our mailing address.

(From a recent Internet auction.)

(These materialized on the French piracy forum Les Frères de la Côte.)

Don't know much about this Dutch company but the wares look pretty tidy...

1555 tot 1648... http://www.gelderser...derse_roos.html

1648 tot 1795... http://www.gelderser...derse_roos.html

Perhaps they can send us some promo samples to test the American market?

Esoterica

Happy BDay Mister Hand. Your Ramen cake is in the oven as we speak.

(Sorry for the late belated. The dog ate the invitation.)

:::Wading through shards of broken glass... marinaded in dried vomit.:::

Happy belated Mister O. Sorry we missed the party.

I'd love to actually get one made up for real and see just how effective they were. ...

(Let's remember to wipe our prints off that.)

"Don't forget the cannolis!"

- Ardell Sheridan aka Mrs.Clemenza The Godfather (1972)

Remake of Red Dawn is supposed to be released this November.

We've never been too keen on remakes... with the exception of The Thing (1982) and maybe a couple others.

Here's another one. Slightly post GAOP.

Blade Sharpener Les Cris De Paris 1737-46 (Artist Comte de Caylus)