Stynky Tudor

wha? who? Get over here you little pirate minx. . .

Aye, sounds like another party at Captain Flint's! Not that we can make it mind you . . . too many other things up in the air and in the way right now. Sorry.

Aye and Happy New Years to you as well!

Great illustration Nigel! I've got to make me a hat like that now. . .

Haha, we've got the Jamestown pirate ship plates as well. . . very cool!

May only fair winds find yer sails, while rum and fine foods fill yer belly. A safe voyage to ya shipmate,

(berp) 'appy Berrthday Mister Redbeard

And a 'appy (berp) Beerthday to you Saucy Nell (berp)

Ahoy there, welcome aboard and a scurvy 'appy Beerthday to ya Viperpee So who be hailing from the New Hamster area Viperpee be looking to sign articles, start or join a pirate crew. Besides on his beerthday he best not be celebrating alone! What say you? Do you wanna drink or do ya wanna . . . (berp)

Aye, microwaved stew being flung onto the laps of the ones you love. . . sounds like another great party Mad Woman Cheryl, I’m almost sorry that I missed it. Anyway, Happy 17th Beerthday there to ya Mad Cheryl! Now let me buy ya a drink, just stay away from me lap with that bowl a stew.

Naw, not you mate. We can all see by yar signature picture yer just a big old softy. I mean that coat, cutlass and forty, you're almost there, just need a big bag of coal, ah I mean toys that you be plundering and taking away. . . um giving to kiddies.

"Broadside" Long, that hat is amazing! Did you get it from a regular vender on ebay or was it just a lucky chance find?

Now El Pirata, what the hell happened to ya? The last I heard was that you were on your way down to Key West or that you were waiting on a friend and about to leave. . . Why didn't ya go mate?

Pictures mate, we gotta see pictures. I mean Santa in pirate boots, big belly, flintlock pistol and cutlass, big old white beard, pirate head scarf, drinking a 40 and handing out toys! Now that's an idea for a Xmas card if I ever heard - thought of one. Wait that is a good idea. . . hold on. . . This idea is hereby copyrighted by me Stynky the pirate © 2003 But seriously, you gotta show us some pictures.

Aye Nigel that be the Shiii. . . there laddy, (berp) Olaf be da man sez I. *As Stynky Steps over pirate bodies and the bits of vomit that now litter Key West, he knows it to be the brew that is true*

Well there be a few complaints coming in about this topic so I'll be stopping it fer now. Anyone that wants to the continue this discussion, send me a PM or an email and if there be enough interest, then I'll give it a move over to the "BEYOND PYRACY" Section and open it back up. . .

Hawkyns, I’m sorry that I missed ya at PIP, if I had been a bit more organized I would have gotten yer contact information before I was there. Would have liked to have bought ya a drink! I showed up late meself and came back early. Most of it be a blur now, but I had a great time none the less. As fer me kit, me focus has always been on a slight living history angle. I say slight because I only sew so much of me own stuff by hand and candle light and I use a bit of elastic in me shirt sleeves. Plus I threw me lower back out making me own wool felt hat blanks, some things are best left up to machines I say. So I’m far from being a 100% accurate, but I do try were I can or were I’m not to lazy to cut corners. As for basic clothes there’s enough cross over, baggy pants or breeches made of sail cloth, a sash around the waste, bare feet, stockings, boots, head scarves. I mean from Corsair to the Buccaneer you’re set, except fer weapons, hats and that fancier clothes stuff, I know you already know. But to answer yar question yes, depending on the event I will tailor me Pirate look, depending on the time period I be going fer. Fer me it’s not about being less to more authentic from fair to reenactment, it’s an event and all the same. Now from time to time I might break me own rules and do something stupid like wearing a tricorne hat and carry a wheellock pistol to be sure, but that would be the rare occasion and I’m not likely to admit to doing it in public.

First off I would like to say how nice, calm and open minded this debate and discussion is without all that foaming at the mouth or getting all personal like back in grade school with name calling, sticks and stones crap. I mean not even fiery marshmelly being flung really. . . very cool. But as for saying that the American Japanese weren’t in concentration camps and that they had it pretty well is as silly as the people that say that most Blacks that were kept as slaves had it pretty good and were treat fairly well. Just take a few moments and think of the words being said there. . . I mean really, being grabbed away from home, family, community, forced to live, work, die in a caged community out in the desert, surrounded by barbed wire, armed guards, cut off from the rest of the world. Someone on the outside might say it wasn’t a concentration camp, just maybe. But it was a prison that held it's own American citizens. Where were the German American camps? Why weren’t they locked away in similar camps? Could it be because they had round eyes, big noses, made excellent beer and hadn’t designed or developed Anime as a lucrative entertainment property yet?

Ahoy Billie, I had followed the link from your email signature in an earlier post of yours, loved the web site description and listening to the .m3u posted there. I had just sent ya an email when I realize that I was listening to your live show, you were mentioning the Pyracy Pub, troubles with the Coast Guard in San Francisco, firing cannons . . . and I noticed the feed had today’s date! What a hoot. Doh, I think I’ve broken from me pirate persona. Anyway, great show! Be sure to let us all know when yar web site comes online and send me an email when yar next radio show is!. . . I know ya posted dates but a reminder the day before and or of is always good fer me.

We're still waiting on that list of plunder you got. . . tell us what ya got.

I sooo, don't want to know what that is supposed to mean. El Pirata, In um, ah, earlier posts some where Mad Woman Cheryl has referred to her shipmate pirate hubby as Crispy Dick, I believe that be his Pirate name. . .

And it were Mad Woman Cheryl’s Beerthday as well What a grand day to be sharing with ya Lass. (berp) Happy 17th Beerthday to ya Mad Cheryl . . . as belated as it is, I only now be coming around to consciousness and me own ship and pub duties after me wee stay in Key West. Make sure that Pirate Crispy Dick of yars makes up me negligent behavior to ya. . . (berp)

(berp) Avast you scurvy dawgs Now everyone gather 'round, hold out yer tankards for a spot of swill. It be a strange mixture of rum and molasses with a pinch of nutmeg, it be what I were drinking on Key West the day of me Beerthday. . . (berp) Actually thanks fer all the kind words shipmates, it's ‘nough to make Stynky . . . (berp)

Arr, if you been asked to be pirate for a specific type faire, say Renaissance fer instance, then you be stuck in a bit of a time frame there. . . So some of the usually thought of “Golden Age of Piracy” stuff not necessarily apply. Though there be plenty of cross over, baggy sea shirts, pants made of sail cloth, sashes and ropes used as belt, bare feet, sandals, boots and of course the more tailored clothes were signs of class and status, even on a pirate ship. There be enough differences that you should make sure do a bit of research and make sure what time zone you be in and dressing fer. For instance, you might wear a head scarf but not a tricorne hat, a doublet but not a waistcoat. And unless you were a Corsair, your blade would likely have been a rapier and yar firearm, if any at all would have been a matchlock or wheellock. Personally as fer wearing me garb out and around on non-events, I guess I would be one of those fake pirate wussy types. Though I wear pirate garb every chance I get, faires, festivals, around the house, when I’m working, at the computer, on the message board, washing dishes and sometimes I’ll even brave the out side for and storm the mailbox to plunder what's inside. But I’m not real likely to make a run a out to the store for me container of soy milk while in garb unless it’s just happens to be on me way to the faire, event or other pirate happening. Oh, and here be a couple of slim reads that should be right up your time period of interest. And though I can only really speak for the Elizabethan Sea Dogs book, the illustrations are great for the imagination and sparking ideas for costume. Osprey Military http://www.ospreypublishing.com/ Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1560–1605 http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_deta...e=S0153&ser=ELI The Armada Campaign 1588 http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_deta...~ser=CAM~per=15

Ahoy there shipmates, It appears that I’ll be attending PIP this year after all! I should be rowing ashore some time Tuesday evening and having to shove off Saturday afternoon, pressing engagements sez I. . . I do look forward to meeting the lot of ya though, matching up names, text and avitars with real faces. I be planning to stay with the likes of Dark Rose and his unsavory crew over at the Fairfield. But ya know if Stynky turns up missing and all there be is a pile of barnana cream pie crumbs, I don’t know what to tell ya, light some marshmellies fer me and drink a bit of rum.