Matusalem

I have kate Souris' book ready to go to withoutaname monday morning. Please anyone lt me know if this is still on.

That just gave me an idea. Thanks!

I have Ransom's and will send it out this weekend

BTW, Ransom, I have your book, which I am working on tonight and will send to Withoutaname this weekend.

BEAK (BTW, I always lose against my own mother because she gets an average of 30 points a turn by playing small 3-4 letter words, she 's a master at scrabble, and must be defeated...therefore don't wast your energy on long words...my advice)

Thanks, O'eye, I am truly inspired...literally. I have a back porch/sunroom in need of renovation and I am going to do it in the fashion of a greatcabin, and (yes, I know, talk is cheap) but I am going to post pics of the progress and final results.

Not even rum raisin? I remember visiting a homemade ice cream stand near Haverhill, Massachusetts that made peach brandy ice cream. The ice cream was so strong with brandy that I recall catching a buzz every time. Sadly somehow they pulled it off the menu. ...geez, i wonder why.

All I can say is the Sunday's singer Harriet Wheeler's Bristol UK accent in "Here's Where the Story Ends" melts me every time.

Bristol, R.I....rum & slave trading capital of America, enough said. Most Patriotic Town in America....well, that's what they call it. Traces of the Trade

Not to worry me lass! I added to the great storyline of Patrick Hand's book and sent it off to you today.

Ironic that my real name is Jerry, and I sail, and I'm, a 40's/50's retro freak, but I never really took to this rum, in spite that I love the packaging. 1. El Dorado 15 Year rum 2. Pusser's...though badly I miss the 47.5% alcohol version that was available 2 years ago 3. Rhum Barbancourt 4. Flor de Cana 7 year ( I always trust a third world country like Nicaragua to produce something with soul) 5. for cheap, I like Brugal. It's real ,and it's earthly crude and doesn't have that mass-produced taste. Made from sugar molasses, not straight cane. To my snotty taste, Captain Morgan or Bacardi is the 'Wonder bread' of rum. Captain Morgan's special reserve tastes like cough syrup, too much flavor additive. I will no longer buy Mount Gay Extra Old.. it is too God damned smooth and acts like cognac. $40 Havana Club is not available in the United States because of the trade embargo against Cuba, but I hears it is the holy grail of all rum.

It's only a sketchbook there Matusalem...I'm cool ...raise a glass to ye!

I have no books and have not gotten Decembers yet. withoutaname, I recieved Patrick Hand's late last week from Pew. I'll send it to you at the end of the month. You had Red Handed Jill's last month, therefore you are on schedule. ...and so am I. I'm not making any sense ,am I? All I know is that the guy that wrote the rules sent me the book last week, which I recieved on Dec 11, and I'll leave it at that. ....looks like I have approximately 3 weeks to do my bit.

Why Stop? The rest of us sketchbook particpants have big shoes to fill.

I gots me Patrick Hand's in the mail from Pew yesterday!

The trouble is that the poor referencing, self-contradiction, and outright error which characterises well over half the book throws enormous doubt on the usefulness of the rest. Foxe, I would have to agree with you on this one. Somehow I knew someone such as yourself would actually come through. The author often made many claims, then goes and adds "I don't have the information to verify ___" . But, I think, in reality, the book just skims on the topic of pre-American Revolution colonial America, a topic I think so few Americans know much of. But as for the author, my impression was that the topic was meritable, but his effort was in haste. Most of these topics actually require years and years of research, not just a saturday visit to the John Carter Brown Library, which it looks like the author did....plus add some of his own bits.

A contemporary perspective of an old problem: Why don't we hang pirates anymore?

Pew...At this point I am waiting on two books, I am hoping that they are still in transit as Callenish mailed them off on last week. Wait, wait, wait....You are waiting on books from Cal? I sent you Jill's beginning of the the month, and have Patrick's to go out next week. You should Red Handed Jill's currently. I hope I read that wrong, as only I should be sending them you, (via the mailing order) ..... withoutaname has RedHandedJill's, and Sophia's ...she woulld be the one sending them to Cal. All my debts are paid ...I just sit here emptyhanded, and waiting for one...would that be Patrick's?

Don't know if this helps, period wise, but this baby sits in front of the Portsmouth, R.I. town hall. Not sure but the wheels don't seem real. I posted the following quite from the Tavern forum Link to Tavern

Pew...At this point I am waiting on two books, I am hoping that they are still in transit as Callenish mailed them off on last week. Geez, I've never had a package lost from USPS...maybe that's just me.

Sophia Eisley's & Red Handed Jills are en route to Withoutaname, and now out of my hands.

Jimi Hendrix's drummer http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081112/ap_en_..._mitch_mitchell

How do I pronounce this street? Alice Anna?.....or aLiCEEanna?

if I ever was to build my own ocean-going pirate ship (you know, like the way we all wish we would win the lottery), this is basically how I'd do it: 1. Fiberglass, aluminum, or steel hull for easy maintainance and stregnth. Have some embossed effect on the hull outer surface to look like wood. 2. the entire deck and cabin of mohogany, teak, and pine ( a.k.a. the "finery") for realistic esthetics. 3. Carbon fiber masts & rigging but the outer roving in the color of wood, instead of the usual carbin fiber black. From a distance you can't tell that the masts are not wood. 4. Sails of cotton canvas.

Awwww man that's nice! (I'm a GeeBee fan myself.) I'm an airplane geek meself. This is one of the geeky airplane sites I like, which is a search engine for airliners and different planes (I'm partial to the TWA Constellation): Airliners.net