Red Cat Jenny

Hmm all interesting replies, Sunblock I forgot! and a camera f' sure hmm, I'm repackin, skip the flashlight n add one more item...well that makes 13 things but then again ....I AM a dishonest pirate! lol

Just for fun I was considerin..... OK you just recieved a trip back to the GaOP you are leaving from modern today and will be returned in 1 yr. What 12 items will ye pack? For me bag t'would be General antibiotic Bayer asperin-teeth "Necessary but cursed" Multi vitamins - scurvy prevention 10mm Glock 29 (so I can keep me head where 'tis in extremely bad odds) natch I'd rather a cutlass or flintlock..but if I was really in trouble.. extra 25 round clip Toothpaste~a must Pic of my family~Oi I'd miss em Some trinket of modern day costing pennies which I could trade off slyly as being incredibly valuable~Pirate! Thermal undies - for blustery waters! One of those camping water purifiers Shake to charge flashlight Windproof cigarette lighter yeah I'd probably get burned as a witch..

^ The love boat, the Monkees, Get Smart < I really, really should be sleeping right now.. V Ever had to defend yourself physically?

Patrick, Here's what I found. I have been searching rather fruitlessly as well online there be no pics! Seems Ben Franklin wrote in Copperplate so I'm thinking museum or library of Congress -------- Copperplate evolved in the earliest part of the 18th century due to a need for an efficient commercial hand in England. The "secretary hand" (a cursive variety of Gothic minuscule), the "mixed hand", and the more elegant Italian cancellaresca testeggiata had given way to something plainer and more practical. Two varieties of a new "copperplate" style became common: "round hand," the bolder of the two, was considered appropriate for business use, and "Italian," a lighter and narrower form, was considered the ladies' hand. Such was the success of copperplate that by the end of the 18th century it had been adopted in France (where it has coexisted with ronde), Spain, and Italy. In these countries it was known as the "English hand". John Seally's manual of about 1770, The Running Hand, recommends a sloping Italian with loops (not in regular use before), in which all the letters are linked. The running influenced English handwriting in the last years of the 18th century, and loops and links have been the general rule ever since. Until the middle of the 18th century, the American colonies relied on handwriting models from England. The colonists wrote secretary, humanist, or mixed hands which were indistinguishable from those of their contemporaries at home

Sjöröveren Again thanks for the input. You have a wealth of knowledge it seems on the subject. Interesting that "The New World" of the un developed frontier would seem so polluted (Guess I watched too many Westerns with sparkling streams and the like LOL) Seriously.. I did put more thought to it than that. I lived for 5 years 1/2 block from the beach in an area where the wind blew so constantly off the Ocean you noticed the few times it stopped (yet the local idiots still wont put up windmills so we can stop paying for so much electric) Anyway I had to hose off my porch sidewalk and furniture every couple of days because of the sand buildup. Damn I miss that house..anyway there were no trees and no indstry in the area. I felt very healthy and my allergies even ceased. When I moved back to the 'burbs' I was shocked that I could "smell the place" soil, bug spray, mold, exhaust. In a word it was a wakeup call to what you were breathing in nowadays. This got me thinking about the more pristine condition very early America might have held. I know the cities in the beginning were fetid and disgusting due to no health code and industry. I was thinking more on the lined of sitting on a windy prairie with the nearest pollution being a cow chip or two. -- On the reference to herbal - I use this term as reference against what we state today as pharmaceutical. Most of which is derived from natural materials anyway. I'm not up on "herbals" at all. I take Bayer! haha Still perhaps I should have been clearer in stating plant/root/animal based remedies instead of "herbal" -- Ick fator? Yes (By the way guys, I never slaughtered a pig, but some of the multinational peolple I work with had a rousing albeit disgusting conversation in grand detail about watching relatives slaughter farm animals "back home" when they were young. )A first hand account was enough. I feel like I've been there. But one mans icky brutality is anothers normal way of life, just have to be open minded. -- I had read about cauterising in stories but wondered if it were true. It seemed to make sense as we still cauterize (on a small scale) in medicine today. -- No worries if you were cranky, we all have those days A toast to the knowledge here glad we started this thread!

Good one Rumba LOL! I think that about tops the list

KEY WEST

Mm that can be a problem. I once dated a guy 15 years older than me. It was ok on and off (we worked together at first then only saw each other a few times a year -he had moved out of state. worked for me at the time) but after a couple years the age difference beagan to really become obvious. We don't have contact anymore. He got married.

LOL - I was waitin fer one a you t' say that! oish!

Well I know what's next on my book list then! I have been digging into my research and organizing notes both from my own learning over the years and what I've recently found. I meant to have something together earlier, but I am writing fiction as well, which has sprawled into a 33 chapter work only half done. I officially belong to the "sleep? what's that?" club! When I get a bit more together the way I want it, I'll be posting it in the history of LI and NY section on me website. Hopefully by next week.

Hey,I be glad ye found yer way t this post and look foreward t'whatever else ye post. Fascinatin stuff this... I figured with all the opportunities to get burned, cut, scraped, slashed. stabbed, bitten and otherwise banged up during a life of piracy where you likely couldn't just "put in to port" and see a doctor without risking your neck, there would have to be some tried methods. I imagine if the health of the crew couldn't be maintained to some degree so there was a consistent number of able men (or women-who knows?) then the ship wouldn't be too sucessful. I know there was some apothecary available at the time and imagine they picked up some knowledge and methods from the natives they encountered as well. After all the island dwellers would have been living in danger as well from warring neighbors, wild animals and life in the rough and so must have also had methods they might have passed on. If you have ever seen what a Bluefish can do to someones hand, you can imagine the risks in even a simple thing like dinner at times.

T' be fair I'll start..I made a list but ill just add 5 thru 8 for now it was actually quite interesting to think about it this way.. 5) I am complex so you'll have to deal with that I love to be piratey to th fullest ~ fire and danger and exctement and the like (I'll canonball in the pool, laugh at the old "The Man Show", and most bawdy jokes and make wings and tacos for yer friends on Superbowl Sunday wearin yer teams jersey....but then there are days when I would be happy to go around dressed like Grace Kelley in "To catch a thief" be all feminine and walk holding on your arm , get flowers from you, tell me I look nice without drooling ..actually she's a bit of both in that movie and that kind of fits me. The trick is you have to figure out the right blend. 6) My tastes run from Tiki and cool to Baccarat, and Vera Wang . deal with it. 7) Unfortunately for me, some guys can't handle me independant side. Meanin sometimes I just like t' be by me onesie - doesn't mean I don't want t be wi you..it has nuthin to do wi you at all actually. 8) Make me laugh. Make me feel like a cuddly kitten you take care of, pull out a chair for me once in a while, butter my bread at a restaurant, then make me feel like a saucy stunning wench you can't stay away from (think Angelina Jolie), let me be strong and independant, make me never doubt my security wi you, lean on me, support me (not the financial kind),don't tickle me it's mean, count on me, trust me, laugh with me, don't laugh AT me (can't stand that either-unless I'm already laughing) surprise me - doesn't have t be anything big it's just the delight factor. protect me, be kind and respectful, and be a scoundrely piratey pirate, oi 'tis a long list.

Well, we're still discussin what a gent likes in his lady, so how about a view from the other side of the deck? what do ye like in yer Pirate .....Ladies?

Sorry I should have specified :period: its just sort of a given here on th pub.. but still as interested in ships an sailing as I be, I appreciate th info again..

I read about the Super Frigates, but they seemed to come in post GoAP Thanks for the info.

Sloop, Barque, ENGLISH Galleon, schooner, man o war, Frigate,Brigantine ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Which was fastest, which was the best choice? I am assuming the sloop and schooner for speed and manueverability and the Brigantine for sheer firepower.. Thoughts? Facts?

^ Kissing a guy named Mick in front of the Marriott on a freezing February night < He was my transitional man V If you could re DO one moment in your life what would it be?

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. Charles Baudelaire

"If yer implyin', because of my age and finances, I can buy my own drinks and pizza; tis true I don't need those things from the ladies. But twenty years ago, I'd given ye the same answer. I'd been married before, and had other women in my life. Appearances may be important when yer under twenty. But busted relationships and divorce teach ye, t' look fer things in a spouse that matter." I like a guy who can afford to buy his own pizza and drinks. As I'm also on marriage number two, and the last one, I found out very quickly that it's what's on the inside that counts, and holds over time. Wise words from ye both. Glad I didn't marry the last bum at the time, but I learned a lot. As I said ye learn what ye DO want and how to look out fer wot ye DON'T.

On the melting hair...OW my sympathies, I have bad dreams like that! Now? Happy I have 3 days off!

^Not sure what this means? < Damn it's getting cold on the East coast VEver been in a storm at sea?

Ahoy and welcome Jacknife! I'll ave a MOrgan an diet coke thankee!

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ~George Santayana

As I have said before...awww Jacky , ye makes me smile sometimes. No worries mate

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