Morgan Dreadlocke

Couple 'o years back I started trackin' down me ancestors. Had always heard me Grammaw sayin' we was Scottish, Irish and native Indian. Well... found Scottish, English, Cherokee and a large portion from the Netherlands/Bavaria. Not an Irishman to be found. Usin' the tools provided by Wikitree and Ancestry I's been able to dig up several stories of piratical interest. The earliest occurs in 1499 when Breton Pirate Colyn Dolphin ransoms a Sir Harry Stradling for 1 or 2 thousand marks (depending on the source). Sir Harry is 17 degrees away so It's just an interesting tale. Fast forward to the mid 1600's and the Scottish/English ancestors are gettin' deported and leavin' the Empire for the Colonies. Mid 1700's river pirate Samuel Mason pops up as a 13th cousin 6 times removed (wot the bloody 'ell do all that mean?). Come the Rev War and me 6th great grandfather is in the sacking of Ft Ticonderoga in 1775. Quite certain King George would have considered that an act of Piracy. In Sept of 1780 a newspaper puts another ancestor and his son on board the prison ship HMS Jersey. I finds a certain Phineas T Barnum to be a 4th cousin 6 times removed (Yeah, THAT Barnum LOL) and a 20th cousin 4 times removed in Robert Louis Stevenson. So, Who's lurkin' in yer tree?

16 years has passed and I still ain't got me little boat built. The fat cat slept in and busted up the original model years ago so's I built another slightly larger sample. This one will carry 4 comfortably for cruzin' around small city park lakes. Waterline length @ 11', beam 5" across the oarlocks, 4" across the bottom. 'Bout 6" draft and bottom of the rudder at @ 18". Small electric trollin' motor sandwiched in the rudder wi' the batteries hidden under the center bench. Aimin' for a christining at the '25 Hidden Lake Festival in Buckeye. AYE gots pics now, no more 'o this photobucket blackmail garbage. 1st pic is the original 2 man tub. Others are the 4 seater.

Happy to be back aboard me friends. We gots a crew started in Tucson and a motley bunch they be. A might heavy on the Hollyweird and blind to H A, but it's the only action within a 2 hour drive. We'll be signin' on new crew as soon as I can herd the other BOD members into the Pub.

At inch and a half the die ain't comfortable to carry, At three inches... well they makes a good life preserver. Now goin' back to reread Patrick's rules cause our groups been doin' it wrong.

Aye it were. Have since obtained another copy which has the right movie on the disc. 2 years? Crikey. Been busy ; )

Caveat emptor! Picked up the newly rereleased DVD, "The Buccaneers" 1958 from Barnes and Noble. The artwork on the disc is correct, however the movie encrypted on it is some avant guarde psuedosex documentary named "Women, Art, Revolution" from 2010. Oliver Films stock number 0F356, bar code 8 87090 03560.

30-35 at night. Got 'bout 3" of much needed gentle rain over several nights an 2 nights 'o hurricane force winds in the valley of Avra. The AZRF site should be well greened up by next week. The Estrella war site will be a bog.

Treasure Island Kids; The Pirates of Treasure Island. Starrin' Randy Quaid. Tis tough ta even think on it wi'out heavin' supper overboard. Makes the Adam West "Batman the Movie" pirates look good.

Looks like the last forum upgrade has granted the crewe new topic postin' priviliges. Stand up an make yer presence knowne.

Yer welcome Sir. I gots a memory liken a steel trap, rusty an illegal in 37 states

The Princess and the Pirate. 1940ish with Bob Hope as the tattooed victim and Walter Brennan as the crazy old man, Virginia Mayo and Victor McLaughlin as "The Hook".

110% correct. Anyone here being FORCED to listen to right wing hate radio? Anyone been FORCED to attend a Tea Party? Now flip side that coin. Are you willing to let the government(any government) decide what propaganda you WILL listen too? . If the Tea Parties be evil then let them be hung by their own devices. A government actively sponsoring sensorship/suppression/demonization of a political entity/ideological group of citizens. No its not WW2 Germany but I still hear Goebbels laughing.

The description states "white metal". I don't think the hammer or frizzen could possibly be functional made from this. Theres also a hairpin steel spring looking to hold the frizzen closed to the priming pan. It appears to be molded into the lock instead of being a separate piece. Not bein' a gunner this would be a laymans observation- nonfunctional display piece.

I hates them bloody aluminium soda cans wi' the little flipper tab thats snags mustache hairs.

Will be interestin' ta see how the script writers deal with Vernes' twisted timeline.

Welcome lass. Tis the custom fer new souls ta buy a round fer the house. As ye be one'o them filthy rich Captain types, make mine a double

Cruisin' through the 2nd hand book store an sawr a photo of an early 19th century diving suit. 1822-27 or somewheres thereabouts. Went searchin' this morn and found an online photo- http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-image-diving-suit-in-early-age-image9525721 Crikey, a HA JIM suit!

There be hollow paper mache' balls at Michaels craft stores. Bout tunahalf inch dia fer around a buck. Theys brown kraft paper over a thin blown plastic liner.

So Sad. That kid was surrounded by speculators, handlers, manipulators, parasites and enablers his whole life. A Jim Carrey Truman show gone bad.

Keepin' a weather eye on the Baboquivari mountains. Fires up around 20 sq miles now, can see the glow afrom the roof. Smoky as all getout in the valley

$2.29 in town where the throat cuttin' be. $2.39 along the freeway and outskirts. Last month some "backyard inventor" blew up his vehicle wi' an improper water splitter injector

Uttered by both Captain Vallo and Prof Prudence.