Spike

Congrats on getting the trademark for Bone Island Buccaneers. Always an educational process when dealing with that paperwork and the federal process for that. Didn't even know there was a Gazette the first time around.

-- Hurricane

Thanks Hurricane. It was a long process and it was denied once due to a missing "disclaimer". Since Bone Island is a geographic location, it cannot be trademarked without a "disclaimer." I sure did learn a lot about the fed process. All the "technicalities" as you say. That is why I just wanted to let Morgan know that technically, Julie does not own the name Pirates in Paradise. I would hate to see a technicality get her in hot water. But since Julie only owns "Pirates in Paradise Festival" it a small technicality, but very relevant. Thanks for the Congrats, it is a good feeling of accimplishment for the whole Bone Island Buccaneer crewe.

Hello All,

Thanks so much for your support, wishes, prayers and help during the trying times I have just been through. Your support has been a lifeline and it is my Pyrat Family has helped me through this. I am honored to know such fine people. It is great to be back and back on the Pyracy Pub. I have returned to KW full time a few weeks ago and it is so great to be home in Bone Island again. So, I will get to those emails and comments and be in touch with all my Pyrat Family. Thank you all.

Captain Spike

Hey Morgan and Blind I Productions,

Great job on that vid. I loved the slow mo and the cannon. I want to thank you both from Captain Spike and all of the Bone Island Buccaneers. This is a great promo and makes a nice compliment to the Amanjira 2007 video. And since we are all so caught up in the spirit of "Cooperation" for PIP I want to thank you again for your FREE cooperation. Of course, I regret that the confusion about the FTPF and PIP. No one really seperates any of the events of PIP, it is ALL Pirate's in Paradise. As I told you after viewing the video originally, you have full permission to use our registered trademark, the Bone Island Buccaneers for all promos, PIP and FTPF. However, it is true that the Events Network (Julie) owns the name "Pirate's in Paradise Festival." The phrase "Pirates in Paradise" is owned by someone else and not Julie, so you may want to change that in the video. Just in case people are not as excited as the Bone Island Buccaners about the BI prmotions. For the record, the only event we "present" in the Fort Taylor Pirate Fest.

Since we just completed our trademark registration, I am quite familiar with "disclaimers" now. Let me know if you need some disclaimer examples to use in your productions.

Your Pyrat Family appreciates your hard work, talents, and promotions on behalf of the PIP event. And I personally appreciate everything that you, Johnny and the Callahans do for our event. I cannot thank you wondeful folks enough who record, shoot, edit and produce these promos ALL for the Love of this Pyrat Family.

Fair Winds to Ye,

Captain Spike, Bone Island Buccaneers

To All,

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanza, Good Yule and even Happy Festivus. I am sure I left a couple out. I just wanted to send a note of Good Cheer to all my Pyrat family from around the world. I Love you all and thank you so much for your friendship and comraderie. Also, I wanted to let everyone know that I am going to be out of touch for a bit. There are some serious personal problems that I have to deal with and will be unable to stay in touch. So heartfelt thanks, love and good wishes for a Happy New Year.

Captain Spike

Wow... I am dealing with too many of these..... had that 'something smells like smoke' moment last night... and I found 2 bottles of rum(still with booze in them though) in all our stuff... I guess I was drinking too much Green Fairy to drink rum....

That one always hits me every year. Takes about a month until I stop smellin camp fires. And I think everyone is finding Pirate's Choice in their bags. Was Don running around in the early morning light filling all our stockings? I found a bottle of Key Lime where my shoes were supposed to be.

Wow.... I'm offline a few hours and there was a party it seems..... Lesse....

1st back on the original topic....

Spike - Harry -Dogge - Sterling - ETC...

For the Mallory Square one could we do a reverse of what we do for Mary and Anne and drag one of your pirates down to Mallory Square in shackles and then do the hanging... more of a set up....

Spike

What the heck was it with balls this year? Seems no one kept ahold of theirs... Crispy sent balls across the fort after playing with them with a stick (some questions are better left unasked), you lost yours in the water, Dogge lost his on the parade grounds....Sheesh...

I like the idea of the "reverse" march and bringing the dread Pyrat HUNTER to Mallory to be hung by Pyrats. Harry is really good at those proclamations and such. I like it and it seems that Capt Sterling favors this as a possible scenario also.

As for the "ball" issues. My theory is that it is directly proportional to the increase in number of cannons this year. A record number of cannon and I believe it made the more impetuous among us not pay as much attention to the balls as the cannon. Or the Rhum, Mead, Green Fairy surprise and other assorted mind benders created some new found gravity issues, for balls and belles alike!

9. You begin to imagine how your "normal" friends look in period clothing.

I see you used quotes on 'normal", I can just imagine YOUR "normal" friends.

Think "normal" in the Alice in Wonderland sense and you might get close heheheh.

1. Making all the plans for NEXT year before this year is even cleaned up.

There was a clean up?

Well clean up may be too generous. Break down? And some of the crewe be right broke down alright.

and they sound funny when they break... not that you all couldn't make enough noise to cover up that little fact...snigger

Oi, and here I thought we was bein quiet this year. Mandatory ear protection on the cannon lines next year .......... WHAT?????

ROTDLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He'll really need that chemise then...

Could be worse. Executive Wench Shiela had to rescue BOTH me ball at the WTP. One floatin, and one on fire. Guess it was a bad year for rounders!

Well met Mission. To add my pointed two cents.

10. You hum pyrat songs instead of Christmas carols.

9. You begin to imagine how your "normal" friends look in period clothing.

8. You find that final piece of clothing in a bag, using the smell system.

7. You take exponentianally longer showers for the first three days at home.

6. You find empty mead bottles in your bag.

5. You keep hearing cannons in your sleep

4. You find yourself unable to drink from anything made of a foamy material.

3. You wonder why, on the next morning, there is three pounds of sand on your pillow where your ear was last night.

2. You still smell camp fire smoke three weeks later.

1. Making all the plans for NEXT year before this year is even cleaned up.

Chrispy says that raises another question, "How do you handcuff a guy with a hook?"

A "hook" cuff? With a teeny tiny cuff????????????

that would make him Nigel's second cousin once removed and me long lost brother --- Not Nigel "One Ball" Riley

So if he loses his OTHER ball next year, does that mean he is your twice removed cousin?

Hell I'm all fer em, just saw one that didn't want to "play" nice...

I figure a lil noggin protection from a head scarf might be enough protection. Problem here in Cayo Hueso is humidity. They get a bit soft when they soak up the moisture.

I just found something cool, and couldn't figure out where to post it....

on the Instructables site are the instructions for making sugar glass....

http://www.instructables.com/id/SVKKRM4FMMCVETU/?ALLSTEPS#

We were talking about having a buncha drunk Pyrates during one of the battles.... hey, some safe breakable onion bottles migh be kinda fun..........

Thanks for the link Patrick. Rusty Nell has been researching this and we are making a mold for some sugar glass bottles for the pub next year. Let's script something out for a good old fashioned bar fight hehehe.

Ahoy All~

Captain Callahan (aka Papa) and I made it home safely FINALLY! Just a quick note to let you know it was a safe journey. There is so much here to catch up on, but we wanted to thank everyone for the calls to check on us during our trip. This year's PiP was so much more wonderful than we could have ever expected! Huzzah to all of ye, we miss ye already.

With Love and a large tankard lifted,

Fayma (aka Mama)

Ahoy Sacred Heart. Glad to hear that ye made it all home safe and sound. I have been looking at Callahan magic all week and cannot get enough. BETTER than cable! I just got back from WPB today and FINALLY I am ready to settle in and unpack the chests amd casks. Huzzah and thanks for the memories!

Probably both, Spike

Animal

Most assuredly both ............Come to think of it Animal, that might not have been Harry either :-]

Ahoy Patrick,

We have pretty big wild hog here in FL. I am sure my Dixie Daughter and her redneck boyfriend could get us one for the Buccan. Also, the "chefs" who did the "other" Salamangundi might be interested in Buccan cooking. Harry told me something of that nature, or I could have been maddeningly drunk and confused also.

aye...i DID toss the cannonball.....wife is still pissed i cant find my left testicle..... .....i think it still there on the field somewhere....

Is that what that SMELL is on the parade grounds? Oi, I think the fire ants carried it away. Guess we gotta call ya One Ball Riiley now!

Naked guy in the picture --- is that what be is smiling at??

Gives "watch the birdie" a whole new meaning, Aye?

pssssttt!!!??.....Mary......why don't i remember this photo taken???

when was this taken?? why don't i remember this??

Oi, all dat payola I spent on da limo and ye don't even r'member? Damned Green Fairy! And I thought fersure that the naked guy taken the pictures would have be memorable.

Oh yeah best beware, Maddogge's already planning next year's WTP competition... damn if he won't blow ye all away...

Oi. something more original that the ole "treasure map" and "pardon"? Let me guess ........... Cursed Aztec Gold Ahhhhehehehehe.

not going to auction me off... well thats good. of course i could probably fetch a fair shilling or two wearing my skull and cross bone diamond studded thong. was really thinking of entering the hot a$$ pirate contest wearing it.

I think a bunch of us would pay to see that...but be careful, we would take all sorts of incriminating pictures :) I suppose the auction price would likely be based on the diamonds though... are they real or zirconia :)

Sorry but I truly think more of us would pay NOT to see that...ack! I have to go sterilize my backstaff... Dutch touched it...

I think the mental picture just gave me an aneurysm ......... OUCH.

If folks are concerned with the public's response, instead of doing a full hanging such as Rackham to start.. we might want to consider doing a skit with our regular characters and a hanging with a happy ending... I have an idea, but I need to run it past Maddogge, Spike and Harry first....

I am open to ALL ideas from the Arch Angel crewe. You black dogs outdid yerselves agin this year. Not only taken the gold, but havin a right mutiny, with the crewe hangin the captain and turning Pyrat. Now can ye see why yer crewe be our role models? We are Sunset performers and I think we can perform both types of hangins at the pier. Aye, let's have a sit down, be a blue moon yet?

i'd be up for that....but first we gots to convince the wife i can come back... ...!?!?!

she starting to figure out how much fun i actually did have!?!?

an she aint buyin that there was even a competion.....let alone that i won anythin....considerin i didn't even git home with a trophy or nuthin....

but i do have the gold medal....i have yet to take it off....!?!?!

Well ye be under contract. A BLOOD contract fer next year. We don't want to come and take yer first born hostage/

You had fun? Well ya know, if ye weren't such a camera hog there wouldn't be as much evidence. Maybe a more "pained" look on yer mug next time you are muggin up.

And we couldn't send ya home wid a broken trophy. We are fixin it up and you can show her the pictures of ole "Bonesy". He is already in the shop fer the upgrade and "plate" with NOT NIGEL engraved on it.

Aye, that Gold (ahem gold COLORED) Medal was well earned. Ye outchugged Kosta (but not me, the little guys can slug), and ye outplanked me and him, and almost won the damned cannon ball roll. It was supposed to be a cannon ball toss but you sissies couldn't LIFT it. Ye will be hard pressed to win agin next year. Especially with some ole worn out treasure map routing.

Aye, remember the contract, and if that ain't ENOUGH, I already BOUGHT the ticked for ya. How do you spell allouwissciouss agin?

If folks are concerned with the public's response, instead of doing a full hanging such as Rackham to start.. we might want to consider doing a skit with our regular characters and a hanging with a happy ending... I have an idea, but I need to run it past Maddogge, Spike and Harry first....

I am open to ALL ideas from the Arch Angel crewe. You black dogs outdid yerselves agin this year. Not only taken the gold, but havin a right mutiny, with the crewe hangin the captain and turning Pyrat. Now can ye see why yer crewe be our role models? We are Sunset performers and I think we can perform both types of hangins at the pier. Aye, let's have a sit down, be a blue moon yet?

i'd be up for that....but first we gots to convince the wife i can come back... ...!?!?!

she starting to figure out how much fun i actually did have!?!?

an she aint buyin that there was even a competion.....let alone that i won anythin....considerin i didn't even git home with a trophy or nuthin....

but i do have the gold medal....i have yet to take it off....!?!?!

...is that you get back all full of memories and bonhomie toward your fellow Pub members and you just don't give damn all for trite things like Christmas and the day to day routines of life. I remember looking at Christmas and shopping and all that stuff last year and thinking how wan it seemed by comparison. Even as the colors fade and wash out of the cherished PiP memories, I still find myself looking at life as it as and thinking,

"Reality just doesn't compare."

It won't do."

Ya' know? Curiously, PiP is the only event where this sort of ennui sets in for me. The other events are fun and everything, but somehow they're stuffy and too formal in comparison.

Aye Mission, well met. I think we just discovered a truly unique re-enactors holiday. Complete with feasts, gifts, copious mead and rum, heart stopping cannon and battles. The only think missin be the ornaments (unless you count the weapons in Deadye's Den.) I think Diosa hit on a great idea, PIPMas balls for the year and for charity!

I must agree with ye. After the bilge rats are grown, the shine kinda wore off the ole Xmas holiday. And bein at the end of the earth here in Cayo Hueso, Thanksgiving means travel and conversations I never wish to have again with relatives that won't remember it. I think Mary Diamond said it best, "we all GET IT and are together in one place." The "IT" is a great feeling. Unable to be bought at a store, wrapped in a chest, or opened up at any other time than PIP. I want all year for it and we really do count the MINUTES until it all begins again. Hope to catch up with each of you great friends at festivals down the road. Mary, we are already plotting the next raid on the Penthouse room at Blackbeard's Festival.