Quartermaster James

Well, I'm just drafting my colors now. It'll be some time before I have an image to post. For now, all I can do is describe them as planned:

Maroon field with yellow/gold dancing skeletons with interlocking limbs ala Tibetan Citipati (The Lords of The Carnal Grounds). Still debating whether or not to add the symbols of skillful means...

There's a lot of misinformation out there regarding intellectual property rights. For example: if you bought a CD, that does not 'legally' allow you to make a copy of it to play in your car while you keep the original in your home player. You are allowed to make a 'back-up' copy to play, but only if the original is 'archived' (i.e.: put away, not stacked up in your home rotation).

Similarly, even public school drama departments have to get permission to put on a copyrighted play, whether they charge admission or not.

If you were to read Shakespeare aloud in the public square, no problem. Tom Stoppard? Now that's a different story altogether.

Bear in mind, you only need permission (and you better get that in writing!) from the copyright holder. There's no requirement that money change hands.

There are some artists who explicitly license their work as available for non-commercial uses without further permissions. You see this most often with electronic artwork. It is very rare in the music industry.

Lastly...uh, pirate!

Beggin' your pardon Rats, but I think you may be mistaken about 'Freedom of Speech' allowing anybody to use another's copyrighted material, for any purpose, regardless of whether money is involved.

I sometimes play on Yahoo!

If you see Metal Rat at a table, that be me.

BTW: that's from my Chinese Astrological sign, not my taste in music.

Isn't it loverly! Two days off, and the weekend still ahead!

I wish you all all the best this holiday, for you & yours!

I spent mine with some friends from Louisiana. Turkey & Sausage gumbo! Mmm good! Then, Saturday, I finally saw POTC2.

Best regarrds,

Capt. Jigme (which is pronounced 'Jee-may' or 'Jimmy', btw)

Oops! Thought that last post was going into the Declare Sumthin about Yerself thread!

To be the man I wish I were, I would have to have been born the half-breed love child of Billy Connolly & Dave Cahppelle.

As soon as me ship comes in, it's a'sailin to Kass's website for a new wardrobe!

Good thing that's not my size...or I'd have wired you the money already and damn the rent!

Let me add my praises to a job well done.

I've already added this my wish list!

Well...while these Bud K cutlasses won't pass muster with the serious reenactor...they are great for cutting up fruit at the Tiki bar

Actually, I'd like to change my username.

Is there anyway to do this besides deleting this acount and starting anew afresh?

Not that the latter would be too unfamiliar...pyrate, you know...

Alas...too late for this year...

http://www.picton-castle.com/train/program...eship_06-07.php

Well, I'm still putting the kit together, and I can't seem to get a pic to stick here, but I just uploaded one from Samhain this year to my profile.

Found this info at the ADA site:

1530—The Little Medicinal Book for All Kinds of Diseases and Infirmities of the Teeth (Artzney Buchlein), the first book devoted entirely to dentistry, is published in Germany. Written for barbers and surgeons who treat the mouth, it covers practical topics such as oral hygiene, tooth extraction, drilling teeth, and placement of gold fillings.

1746—Claude Mouton describes a gold crown and post to be retained in the root canal. He also recommends white enameling for gold crowns for a more esthetic appearance.

http://www.ada.org/p...line_18cent.asp

chuckle appreciated.

...../\.....

is often used on certain other newsgroups

some cultures don't have commonly used words for "Thank you"

Then again, actions do speak louder...

Captain Jigme is a corruption of my "baptized" name: Kunga Jigme

Translated from the Tibetan, it means "Fearless Joy"

Yes.

...../\..... Bess.

Well, firstly: welcome back!

And now, a great thanks for the link. This is one of my favorite songs to sing "as a drunken pyrate"...

Arghh! You going to Sc-argh-borough faire?

P-argh-sley, sage rose-m-argh-y & t-aye-m!...

Well, you get the idea...

Coquette?

oh, yes, and VegasSmokes is a reputable company.

Hmmm...I wonder when the ol' Tyroleans started making those clay pipes with the wooden stems?

I found this interesting:

http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/T..._History17.html

especially the reference to seegars at 1683.

Now, if the DJ pipe strikes yar fancy, although much less ornate, plain even, by comparison, but a mighty fine smoker none the less and an impressive pipe, ye might want to locate one o' them Jumbo Wellingtons from daze gone by. Impresses the locals, aye, that it does...

Oh! And for baccy, I likes a lot of different types but have taken to home stoving long slices of VA flake I get from Lane. Of course I smokes it unstoved too, but the process I use turns it a nice deep chocolate brown and smooths and sweetens the smoke. Ages nicely too.

Is it time for a pipe yet?

Our mundane professional association had its annual meeting this week in a little hamlet called Seaside, Oregon.

The undoubted highlight of the event was the closing night beach party, enlivened by The Portland based BOOM Pirates. You may recognize this as the same crew behind the Portland Pirate Festival.

All I can say is thanks for a job well done! The festivities began with the BOOM Pirates kidnapping the leadership team and bringing them back turned pirate. Later, there was swordplay, singing, and canons on the beach.

A great time was had by all!

Now this is an interesting thread...

My Dear Captain Sterling,

My "mundane" self spent many years studying herbs, even to graduating as an "herbalist" from schooling by respectable "herbal" scholars. I use so many quotation marks because I live In a country that has little recognition for herbal medicine, despite the vegetal orgins of many of their most prescribed medications. Were I living in another country, I might be foregoing the quotation marks for abbreviations after my name. In the immortal words of C.J.S.: Savvy?

That said, looking into comfrey currently is most likely to get you into discourse of pyrrolizidine akaloids. I was working as an herbalist when agents of the FDA came into the shop looking for every product that contained comfrey. This was a decade or two ago, and pyrrolizidine akaloids had bben recently linked to a case of liver failure. It was of no matter that comfrey had many centuries, nay! millenia of use. One abuse of comfrey extract brought federal regulation into play. Ultimately, comfrey was allowed to stay on the U.S. market. I mention all this only because you wi ll find a lot of references to pyrrolizidine akaloids and comfrey as you do your own research.

More personally, I broke a navicular bone...damn nasty fracture that. I followed the course prescribed by the physician for 6 weeks with no visible healing. Facing my second cast, and just budding as an herbalist, I used a formula no longer commercialy available to help my healing. The progress was remarkable. What did that formula contain? Several sources of calcium, twice that of magnesium, some phosphorus, comfrey, cayenne, and ephedra. The last will get you into some trouble these days as a few stupid people abusing the herb have created a national backlash against it, but traditional Oriental Medicine doctors are still able to use it in their formulations.

Long story made short: You might want to consult with an OTM doctor about your elbow.

Contact me directly if you want any more information.

Best reg-arrgh-ds!

Captain Jigme

So, when about town, how would a "seaman" carry his possessions? More precisely, in what would he or she carry them? Pockets? A canvas satchel? A leather bag? ROund? Rectangular? Anything goes?

If this has been addressed in a previous thread, please steer me towards that thread.

Really, I just need a bag to match my period boots...not!