Zephyr

each sailor would carry a marlin spike? why?

Mostly they viewed them through telescopes from a safe distance.

And as often...up close and personal........darlin...what do ye think of the nail polish work? nice and even? not flooding the cuticles? a bit of top coat and quick dry......or a little glitter......?

except (as usual) those governmental individuals or institutions who were profiting from them.......

Whot! Ye mean they haven't finished the script yet? I be in me fifties.....I haven't got all year.........

Sounds great! Heading to the site next.....funny, while reading colours thought...hmmm sounds familiar....spent the weekend......! can't wait to see the pictures.......

It's great! The little windows are perfect!

I had the temerity to do an idea sketch for the flag....but I haven't been able to figure out how to get pics up?..........

Ye upload the scanned sketch to your own webspace, then link to it on yer post. :)

It doesn't seem to work...................darn, it's pretty nice.......

......I used to get a message that IMG doesn't support "active" something...wrote it down somewhere to show to more compu-literate-friends.....anyway, no longer says that...but doesn't show (scan in this case) pic either.........

I'll bring the henna next Hallows...do a nice tattoo..R on each cheek.....well, ye'd have to stand fer six hour for the colour to be good.

I had the temerity to do an idea sketch for the flag....but I haven't been able to figure out how to get pics up?..........

am I guess'n that me rhyme was so bad..............?...............

Mates,

Just order the "slops" pattern from Kannik's Korner.  I'll let you know how it is and I'll try to post some pics of the finished product. 

BTW, any suggestions about color, material, etc?  I be goin' for a 1660's era look.  I think white is an authentic color, but I'm a dirty pyrate.

Many thanks,

Broadside

I was going to ask about patterns.....I'm looking at shirts first...haven't decided if I'm going to do pants or skirt...read some reviews at a sewing site and some of the "historic" pattern companies didn't rate well for instructions (well, I've sewn long enough to figure it out......or worse) or even fit of pattern pieces.....is there thread for patterns? (NPI)...like........what have you used....how was it?

Should we start one?

Ser Tudor and El Pirata have been "aging" their whites quite successfully elsewhere...have ye seen it? Looks like fun.

Sorry - got long-winded there...

2.......Most of my reference books deal with the British Navy or tall ships in general...haven't yet found the 'perfect' pirate book...I AM looking for one that gives THESE kinds of details, as opposed to one that is just about the piratical adventures of plundering and looting.  I too want to learn more about their basic, everyday life...

3........Side Note:  Looking through the one pirate book I do have, most of the EARLY artwork shows pirates carrying the following:  Cutlass, SEVERAL pistols - small ones...and that's about it other than a small, square/rectangular purse worn right in the front, and a few are shown with gold {?} chains around their necks.  These are 'captains' only...dressed in boots/buckle shoes and heavy coats....but no idea what might be in their pockets.  All the other pirates are depicted as wearing just the clothes on their backs {trousers, shirt, sometimes vest, scarf around the head or neck...and sometimes around the waist}...and nothing else...not EVEN a working knife...

So that blows that theory out of the water....

das

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No apologies! We love long-winded! Speak'n fer meself at any ways.......if I were look'n fer the short and brief I'd not have so many books (or be on me ownsome, but that be a different subject)...excellent dissertation!

can ye recommend books that give a description of the actual life of seafaring later 1600 to middle 1700? I've seen some good books on all aspects of life for the middle ages and renaissance....but not for the time of the great age of piracy...the more detailed (long-winded) the better!

2.....Do let me know if ye find one! I've been searching the internet looking for details of HOW they made their flags...etc.....

3.....The early wood cuts....I've read described as "impressions" not one of them to my knowledge of reading was done by any person who had actually seen the pirate or event...though I can imagine the pirates might deck themselves out while working on the ship.....industrial safety is a newer concept and these were rebels and drink'n rum punch at any chance.......while work'n....arrrrr

Does anyone remember the band Klaatu, and can name their "Hit"?

icky band!

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft

I had a friend in high school who played that damned song every night waiting for the aliens to come and get him.

he had all five of their old albums and no one was allowed to touch them.

but then again he watched dr who and used more drugs than is good for a sane person much less a mental wacko like him.

:)

...but we all have our obsessions...

Curiosity...what is said wacko doing today? phsychiatrist? politico? website magnate....box boy at the local all-night-mini-mart......taken by aliens? I've always wonderd if some of those albums held subliminal programming the rest of us couldn't hear.......

Well, in me humble opinion, if she could raise all those barrels by herself out of the ground (even if she emptied them by herself...those kegs would have mighty heavy) to make a massive rescue signal, then, she would be able to handle a dhingy by herself.

Aye, levitation......oh, sorry, different movie........

no, she learned it reading about India! "Pirates of the Mediterrrrranean"..........................Ohmmmmmmm

"Platu barada nichto"......what is the name of that movie...Michael Renne...

Michael Rennie took ill, the day the Earth stood still, and he showed us where to stand... Science Fiction Double Feature from The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show

The actual phrase is Klaatu Barada Nichto.

Does anyone remember the band Klaatu, and can name their "Hit"?

Aye, well allow'n fer me accent

Still vot'n fer "Plan 9 from Outer Space"......gotta be the worst laugh-yer-self-silly I ever seen...................but then I don't get out much

KBN.........meant "open the pod bay door Hal".....?

Oh.....

Is it Michelangelo focusing his little ninja mind by taking a relaxing scuba diving holiday in the sun ?

Darlin, I thought ye had it there....like a vacation promo a' the islands...sea creatures swimm'n toward the surface, skinny model type with long flowing hair profiled in circle of light (looking nudish to get the guys excited about it)...the peacful-ness of it all attract'n the ladies....school a' marshmellies exhale'n small bubbles as they swim around a Peter Max lime sea turtle....ahhhhhh

Wonderful photos! Good of ye to keep snapping while all the adventure was going on!

Nice portrait of the moonchild too

a lime rose bud

Just curious of what the average pirate might be carrying on him at any given time.

Like working knife, marlin spike, tobacco, pipe, matches? any thing like that.

there was a thread...yer pirate kit? has some material on this.....Dorian Lassiter mentioned some historical personal items....glad to see the question up again...curiousity not quenched

The original concept for this thread was "Films that are so bad, they're good" but while we're on the subject of Mel Brooks, let me mention a film that is so bad it stinks on ice! This is a Mel Brooks homage, and ol' Mel even appears in it. For years I attributed this waste of celluloid to Brooks, but thankfully it's not one of his.

The Silence of the Hams This film was made in Italy, and fortunately did not spawn a string of spaghetti-comedies.

This piece of crud stars Billy Zane, as Joe Dee Fostar. Get it? See, they're making fun of Jodie Foster. Oh, hilarity! (In the end he appears in a dress for no logical reason.)

There's a plethora of bad movie actors to fill the screen: Dom DeLuise, Henry Silva, the dork from Grease and many other films, Martin Balsam, Mel Brooks, and John Astin (you know, Gomez Addams).

I've woken up with better film on  my teeth!

OMG....Ok, I'm gonna have to buy a better TV, a DVD player and subscribe to.....what-z-it...the DVD club.......realizing what I'm missing......

I've woken up with better film on my teeth!

Oh, yes...Mars Attacks!...but too good to be so-bad it's-good.....

What was the old movie with the giant ants..."Them"....Jim Arness? It was pretty damn silly...not bad enough to be so-bad-it's-good..

What about....."Platu barada nichto"......what is the name of that movie...Michael Renne.........

Plan 9 From Outerspace........now, that' gotta qualify.........

Aye, well and this all be very tidy lyke with that SonofaSeaHagBarq put'n the blame on the bloody mange weasel, but that not be a pyrate who's ire (or undies) ye'd stirrr without due thought, matey be warned, there be few here about (meself included) who'd rush to yer aid if ye be caught at it, be not think'n that when the scurvydog be in 'is cup 'e be all lost to the world, there be one eye open or I be a fool (well, maybe I be a fool).......but I'd not put my neck to sneaking past 'em though he be snorrring to fill the sails and full a' rum). Aye, poet-try and underwear! Ye be drink'n sea water Sir? It be faster than the rum punch for work'n like the sea worm on yer feveredsunblenched brain! Next ye be hanging yer cutlass and doing the settle with some likey wench...and...... pay'n fer yer rum! if ye be not come to that already. Soorry it is to see a pyrate go to the blessed artistic, the Muse be a wiley wench a give back naught what she claims as her own....

Ye be warned and me obligation fulfilled

Sometimes for brief periods it's kind of fun to make believe that you don't own a boat.

-Joe Richards

The sailor is well aware that the stalls are filled with sea books written by landlubbers.

-Lincoln Colcord

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

-Groucho Marx

One of me favorite philosophers!

Were if W. C. Fields or the blessed Groucho who said...(seriously miss-quoting).....

"I'd never be so undiscerning as to belong to a club that would have me as a member......"

PUB appropos

And I like opossom rare (the other white meat). So on me B-day if ya would run over a opossom, just put a candle it's ears n' wipe it's a** n put it on me plate. I'd be a happy birthday boy!

:) YUM YUM!

Black Jack

Aaaarrr, how many pirates does it take to eat a possum

Cheeze-wiz might last forever, but I heard that most possums only live one year. Could it be they ugly themselves to death?

Nay, lad they have no colour vision..........walk...don't walk...walk....don't walk

And despite being totally hokey, I liked Silent Movie - Marty Feldman was a genious with his facial expressions.

And having Marcel Marceau give the only word spoken aloud in the film was sheer brilliance.

"No!"

I'd Forgotten about that!

"Twelve Chairs", Yes, great...... "Young Frankenstein"......most quoted for a long time! made me quite a Gene Wilder fan......Mell likes to play, all his films have their Special moments....Monty Python for profound silliness......concept pushing types

Better pyracy through chemistry. Ye be clothing aging arrrtists!

though I'm forced to observe that I never met a male who wasn't....... well there was one.....

we used to roll up our jeans with rags inside em and rub em on the sidewalk...when mum wasn't looking...... prehistoric stone washed!

On an unrelated note...

...Sweet Neptune's Britches!  When did I become a "pyrate captain"????  I need ta stop postin' quite so much.  I've risin above my station!

Carrie me dear, I'm suspect'n we be the only ones concerned with the promotion, I never looked for the responsibility, be'n more a lone-wolf personality me self. One can eventually become "Dread", which sound rather nice, I be thinking of adding it to me stationary.....

Congratulations all on yer successful raid and plundering! Hope the weather abated long enough to not rain on yer parade! AAaarrr nothing more irritable than a cold, wet, sober pyrate, makes 'em irrrrrassable.....sober? yer weren't much sober were ye?

Looking forward to more pics...

Aaaarrrr Happy haunting Mateys.........

Well lassie,

Ol' Black Jack has no problems tellin' the world that he's a crusty ol' salt on his B-day cuz I lived life to excess n' loved everyminute of it. It's 17 April ,1958 n' I LOVE chocolate and RED meat if anyone wants ta humor me.

PS. My life did suck in Southern Beruit n' Desert storm though.

Black Jack

Aaaaarrr, Jack ye be a young lad still....though mix'n red meat and chocolate will age ye almost faster than most food I can think of. Chocolate be better eat'n by its lonesome. Ye be not the crews cook I'm hope'n.......