Graydog

Ye can be addin "Cap'n Sage" to that thar list of yer's. He done told me his self, that he be goin. Heck he even has a spoken line in the promotion video, it be of course "It's a great day to be a pirate." He be thar. -Greydog

The Captain's Daughter is slang for the Cat of Nine Tails, so in the song "Drunken Sailor" give him a taste of the captain's daughter refers to lashing the fellow. The Cat of Nine Tails gets its name from having nine knotted cords and leaving marks like a cat when used. -The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition, page 249. Copyright 1976

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This is what I have read as well. If he had a mind too, I think he could come to many a pyrate event dressed in full Capt. Sparrow costume and have nobody realize that this Capt. Sparrow was the "real" Capt. Sparrow. Meaning that he could be incognito by dressing as his most famous character. Wonder if he'd win the look alike constest? -Greydog

Tis me experience that conistent shoe sizes are a sea yarn. Nothing more than some myth they hand out to land lubbers. More often than not, I be a see'n shoes or boots from two different manufactures which be labeled the same size (such as 11) and then they really turn out not to be the same size as the other pair of size "11" from another company. I'll be durned if they don't almost always need an exchange be it a whole or half size one way or ta other. The funny point I reckon is that small operations makin period shoes seem to be more on target in sizes than anybody else that I be coming across. Oh, and I be railin against all footware be it, Nike, Hush Puppy or whatever, when it comes to sizes thar aren't exactly rules they be more like guidelines. -Greydog schoenlepel= In English- Shoehorn

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I attended the last LORE (and I am helping to teach a class at this one). IMO dress how you are the most comfortable. There were people both in costume and in civies, last time around. It's a very informal learning/sharing information atmosphere.

Young girl goes into a photo shop. Drops off her negatives and leaves extremely happy. Why are you so happy young girl? Because I know some day my prints will come. -Put sound of Rim Shot here- I know, I know, some of you are asking, what the devil is a negative and isn't photoshop a program? Give an old fart a brake will ya? -Greydog

Glad to see ye got yer weapons concerns worked out! Have a nice flight. -Greydog

The game plays just like the beta. If you played the last week of the beta, then you played the game.

I am playing the game now. I also played the beta for about a week. I am not going to be paying per-month to play (I bought the $10 pre-release package before I found out about the beta). The ship on ship combat is simplistic, but fun. However, other than that, there just isn't much to the game. Not enough there to keep me interested. It also seems to heavily encourage ganking, which as a solo player that isn't my cup of tea in the least and is a big reason why I haven'y played many MMO's. However, some people may very much enjoy the game, so to them I say, have fun!

If you want to fly to PyrateCon from Southern California, round trip airfare from San Diego to New Orleans is $267 (total with tax, travel dates 4/17 rtn 4/21) on Travelocity, well today it is, 1/7/08. Who knows about tomorrow? I hadn't seen this fare before, so I dropped a note here.

Contact the Rum Shop http://www.rumshop.net/ or Rum Runner Press, Inc, 107 Rock Chalk Ct, Round Rock, TX 78664 - USA Tel: 1-512-554-7095 Fax: 1-512-671-6753 E-mail info@rumshop.net Ask if they will order from an out of state distributor and then mail it to you. Of course, they might require you to order a case or more before they'd consider it. They mail all kinds of amazing "fruit jucies" out of that shop! Yar, they be pirates or at least smugglers they be.

I had the Alaskan Moose, but it was too rare. In fact it kicked me and ran out of the room after I bit it.

Try contacting the importer: US importer for this spirit: Berniko, LLC. 3282 N. 29th Ct. Hollywood FL 33020 Ph. (954) 925-5455 Fax (954)925-5499 www.berniko.com a.beraha@berniko.com

This is starting to look like quite the party!

Here's his bio and activisim from his own website: His Website His Bio I was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1951, to Buford and Faye Rediker, the first of their two sons. I come from a working‑class family, with roots in the mines and factories of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia; I grew up in Nashville and Richmond. I attended Vanderbilt University, dropped out of school and worked in a factory for three years, and graduated with a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976. I went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history. I taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994, lived in Moscow for a year (1984-5), and am currently Professor and Chair in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. I have, over the years, been active in a variety of social justice and peace movements, most recently in the worldwide campaign to abolish the death penalty. I am, by ancestry, Welsh, Scottish, Dutch, and Cherokee; I am, by upbringing, a Southerner; I am, by generation, of the New Left; I am, by choice, a citizen of the world. I have written (or co-written) five books: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1987), Who Built America? (1989), volume one; The Many-Headed Hydra (2000), Villains of All Nations (2004) and The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007). It has been my good fortune to lecture throughout the United States and abroad, in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Moscow, Sydney, and Tokyo; to have my writings translated into French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish; and to hold fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment of the Humanities, and the Andrew P. Mellon Foundation. It has been my much greater good fortune to be married to Wendy Z. Goldman, a professor of Russian/Soviet history at Carnegie Mellon University. We have two children, Zeke and Eva, and a -bulldog, Jellybean. His activisim (once again from his website) The kind of history I study and write, which is variously called peoples' history, social history, or "history from below," shows that working people and their movements have, over time, been active, creative forces in the making of history. I believe that we can learn from this kind of history, that we can find inspiration in it, that we can use it as we work toward a more just and humane future. History from below helps us to see that peoples' struggles - over land, labor, rights, and power - are centuries old and largely continuous, down to the present. I have therefore tried to combine scholarship and activism, the study of movements from below with the making of movements from below. I have taken part in movements against the war in Vietnam, against the interventions of the U.S. government in Central America in the 1980s, against apartheid in South Africa, against environmental destruction, and against all forms of exploitation and oppression, based on race, class, and gender. In recent years I have worked to win a new trial for Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and to abolish capital punishment in the U.S. and throughout the world. To anyone interested in the struggle against the death penalty, I would recommend three websites: the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the Death Penalty Information Center, and the Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty. I would also recommend two groups that are especially important to struggles for justice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I live: The Thomas Merton Center and Just Harvest. Two other useful websites are Midnight Notes and Pessimism of the Mind (an anti-war site). I have always believed that the struggle for a better future must be a struggle to find new, more inclusive, more egalitarian ideas, in the past and in the present.

If you want to play for free, you'll have to hurry, the beta closes 23 Dec. After that all characters will be eliminated, the servers wiped free of players and the setup for the actual pay as you play game begins.

"Armageddon" be me guess

Dear Ms. Barbie and Mr. Ken: I am in receipt of your letters dated at the last instance. Before I get too far in a response let me remind you that the U.S. Civil Rights Act, American’s with Disabilities Act both I & II, U.S. Code Title 10, and further those ideals expressed on a planetary basis as a general statement of rights under the U.N. Human Rights Commission do not allow for any rights or privileges afforded to plastic dolls. It is only through my magnanimous nature and jolly soul that I am entertaining your requests. Ho, ho, ho. Speaking of ho, that brings me to you Ms. Barbie. Or should that be Frauline Lilli? I am well aware that you started off as a sex toy in Germany in the 1950’s. Its no understatement to point out that your beauty remains while Pamela Anderson's, who is many years younger and made of more plastic than you, is starting to fade. You are requesting to become a frumpy house frau, and that is going to reward good little girls, how? Oh, gee, if I work at it I can become a dumpy middle-aged lady in sweats. Is that the example we want to give young ladies? Then your request for sex organs. I mean really! You do recall how rushed you wanted and grateful you were to get rid of them when you got off the boat from Germany? Maybe, your request should be honored and then I could drop you off at that little shop in Dusseldorf that puts in that request for you every year? (Oh, fear not, that won’t happen, as they are on Santa’s REALLY bad list.) Then there was your “career” request. Being a Medic in Desert Storm and an Astronaut were not good enough careers for you? Yea, showing children the importance of public service, that’s a bad thing. Listen up Ms. Barbie, the 1980’s are over and the material girl in a material world ain’t happening today. Frankly, I find your lack of standards, desire for under achievement and, yet, over reward not in keeping with the “good list” philosophy. Lastly you want a breast reduction. Look, you and I both know this whole elf making toys gig is half the story. Capital, you know money, without that we have no supplies for fabrication of product, zip, nada, nothing. So, how do I get capital? Guilty, Fathers. Fully 85.86% of our operating budget is generated from guilty fathers providing our corporation with funds to make up for their actions during the year. (Santa denies the rumors that said funding results in additions to the “good list”.) Honey, listen, those guys like to buy for their daughters the doll that’s pleasing to their own eye. Those knockers stay. You trying to shut us down? Ms. Barbie, overall I find your requests self-serving, and delusional. However, I am willing to fore go any final judgment owing to the fact you are an empty headed blond. Empty headed of course brings me to you, Mr. Ken. Just joking, guy. Some very reasonable requests there. You got it buddy. Say, I am listening to Judy Garland later want to drop by? Sincerely, Mr. S. Claus “Ho, ho, ho” copyright 1673

Hash, Boiled Beans, and Hoe Cakes, with Turkish Fashion Coffee.

An equitable solution to a lag problem! Huzzah says I! Drinks all around! -Greydog P.S. Now, I didn't say I was buyin, just said drinks all around, just look around this place.

Oh, the voice is no big deal, the fact he was a SHE! (The dancing elf) That was creepy. But, that was very kewl thanks for posting it!

As I recall, you are correct that was Whitewater. However, that person was just an out and out nut, excuse me, extreme fan. She has been profiled on TV numerous times and was in the Documentary I think the name was Trekkers? Anyway it was the one shot by Ms. (Diane?) Crosby. (Its an old flick at this point, but a LOT of fun to watch). This lady wears her Star Trek stuff 24/7, to include her day job at a printing store. As I recall she has her home setup to look like a Starship. She was deadly serious about wearing her "uniform" at the trial and upholding the principals of the Federation, no less. This is just so wrong! Everybody knows it violates the prime directive to allow a non-warp capable planet to have direct contact with Star Fleet. The bottom line is she should be court martialed and probably should be reported to the temporal authorities for being in this time period.

Another example of blaming human conduct on the objects in their hands. Then again, wait....shhhh.... I think I hear a Banzi charge forming just outside of Buckingham Palace!!! OMG, TURNOUT THE GUARDS!