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this ones simple but elegant yeah right... simple... who am I kidding. HOURS OF WORK!

We just watched "The Duchess" in the scene where she gives up her love child she's wearing a gown completely of the first style of embroidery you showed. The gowns in the film were amazing. They don't feature that one on the movie site but you can get close-ups of quite a few of them Duchess Costumes I think if I were to do any costume embroidery it would be worth it to highly embroider a stomacher, maybe even some of the stump work around a neckline and cuffs on a gown. Oh if only I had the time and the money to do everything I want.

since your sharing all this gorgeous embroidery ...found this on Wiki... its was so heavy... 3 dimensional... it almost looks sculpted...its from 1660..

Oh to be KING!! simply gorgeous!!

My actual intent was to get several of the groups of "paid performers" who take a similar approach, ie scripted choreography..... to work with other 'paid performers' My mistake was I didn't realize there were people out there who were actually fighting, I didn't know this was even a kosher practice at these Festivals. I wrongly assumed EVERYONE was acting. It explains the initial confusion in the thread. My belief is enough TIME on the same system.. and enough meeting up at various events across the country would eventually result in a great guild of actors able to play together with a great measure of safety and skill. Just my dream... sorry... I'm a dreamer!

My thought exactly... I thought there was a certain sci-fi element to Steam Punk...I guess its all a matter of how far into the future we decide to go ...after we alter the past of course. We do need an enemy... otherwise why are we pirates...without a proper enemy we are nothing more than common criminals... though I like crime shows and am happy to play the bad guy I prefer being the good guy in disguise. Just something to think about... curious why no trans continental?? Did someone destroy it or it never existed. I can see it never existing increasing air traffic. on a side note: I have actually been entertaining the thought of putting together a band... to make even more use of the costuming...the theme... well I was thinking of a kind of futuristic steam punk female Jesse James - gothic cowboy punk jazz ... Circe Link meets Bauhaus

The fact that so many of these colloquialisms, like the one below, have crept into our everyday speech is a great testament to our naval heritage. Shows his true colors Early warships often carried flags from many nations on board in order to elude or deceive the enemy. The rules of civilized warfare called for all ships to hoist their true national ensigns before firing a shot. Someone who finally "shows his true colors" is acting like a man-of-war which hailed another ship flying one flag, but then hoisted their own when they got in firing range. Fathom Although a fathom is now a nautical unit of length equal to six feet, it was once defined by an act of Parliament as "the length of a man's arms around the object of his affections." The word derives from the Old English Faethm, which means "embracing arms." Scuttlebutt The cask of drinking water on ships was called a scuttlebutt and since Sailors exchanged gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water, scuttlebutt became U.S. Navy slang for gossip or rumors. A butt was a wooden cask which held water or other liquids; to scuttle is to drill a hole, as for tapping a cask.

YEAH!!!! THANK YOU MAD! for spelling it all out. I've been trying to re-direct back to my original intent but it was beginning to seem pointless everyone appeared to want to go off in a million directions. There is no reason in my mind that those of us here on the PUB who WANT to, can find a system between our groups. The ones who WANT TO PARTICIPATE... CAN... the ones who don't... DON"T I just thought it would be cool to be able to tell Silkie... hey next time we get together lets work on "The bilge-rat" you learn the Offense I'll learn Defense. If my crew and your crew knew that fight, and which side was which we could actually feasibly do that, and eventually do it well.

got this from a Navy site...I like that they listed references... Monkey "Monkey" has numerous nautical meanings, such as a small coastal trading vessel, single masted with a square sail of the 16th and 17th centuries; a small wooden cask in which grog was carried after issue from a grog-tub to the seamen's messes in the Royal Navy; a type of marine steam reciprocating engine where two engines were used together in tandem on the same propeller shaft; and a sailor whose job involved climbing and moving swiftly (usage dating to 1858). A "monkey boat" was a narrow vessel used on canals (usage dating to 1858); a "monkey gaff" is a small gaff on large merchant vessels; a "monkey jacket" is a close fitting jacket worn by sailors; "monkey spars" are small masts and yards on vessels used for the "instruction and exercise of boys;" and a "monkey pump" is a straw used to suck the liquid from a small hole in a cask; a "monkey block" was used in the rigging of sailing ships; "monkey island" is a ship's upper bridge; "monkey drill" was calisthenics by naval personnel (usage dating to 1895); and "monkey march" is close order march by US Marine Corps personnel (usage dating to 1952). [sources: Cassidy, Frederick G. and Joan Houston Hall eds. Dictionary of American Regional English. vol.3 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1996): 642; Wilfred Granville. A Dictionary of Sailors' Slang (London: Andre Deutch, 1962): 77; Peter Kemp ed. Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea. (New York: Oxford University; Press, 1976): 556; The Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1933; J.E. Lighter ed. Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. (New York: Random House, 1994): 580.; and Eric Partridge A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 8th ed. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company): 917.] "Monkey" has also been used within an ordnance context. A "monkey" was a kind of gun or cannon (usage dating to 1650). "Monkey tail" was a short hand spike, a lever for aiming a carronade [short-sight iron cannon]. A "powder monkey" was a boy who carried gun powder from the magazine to cannons and performed other ordnance duties on a warship (usage dating to 1682). [source: The Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1933.]

DANG don't let Chris see this... We both wanted to go but a good friend of mine was getting married and had asked me to sing at her wedding...ARGH! we wanted to go so bad. The wedding was cool it was a Native American wedding... Lakota tribe. But we really wanted to come to this event! ARRRGH!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! made ya a cake! Ok so I just FOUND it!! Have a wonderful birthday

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Did I mess up the revenge thread? should I have posted that other stuff here? I'm kinda new to bulletin boards, and may be breaking etiquette. If I should post general discussion here and not there let me know. If you need to erase those I'm cool. You know I thought about it and Dot could be a fun character to add some trouble amongst the crew, but that means I have to wear girl clothes...of course I could be so suspicious of mutiny against my husband ( of course the real mutiny is against ME) that I often try to disguise myself and spy on crew thats how I end up in jobs where i don't belong and inevitably screw things up - part of why you all hate me. Ok I think I'm resolved on my character, the idea is too fun to give up. Oh amd Mary inspired me... what do you think of making the last name Dudley... then calling me Dot the Dud makes even more sense. . Sorry... I get excited and carried away... I'm not self absorbed ... REALLY!! .....I'm not. .... just passionate about creating characters... I LOVE IT! The Captain ... how about Commander Mortimer Ulysses Dudley Patrick, How much of the world around us have you already worked out? Why are we pirates, are me on a mission, privateers? What are the worlds treasures, i.e. what's our cargo? Are we technology thieves? Are there major shortages in the world and we're kind of Robin Hood like pirates? I like the idea of spreading the wealth amidst an Armageddon. Are there beings from other planets on earth? We can go anywhere with this. I really do love sci-fi, so much room for commentary, to explore social dynamics and morality. Our history and the stories we create tell so much about who we are and where we're going. I so enjoy exploring the world through a characters eyes. We discover so much, when we have all this room to play... the past. the present, AND the future! My neighbor in LA was a film consultant. She has a degree in applied mythology of all things. And would consult on building more solid archetypes, working with the great myths of the world. She also consulted the government. They would fly her to DC to lecture the top brass during war planning... crazy huh?? How our past colors our present, often determines our future. Excited about starting our adventures!!

Oh as the Captains wife you could hate me all you want, and talk behind my back but, God forbid i know it... I could make your like hell... He does love me... after all I'm his honey bunny!! LOL I could always be curious about different jobs, and end up always sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong and making things difficult on all of you. Of course in the Captains eyes I do no wrong.... I kind of like that character... it could be fun. ... and yeah... a name.. the Captain needs a really interesting and authoritative sounding name. Commander Maxwell Ulysses Dempsy... his name is m.u.d then I could just be something like... Dotia Ursula Dempsy---that would make me d.u.d LOL Ok I'm just throwing things out for the heck of it to see if they stick. DON'T hold me to anything yet.

Rummage Sale And no, it has nothing to so with rum... well, not directly anyway. Arrimage is French for a ship's cargo. Damaged cargo that could not be delivered and sold at cost was sold at discounted arrimage sales. The word quickly evolved into the nickname of rummage sales, which are still a source of great values today. Clean Bill of Health Captains throughout history have wished their ships to receive clean bills of health, but not to save money on repairs. As ships could be a means of spreading contagious illness, the term originally referred to a document that was given to a ship reporting that the port it was last in currently had no epidemic or major disease at the time. Chew the Fat Sailors were often given rations of salt pork during long voyages at sea, especially when the perishable foods ran out. This led to complaints about the food being a main portion of the dinner conversation, or a version of chewing the fat as they chewed their fat.

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Dang I want to be a Patch Monkey!!! - how utterly cool...ooo.. Queen of the Patch Monkeys...Hey.. thats technically not an officer... its a monarch.. .... anyway lets see.. I could be the helmsman.. technically not an officer, that would be the Navigator... then again the ship could have some kind of auto pilot so the captain technically controls all the ships movements leaving no need for a helmsman...hmmm so ...I'm really kinda stuck for a job...m oh guess I should ask first... are GIRLS ok on the pirate ship??...and if so...I'm a bit of a whack job...any ideas... some kind of Kamikaze...I have a reputation to uphold ?? Oooh I just had an idea.. i could be the Captains annoying wife... I'm on board and no one really likes it but theres nothing you can do about it. After all I am the Captains wife.. and the fact that he kind of doesn't exist could make it all the stranger.

heard this one a lot as a kid Toe the line The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with a packing material called "oakum" and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar. The result, from afar, was a series of parallel lines a half-foot or so apart, running the length of the deck. Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a warship's crew was ordered to fall in at quarters -- that is, each group of men into which the crew was divided would line up in formation in a given area of the deck. To insure a neat alignment of each row, the Sailors were directed to stand with their toes just touching a particular seam. Another use for these seams was punitive. The youngsters in a ship, be they ship's boys or student officers, might be required to stand with their toes just touching a designated seam for a length of time as punishment for some minor infraction of discipline, such as talking or fidgeting at the wrong time. A tough captain might require the miscreant to stand there, not talking to anyone, in fair weather or foul, for hours at a time. Hopefully, he would learn it was easier and more pleasant to conduct himself in the required manner rather than suffer the punishment. From these two uses of deck seams comes our cautionary word to obstreperous youngsters to "toe the line." something the Navy always gave me plenty of and I still enjoy whenever possible Square Meal. In the rare instances when the ship was near enough to shore for fresh victuals and the weather was calm enough to serve the hot meal on plates, the crews' mess was served on square wooden platters. Hence the best, most nutritious meals on board were the square me one of my favorites in my younger years... ok and still sometimes these days Down the Hatch Here's a drinking expression that seems to have its origins in sea freight, where cargoes are lowered into the hatch. (or drink into the gullet) First used by seamen, it has only been traced back to the turn of the century. Obvious to me loading the "cargo hold" by dumping rum "down the hatch" repeatedly will result in "getting loaded" LOL thought that was and interesting

Who say's we don't use em?? Girls that grew them young like myself... well... it didn't take long to figure out how to hone their hypnotic powers to laser precision.... too bad the same doesn't work for you boys... although a tight pair of jeans and a nice tooshie... can certainly grab a gals attention... hey Chrispy caught me that way...he still has the jeans and can fill them out too... and well my sweaters are a little tighter than they used to be but he's not complaining....Hey you know what they say flaunt it if ya got it...as LONG as ya got it... and after ya don't ... just hope someone loves ya enough to still think you still do...ohhh LOVE IS BLIND!! Thank GOD!

I definitely prefer a mule...easier to get out of I actually like the squared toe... maybe not that LONG though! LOL but the embroidery is gorgeous! Oh and Jack ... you call shoes CRAP!! are you kidding LOL

a gorgeous picture of Fort Zachary that Tony Callahan took! The light is amazing! ... it makes me miss "home"

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I spent a while trying to find you girls male belly dancers for the moroccan party... but I couldn't find one that didn't make me a bit uncomfortable...I didn't want to break out laughing during his performance.... the only male dancers I found worth posting I couldn't access to post here... so heres a belly that make me wanna dance LOL

OOHH or I like Black Syrens idea of a Moroccan themed night too....

ohh Silkie you asked about food.... to stick with the theme how about this and of course the cocktail table