Cracked Carrie

Well, at least Lucius has the soul of a pirate. What a collision of worlds that'd be, eh?

Well, I suppose if I *had* to be different this Halloween, just to cause a fuss, I could resurrect my Frodo costume and just blow a hole in my attendance at this forum...

Thankee! Very kind and neighborly of ye! (Actually, you've already invited me, but you likely don't realize it. We've been corresponding off and on from my work address at a domestic violence shelter... Pirate Wenches Doin' Good in the World...)

Yer most welcome!

Now THAT sounds like fun.

Missed one...the opening date for the movie. Ah well. Got a lucky guess on Barbossa's ring...

All right, this is badly off-topic, but if ye're in the Bay Area by any chance (sorry to say I don't know where ye hail from) there's a fairly large group of LOTR folk planning on dressing up for the premiere. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Pirate Forum...

Well, I'm preparing to bite the bullet and actually LEARN how to use a sewing machine, but haven't gotten there yet. So, in the interim, I am just having fun with beads and a wig. My hair's just too short at present for a decent piratical look, so must improvise...

The politically correct pirates chasin' the wenches fer... ...their food. *sigh* Still my favorite ride, but it lost something there. It truly did.

The "Ask Cap'n Slappy" page on that site is guaranteed to make me snort tea out my nose whenever I sit down in the mornin's to read it. It's that funny. Been posting letters up there for a while, for to get good advice from me favorite scholarly rogue...

Aye, that I do. And it happens more often than not.

Aaaand...true ta form, I'm busy that weekend. Of all the damn luck... But still interested in the Halloween cruise!

An interesting reminder that piracy is more fun from the distance of several centuries that it was for those impacted by it at the time...

Happy Birthday! Wave to the pirates in the ride fer me! I miss 'em. Been years...

Yer welcome! (Now, if only I can get th' accent down. I've no gift fer accents, and that's a fact...)

Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere on the boards (could be I even found it here and forgot) but this link takes you to a fella's site what works at some Renn Faire or other and assembled a list of sound clips and step by step advice on several dialects - not just writing it, but speaking with the correct accent. In this case, a "piratey" one. I found it pretty helpful, actually... http://jackytappet.tripod.com/pirate.html

I'd be happy to help you celebrate Halloween in the UK... only problem bein' my presence on the west coast of the US and the price of plane tickets. (And considering recent world history, commandeering an airplane is a topic that isn't funny, not even for a pirate.)

Some o' the worst pirates I met dressed in suits. (Albeit not in polyester ones...)

Not to mention a cute snake. (Seriously, though, she looks like a sweet little kid!)

Oh, I'll be goin' as a pirate, although I'm startin' to feel a bit frenzied about getting all the pieces together. The trouble with bein' a newbie is havin' to assemble the whole blasted thing at once. Still, it'll be a breath of fresh air over last year. I chose a costume that a good match for me, but lacked a certain humor and sense o' fun (which hopefully was NOT part of what made it a good match...). So...aye. A pirate. I've even pressed three of my officemates into duty as well...