Perkeo

“If they ever come up with a swashbuckling school, I think one of the courses should be laughing, then jumping off something.” -Jack Handey

I try not to think.

Aye, good things happen to pirates like you Silkie.

I've been living off 4 hours of sleep a night for about 25 years or more. Sometimes you just have to tell the voices in your head to shut up once or twice.

CHEERS to my fellow pirates of the wee hours.

Standing at my pub.

What do you do with a drunken Pirate?

After the field battle @ Pennsic War.

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never: Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny,”-William Shakespeare

*gives Silkie a hug*

When I finally woke up this morning I was sooo sore. I guess I'm getting too old to be a bouncer. I had to kick 5 people out of the bar and I got a very nice bruise on my left shoulder.....another day in the life of a Pirate Bouncer.

“John Hammond: When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked. Ian Malcom: Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.”

Dread Pirate Roberts - “Life is pain...anyone who says differently is selling something.”

Saint Augustine of Hippo - “An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. 'What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.'”

Bern Williams - “The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.”

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert - “I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.”

Well, it is 6:55 am and I'm still awake for some reason.

I should make myself get some sleep some day.

Well, it's 4:35am I guess I'll go to bed. Gotta be up in about 5 hours.

I like playing the Bohdran, Djembe and Dumbek. I like beating on things.

Last time I made some rum balls I used Sailor Jerry. mmmmmmm

Bows and takes the quill.

I gladly place my mark.

X

Who be servin' drinks around here, I still need a Drambuie on the rocks...I am parched.

Perkeo feeling pretty good by now goes behind the bar and makes a Drambuie on the rocks.

Here be your drink, BriarRose!

Then he pours himself a Jamesson on the rocks.

I rarely go to bed before 4am. Here are some quotes of inspiration for us insomniacs. Oh, yeah, I'm signing up!

It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing. ~Brian W. Aldiss

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~Fran Lebowitz

Sleep - those little slices of death, how I loathe them. ~Edgar Allen Poe (Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?)

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ~Clifton Fadiman

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack

Early to rise and early to bed

Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

~James Thurber, Fables for Our Times, 1940

My take on some good old Corned beef and cabbage.

1 3-4lb slab of corned beef

1 can of pickling spice

1 bag of small red potatos

1 nice sized head of cabbage

6 or more bottles of Guinness

1 bottle of Irish whiskey

In a very large pan place the corned beef. Cover one side with pickling spice completely. Fill with water. Add 1 bottle of Guinness and 1 shot of whiskey. (some what optional: open another bottle for yourself and do a shot) Bring to a good boil and let it go for about 2 hours. Turn down the heat to a simmer. Let it simmer over night. When you get up the next day you might need to add more water. When you do go ahead and add another bottle of Guinness and shot of whiskey. All together the meat should cook for about 12 hours. (nice and tender) About an hour before serving take out the meat and put in the potatos and cabbage and cook until tender. (should be about an hour)

Invite some friends over and drink the rest of the Guinness and Irish whiskey.

it's been so long I really don't remember how or when in my drunken state that I managed to find this place let alone my pants.

But I'm happy I did!!!!!

Very very nice sound.....I likey

I'm in the SCA and don't really go to faires, not that I don't like faires they can be really fun and I've known many people that go to them, it's just that the SCA takes up most of my time.

I've been working on my persona for a long time evolving it when I can, so I've been working on a Viking turned Pirate persona in the late 11th early 12th centuries. It is a work in progress and I'm still doing the research. When I get my research completed I want to try to look as authentic as possible. Until then I wear what ever I can find or what my wallet will let me wear.

just my 2 pence,

Perkeo

It's all a matter of sematics: you call it a drinking problem, I call it a reality exit stratagy

That be too cute fer words.....

Being a marshall at one time I'm gonna ignore what I read about going off site and fighting with real swords.....other than that I will be at Pennsic. You can find me, most of the time, at my pub down in the bogs

(which I might add is the only working roadside pub at Pennsic). I'm on the back side of the lake, just look for me colours and we'll have some shots together. Alcohol is always flowing and always free!!!

Happy Anniversary of your birth!!!!!!

I got your next 6 shots of rum then we'll really start drinking

If'n its a drinking game you want a mate and I were bored one night, we didn't have lots of alcohol but we did have a set of dice, so we came up with a game we call Deteriated Dice. Warning: only play if you want to get really drunk, really fast.

Now the rules: Take the dice and each person takes turns rolling them. (remembering what you rolled). The winner doesn't drink but the losers drink the number they lost by (example: winner rolls double 6's and the loser rolls double 1's, the loser has 10 drinks). If you roll double 6's you get to make a rule (it has to apply to every one). That's pretty much it, sounds simple until you get drunk. btw, I got a friend drunk from 6 Killians and another friend tipsy from O'Doul's.

My personal favorite rule is if you roll doubles and lose you have to drink twice the amount you lost by. (example: double 6's vs. double 1's goes from 10 drinks to 20 drinks).

Have fun and be careful!!!!

I be another of the Land-locked Pyrates although there be sea salt in me vains .....I hail from the Circle City, Indianapolis, IN.

I guess I know were I'll be shopping this weekend.....

So there I was at me local Best Buy store searchin' for plunder and I found some great steals....I mean deals.....I found 2 piratey box sets one was "The Adventures of Long John Silvers" (13 episodes) and the other was a 2 DVD set with 4 movies on 'em "Beneath the 12-mile Reef", "Captain Kidd", "Mutiny", and "Legend of Sea Wolf". The sets cost me $5.99 each.

Being some one who is in the SCA...(I know not every one likes the SCA)...I am a history buff. I find it hard to get some of the more period things I want for various reasons, but I like to do the research and try to at least pattern the things I have after period stuff. I believe in having fun first and being accurate last. Besides making the authentisity nazi's upset can be a lot of fun in itself.