Capn Bob

Violet Ray Generators are in use for...ummm..."recreational" purposes these days...as for the other devices, I haven't heard they're still in use, but it wouldn't surprise me... After all, there's people out there yet stranger than we are...

I'll be bound for the parks on Dec 26...travelling by tour bus.

Whatever it is, I'm against it. Unless I'm for it, which is a whole other kettle of monkeys...

Happy Birthday Kate! I shall sing a song for you... Unless you pay me, and then I shall *not* sing, which is better for all...

Nope, sorry...but ye're thinking along the right lines... Its another 1960's film, released in 1966...if that helps... And as a further hint, here's another quote...one of the most memorable lines of the movie... "I am a parade!" (and yes indeed, the glorious soldier who said that *is* a blowhard...)

We should all of us maintain our bottoms...

And now, since I'm up, here's a multi-quote... "We need a body...anybody's body!" "Can you get one from Gusto the Body-Snatcher?" "He owes me a favor!!! But he died yesterday." "What about his body?" "Somebody snatched it." The movie is one of my favorites...

I'll be teeling ye my secret... It was the "1967" hint that gave it away. There was just...something...about the quotes and the date that whispered to me "James Coburn...James Coburn". Had to be either his Flint movies or the one with him being a presidential shrink...and a quick check on Amazon told me the shrink movie was from the hinted date. So...amazingly, I didn't cheat...well, much...

Okay...I'll be taking a wild and scattered broadside at this one... Just a guess, mark ye, but I'm sayin" "The President's Analyst", with James Coburn.

As for me, just grabbed a library copy of "A pirate of exquisite mind : explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier"...good so far, and there's mention of the Old Country...which, for me, is Virginia. (Born in Charlottesville, so I was)

Aye, well, ye can't be going wrong with Terry Pratchett...

A Gyro sandwich...

If true, she'd have more than one tale to tell her children and presumed grandchildren. By the way, in the classic and highly accurate work, "The Pyrates", by George MacDonald Fraser, Anne Bonney is a major character. I'm all for her and Col. Blood getting together, behind the scenes, belike...

Any "reliable" info as to whatever happened to bonny Anne, Anne Bonney? I've heard various things, such as her father ransoming her out of prison, but its all just speculation in my books. I'm wondering if any new scholarship has shed light on this... And poor Jack. To have been greeted with the words "If you had fought like a man, you need not be hanged like a dog" from dear Anne must have cheered him considerably as he was led out for his app't with the hempen halter...

Gummmmmbo! With crawfish in it! And a dash of rum...

Since the (ahem) "villian in the book On Stranger Tides is Blackbeard, I relish the possibility of Barbossa *and* Neddy Teach going head to head at each other...

Tonight? Dunno about tonight...but Monday or Tues I'm making up a nice pot of...gumbo. With *crawfish* in it!

That's good...can I use it?

Okay...this one is from a certain Cap'n John Quelch, just afore he was due to dance the hempen jig..."They should take care how they brought Money into New England to be Hanged for it." This is one very good reason why I have never visited any of the New England states, nor have any desire to do so. My own pyrate phrase, coined my me, and one I long to use at our stick in mud director, is..."Scupper yer hide for a bilge-breathed, barnacle encrusted lubber!"

Now *there's* a pirate with the right idea...

More money than brains, eh? There's them whut say that be the case with me, anyway...which doesn't say much for either me wits or me personal economy. Nonetheless: Ground vehicle? A Panzer Mk IV, upgunned to a 75mm. Naughty-cal? Just about any craft featured in the current issue of Yachting magazine...

And now it be Talk Like a Pirate Day, when good ol' jolly Neddy Teach, sailing the skies in the Queen Anne's Revenge, look'ee, brings presents and goodies and bottles of rum to all good pirate boys and girls, and leaves buckets of wet seaweed to all the bad little pirates... Well, for a given value of bad, anyway...we be pirates, after all.

Trouble wi' that sort of cure is that Syren will be all crabby for the rest of the year... Geez! Sounds like it! Poor Syren. Mayhaps we should get Tia Dalma t' whip somethin' up for ye to remedy all those ills, hmm? ~Lady B

I'll be putting on me piratey shirt, me boots, me hat (the straw one ye see in me pix, belike), and makin' me way to Red Lobster. And a sip or three of the ship's rum at home. Oh yes...I *will* be wearing pants, too. *Some* lubber here would have noticed the omission and made a comment. I *was* scheduled to work on der Tag, but someone "offered to trade days". I suspect its a conspiracy to prevent me from spreading my pyratical panache throughout the library.

As the greatest holiday in the Whole Wide Worlde approaches us under billowing sails, it is time to ask the company...What's Yer Favorite Pyrate Phrase? Could be from literature, like, say..."Bring aft the rum, Darby!", or historical, like "A short life and a merry one!", or it could be one entirely made up. And as I be the bloke askin' this, it be only fiar, belike, that I be the first to toss out a phrase. Collect them all, and be the first on yer block to be the first on yer block. My fave is one I made up: "Scupper me hide!" Of course, working in a library as I do, sometimes I say "Scupper *yer* hide, ye bilge-breathed barnacle encrusted lubber, ye'd best be belayin' that loud gab or I'll be introducin' ye to the business end of me belayin' pin, scupper me hide if I don't!" And now it be your turn...