Mission Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 10. You feel compelled to cut out cardboard buckles, paint them gold and put them on your tennis shoes for some reason. 9. You can't understand why people aren't constantly asking you to be in their pictures anymore. 8. You find yourself missing the usually noxious smells of gunpowder, tobacco pipe smoke, campfire and three day old sweat. 7. You buy one of those dopey sound machines to play the sounds of waves crashing on the beach. *sigh* 6. You patiently explain to your spouse (roommate/significant other/parents/cat) that henceforth the dining room and kitchen must really be referred to as "the ordinary." 5. People keep calling you by your given name which really confuses you. ("But my name is Mission...") 4. You find yourself patiently explaining to the local barista that s/he must put your coffee into a pewter tankard or it won't "look right." 3. (Unless Stynky stole your mug, that is. Bastid!) 2. You feel naked without sixteen pounds of what would normally be called "useless crap" hanging from your belt. 1. This forum is once again the first place you look on the board when checking in - mostly to see what new developments have taken place...for an event that actually ended last week! Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" John: "I don't know." Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 and my personall favorite... really, it happened again last night... "hold fast, mate! the reason why i pulled you over is....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diosa De Cancion Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 and my personall favorite... really, it happened again last night... "hold fast, mate! the reason why i pulled you over is....." hahaha, that's too funny! I wonder how long they wonder if they really heard that or start thinking, damn, I really must be drunk.... :) Diosa De Cancion aka Mary Read www.iammaryread.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 i usually slip my first night back on the road. the serge usually puts me in plain clothes the first couple of nights back, "for my own good". The indash camera got a good one of me last year after blackbeard. I pulled a DUI and referred to him as " a bloody hell, sot locked varment" cheesy english accent included. needless to say that tape was not used as states evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNell Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 10. You should be reading the 100's of e-mails in your in box, instead you find yourself rummaging around on the pub, reading everything your friends have ever posted. 9. Instead of admiring the Christmas trees in shop windows you find yourself pinning over those perfectly spaced palm trees just right for a hammock. 8. You're disappointed when friends don't end the evening in song while passing their cup around. stingy bastards! 7. You're bummed that you missed out again and forgot to cook a biscuit on your sword this year. 6. After a week of fighting sleep every step of the way, its seems foreign to actually lie down and willingly close your eyes without worrying what you might miss. 5. You spend the rest of the year trying to figure out how to clone yourself so next year you can sleep and still not miss anything. 4. You can't help but wonder....in this economy I might actually be able to find a reasonably priced island... maybe even one with a FORT??? after all I do know 100 pirates who would be willing to go in on it. 3. You wish hats would come back in fashion...you just don't get to wear your hat enough. 2. You wear your pirate hat to the grocery store... after all it feels odd not to be stared at...so to hell with it, I think I'll wear it to work tomorrow.... WHAT!?! 1. You think next year there may actually be enough people to petition the government to make it an actual HOLIDAY! - Merry PIPmas everyone! “PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.” Ambrose Bierce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNell Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 i usually slip my first night back on the road. the serge usually puts me in plain clothes the first couple of nights back, "for my own good". The indash camera got a good one of me last year after blackbeard. I pulled a DUI and referred to him as " a bloody hell, sot locked varment" cheesy english accent included. needless to say that tape was not used as states evidence. Oh thats funny.,...I could hear that followed by " aye ye scallywag, hands behind yer back while i clap ye in irons" Dutch...hmmm...Dutchy....hmmm...Dudley ..Dooright..."Fear not for I'll save you" The thought of you in a state troopers smoky hat lunging to save me gives me the giggles. Now it all makes sense. “PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.” Ambrose Bierce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNell Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Chrispy says that raises another question, "How do you handcuff a guy with a hook?" “PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.” Ambrose Bierce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 6. After a week of fighting sleep every step of the way, its seems foreign to actually lie down and willingly close your eyes without worrying what you might miss. So true. That's the bummer about staying off site. You do get a good night's sleep (or good morning's sleep, as the case may be), but you always wonder what's going on that you're missing. Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" John: "I don't know." Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silkie McDonough Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 The only thing about the week that you don't miss is the Port-O-Johns ICK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 ah the porto-johns!!! now it all makes sense!!! robbie came back from taking a bath proud as a peacock saying he found a private bath house. course that was the first day and he did not take a bath again........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Chrispy says that raises another question, "How do you handcuff a guy with a hook?" A "hook" cuff? With a teeny tiny cuff???????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Well met Mission. To add my pointed two cents. 10. You hum pyrat songs instead of Christmas carols. 9. You begin to imagine how your "normal" friends look in period clothing. 8. You find that final piece of clothing in a bag, using the smell system. 7. You take exponentianally longer showers for the first three days at home. 6. You find empty mead bottles in your bag. 5. You keep hearing cannons in your sleep 4. You find yourself unable to drink from anything made of a foamy material. 3. You wonder why, on the next morning, there is three pounds of sand on your pillow where your ear was last night. 2. You still smell camp fire smoke three weeks later. 1. Making all the plans for NEXT year before this year is even cleaned up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Sterling Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 and ye still haven't gotten a decent night's sleep because yer up all night reading the posts about the event at the pub, because ye just don't want it to end... "I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers Crewe of the Archangel http://jcsterlingcptarchang.wix.com/creweofthearchangel# http://creweofthearchangel.wordpress.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Jim Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 (edited) and ye still haven't gotten a decent night's sleep because yer up all night reading the posts about the event at the pub, because ye just don't want it to end... Aye, now go to bed! I just found a bottle of Pirate's Choice in me sea chest! Who knew? Edited December 16, 2008 by Captain Jim My occupational hazard bein' my occupation's just not around... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diosa De Cancion Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Well met Mission. To add my pointed two cents.10. You hum pyrat songs instead of Christmas carols. 9. You begin to imagine how your "normal" friends look in period clothing. 8. You find that final piece of clothing in a bag, using the smell system. 7. You take exponentianally longer showers for the first three days at home. 6. You find empty mead bottles in your bag. 5. You keep hearing cannons in your sleep 4. You find yourself unable to drink from anything made of a foamy material. 3. You wonder why, on the next morning, there is three pounds of sand on your pillow where your ear was last night. 2. You still smell camp fire smoke three weeks later. 1. Making all the plans for NEXT year before this year is even cleaned up. Wow... I am dealing with too many of these..... had that 'something smells like smoke' moment last night... and I found 2 bottles of rum(still with booze in them though) in all our stuff... I guess I was drinking too much Green Fairy to drink rum.... Diosa De Cancion aka Mary Read www.iammaryread.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silkie McDonough Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 9. You begin to imagine how your "normal" friends look in period clothing.I see you used quotes on 'normal", I can just imagine YOUR "normal" friends. 1. Making all the plans for NEXT year before this year is even cleaned up.There was a clean up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 9. You begin to imagine how your "normal" friends look in period clothing.I see you used quotes on 'normal", I can just imagine YOUR "normal" friends. Think "normal" in the Alice in Wonderland sense and you might get close heheheh. 1. Making all the plans for NEXT year before this year is even cleaned up.There was a clean up? Well clean up may be too generous. Break down? And some of the crewe be right broke down alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Wow... I am dealing with too many of these..... had that 'something smells like smoke' moment last night... and I found 2 bottles of rum(still with booze in them though) in all our stuff... I guess I was drinking too much Green Fairy to drink rum.... That one always hits me every year. Takes about a month until I stop smellin camp fires. And I think everyone is finding Pirate's Choice in their bags. Was Don running around in the early morning light filling all our stockings? I found a bottle of Key Lime where my shoes were supposed to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silas thatcher Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 [1. Making all the plans for NEXT year before this year is even cleaned up. on monday night, with only a few remaining campers, i saw a light over at the BIB's camp and went to investigate.... there i found the BIB's sitting around the campfire literally discussing things for next year !! good commitment on their part !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Hand Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Or worse.... Animal and I started talkin' bout th' Buccaneer Camp for next year at the Busty...errrgh buxom Wench contest...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNell Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Or worse.... Animal and I started talkin' bout th' Buccaneer Camp for next year at the Busty...errrgh buxom Wench contest...... LOL... all that prime grade A being displayed must have sparked it. LOL “PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.” Ambrose Bierce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Jim Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Or worse.... Animal and I started talkin' bout th' Buccaneer Camp for next year at the Busty...errrgh buxom Wench contest...... First sign you think too much about Pyracy...Starting to plan an all-male buccaneer camp while at a Boxom Wench contest... My occupational hazard bein' my occupation's just not around... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Hand Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Starting to plan an all-male buccaneer camp while at a Boxom Wench contest... Wellllll we was watchin' the buxom wench contest..... and we knows war ter find them at PiP anyways...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silkie McDonough Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 ...And I think everyone is finding Pirate's Choice in their bags. Was Don running around in the early morning light filling all our stockings? I found a bottle of Key Lime where my shoes were supposed to be.I didn't get any ...the ones he brought to the Hide disappeared. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Roberts Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Your still rubbing your feet thinking, "Gee I can't WAIT to get back next year." (Ok I'm not saying that right now, but I'm sure most of you are. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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