Pirates: S&D

destroy:
Hook [with julia roberts and robin williams]
tampa bay buccaneers
scurvy

Destroy Polanski's Pirates

Destroy:
swabbing the deck
being sent to Davy Jones' locker
the phrase "butt pirate"

Destroy lame lies about it being in any way rude.

Destroy Monkey Island III and after.

Errol Flynn.
Word to the _Pirates!_ videogame tip.
_Tales from the Black Freighter_ by Alan Moore.
Marty Feldman.

Destroy:

_Cutthroat Island_. Destroy. Destroy. Destroy. Though Frank Langella was good, as usual.

Destroy-being on the receiving end of traditional pirate punishments.

But yeah, that certainly set him apart from the crowd.

Oh yeah, also search: Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

Destroy: Pirate movies rated... Driving me... and other wack piratey jokes. Soft-rock or metal Pirates.

Destroy: Pirates of Dark Water

There's an apocryphal story about my mother's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-granfather's uncle or something being an official pirate of Queen Elizabeth I. Got paid by the Royals to sail out from Bristol and plunder. Public sector jobs aint what they used to be.

destroy Hook.

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Alan

A Massachusetts couple facing a deadly attack by Red Sea pirates turned their boat and rammed the murderous buccaneers in a desperate bid to save themselves.
Joseph Barry and Carol Martini - he reportedly a car restorer and she reportedly a doctor - were sailing around the world on the Gloucester-based boat Gandalf when they ran into trouble off the coast of Yemen about two weeks ago.

``It is a rough neighborhood,'' said Hillel Reshef, director of the marina in Ashkelon on Israel's Mediterranean coast where Gandalf is now tied up.

``They did something which is not common in our rough neighborhood,'' said Reshef, refering to the banditry and terrorism that plague the region. ``For the first time, the bull won the fight over the matador.''

Barry and Martini were on a side trip to the ruins of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan yesterday as they continued to unwind and went on with their tourism plans after their ordeal, and they were not available for comment.

Reshef said Barry described how Gandalf, sailing with another American boat, saw two Arab fishing boats approaching, each with two men on board. When the pirates came within range, they opened up with AK-47s, peppering Gandalf with bullets.

``I saw bullet holes in the mast, the spray hood over the cockpit and in the rubber dinghy,'' Reshef said. ``They were shooting to kill, not to warn.''

Martini went below to operate the radio, trying to reach some American naval vessels in the area. Barry tried to outrun them, but when he realized he couldn't, he turned around.

``Barry, with his steel-hulled boat, he rammed them with full power,'' said Reshef, who said the wooden boat was badly damaged and the two attackers in it severely injured.

``The ones in the other boat approached the stern, still shooting, and were trying to climb on board,'' Reshef said. That's when the other American sailor opened up with his shotgun, wounding both of the other attackers. The two sailboats were then able to get away, leaving the injured men behind in their boats.

Unlike some bluewater sailors, Reshef said, Barry opted not to have a gun on board. He said he doesn't know if this incident might have changed his mind, but Reshef said, ``He is sure he will never go back to this area.''

OKay I have a pirate fetish currently, but also of old naval wartime stuff too after recently watching Master & Commander on blue ray.

Give me more!

(im downloading Captain Blood right now)

Start with Horatio Hornblower & the Patrick O'Brian novels. They should keep you busy for a while :)

I am also into whaling, so Moby Dick is awesome, and I just found this cheesy romance novel that looks AMAZING:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CH2G784YL._SS500_.jpg

(only I bought it at a used bookstore, and mine has a much, much cheesier romance-novel cover.)

that cover is great!

Horatio Hornblower - the Gregory Peck movie or the drama TV series ?

I've only seen the TV series, am curious about the movie now!

search: http://sailhome.livejournal.com/5162.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/17/oil-tanker-pirates

Snakes on a plane!

To understand the Somali “Pirates” one must first understand the reasons behind their rise.

In this clip, pirate kingpin Abshir Boyah, states that hunger has led him to this, and starvation is worse than any missile or bullet fired at him. pic.twitter.com/540qGAFmXs https://t.co/JDqbiIrCyu

— Ahmed Cadde (@AhCadde) November 28, 2023

Hunger may have led him to piracy, but now he's a successful businessman whose business is crime. Crime can be a precarious business, but it can also pay well at the top of the enterprise, where he sits. I very much doubt he has been hungry lately.

Hope he has a big dinner tonight and for many nights to come.

Fun fact, my dad is actually a pirate

Meaning for the past 3 decades, he’s travelled to childcare centres dining sea shanties, spinning sun safety into tales of a penguin living on the island of calypso, and telling pirate jokes while informing children of the ocean.

Put bread on the table for me from ages 0-17. Pirates, undoubtably, Classic