# Captain Buckleberryferry and the crew of "The Ted" -sign up here- **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997 "2003-07-26T00:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/1 "2003-07-26T00:43:17Z")
[Our Captain!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3749910&highlight=captain+ferry#post3749910) [I be the First Mate.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3754140&highlight=captain+ferry#post3754140) Join us, as have **Cabin Boy** and **ArrrMatey** on the fine pirate vessel _ **The Ted** _ (named after me mother) Whahr shall we be a head’n? From whom shall we take our first blood? AVAST! YE NON-PIRATES! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/2 "2003-07-26T00:45:25Z")
ARrr… I be meaning of course, **Cabin Boy Dewey**. Sorry, mate. Me toungue’s been cut out a few times. Keeps growing back, though. Can’t figure that one out… ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/3 "2003-07-26T00:48:19Z")
Ye be a fine first mate, **NoClue** , a fine first mate, indeed. The spots of First Mate and Cabin Boy bein’ filled, I be needin’ a fuller crew. “Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?” Arr, and what be **ArrrMatey** to us? Be he second mate or swabbin’ the decks? Be he findin’ us our apples? ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/4 "2003-07-26T00:54:24Z")
I’ll just be below decks then, making sure the rum is safe. A pirate does need his priorities after all, savvy? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/5 "2003-07-26T01:35:20Z")
Oh, give me an opportunity, Cap’n Ferry, and I’ll find ye plenty of apples… And I certainly wouldn’t mind being second mate… But if you needs to give me an official title, bo’sun works as good as any… You’ll find me very handy. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/6 "2003-07-26T01:43:33Z")
**ArrrMatey** , ye be a fine second mate. Let’s everyone welcome **Second Mate ArrrMatey**. ---
**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/7 "2003-07-26T01:48:34Z")
With a name like mine, I am a shoo-in on a pirate ship! . . . . . Rght? ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/8 "2003-07-26T01:49:16Z")
**Peg** , ye be welcome here. What be ye to us, though? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/9 "2003-07-26T01:49:30Z")
Arrr, **ArrrMatey** , matey! Mind your step. The gangplank’s a might bit slippery now, with all the rum that dead man yonder spilt. Let that be a lesson to ye: Don’t be speeling our rum! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/10 "2003-07-26T01:52:50Z")
**Peg** a shoe in? A one shoe in, that’ll be more like it! Harrr harrr! Always good to have a woman on board that willn’t be ordering me around. Atop the crow’s nest with you, your eyes be mighty fine, I’m hearing. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/11 "2003-07-26T02:00:55Z")
Dammit, I don’t want to be cabin boy…I want to be the boatswain! High pitched whistles are neat! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/12 "2003-07-26T02:05:22Z")
I’ll try to bend the Captain’s ear, **Dewey**. What skills ye be having? ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/13 "2003-07-26T02:05:23Z")
Arr, **Dewey** , ye can be boatswain. But be sure to keep the whistle quiet when we be sleepin’. It gives me a terrible headache, yarr. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/14 "2003-07-26T02:08:53Z")
Begging the Captain’s pardon for the simulpost. Whahrr be our gunners? We have a need for some quality guners! I cannot be doing it all all by me lonesome, now can I? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/15 "2003-07-26T02:10:17Z")
TweeeeeeaAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! Man the riggin’! We need a coxswain. It sounds dirty, so I suggest we choose accordingly. Yarrr. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/16 "2003-07-26T02:15:56Z")
Arr, true, we be needin’ gunners. Can’t have **First Mate NoClue** all by his onsies, can we? Anyone up for it? ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/17 "2003-07-26T02:18:21Z")
Arrrr! You wouldn’t be needin’ a a near-sighted lookout now would ye? I can get up the riggin’ as quick as a corvette, but I can’t so much as see the helm once I’m up there. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/18 "2003-07-26T02:22:30Z")
**Mastema** , ye can check the hull fer barnacles. ---
**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/19 "2003-07-26T02:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\ ***Peg** a shoe in? > > A one shoe in, that’ll be more like it! > > Harrr harrr! > > Always good to have a woman on board that willn’t be ordering me around. > > Atop the crow’s nest with you, your eyes be mighty fine, I’m hearing. \*\* A fine joker, ye be, **First Mate NCB**! A fine joke indeed! Yes, my eyes be mighty fine, but my tolerance for heights isn’t. I am, however, quite handy in the pantry. Might I ask for a transfer to the kitchen, and you’ll feast on fine cusine every evenin’. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/20 "2003-07-26T02:27:30Z")
**Peg** , we’d be happy to have ye. Cook away. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997.md?page=2)