# 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:** 2
**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, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/21 "2003-07-26T02:38:13Z")
Arrrr!!! Barnacles off the starboard Bow!! errrrr. . . Make that Barnacles **ON** the starboard bow!! Someone hand me that chisel. ---
**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, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/22 "2003-07-26T02:53:57Z")
May I suggest all our scurvy-dog seaman read over the [Boy’s Manual of Seamanship and Gunnery](http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/B_S_M/Contents.html), circa 1870 (a little after our time, admittedly). I don’t want 'em screwing up my rigging whenever we change sails. Yarr. ---
**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, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/23 "2003-07-26T03:03:15Z")
And a bit about [pirate crews](http://www.molossia.org/buccaneerbay/crew.html), for those of you landlubbers lookin’ to sign on. 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, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/24 "2003-07-26T03:15:01Z")
Coxswain? Seamen? What kind of ship are ye wanting us to have? The Love Boat? Now, pass me the cocobutter so’s I can oil up the Captain’s back. Can’t have her burning that alabaster skin, don’t ye know. ---
**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, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/25 "2003-07-26T03:21:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > **Coxswain? Seamen? What kind of ship are ye wanting us to have? The Love Boat?** Now ye know why I wanted to ditch that Cabin Boy position. Thar might be disgraced Catholic priests slippin’ into the crew. Yarr. ---
**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, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/26 "2003-07-26T03:33:37Z")
Arr! I’ll have no such filth upon me ship! Twenty lashes to the next befouler! And **First Mate** , I’ll have ye know I don’t burn all that badly. But I thank ye for your loyalty. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/27 "2003-07-26T03:47:57Z")
Yarr, I humbly request to be the old, scurvy pirate who knows all the stories and legends, even I have to make em up, yarr! ---
**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, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/28 "2003-07-26T03:49:41Z")
**GMRyujin** , ye be **Old Scurvy Pirate #1, who makes up stories**. ---
**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, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/29 "2003-07-26T03:58:29Z")
Made up stories? Yarr! Yer in one! ---
**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, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/30 "2003-07-26T04:03:37Z")
**First Mate NoClue** , shouldn’t ye be plottin’ our course…or gettin’ another of the bilgerats to be plottin’ it? ---
**Author:** ![Curate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Curate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curate)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/31 "2003-07-26T04:11:45Z")
Cap’n, I’d be your skeleton-positioner. No leaving skeletons laying around for us – I’ll pin 'em to the bulkheads with a cutlass, sit 'em at a table where they died counting their loot, and set ‘em up with a bottle of rum pouring into their mouths and out their rib cages. We’ll have the best lookin’ massacre sites in the West Indies! ---
**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, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/32 "2003-07-26T04:14:39Z")
Well, shiver me timbers! I plum fergot! Very well, then. PREPARE TO MAKE WAY! CAST OFF THE LINES! HOIST THE THINGIES OVER THERE! um… I mean HOIST THE MAINS’L! PULU SEE BAGUMBA! GET THAT CAT OUT OF HERE! ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/33 "2003-07-26T04:19:05Z")
Avast! Can I be the exotic tattooed pirate ye picked up the the South Pacific? And is the position of navigator still open? I’ll plot us a course for the richest ports in the Spanish Main! I really am tattooed. [sub]Well, I have one[/sub] ---
**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, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/34 "2003-07-26T04:23:00Z")
Arr, mateys (no, **ArrrMatey** , I meant everyone.) we’ve got us **Tattoo Artist and Navigator arisu from the South Pacific** and **Skeleton Mover Curate**. Welcome 'em like ye would worthy seamen. **First Mate NoClue** , find out from **TAaN arisu ftSP** whar we be headin’. ---
**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, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/35 "2003-07-26T04:23:59Z")
South Pacific?! I barely know my way around the Carribean! But still… I have half a mind to discover us some islands. Maybe we’ll find Australia! On my charts, all it says is, “Here, there be monsters” Arrr! Good idear, me tattooed pirateman! I’ll call you… Tattooie. ---
**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, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/36 "2003-07-26T04:30:19Z")
“Here, there?” Well, they’re not very specific, are they? **TAaN arisu ftSP** , get us a more accurate map, preferable with islands on it which we wish to discover. Arr. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/37 "2003-07-26T04:33:30Z")
Arr! _Puffs on his pipe_ This reminds me of the voyage of ol’ Pegleg Jim. Not Pete! Arr! Ol’ Jim, he was a cunning one, he was, and he set sail for the Spanish Main in 1684, he did. Arr! Well, Ol’ Jim came up on a Spanish galleon…low in the water, she was, aye! Full o’ gold and treasure! Well, ol’ Jim knew this ship was pretty well-armed, aye, he did. So, he ran up the white flag of surrender, brought the ol’ Bess up along side 'er…and then 'e opened up with all his cannons! Well, the Spaniards surrendered pretty quick, they did… ---
**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, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/38 "2003-07-26T04:36:47Z")
Interesting, **Old Scurvy Pirate #1, who makes up stories**. **First Mate NoClue**! Set course for this “Spanish Main!” ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/39 "2003-07-26T04:36:50Z")
Can I be the brainy yet sexy barmaid who stowed away on the Ted out of a sense of adventure. Somehow, getting my behind pinched a hundred times a day has gotten old… ---
**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, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/40 "2003-07-26T04:41:04Z")
The Spanish Main it is! Well, Hello **Tikki**. How _you_ doin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997.md?page=3)