# 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:** 3
**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, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/41 "2003-07-26T04:43:31Z")
**Tikki** , if ye stowed away, we don’t know yer thar. What say we hire ye anyway. Say “Arr” to **BYS Barmaid Tikki**. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/42 "2003-07-26T04:49:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tikki \* > \*\*Somehow, getting my behind pinched a hundred times a day has gotten old… \*\* Three words, lass: Frying Pan, Fire. I want ter be the ship’s cat. (Glances at nym) Ship’s dog? Is there such a thing? . . . Let me get back ter ya. Sea dog? I dunno. Have to think this over. DD ---
**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, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/43 "2003-07-26T04:54:30Z")
**DesertDog** , ye can be the ship’s cat, just stay away from **First Mate NoClue** and the apples. ---
**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, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/44 "2003-07-26T04:57:01Z")
Yarr, and while we set course, I be settin’ a curfew to all the crew. Arr, fine, ye can stay up and do…piratey things. I be goin’ to bed. **First Mate NoClue** , ye be in charge. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/45 "2003-07-26T05:04:00Z")
Can I be Roger the Cabin Boy? ---
**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, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/46 "2003-07-26T05:06:52Z")
Aye, Cap’n! Very well, LOWER THE LIGHTS! RAISE THE DISCO BALL! CUE THE MUSIC! [to the tune of _Copa Cabana_] We are the Pirates Pirates of _The Ted_ The hottest ship that ever got wet Oh, we’re the Pirates The crew of _The Ted_ Swish’n and cuss’n we always be fuss’n With a pirate Don’t fall in love (Pirates of _The Ted_) ---
**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, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/47 "2003-07-26T05:08:38Z")
Come on a board, **RogerMatt**. Always a party on a pirate ship! ---
**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, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/48 "2003-07-26T05:29:52Z")
::TAaN arisu ftSP wakes up from rum-induced haze:: Mmmmm… course charting? right… right…aye-aye Cap’n! ::random shuffling of (rum-stained) maps:: Methinks We can start with plundering the ports of Hispaniola and the shipping lanes near the Bermudas (avoiding the Triangle of course), then make our way down through the Straits of Magellan to see whether there’s monsters or Australia, and from there we head north… to FIGI!! And can someone keep that blasted, scurvy runt of a zombie-monkey out of me bunk, keeps trying to steal me loot it does… ---
**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, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/49 "2003-07-26T05:40:38Z")
The Copacabana song is all well and good, Matey, and your voice can charm a herring out of a seagull’s gullet, but I prefer a traditional sea shanty. Here is Heart of Oak to send us on our way. (Eek! That had better be the apple you’re holding that I just felt, Tattooie!) Come cheer up my lads, it’s to glory we steer, To add something more to this wonderful year. To honor we call you, as free men, not slaves, For who are so free as the sons of the waves. Heart of oak are our ships, Heart of oak are our men. We always are ready, Steady, boys, steady, We’ll fight and we’ll conquer, again and again. Our worthy forefathers, let’s give them a cheer, To climates unknown did courageously steer. Through oceans to deserts, for freedom they came, And dying, bequeathed us their freedom and fame. ---
**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, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/50 "2003-07-26T05:42:58Z")
Hmmm, maybe it was that zombie-monkey… ---
**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, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/51 "2003-07-26T05:50:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tikki \* > \*\*(Eek! That had better be the apple you’re holding that I just felt, Tattooie!) \*\* A thousand devils curse my user-name! I’m as much a of lass as ye be! ::Tries to join the sing-along but can only rembember the words to a different song:: Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for meeeeeeeeeee… ---
**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, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/52 "2003-07-26T06:02:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by arisu \* > \*\* > > \>Me be snipping…ARrrr!\< > > that blasted, scurvy runt of a zombie-monkey keeps trying to steal me loot it does… \*\* _ **Pirate!** _ 😛 ---
**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, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/53 "2003-07-26T06:25:35Z")
Sorry, there. T’was habit from me days as a barmaid. ---
**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, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/54 "2003-07-26T06:27:35Z")
Sorry, there. T’was habit from me days as a barmaid. Can I buy you a rum? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/55 "2003-07-26T06:40:13Z")
Roger the Cabin Boy reporting for _erotic sigh_ duty… yo ho ho and a pitcher of thangria? ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/56 "2003-07-26T07:12:09Z")
I need no historical links, buckos! I learned all my nautical skills by playing Galleons Of Glory many years ago. since I can’t be Brahe Threepwood the mighty pirate captain, I’d like to be a bosun. Apparently all they do is keep the crew from mutiny by means of whips, chains, and the occasional keelhauling. Look! A three-headed monkey! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/57 "2003-07-26T08:12:04Z")
I’m signing on to be a gunner. Keepin’ the powder dry, polishing the brass monkeys, arrr… that’s the life for me. My pirate name is Mendoza. Mario Mendoza. I used to be in Yellowbeard’s service, 'fore he was thrown in prison. I c’n tell ya where he buried his treasure, if I could recall… was it stagger, stagger, crawl, crawl; or stagger, roll, roll, crawl? ---
**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, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/58 "2003-07-26T08:22:57Z")
_Squints at Mendoza_ Aye! Yellowbeard! Know’d him, I did, when we sailed on the Devastator! I ever tell ya about the time we sunk three ships at once? ---
**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, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/59 "2003-07-26T15:30:45Z")
I hear them Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when they’re dead! And a hearty welcome aboard to all the new crew! Apples, anyone? 😃 ---
**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, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/60 "2003-07-26T16:29:07Z")
Toss me an apple, **Arrr**! Good for keepin away the scurvy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997.md?page=4)