# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/161 "2003-07-29T12:51:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*Arr, if there be musicals, then I’m putting on a flappy pirate shirt and showing my chest! Whar be those scurrrrrrrrrvy Gilbert and Sullivan chaps? Arr! \*\* Arr, I be down in the magazine, checking on the heavy shot for the thirty-eights. (Steal THAT, monkey, if you can!) And I’ve been starting me research on just what a “long nine” cannon is. (“Long” cannon use a light weight cannonball, and have an extended range over the normal guns. Presumedly the long cannon use an extra-long barrel.) **Tikki** , this one’s for you. _Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry, Fill, oh fill, the pirate glass. And to make us more than merry, Let the pirate bumper pass!_ Now who be our pilot, ah, pirate apprentice? We’ve already got **Liser-go-Blind** as our sort of piratical maid of all work. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/162 "2003-07-29T15:02:59Z")
I just so happy nobody is offended by the shrunken heads hanging off my belt. Most people just don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/163 "2003-07-29T16:33:07Z")
Arrrr, has “Sixteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest” been sung yet? If not - _Sixteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest! Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil ha’ done for the rest! Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum!_ There likely be more to the ditty, but me drrrink enfeebled mind ha’nt memory of 't. Kn(sneakily feigning drunkeness to allay suspicion)ckers ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/164 "2003-07-29T17:32:05Z")
Arr, now I plan to sing, ye scurrrrrrrrvy dogs! _Upon our prey we steal In silence dread Our cautious way we feel. No sound at all! We never speak a word A fly’s foot-fall Would be distinctly heard_ ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/165 "2003-07-29T17:32:47Z")
That’s why I be aboard… "\*The mate was fixed by the bosun’s pike The bosun brained with a marlinspike And Cookey’s throad was marked belike It had been gripped by fingers ten; And there they lay, all good dead men Like break o’day in a boozing ken Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Fifteen men of the whole ship’s list Yo ho ho and an bottle of rum! Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! The skipper lay with his nob in gore Where the scullion’s axe his cheek had shore And the scullion he was stabbed times four…\*" ---
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/166 "2003-07-29T18:33:06Z")
a rather solid thump is hear down below decks and all goes quiet. Cursing the likes of which would make a Singapore sailor blush are heard and Robert cofershis(her ears) What be this?! I says. A blasted wooden rock has floated to me own private beach! Shiver me timbers whars me pants? I’ve got splinters and barnacle cuts al o’er me! Can’t swim in me own back yard with out being discoverin’ o trespassers! I backs up a ways and through me drunken hase I sees as menacing a vessle as I’ve had the fortune to sees on these seas in some time, mind you nearly as fierce and sleek as me prior skipper’s, the mighty Edward Teach, or Ed as we’s had a mind to call him. Ahoy! Theres such a thing as common curtesy and yaz haven’t extended any! I takes it in the form of Rum, gold, silver or other booty, especially booty! Or mebbee perhaps an invitation to board this fine ship! I’ve talents and gold teeth to offer. Some of the teeth I still be usin’ so’s I’ll be needen them back to use off and on. Fer apples and such. Oh, and this here fella 'twas here before, I calls him the professor, made some fine rum and I’s got it stashed in barrels in a secret spot to which I has a map. The map has a RED X on it just so’s you know it’s real. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/167 "2003-07-29T19:47:48Z")
THAR’LL BE NO MORE SINGIN’!! And **Chimera** , figger out what this ‘ere **tunabreath** be doin’. ‘E don’ make a lick o’ sense. ---
**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 29, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/168 "2003-07-29T19:58:38Z")
Methinks **Tunabreath** must live 'ere on this Godforsak’n _Gilligan’s Isle_. I could be mistaken, of course. VERY WELL!!! YOU 'EARD THE CAP’N! THARR BE NO MORRRRE SINGING!!! \*…well I get no kick from champange mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all so, tell me why is true that I get a KICK out of you…\* Stop it! Stop singing and rhyming, I mean it! ---
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/169 "2003-07-29T20:00:08Z")
I be sorry thar skipper, me noggin’s been bakin in the sun whilst picklin in rum. An a hearty thanky, this bit o’ sand has been gettin a wee bit boring. I’m not to shabby at gettin fish an’ I can dead reckon me arse off, so you see I makes a good pilot. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/170 "2003-07-29T20:04:00Z")
What be ye pilotin’, **Resident Drunke tunabreath**? We be sailin’, if ye can get us offa this ‘ere forsaken isle of NOTHIN’. ---
**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 29, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/171 "2003-07-29T20:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tunabreath \* > \*\*me noggin’s been bakin in the sun whilst picklin in rum. > \*\* Welcome to the Carribean! 😃 Now, let’s find that scholarly fellow, Perfessor is it? and be shovin’ off o this 'ere rock of mighty worthlessness. Cap’n, Sir Ma’am, a pilot drives the ship sometimes, tak’n orders from said Cap’n of course. Methinks you be thinking of aeroplanes which were outlawed by the Church after DaVinci’s code was broken… Yarrr… ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/172 "2003-07-29T20:19:43Z")
Yarr, **First Mate NoClue** , ye right. **BYS barmaid Tikki** , it be time to cut off the rum supply. Even yer dear Cap’n has had a bit too much. Now let’s be off to…whar were we goin’, **First Mate NoClue**? Spanish Main? ---
**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 29, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/173 "2003-07-29T20:23:34Z")
Jamaica! I be need’n some coffee somethin fierce…yarrr… ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/174 "2003-07-29T20:33:27Z")
Well, then, someone take a head count te be sure we be all aboard, and let’s go! It’s takin’ us too long already! ---
**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 29, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/175 "2003-07-29T20:41:06Z")
Be ye remember’n The Code™ Ma’am/ “Anyone who falls behind, is left behind.” Besides, they be mighty swimmers, most of them. The others, Thanks for sail’n wit us, maties! Har har har! ---
**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 29, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/176 "2003-07-29T20:44:36Z")
RAISE ANCHOR! CAST OFF THE LINES! UNFURL THE SAILS AND BRING ME THAT HORIZON! _'ere be the coordinates, pilot tuna, from me GPS, don’t ya know_ ---
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/177 "2003-07-29T20:46:00Z")
Jamaica! I see heres the vessle fer me laddie! Land o’rum that’s finest o the seven seas, coffee so’s a man can wake in the morn’n and that smoke to help clear the cobwebs from the rum. And brown skinned lasses to cure everything else. The proffessor’s no longer here Master NCB. Ya see this here Gilligan fellow got a wee bit mad from the sun and mistook the smart man fer a dugout canoe and through him into the sea. Everything was looking like the lad might make it offshore for a while but alas it weren’t to be. There was much thrashing about and, well I’m sorry to say only the G man made it back to shore, alive that is. The large man they calls skipper then fought the sharks for what’s left and not wanting to waist anything he through the rum maker on the signal fire. He burnt i might bit bright, me thinks the rum could be the fuel that was in him whot did it. Afore we’s a weighin anchor me thinks a few trips ashore to get me rum and see if we may spy a chance at MaryAnn. She could be a nice addition to our hold(er, yer hold sirs, not wanting to be layin a claim to the bounty too soo mind ya) ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/178 "2003-07-29T20:47:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Be ye remember’n The Code™ Ma’am/ > > “Anyone who falls behind, is left behind.” > \*\* It’s more of a guideline really. ---
**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 29, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/179 "2003-07-29T20:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kallessa \* > \*\*It’s more of a guideline really. \*\* Yarrr right, **kal**. 'ow was the water? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997/180 "2003-07-29T21:11:24Z")
I wanna see you lubbers raise sail in unison w’out the work chants. : sulks in the corner : [sub]_I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance, I want to be a pirate in the Pirates of Penzance Wear me silver buckled slippers and tight shiny pants I want to sing and dance![/sub]_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-buckleberryferry-and-the-crew-of-the-ted-sign-up-here/190997.md?page=10)