# Pirates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045 "2003-05-28T16:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mr.splitfoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mr.splitfoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.splitfoot)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/1 "2003-05-28T16:12:01Z")
I’ve decided that we do not talk enough about pirates on the SDMB. There is only one thing better than talking about pirates, and that is talking about alcohol & talking birds, which can easily be incorporated into a pirate conversation. I’ve been reading a bit about Blackbeard lately. Apparently he put lit matches under his hat to look more intimidating. Strange fellar, that Blackbeard. Anyone wanna add something spiffy about pirates to this wonderful pirate thread? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/2 "2003-05-28T16:29:31Z")
_“We Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when we’re dead!”_ One of my favorite movies… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/3 "2003-05-28T16:40:09Z")
argh! me hearties! ---
**Author:** ![ace22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@ace22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ace22)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/4 "2003-05-28T16:42:02Z")
[hand over one eye]yarrr! Shiver me timbers![/hand over one eye] ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/5 "2003-05-28T16:46:14Z")
Avast, ye landlubber! Blackbeard is still the terror of the high seas!! ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/6 "2003-05-28T16:50:24Z")
I thought Blackbeard put _firecrackers_ in his hair and beard. When I was a lad, I obsessed over finding pirate treasure. My family would shake their heads and cluck their tongues as I dug up the beach. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/7 "2003-05-28T16:51:49Z")
Two spiffy things: 1. [This](http://www.cindyvallar.com/lollonais.html) fine specimen of humanity is the baddest pirate mofo ever to sail the Caribbean. Period. End of discussion. 2. If you go to the [_Whydah_ Pirate Ship Museum](http://www.whydah.com/) in Provincetown, MA, not only will you see real pirate booty from the first pirate ship wreck ever recovered, you’ll see a real pirate! They’ve got the skeletal remains of a pirate who drowned in the wreck of the _Whydah_ in a tank full of water in the middle of the exhibit. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/8 "2003-05-28T16:54:04Z")
Shiver me timbers an’ walk me plank! I remember it were off the coast of Floridarrrrrrr! In a place they called, “Mephisto’s Trapazoid”. So I says to Jim 'awkins, says me, “Tell me where the treasure be and I’ll show ye where the sharrrrrrk bit me!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/9 "2003-05-28T16:55:44Z")
Oh – Last time I was in Bellingham I stopped into this really cool news stand and bought myself a [**Pirate Bendy**](http://www.mcphee.com/bigindex/current/10526.html) Avast! Corndogs ahoy! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/10 "2003-05-28T16:56:29Z")
Well, official talk like a pirate day is September 19th -[Talk Like A Pirate Official Website](http://talklikeapirate.com) - so I am saving up for then. Wouldn’t do to run out of “matey” halfway through the day - talk about embarrassment! Peg-leg Sue ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/11 "2003-05-28T17:09:32Z")
Dang, and I was thinking of starting a Sea Shanty thread today, too weird. I worked a gig at [this place](http://www.goldcoastfestivals.com/piratefestpg1.html) once. More fun than a rusty scupper keel-hauled up your johnny-groat, whatever that means. We need a pirate smilie! ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/12 "2003-05-28T17:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BMalion \* > \*\*Dang, and I was thinking of starting a Sea Shanty thread today, too weird. > \*\* All together now: Oi’ll grab me some rope! An’ 'ead down to Straight Dope! Hey! Ho! Blow the man down… ---
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/13 "2003-05-28T17:15:31Z")
::lurches around with cutlass in one hand, empty jug in the other:: Yo ho, yo ho, it’s a pirate’s life for meeee! We burn and pillage and ravage and loot Drink up me hearties yo ho! We kidnap; we’re savage and don’t give a hoot Drink up me hearties yo ho! Yo ho, yo hoooo, a pirate’s life for meeee! _hic_ Man I loved the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland as a wee one… still do. Can you tell? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/14 "2003-05-28T17:22:53Z")
Pirate thread, huh? Well, it just so happens that something Pirate-related has been buggin’ me for a couple of weeks now. You see, I own an original, first edition _Privateer_ game. The one with the cool silk-screened canvas play field, solid brass treasure token and wood ship pieces. And the damn thing is MISSING!! I’ve been searching for it for a while now, as I want to play with the wife on Sunday nights. I can’t find the damn thing! It has gotten to the point where just not being able to locate it is worse than the thought that it might be gone! Dammit! Arrrgh! * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/15 "2003-05-28T17:31:09Z")
_waves a sword in one hand, flagon of ale and lusty wench_ in the other hand\* Arrhh! With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal; In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel! Are you with me lads! Plunder and loot ahoy! - Grade A lusty wench certified by the Piratical Wench Board of Muncie, Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/16 "2003-05-28T17:36:16Z")
Paging **ArrrMatey** **ArrrMatey** please report to the Pirate Thread. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/17 "2003-05-28T18:07:59Z")
When we come into town to spend all our spoils, A good time will be had by all. We’ll all head to some pub to get drunk off our arses, When we’re there, there ain’t no last call. I’ll get rum for meself and buy ale for me friends, And a great deal of loot on the wenches I’ll spend. When the money’s all gone it’s off to sea again… To trade cargo for cannonball. It’s wonderful living the life of a pirate With the freedom to take what we can And we’ll sail the world over, searchin’ for plunder Not fearin’ to face any man, not fearin’ to face any man Arrr! ---
**Author:** ![Madame\_Zelda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Madame\_Zelda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madame_Zelda)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/18 "2003-05-28T18:09:03Z")
\<\\> My favorite watering-hole has a plethora of Brians, all of whom are labelled by their most identifying feature…Big Brian, Short Brian, Loud Brian, Goofy Brian…you get the point. Our favorite, though, is Black Brian - it makes him sound like a pirate. After awhile, everybody stopped saying “Black Brian’s here” and, instead, put 1 hand over their right eye(s) and shouted “AARRRRGH” whenever he came in (kind of like Norm on Cheers only with double the number of people doing it). He absolutely loved it! For Halloween, he came dressed as a pirate, complete with LIVE parrot - except he called himself Black Bart (we’re not really sure why - that only made us think of Blazing Saddles’ sheriff Bart). \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/19 "2003-05-28T18:13:11Z")
Mother, mother ocean I have heard your call wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045/20 "2003-05-28T19:05:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Madame Zelda \* > **For Halloween, he came dressed as a pirate, complete with LIVE parrot - except he called himself Black Bart (we’re not really sure why - that only made us think of Blazing Saddles’ sheriff Bart).** Bartholomew Roberts (aka [Black Bart](http://www.unmuseum.org/pirateg.htm), scroll down to the bottom) was a famous (and dashingly handsome) pirate. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/178045.md?page=2)