Movie, you say? I bought a movie off of e-bay once. Turned out to be a badly pirated copy, rather than the original. Bummer.
did pirates really exist as they are portrayed in films? were they a bunch of evil cut-throat bastards who’d just kill people and take their cargo? is the whole ‘ahaaaar!’ way of talking romanticised?
Pirates of the Caribbean is now my all-time favorite pirates movie. Johnny Depp rules as Captain Jack Sparrow. Speaking of sparrows, we have quite a few house sparrows attracted to our bird feeder lately.
I’ve heard it said that blue jays are the pirates of the bird world. I’ve also heard them called flying rats, though I’ve heard the same thing about pigeons.
I like pigeons. Mmmm, tasty! 
Sparrows are at least somewhat like swallows, which could possibly carry a coconut. But not by gripping it by the husk. It would have to have it on a line. Or maybe if two swallows carried it together.
Speaking of bird feeders I just cleaned and refilled our hummingbird feeder. They love that sugar water.
Hey, speaking of sugar, does anyone here remember that Archies’ pop hit “Sugar Sugar”? I feel like listening to that right now.
goes off to dig up the CD
Wasn’t there a character named C.D. in “Walker, Texas Ranger”? My mom watches the reruns of that show. There’s even a reference to that show in one of the episodes of “The Huntress” that cancelled series, which was one darn good series, IMHO. Starred Annette O’Toole who is now in “Smallville”.
Hey, who here remembers that Annette O’Toole also played Lana Lang in one of those Superman movies? Now she’s playing Marth Kent in Smallville!
Oops. Meant “Martha Kent”, not Marth Kent.
My Aunt Martha used to smoke Kent Cigarettes. Her doctor ordered her to quit smoking. She went cold turkey, good for her.
Speaking of turkey, does anyone here ever serve something instead of turkey as the main dish on Thanksgiving?
I knew a family who had roast chicken instead of turkey on that holiday because the dad in the family didn’t like turkey.
Sometimes my Dad can be a turkey.
I wish the Pilgrims had caught a bobcat so for Thanksgiving we could eat…
oh, nevermind-this isn’t the Pit.
Remember that Thanksgiving episode of Cheers when Diane dressed up as a Pilgrim? There was a food fight toward the end of that episode, if I remember correctly.
Has anyone here actually participated in a food fight, like in a school cafeteria? I’ve never, but I’ve seen them in movies and tv sitcoms.
Ah, school cafeterias. You just brought back memories for me. Days of sloppy joes, fish squares, salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, cling peaches for dessert, and what else did they serve?
Hey, I’m getting hungry now. Excuse me while I go fix myself a sandwich.
The water heater in my house came from the house of a supposed killer:
Tommmy Sullivan was accused of killing his mother in their house dedicating his life to satan an then was house dead in the neighbors yard two day later. A lot of people think his dad did it though.
But the water heater in their house was new and it somehow ended up in my basement. It make weird noises. I am scared someday it may eat the cat.
I used to live in a house with a really weird basement in in. All kinds of rooms, and strange stuff inside. There was also what looked like a jail cell there.
A jail cell in the basement? That’d be creepy. Say, speaking of creepy, we have a computer repair guy at work with the nick name of Creepy. Don’t know where it came from, but it’s appropriate.
Man I was in an old house in Chicago once that had a jail sell like that in the basement. They say it was where they kept the bar wenches. Freaked me out. Has anyone else out there ever freaked out over something?
I travelled to Chicago on business at least ten times last year - Midway Airport has a restaurant with really good veggie-burgers.
Traffic sucks there (well, that’s the pot calling the kettle black, I guess).
Speaking of kettles, have you tried the microwave kettle corn? My kid likes it, but it’s too sweet for me. Popcorn is supposed to be salty, not sugary.