The Captain's Daughter, a novel by A.S. Pushkin
The Captain's Daughter (opera) based on the novel, composed by César Cui
** The Cat o’ nine tails, a multi-tailed instrument of corporal punishment; compare gunner’s daughter**
A character from the comic Maakies
A character from the short lived series The Drinky Crow Show
I heard the Gay Men’s Choir of San Francisco sing that once. After the usual verses and the big, loud, low note at the end of the song, one of the men leers out at the audience and says “I know what I’d do.”
Turn him into the Drunken Squire, that was a big favorite of the audience when I was in the South Florida Renaissance Society’s Wenches. Specially the verse where we took him to the garden to pick a melon.
By using his song in a lame attempt to video something nautical and cool. Originally filmed with my brother’s 10LB VHS video camera and copied from the TV using a digital camera with the song playing on the boat’s cassette player. Waterworld here we come.
Well if he was a sailor who worked for a private ship the answer was traditionally “Shanghai him and force him into the British Navy so your press gang gets a commission.”
…early in the morning.
I’ve never heard the lobster variant, and I’ve heard PR quite a bit. (In fact, I ran into Darcy off-duty at Pirate Feast this year; she wanted time in garb but off the clock.)