Pirate Day
Er, or rather, aaar, I wasn’t going to post today but then I saw at The Presurfer that it was talk like a Pirate Day. That only comes once at year, with less fanfare than Santa so, you can join in and get yourself a Pirate costume or just photoshop yourself into one something like this,
Swab the Decks Like You Hate It, Curr
The dagger should be between your teeth
not sheathed in your eyes. Ya bilge rat
have you no spine? When you “Aye, aye sir”
mutter it with a bite of tobacco, smoke it out
with bitterness. Spit. Have me doubt you mean it.
Avast, that swagger is more of a landlubber
lovesick stagger. You couldn’t shiver the timbers
of a toothpick clipper with that churchmouse attitude.
Keeping on edge is keeping sane. Relieve the rhythm
of these creaking days of grog at sea. These nights
of fighting lines and sailing insults do more
than pass knots of time. Fourscore days of sun
and hornpipe with us shut up tight as air confined
behind the skin of drum can leave a sailor as restless
as rum left undrunk. We need some rattling of cutlass
as well as of glass, to keep ourselves sharp for shore.
We need to jab, spar, not for war, but stave off
that scourge worse than scurvy, bore -
dom – mute, horror of being becalmed forever.
[Original fidius quiz link is dead. Arrr. This pirateering racket gets harder and harder.]
Real Bonny: Anne Bonny was a real woman pirate with an eye for trouble and another for self-reliance, a life remembered across centuries. [via Diana]
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You are The Cap’n! Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn’t eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you – but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off their head if they show any sign of taking you on or backing down. You cannot be saddled with tedious underlings, but if one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones’ locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed – a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not. What’s Yer Inner Pirate? |
(Photo)Shopping Around: Worth1000.com has a Pirates contest unveiled.
Related Link: Pirate Leadership: Get On Board
Pirate Info: PirateInfo.com has been available since 1996 with biographies, stories and books on pirates and piracy history.
Pirate Gear: Pirates Store has from baseball caps to cutlass to pirate lego.
Travel? Pirate’s Hideaway on Salt Cay, island population: 80.
Reading: Summer issue of Arc and Billy Collins’ whimsy in Nine Horses The Country of the imagined prowess of mice and Absence of the lost white knight of chess. And the above of course. 
Goodgod woman you write me windless. and the picture, perfect, for in it, you. but the poem, oh. You on stage with bongos. between your knees. check me later–i actually have a pirate picture of me. ps, more pictures
Great find, Pearl. I am the cabin boy. Aack!
I want my very own pirate costume! How do I photo shop for one? OOOH I need one mate!