It’ll be double rations of grog all around in the galley as ye throw the pasta and pesto down your gullet for the final day of Pasta Week, on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Arr…
Belay that! ‘T’would be better done by swilling lambrusco directly from the flask!
Arr…
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Avast ye scurvy land lubbers! Ye better pays attention or ye’ll feel me blade in ya gizzards! Aye!
Eat, drink and make merry!! Aye… That be an order me hearties!
AYE!
“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
…”
Yo Ho Ho (and a Bottle of Rum)
Lyrics and Music by Allison and Waller
based on Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Yeoman Casey’s Ship Hold – Famous Pirate Songs
Aye!! 😉 LOL
Now if we could only reschedule our local faux-pirate days from the first weekend in June.
Methinks a real band of Pirates is just whet the people need right now. 😉 Send them to W.DC and let them loot and pillage to their hearts content! Would solve many problems… Of course, few if any Politicians would survive… which is just… heart rending…. really! No… really… it is! 😉 PMSL
Just staying in character on this grand occasion! 😀 Ahem… Aye!
Aaaaaargh. Pastafarian pirate greetings to y’ll landlubbers from the united state of california. Aaaaargh.
Avast, right-wing conspiracy!
I learned only this morning that “avast” derives from the Dutch equivalent of “hold fast.” My sainted mother would have loved the word if she’d known it; with it, she wouldn’t have had to say to me endlessly, “Stephen Bates, you stop that this very minute!”
avast, ye!
Well, my people had to get to New Holland some way, and a ship looked better than swimming, Steve. It’s hard to believe, but the Dutch were once a global maritime power.
What’s with: Iron Sam Rackham? I think that site is a TSA front, BCB.
last year, i was deadeye charity, which is a way cool name, so maybe the tsa goons have infiltrated it.
As long as you don’t try to use it on a plane ticket you should be alright.
That’s for sure! LOL With a name like *charity*, you’re sure to end up in Gitmo or SuperMax! 😉 LOL
Oh… and… errrm… Arrrgh mateys! 😉 Ahem!
Oh… and BTW… 😉
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com
How did they know? Ta hipparchia! Aye! 😉 😀
I would note, while this area has a hokey faux pirate festival in June, it was, in fact founded by pirates and others avoiding legal problems.
During the Civil War era there were opportunities afforded by those able to avoid the pesky naval patrols which was essentially a continuation of earlier practices.
After that tapered off new opportunities were discovered during the Prohibition era. A prominent winter resident during that period was a Mr. A. Capone from Chicago who owned a house in what is now the city of Niceville.
After World War II other opportunities occurred in the “fishing” industry when a number of boats would head out into the Gulf only to return a week later. Despite the fact that these vessels never seemed to catch any fish, the owners seemed very pleased with their rapidly improving life styles.
There are a lot of different kinds of pirates.
That is too weird. You’re Captain Sam and I was Iron Sam.
See… Lady Min says we’re clones! LOL 😉
Speaking of Lady Min, and wierd… not that she’s weird… well, maybe a bit… Ermmm… where was I? Oh yeah! LOL She pointed me to this opinion piece by Catherine Deveny (who’s cred just increased seriously in my book) in my own local paper, The Age! See… weird or what? 😉 LOL I was PMSL!
Welcome to this year’s blockbuster
Ahhhhhhahahahahahaha… God! I gotta breathe! LMAO
Oh… and… Argggh me hearties!! AYE!
Hahahhaha… too funny! LOL Errrrrm… wait… Whatam I laughing at? Ms. Deveny’s right! Bloody hell!
A humongous AMEN to that!! *sigh*
I would also add that any US candidate should pass an international board examination for sanity, humanity and leadership fitness before being allowed to run! Hmmm… add Israel to that. And also… God… There are so many to choose from!
Aye… whatever.
avast, capn sam, ye scurvy rumormonger! yer very own black charity bonney debunks the “sarah palin hates teen mothers myth”.
also, it seems that quite a few places in the u.s. charge the victim [or the victim’s insurance company] for forensic medical exams [aka rape kits]. not that this speaks well of the u.s. [it doesn’t] but palin’s opponents are going to look silly [yet again] if it turns out that their towns, cities, local govts are also charging victims for their rape kits.
In most jurisdictions the payers are primary insurance and then the jurisdiction’s health department. Rape victims are treated like all victims of crime, almost everywhere. It’s another non-story. If you get shot, the police don’t pay your medical bills, even though the bullet that is removed is forensic evidence.
Another reason we need single-payer health insurance in this country.
the medical treatment part of it, sure, i can understand that — testing and treatment for aids and any other std, emergency contraception, etc . what hasn’t been made clear in all this is who generally pays for the non-medical, purely evidential part of it, like dna testing etc, and how much does that part cost?
yes, single payer would solve a lot of problems, but gee, we can’t have that.
That part is covered by the police agency because some of the labs will actually be owned and operated by the state or local government and you have to preserve the “chain of evidence”, as well as having an “expert witness” available for trial.
When you submit something for testing you have to have the case numbers attached to ensure things don’t get mixed up, and the purchase order number if the lab isn’t within your jurisdiction or is private. It’s definitely not cheap, nor is storing the evidence properly, but there’s no mechanism I’m aware of that even makes billing a victim possible without a court being involved.
Even with single payer, that part would still be a police expense.
We don’t charge for things like that here. We presume a victim is a victim unless a court can prove the presumed victim isn’t a victim, in which case, the presumed victim will become a victim, and be awarded all the costs and possibly jail term. 🙂 The Police are already funded by the public wallets and purses. We don’t give the bill to the victims of a crime. We even give the victims up to 3 years in various physical/mental rehab programs as/if needed. I’m doing two years on a Gov rehab program which doesn’t cost me a cent (though I’ve paid a small fortune in taxes for this privilege) and they give me a (small) fortnightly stipend to cover my living expenses. If I lived in the USA right now… I’d be screwed. I couldn’t afford the regular visits to various health care professionals (who charge around $80 or more a visit), nor the almost $800 for the new glasses I needed, my prescription med’s cost me $5 each rather than more than $100/mth they would be costing me, public transport is half price, and free in some cases, and various other discounts… etc.
I am actually not sure why American’s pay tax. You don’t seem to get much for it. We are a small country with about 30 million people spread over an area almost as big as the USA. We pay about the same tax yet we have more programs available, the infrastructure here is mostly OK (though thanks to Howard, some of that changed), and we have a decent surplus! The comparative numbers do not add up. *shrug*
Arrr … I’m late for talk like a pirate day!
My Pirate Name is… Red Mary Vane
Arrrr… abour those American taxes. Makes you wonder just what kind of giant black hole all that money goes into doesn’t it.
Arrrr… LadyMin is not weird, it just seems that way at times. Ok, a lot of times. Arrrrr.
There are programs that will eventually help, Kryten, but they take a long time to do anything, and you are on your own until they do. You are pretty much required to give up everything you own and surrender every shred of dignity to be accepted.
Yes, there are a lot of Americans wondering what exactly it is that we are getting for our money, but no one wants to gives us a straight answer.