Have Ye Ever Wished To Be a Pirate?

Scott T-Bird · Jan 16, 2020

Did you ever see the movie "How the West Was Won"? That movie made a huge impression on me. The melody from "Greensleeves" was featured in the song "A Home in the Meadow" sung by Debbie Reynolds. This has been my favorite melody for my entire life.
It's funny, when Sue and I were looking for our home, we went to the sales office for "The Meadows" at Panther Valley. I joked that I always wanted a home in the Meadows. I got all weepy eyed and said that sales couldn't miss for anybody my age if they piped this music into the sales office. We did buy our townhouse there and we couldn't be happier! Sue and the sales woman didn't have the foggiest idea what I was talking about and they thought I was nuts for tearing up the way I did!

shemandr · Jan 16, 2020

ObiQuiet said:
Yes, wanted to be a pirate. But, at least I'm not a lawyer, thief or a banker...

JB?

LeeandRick · Jan 16, 2020

shemandr said:
JB?

Two different songs by JB, Son of a Sailor had "lawyer, thief, or a banker". No pirate. Pirate Looks at 40 had, "yes I am a Pirate"
Anyway, dressing like a pirate on Talk Like A Pirate Day (Sept. 19 every year) gets me free grog.

Noodat Lady · Jan 16, 2020

In Britain there is an annual tradition in the festive season called "pantomime" or panto, with multiple of them held at theatres around the country, plus a few on TV. It is vaudeville cross comic opera, and pretty bawdy (think Benny Hill subtle humour!). One traditional panto is Treasure Island, with Long John Silver as the peg-legged pirate. In every show at some point Cap'n Silver shouts "Where are my buccaneers?" To which his motley crew, together with most of the audience will shout in reply "Either side o' yer buccan head!"

Bob

catalanc · Jan 16, 2020

Scott T-Bird · Jan 16, 2020

Noodat Lady said:
In Britain there is an annual tradition in the festive season called "pantomime" or panto, with multiple of them held at theatres around the country, plus a few on TV. It is vaudeville cross comic opera, and pretty bawdy (think Benny Hill subtle humour!). One traditional panto is Treasure Island, with Long John Silver as the peg-legged pirate. In every show at some point Cap'n Silver shouts "Where are my buccaneers?" To which his motley crew, together with most of the audience will shout in reply "Either side o' yer buccan head!"

Bob

Ha! I heard that joke a little differently. A little boy is out trick or treating on Halloween and knocks on the old man's door. "Brick or Breat" the boy says. The old man replies "what?". "Brick or Breat" comes the reply a little more deliberately. "OK" says the man … "little boy, what is your costume?" "I'm a Birate" the boy says. Naturally the man says "what?" "A Birate!". The man's getting a little flustered but plods on … "If you're a pirate, where are your buccaneers?" asks the old man. The boy is getting just as aggravated and retorts (pointing at his ears) "they're right here, what's the matter with your buckin' eyes?"

Rick486 · Jan 17, 2020

Will Gilmore said:
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I wanted to live the life of a pirate, as a kid. (I mean, besides all that killing and robbing and wearing of tattoos). Here I am climbing the shrouds of a pirate ship at the pirate museum in the Florida Keys. They forgot to rig the ratlines all the way to the crow's nest, so I had to shimmy up without them.
How about you, matey? Every do some pirating?

-Will (Dragonfly)

I sure did. But then I decided on engineering rather than business school

capta · Jan 17, 2020

What's the point of becoming a pirate if you can't do all that 'killing and robbing and wearing of tattoos'? You just wanna take all the fun outa everything. lol

WayneH · Jan 17, 2020

When I was younger, I did a lot of wenching.

Now I'm married and she doesn't like me looking at the other wenches anymore.

jssailem · Jan 17, 2020

WayneH said:
she doesn't like me looking at the other wenches anymore.

For the life of me, I can not imagine why?

Chatting with, Smiling at, Touching. That I can understand.

I remember even Jimmy Carter shared ...

Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, who confessed during the run-up to the 1976 election, “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.”

Noodat Lady · Jan 18, 2020

WayneH said:
When I was younger, I did a lot of wenching.

Now I'm married and she doesn't like me looking at the other wenches anymore.

That means that once you elect one chick to be your wench, you have to hide any rollicking you do with other wenches.
In other words you go from elect chick wench to hide rollickin' wench

Bob

Tom J · Jan 18, 2020

I was too busy when I was young to think about pirates. After I retired, though, I had the opportunity to do some treasure hunting. I started working with my brother-in-law on his 65' commercial boat, and on one trip, we spent two months in the Dominican Republic digging for treasure. Actually, we were dredging sand from the deck of the Aquaquest. We didn't find any treasure, but it was exciting just the same. We made half a dozen treasure hunts between salvage and surveying jobs, and the excitement never ebbed.

BlowMeAway · Jan 19, 2020

Robbing and Pillaging ain’t for me...but better than living in flatland:

DArcy · Jan 27, 2020

Arr, when I were a lad I lived the life of a pirate.
Well, not quite, but I got to sail like one for a while. I'm the guy in the middle with the white bandanna and that's my sister next to me. She sailed with us for a bit.

ggrizzard · Jan 27, 2020

DArcy,, What ship?

DArcy · Jan 27, 2020

I sailed on the Bounty for about 4 months (from the Mel Gibson/Anthony Hopkins movie, not the Marlon Brando movie). That was a wee while ago, 1990.

ggrizzard · Jan 27, 2020

Is that "Bounty" still out there? (I know it's not the Brando Bounty that sunk recently)