What kind of pirate or non-pirate are you?

[Sir Vrilhelm Dreadnaught]

Definitely I am a patroller of the High Seas keeping them safe from those who think a letter of Marque makes them 007. After all, when you hang a pirate, you get to keep his treasure. Anybody want to buy a map with a big X on it?

[Tom OBedlam]

good lord, a pirate? me? heavens no. i design calculating engines and like my tea green

[Albrecht]

She had nothing good to say about those teeth. I thought I was helping. I couldn't really understand what she was yelling as I left. (She didn't have her teeth in.) I just assumed that she was celebrating the removal of her horrid falsies.

Ah, I see. That's alright, then.

[fciron]

She had nothing good to say about those teeth. I thought I was helping. I couldn't really understand what she was yelling as I left. (She didn't have her teeth in.) I just assumed that she was celebrating the removal of her horrid falsies.

Ah, I see. That's alright, then.

I told you I am not a pirate.

[James Harrison]

Pirate? I? Good heavens, no.  I may be a dandy, a designer, a cad and a bounder at times, but I am no pirate. 

[Tanvi_Sunil]

Me a Pirate? No Sir/mam...unless that there is there is an opening for a Pirate somewhere. Is there?

Of course I have considered it, which young lass...er lad hasn't?!
::Clears throat:: I consider myself a Jack of all trades, finding work here and there where I can get it. I have many skills, oh and I'm a boy...I swear! ::looks around suspiciously::

[fciron]

The sailors got their tot of rum and drank success to trade
And also to the cabin boy who was neither man nor maid
Here's hoping wars will rise no more, our sailors to destroy
Here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin boy.

Hmmm, what? Why, yes, we may have an opening on board after all.

[SteamBlast Mary]

Definitely I am a patroller of the High Seas keeping them safe from those who think a letter of Marque makes them 007. After all, when you hang a pirate, you get to keep his treasure. Anybody want to buy a map with a big X on it?

In the same way a professorship in Archeology doesn't save you from accusations of being a graverobber and sacred site defiler?

[Hester]

The sailors got their tot of rum and drank success to trade
And also to the cabin boy who was neither man nor maid
Here's hoping wars will rise no more, our sailors to destroy
Here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin boy.

Strike up the band!

"The Handsome Cabin Boy" performed by The Churchfitters:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9fAS-7WKpJs

[DreddPirateBob]

Pirate of the sea and skies, liberator of the meek (and money), champion of the poor (and those willing to pay), attempting to be counted a gentleman though more likely to be considered a stray.

Though i must say since some individuals (not that i would name names) have brought the profession into disrepute i find 'privateer' a simpler title (and one less likely to get me keel hauled).

[Sir Vrilhelm Dreadnaught]

I'm more Robur than Nemo.

[Mal `e Diction]

Pirate? Oh yes, very pirate. Last year my husband gave me a cutlass for my birthday. God, I love that man.

[Torvald_Faust]

A persistent, pilfering privateer, that is what I am. This means that I, to some, am a pirate. I can live with that

[Gentleman-Adventurer]

A persistent, pilfering privateer, that is what I am. This means that I, to some, am a pirate. I can live with that

Huzzah, hurrah, and hurray! Well said, indeed!

[Torvald_Faust]

A persistent, pilfering privateer, that is what I am. This means that I, to some, am a pirate. I can live with that

Huzzah, hurrah, and hurray! Well said, indeed!

Thank you, good sir 'Tis easy to speak well, in my humble opinion, if one speaks of things that he or she feels to be true

[CyberStormAlpha]

Bah! Pirates... We don't need an uncontrolled factor altering the tenuous balance of power between the nations.  Nay, Her Majesty's Aerofleet can keep the skies safe plenty AND protect the down trodden.

So, um, yeah; I'm not a pirate so much...  I could see a Sir Francis Drake-type at the worst, but probably more like a Horatio Nelson.  After all, someone has to keep the skies safe from those of who would rob others of their due effects.

[Gazongola]

I am a Buccaneer. A rogue, handsome, loveable, and always on the run. Hero trousers, a gun in every available place and a few swords and daggers for good measure. God I am sexy. Mind you, my birthday is on Talk Like a Pirate Day.

[Cassandra]

     I once had a trade as a sort of treasure hunter, antiques and bullion and that sort of thing, but we would--er--pirate at times. I guess that would make me a swashbuckling adventurer more than a pirate, dashing and reasonably polite, mightier with my sword than with my stench.* Sadly, my ship and most of my crew was lost in a thunderstorm during Indiana's monsoon season, so now I'm on the lookout for a new ship. Some pirate ships have offered me a place, but full-time pillaging just isn't my thing.

And to Gentleman-Adventurer and DrEllaNunn, whose posts I read earlier:
When I start college in the fall, I will be studying to be an archaeologist. Small world, huh?



*An apology to all the dandy gentlemen pirates out there, who wash their socks.

[Gentleman-Adventurer]

Archaeology is just the incarnation of academic cool. Nobody doing Economics or Food Science can say: "Ye Gods, it's the Pearl Emblem of Tikalli! Found after so many years!"

[Aether Pirate]

*An apology to all the dandy gentlemen pirates out there, who wash their socks.

Trying to remember when last I washed my stockings... not that it matters, clean stockings or no, I'm rather certain most of my crew would put me in the "gentleman pirate" category.

[fciron]

*An apology to all the dandy gentlemen pirates out there, who wash their socks.

Trying to remember when last I washed my stockings... not that it matters, clean stockings or no, I'm rather certain most of my crew would put me in the "gentleman pirate" category.

I washed my stocking 25 May 2008 at the conclusion of my last cruise, however I am still unlikely to be classed in the 'gentleman' category. Far too interested in getting dirty.

[Cassandra]

Archaeology is just the incarnation of academic cool. Nobody doing Economics or Food Science can say: "Ye Gods, it's the Pearl Emblem of Tikalli! Found after so many years!"

Food Science adventurer: "Ye Gods, it's the Lost Realm of Canned Tomatoes! What a shelf-life!"

Yeah, it doesn't sound quite as cool, even if they do make more money than us.

*An apology to all the dandy gentlemen pirates out there, who wash their socks.

Trying to remember when last I washed my stockings... not that it matters, clean stockings or no, I'm rather certain most of my crew would put me in the "gentleman pirate" category.

I washed my stocking 25 May 2008 at the conclusion of my last cruise, however I am still unlikely to be classed in the 'gentleman' category. Far too interested in getting dirty.

I'm thinking of revoking my statement now...

[Tom OBedlam]

Archaeology is just the incarnation of academic cool. Nobody doing Economics or Food Science can say: "Ye Gods, it's the Pearl Emblem of Tikalli! Found after so many years!"

ah but we in the Philosophy school can sit in a cafe chain smoking all day reading french poetry then leap to our feat, exclaiming "I have solved Zeno's Paradox, huzzah! Another espresso and a french filterless fag barkeep!"

[Albrecht]

Archaeology is just the incarnation of academic cool. Nobody doing Economics or Food Science can say: "Ye Gods, it's the Pearl Emblem of Tikalli! Found after so many years!"

ah but we in the Philosophy school can sit in a cafe chain smoking all day reading french poetry then leap to our feat, exclaiming "I have solved Zeno's Paradox, huzzah! Another espresso and a french filterless fag barkeep!"

but archaeology has Dr Jones and (to a certain degree) Alan Quartermain.

[Gentleman-Adventurer]

Archaeology ain't about the money, it's about discovery! Peeling back the layers of history like a great mysterious onion! Sifting through the remains of past epochs, to uncover their lives in vivid detail!