What ARRRRR your plans today, matey?

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:29 am

It's today!

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:42 am

Arrr, I be burning dee-vee-dees defeating the dee-arrr-emmm.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:36 am

How about mast heading, keel hauling, a good whipping with a cat'o nine tails, kissing the gunner's daughter, locked in the bilboes, being forced to sober-up.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:14 pm

I was planning on keelhauling the bosun's mate, hatching down the battens, and jibing the mains'l, but nobody was interested in helping me...I work with a distinctly non pirate bunch of people. Arrrgh!
I did wear a small gold hoop earring in one ear, and a red bandanna print scrub hat in the OR, to get as piratical as I dared.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:20 pm

P-P-PIR
R-R-RAT
T-T-TES
PIRATES! PIRATES! PIRATES!

Oh sorry, flashback to high school.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:19 pm

No one knows where the 'walk the plank' things come from, other than that there's zero evidence of such a thing ever taking place. It's
not in any contemporary account.

The pirate way of making a shipmate redundant was marooning. They'd put the victim ashore on a small, obscure island, give them a musket, some powder and a single musket-ball (unloaded to keep it from being fired before the ship and ship's boat were out of range) and a smallish bottle of water and sail off, leaving the victim behind. The gun would be unloaded so it couldn't be fired until the ship was safely out of range. If they liked the victim they'd choose an island big enough to give the victim a plausible chance of surviving. If they didn't it would be a tiny reef, rock or shoal so small it would be awash at high tide. The musket wasn't there to be used for hunting; it was so that the victim could shoot himself before he died of thirst, exposure, drowning or starvation.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:00 am

Is anyone else getting suspicious of Simon?

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:10 am

s1m0n wrote:No one knows where the 'walk the plank' things come from, other than that there's zero evidence of such a thing ever taking place. It's
not in any contemporary account.

There are a multitude of historical cases for "walking the plank." The Spanish had a particular fondness for it.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:55 am

Do tell.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:17 am

s1m0n wrote:Do tell.

I'm not the one who made the claim but here ya go.http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/sea-and-sh ... -the-plank

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:38 am

Just for the fun of it I looked up info on modern Piracy and found this map. Thought it was kind of interesting.

Piracy near Somalia.

Looking for "walk the plank" turned up this gem DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:39 am

Planking the walk:

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:17 pm

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:35 pm

dwest wrote:
s1m0n wrote:Do tell.
I'm not the one who made the claim but here ya go.http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/sea-and-sh ... -the-plank

'Twasn't the walkin' the plank what done him in.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:45 pm

True. As a matter of fact, as it happens last evening a fellow said, "I'd rather be nearly drowned than nearly saved."

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