MM on pirates featuring guest stars Goats and Burglar Bill
Ahoy there me hearties! Shiver me timbers and other such salutaions. Today is apparently International talk like a Pirate Day!
To authentically roll your Rs and immitate a mouth with teeth broken from biting on peices of eight like a true thief of the water ways, check out the following site
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html
Pirates make me think of;
captain pugwash - forget the 'master bates' pun that everyone instinctively titters about on mention of this cartoon pirate and marvel instead at the best friendly bad boy in childrens literature. (a heavyweight contest when one considers that Burglar Bill could be a contender)
The Coral's bucaneering tune 'Skeleton Key', which in a moment of magic mushroom madness prompted people I know to believe they were indeed Pirates at last years Glastonbury.
Ken Livingstone's proposal to raise the price of tube fares, 21st century priates run underground trains apparently.
Luke Thomas's 6th birthday party. He was dressed as a pirate. I went as a cowboy.
Alexander Selkirk - marooned on pacific island for years this pirate was the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. Diana Souhami, in her excellent book Selkirks Island didn't shirk from highlighting the loneliness of this existence, page 101 finds the following musing
"fucking goats was perhaps less satisyfing than the buggery and prostitution of shipboard life....It lacked fraternal exchange but Selkirk was an abandoned man. On the island at the days end, he would have liked a woman to cook for him and provide. He might have preferred it if the goats had been girls."
Having been single for a while I have some sympathy but alas goats are in short supply in Streatham.
what do you think of at mention of the word pirate - comments please!
p.s you don't need to be a member to comment - the more the merrier - climb aboard.
9 comments:
I believe you lie and it was Luke Thomas' 26th Birthday. The theme being the Village People and you only took up writing when a promising career as a Village People tribute act hit the buffers when the Policeman fell out of the Indian Chief.
i wondered if that was you hiding behind the handle bar moustache and leathers!
Burglar Bill? Where was he from? I'm getting him confused with Hamburglar who was most definately a prize idiot for continually being outwitted by a giant clown and a bunch of screaming 5 year olds. Not sure about friendliest Bad Guy - you did make me think of Morph's plasticine mate Chaz from Tony Hart, but he was bit of an irratating tit, had a great laugh though. What do I think of when I hear the word Pirates??? - you dressed as one aged 6.
this fixation with me as a 6 year old pirate has to stop - I was a cowboy!
it was necessary for chaz to be annoying as it allowed us to love morph that little bit more...and help us to forget that yet again tony and mr bennett had denied our art work national exposure in the gallery.
Selkirk was in good company. Garrincha, whom many Brazilians believe to a better player than Pele, is said to have lost his virginity to a goat. Apparantly a film of Garrincha is due out soon (Goat content unknown) should be well worth a look.
' I'll have that! '
Burglar Bill married Burglar Betty. In the end they saw that it's not right to be burglars, so he became... Baker Bill!
Ahlberg Genius
' I'll have that! '
Burglar Bill married Burglar Betty. In the end they saw that it's not right to be burglars, so he became... Baker Bill!
Ahlberg Genius
gahr - damn your eyes.
i've an axe that'll change your mind....
what do you mean i'm too late?
Pirates make me think of punching Kiera Nightly's pouty lips back where they belong.
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