Pirate ships were more or less democracies, with captains elected by their crews and booty regularly shared. Better than the life of a British Tar who lived with "The Finest Traditions of the English Navy; Rum, Sodomy and the Lash".*
* Which Winston Churchill denied having said with the deceleration "I wish I had..." frank theriault wrote: > Avast. > > cheers, > frank > > ps: Actually, the pirate's life must have been one of the most > miserable one can imagine. Being a sailor back then would have > miserable - scurvy, keelhauling, violence, hardtack, bad water, all > that stuff. Being a pirate would be all that and worse, I'd think. > > Nice to see it's being turned into a fun day for the kiddies... > > ;-) > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:32 AM, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://www.yarr.org.uk/events/ >> >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email >> Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > > -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
