From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Where Was This When Bucky Needed It?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:23:17 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Piracy as a way of life is distinctly overrated by those with
selective memories.  Real pirates had all the disadvantages of sailors in
the Royal Navy with few of the compensating protections.  Pirates worked
hard, ate poorly, got "paid" at the point of a gun, and could expect to be
hung by the neck until dead if they didn't die in battle with professionals
or more "imaginatively" at the hands of a "creative" court.  Their peers,
the merchant and military sailors, worked hard, but got regular food, drink,
clothing and pay, and could expect to die in bed.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 5:23 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Where Was This When Bucky Needed It?

The "official" (whatever that means) Website for National Talk Like A
Pirate Day:

<http://www.talklikeapirate.com/>

For those who are incurable Quizilla addicts (most of the Web, it
seems), there's the "Official Talk Like a Pirate Personality Inventory
(TOTLAPPI)" <http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ppi.html>.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."