Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:34:24 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Where Was This When Bucky Needed It?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>sgs at aginc.net 05/21/03 12:30PM
>>Strong, Lee wrote:
>> 	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 profession=
als
>> 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.
>
>"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because =
it
>isn't here." --Finley Peter Dunne

"The good old days . . . they were terrible!" title of a book by Otto =
Bettman, founder of the Bettman Archive, now owned by Bill Gates.

mjw