Space Pirate Reclaimation
posted by trancendyce at 4/06/2006Warning!
Geek-Out Alert!
Geeka Glazer has assumed control.
Get Geeky With It… Get Geeka With It…
GG just loves pirates and is raring to go into
Geek-Out Alert!
Geeka Glazer has assumed control.
Get Geeky With It… Get Geeka With It…
GG just loves pirates and is raring to go into
infinite pirate geek-out sub-routines…
However…
However…
since she doesn’t want to activate shut down sequence…
she will start slowly with this…
Pirate Terms (first term is for Catmus especially)
cat o'nine tails, or just "cat" -- a whip with many lashes, used for flogging. "A taste of the cat" might refer to a full flogging, or just a single blow to "smarten up" a recalcitrant hand. The marks resembled cat scratches. A flogging with the cat was the most common form of punishment aboard a pirate ship.
kiss the gunner's daughter -- to be bent over and/or tied to one of the ship's guns and flogged.
flotsam -- floating remnants of a shipwreck.
jetsam -- objects that have been thrown overboard in order to lighten a ship when it is in trouble
dead reckoning -- is a method of navigation that involves calculating a ship's position by noting the ship's speed, the speed and direction of the wind, ocean currents, and compass directions.
doldrums -- Located between 5 degrees north and 5 degrees south of the equator, the doldrums are a belt of very still air near the equator that stalled sailing ships.
keelhaul -- punishment by dragging under the ship, from one side to the other. The victim of a keelhauling would be half-drowned, or worse, and lacerated by the barnacles that grew beneath the ship.
Pirate Terms (first term is for Catmus especially)
cat o'nine tails, or just "cat" -- a whip with many lashes, used for flogging. "A taste of the cat" might refer to a full flogging, or just a single blow to "smarten up" a recalcitrant hand. The marks resembled cat scratches. A flogging with the cat was the most common form of punishment aboard a pirate ship.
kiss the gunner's daughter -- to be bent over and/or tied to one of the ship's guns and flogged.
flotsam -- floating remnants of a shipwreck.
jetsam -- objects that have been thrown overboard in order to lighten a ship when it is in trouble
dead reckoning -- is a method of navigation that involves calculating a ship's position by noting the ship's speed, the speed and direction of the wind, ocean currents, and compass directions.
doldrums -- Located between 5 degrees north and 5 degrees south of the equator, the doldrums are a belt of very still air near the equator that stalled sailing ships.
keelhaul -- punishment by dragging under the ship, from one side to the other. The victim of a keelhauling would be half-drowned, or worse, and lacerated by the barnacles that grew beneath the ship.
Well Beyond Walking the Plank
(a pirate poem by trancendyce)
Cat o'nine tails scratches and flails
as you kiss the gunner's daughter
in the suffocating heat.
Days like flotsam...
nights like jetsam
go by with little more
than a mouthful of water
and a hardtack to eat.
The press gang can rot,
for a crimp you are not,
as all are lost,
stranded windless,
aboard doldrum seas
of captivity and crew.
Dead reckoning will never begin
and soon the ship will drift in
ghostly eternal amid the strange tangle
of the circling Sargasso Sea.
Begad! Here there be monsters!
as you kiss the gunner's daughter
in the suffocating heat.
Days like flotsam...
nights like jetsam
go by with little more
than a mouthful of water
and a hardtack to eat.
The press gang can rot,
for a crimp you are not,
as all are lost,
stranded windless,
aboard doldrum seas
of captivity and crew.
Dead reckoning will never begin
and soon the ship will drift in
ghostly eternal amid the strange tangle
of the circling Sargasso Sea.
Begad! Here there be monsters!
2 Comments:
Trance: I love your pirate lexicon. You make we want to sail the seven seas. Blast the beast! From the crow' nest I croon...
GG has the lexicon. Trance wrote the poem.
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