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Surnames That Reveal Pirate Ancestry
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-17-2007 | Nick Britten

Posted on 08/16/2007 6:47:43 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

What about Turner? Sparrow? Hook?


21 posted on 08/16/2007 7:19:54 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: blam

Our local pirate on Long Island, after which Jones Beach was named, was Thomas Jones.

That might be a little hard to trace back.

http://www.piratesinfo.com/biography/biography.php?article_id=86


22 posted on 08/16/2007 7:20:04 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: blam
I just got back from a week on Bald Head Island, NC.

The Pirate Force is strong with some folks there!
23 posted on 08/16/2007 7:27:04 PM PDT by elizabetty (The funding dried up and I can no longer afford Tagline Messages.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

The black flag gave a selected victim 15 minutes or a quarter hours to surrender (good quarter).

Then the red flag (jolie rouge) went up. No quarter.


24 posted on 08/16/2007 7:27:52 PM PDT by donmeaker (You may not be interested in War but War is interested in you.)
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To: blam

And the parrots on their shoulders are a dead giveaway!


25 posted on 08/16/2007 7:29:03 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: JillValentine
Hilarious.

Mine is Iron Ethel Rackham.
26 posted on 08/16/2007 7:31:57 PM PDT by elizabetty (The funding dried up and I can no longer afford Tagline Messages.)
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To: JillValentine

..???..I can't say what my name is...I'd get banned, I think it was the bath thing

27 posted on 08/16/2007 7:34:48 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Billthedrill

“Hmm...well, my granddaddy Aloisius “Pegleg” Drill was fond of getting wasted on absinthe and sliding down the bannisters with cutlass in hand yelling “Keelhaul the Bos’n’s Mate!” but I thought it was a holdover from his time in the seminary...”

I like that! A clever bit of ironic humour there.


28 posted on 08/16/2007 7:36:04 PM PDT by tanuki (u)
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To: Old Sarge

“I’m curious. After killin’ me what was is you planned on doing next?”

Best line in the whole movie IMO


29 posted on 08/16/2007 7:36:24 PM PDT by Lost Dutchman ("Weep for the future Na'Toth, Weep for us all." (G'Kar-Babylon 5))
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

“You are a Pirate!”


30 posted on 08/16/2007 7:36:32 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: Doogle

31 posted on 08/16/2007 7:39:34 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: JillValentine
My pirate name is:
Dirty Bartholomew Rackham
You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

32 posted on 08/16/2007 7:39:43 PM PDT by GRRRRR (The Libtards are spoiling for a big fight!)
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To: Lost Dutchman

Hector Barbossa was FAR more pirate than Sparrow.


33 posted on 08/16/2007 7:39:50 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: ConservativeofColor

Barbossa? Turner? Jones? How about Pintel or Ragetti?

Lol...you read my mind.


34 posted on 08/16/2007 7:40:48 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: blam

My cousin who went to Yale wants to know where Skull & Bones fits in ....


35 posted on 08/16/2007 7:41:27 PM PDT by dodger
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To: BatGuano

“Sesame Street of the Carribean” was brought to you today, by the letters “ARRR!” and “AYE!” and by the number, “Pieces Of Eight!”


36 posted on 08/16/2007 7:41:50 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: JillValentine
I be Red Mary Kidd...RRRRRR.
37 posted on 08/16/2007 7:45:59 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean THEY aren't out to get you...)
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To: GRRRRR

Iron Jenny Vane here. Love the sneaking and disembowling part, lol.

“A pirate’s life isn’t easy; it takes a tough person. That’s okay with you, though, since you a tough person. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that’s okay, because it’s much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr!”


38 posted on 08/16/2007 7:46:46 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: JillValentine
My pirate name is:
Black John Cash
Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

39 posted on 08/16/2007 7:48:19 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: JillValentine

“Black John Read” here!


40 posted on 08/16/2007 7:51:27 PM PDT by cartoonistx
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