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dragonlady7OK, I can't resist.
I just wanted to point out, in recognition of Talk Like A Pirate Day, that my cousin Andreas is the only person I know who has both survived a real-life encounter with actual pirates (when his ship was doing seismic survey work in the African Sea, they had several incidents where pirates took the American employees hostage-- Andreas is an American citizen, but also Norwegian, and uses his Norwegian passport for that job, so he was safe-- the company now employs gunboats) and also has attended the International Pirate Festival in Toronto with me. So, yarr!
Entertainer at Pirate Festival: YARR!
Crowd: YARR!
Drunk Guy: YARR!
Other Drunk Guy: You're always late!
Drunk Guy: That's not what your mother said!
Crowd: YARR!
(that was a recurring schtick throughout the evening-- one of the first entertainers set it up, and had audience members do it, and then throughout the rest of the evening the audience members in question would come out with it again, much to the startlement of some of the later entertainers who hadn't seen the original setup and thought we were somehow doing this spontaneously)
I just wanted to point out, in recognition of Talk Like A Pirate Day, that my cousin Andreas is the only person I know who has both survived a real-life encounter with actual pirates (when his ship was doing seismic survey work in the African Sea, they had several incidents where pirates took the American employees hostage-- Andreas is an American citizen, but also Norwegian, and uses his Norwegian passport for that job, so he was safe-- the company now employs gunboats) and also has attended the International Pirate Festival in Toronto with me. So, yarr!
Entertainer at Pirate Festival: YARR!
Crowd: YARR!
Drunk Guy: YARR!
Other Drunk Guy: You're always late!
Drunk Guy: That's not what your mother said!
Crowd: YARR!
(that was a recurring schtick throughout the evening-- one of the first entertainers set it up, and had audience members do it, and then throughout the rest of the evening the audience members in question would come out with it again, much to the startlement of some of the later entertainers who hadn't seen the original setup and thought we were somehow doing this spontaneously)
