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Pirate's Cove - Enter at your peril - Blaggards ahead! => Serious Piratin' => Topic started by: Swatopluk on February 10, 2011, 11:48:56 AM

Title: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Swatopluk on February 10, 2011, 11:48:56 AM
GOP Official: Gay Pirates Are Invading Tampa!

Eugene Delgaudio, a Republican official in Virginia's Loudon County, best known for claiming that gay TSA agents were getting their jollies patting down male passengers' junk, is sending out a letter to his constituents claiming that radical homosexual pirates have invaded Tampa Bay, Florida, and are roaming the streets.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/469676/gop_official%3A_gay_pirates_are_invading_tampa!
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Opsa on February 10, 2011, 05:47:22 PM
Maybe that's why Zono is hiding!
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on February 10, 2011, 06:05:44 PM
I totally need to go there.
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 11, 2011, 12:23:18 AM
Quote from: Opsa on February 10, 2011, 05:47:22 PM
Maybe that's why Zono is hiding!
From TSA? Nowadays you can't hide anything from them. Have you heard of full body scanners?
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Swatopluk on February 15, 2011, 02:11:41 PM
In contrast now even the CPAC nutters have in their midst a fellow that desires to become a pirate in the old-fashioned sense:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sen-mike-lee-really-just-wants-be-pirate
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Aggie on February 15, 2011, 02:28:12 PM
Silly man...  that's privateering.

I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Swatopluk on February 15, 2011, 02:33:52 PM
I thought it was Edinborough in that old song.

Privateering is public (service) piracy. Shouldn't that make conservative heads explode?
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Aggie on February 15, 2011, 02:49:53 PM
Not that old, and not Scottish - you've just been brainwashed by the Corries:

QuoteIn one of their recorded performances of the song, famed Scottish folk singers the Corries state during a preamble that the song is in fact from the 18th century. However they also claim that it is the story of a Scottish exile, even though no such references appear in the lyrics, and that the Antelope's captain was "Cid Barrett" not the correct "Elcid".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett%27s_Privateers

Here's the real deal:
[youtube=425,350]G-PQbdmQRwc[/youtube]
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Swatopluk on February 15, 2011, 03:09:00 PM
I did not know that El Cid did pirateering on the side ;)

Since the last update on my office computer video files and references to them have disappeared from website displays and I can't update the flash player without the admin password. I don't want to be the one reminding the sysadmins or there may be awkward questions why I need it during office hours, if you know what I mean.
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Opsa on February 15, 2011, 03:21:18 PM
Thanks for the YouTube shanty, Aggie. Wonderful thing to listen to.
Title: Re: Gay Pirates invade Florida
Post by: Aggie on February 16, 2011, 01:53:40 PM
Makes me want to go out east.  Very cheap land in Nova Scotia, there is...  just a bit far from home.

Canadian Physical Monastery version 2, perhaps. ;)