The Admiral Benbow

[The Black Spot]

I think we needs a tavern where we's can sit back an' discuss our piratey life over a tankerd o' grog  or two. This seems as good as place as any.
Anyways...

Last night I were invited to the theatre by a good friend o' mine. Tweren't a bad play-  involved murders an' scullduggery an suchlike, but got a bit wordy so I dozed off fer a few moments.

Next thing I knows, I hears this bint on the stage shoutin' "Out, Damn Spot! Out I say!"

Well, I weren't 'aving that. I leapt up on the stage an started swingin me cutlass an were eventually dragged out by me first gunner 'oo said it were nothin personal.

I dunno about that, time to pay the author a visit I think.

[Griffin NoName]

I dunno about that, time to pay the author a visit I think.

Ye'll be needin the elp of Cap'n Cronin then !!  Oi wish yer luck.

[Sibling Chatty]

Spot, me fren'...be ye moighty caer'filled if ye be confrontin' that Shakespeere fellow.

He's an odd 'un, an has the most peculiar set of followers whut spen' their toime talkin' and even writin' monographs aboot wha'twas he was meanin' when he wrote down them plays.

Oi'm not certain tha he 'usnt a bit orf in the brainpan wi' some of 'em.

"Ho, Oi'm Titania, Queen o' the Fairies"?? The boy ain't quoite roight...

[The Black Spot]

I recently moved me ship to a new berth, an' decided to take the opportunity to do an inventory.

I went into the bilge an' did a count of all the prisoners an' hostages down there, an' I found there were one left over. Judgin' by 'is raggedy clothes an' the rust on 'is manacles, 'ee seemed to ave bin there a long time. Trouble is, I didn't 'ave a clue 'oo 'ee was.

I asked me officers 'oo the unknown prisoner be, an' no-one knew. Suddenly, me bosun said "I knows Cap'n. It be old Cartwheel Morgan. You ordered 'im locked up one New Year's Eve. About seven or eight years ago, it were."

I still remembered nothing about it. "What did 'ee do?" I asked.

"Well Cap'n, it were just after midnight an everyone were jumpin' about, and then Cartwheel... he..."

"What!?"

"'Ee trod on yer foot Cap'n."

"An 'ees bin locked up fer seven years?" This sounded a bit excessive even fer me.

"Well, he did tread on it quite hard, Cap'n."

"What exactly did I say?" I asked.

"Well the gist of it were that you ordered 'im below until yer toe got better."

"Well," said I wigglin' me foot, "It seems alright now."

"Not that foot, Cap'n," said the bosun. "This all happened a few days before the battle when you..." he stopped an nodded towards me peg leg.

"Why didn't ye let the varmint out then?" I asked.

The bosun puffed his chest out. "What? Go against yer orders Cap'n? Never!"

Such loyalty be a rare thing thinks I. Anyways, the bosun be in the bilge now.

[Griffin NoName]

Aaaaaaargh!  Spot ye be sittin on a heap o treasure ther. Oi wouldn't be talkin bout it in such a public place if were ye. Ow much be it worth ter keep me gob shut an keep stum abowt THIS ?

[beagle]

He's an odd 'un, an has the most peculiar set of followers whut spen' their toime talkin' and even writin' monographs aboot wha'twas he was meanin' when he wrote down them plays.

Arrrghhh, but you've got to admoir somun what in 'is will left his wife 'is "second best bed".

[Sibling Chatty]

Yarrr, 'ee wuz a kind 'un that way...

(I played Anne Hathaway in 'A Cry of Players' twice, and directed it once in the 70's and 80's. Interesting family life.)

[DaveL]

YArrrr...

Since me an the lads 'ave moved to the Monastery, we've bin starved of our favourite brew RRRR (4 R's).

Instead they've bin servin' this 'orrible stuff called RRR (3R's).

Can yer give us the name of the local Trappist Monk. Oi 'aves a business proposition for 'im.

Oi be keen to make a brew called Stella Arggh-tois.

Does anyone 'aves a Flemish phrasebook?

YArrrr!

[Bluenose]

Yarrr, that RRRR be right rubbish, my crew reckon yer carnt go past RRRRR.

Cap'n Bluenose

[The Black Spot]

Gah! Me own crew reckons that RRRRR be a byproduct of drinking loads o' RRRRRR

[DaveL]

YArrrr...

An what's worse than RRR is that bleedin 'RRR Lite' and 'RRR Lo-carb'.  What's next? RRR with Gurana and Ginseng?

[The Black Spot]

Arrrr...

I were in a tavern where they were doin' a promotion o' new ales once.

We was all gettin' stuck in when the innkeeper gives us each a pint o' the new RRR product. We each swigged back about half a pint o' the muck before we realised it were the new chocolate an' lime flavour which were aimed at the wench market.

I hear the rebuilding works are coming along nicely.

[anthrobabe]

I just want to be
Saucy Gert Pettigrew, Head Ale Wench at the Admiral Benbow
that is my goal for this week, not psyc exams not nothing just this

and Black Spot what be the trouble with chocolate and lime flavured RRRRRRRR anyway? some pirates just can't be breaking out o their old moldy ways. course that expeirementin with tha various holiday like colorins (orange for hallows eve and red for valentines) was a total smeg up-- me mouth is still looking like a rainbow.

[DaveL]

Yarrrrr...

Tis a most impressive array of lagers you 'aves there Saucy Gert.  I even heard a rumour you may have the very prized 'RR+R' on tap.

If that be the case, then the lads will endure the new fangled beers.  For the very scent of an RR+R will have the lads in here every night.

[The Black Spot]

Arrrrr...

very few establishments sell RR+R nowadays. It be a fightin' brew.

Most places nowadays only sell RR Export, an that be in rubber bottles.

I's sure Saucy Gert will be a great success in the Admiral. Just as long as she remembers t' wear a safety helmet on Saturday nights.