Pirate Statue Cursed

[Aphos]

Yes, dear fellow pirates, the lurvly stachew was on display in a quiet PA town, when an irate Catholic priest placed a curse upon it.

    Father Commolly commanded the owners to remove it.

    "He pointed to the statue and very dictatorially and said, 'I curse you. I curse this place. I want to see this destroyed. I want her destroyed,'" said pirate owner Peggy Kanigoski.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/04/i_want_this.php

http://www.wnep.com/wnep-schyl-pirate-statue-controversy,0,1030598.story

[Darlica]

I think it's incredible greedy of him to begrudge everybody else something just because he can't have it...

She's pretty and a if she is a genuine wood carving she's also an excellent display of craftsmanship.
If I was more piratly inclined and had the space I could very well have her or a sister of hers standing in the living room (thinking about it a mermaid pirate would be ever cooler), she'd make a great conversation piece at parties.

[ivor]

Just like the Taliban and the Buddhist statue only less explosives. 

[Opsa]

She's a foin piece o' work.

Imagine them priests condemning witchcraft an' then goin round cursing things. It aint natural, I tells ya!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Nothing like the re-talibanization of the catholic church, I imagine the excommunication of scientists will be followed by a new version of the unholy inquisition.

Can't they go back to the middle ages without taking us with them? 

[Bluenose]

Oi bin shokked.  That thar statchew be a foine peece o' werke, an quite modestly dressed in Moi oppinyun.  Oi jess doan see wot that crazee preest be on abowt.  Iffen he be tutchin that lady Oi be sujestin we shuld be declarin war on 'im and let 'im feel sum cold steel.  That wuld show 'im wot 'appens to them wots disrespecks the poirates!

[The Meromorph]

Aaaarrrgh! Cold Steel! They don't like it up 'em, yer knows.

Oi thinks we should engrave pichers o' little alt'r bhoys on usn's cutlasses, too!

[Aphos]

Aye.  She be a foine healthy lass, buxoom and bouncy.  Now why would a priest be wointin' ter curse her when it's clear that all she wants to do is make people happy and stop global warmin'.

[Opsa]

Wot say we go an "reskew" this foin lady 'n 'nvoit er to be our figgerhead? Yer cawnt curse us, seein as how we's pertected by the Honorable Order of Toadfish, ere. Plus, we'd have political sanctuary an the loik.

[Griffin NoName]

Aye.  She be a foine healthy lass, buxoom and bouncy.  Now why would a priest be wointin' ter curse her when it's clear that all she wants to do is make people happy and stop global warmin'.

Oi dusnt no abowt that; Oi be finkin' she be h'aiming ter rayze the temperature

[Aphos]

Aye.  She be a foine healthy lass, buxoom and bouncy.  Now why would a priest be wointin' ter curse her when it's clear that all she wants to do is make people happy and stop global warmin'.

Oi dusnt no abowt that; Oi be finkin' she be h'aiming ter rayze the temperature

Aye.  But that be only locally.  As a dues payin' pirate lady, she's woikin' to stop GLOBAL warmin'

[Griffin NoName]

'appen she 'av foine globes too

[anthrobabe]

an all wif out an hunderwire too!

I agreez we nedz to bringes her home to tha mon'stery for safe haven an refuge frum opressin

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Me thinks she oughter just turn 'er luverly pistols 'pon that silly priest.

[Aphos]

Aye.  Methinks if she puts 'er min' to it, he twouldn't be no priest no more.