I think this is an ad for a home of the vintage I'm buying, in the hood: [link] Can't really tell, but the layout and pictures look right.
Wow! That is so cool! Where did you find it?! I wonder if there's something similar out there for my house?
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Apr 09, 2009 8:18:26 am PDT #14572 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Typo Boy - Apr 09, 2009 8:41:27 am PDT #14573 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, the pirates in the time the classic pirate stories were set were not nice guys either. I mean if they took a ship, mostly everybody on board from captain to ordinary sailor got killed, possibly with torture for the entertainment value. Or sold as slaves. Sometimes captains and and people with rich relatives were taken captive and ransomed, but that was a hell of a lot of trouble, so not the normal course of things. Occasionally someone on a captured ship might be recruited as a pirate. But again rare, and even when it happened, that would would one or two in a crew of dozens. Nothing romantic or lovable about real pirates.
sarameg - Apr 09, 2009 8:43:55 am PDT #14574 of 30000
I'd just googled the 'hood and some other stuff (builder, year) not sure what combo did it. That got me to the special collections stuff and I just clickityclicked everything. But try starting at [link] with your street or something like that.
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2009 8:44:31 am PDT #14575 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nothing romantic or lovable about real pirates.
Like with so much, the distance of time adds romance.
Ginger - Apr 09, 2009 8:46:41 am PDT #14576 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That whole walking the plank thing is only cool when our hero manages to escape. Pirate fiction glosses over the death sentence aspect.
Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2009 8:47:15 am PDT #14577 of 30000
brillig
Nothing romantic or lovable about real pirates
Not even Dear Grandpa Jan Jansen, AKA Murat Reis of the Turkish Salee Rovers. Probably not a guy I'd want to have show up at the family reunion.
Toddson - Apr 09, 2009 8:49:39 am PDT #14578 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Depends on your family ... got any relatives you'd like keelhauled?
Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2009 8:50:35 am PDT #14579 of 30000
brillig
Depends on your family ... got any relatives you'd like keelhauled?
Not anymore. Hmm . . .
edit: The image of a straitlaced Puritan/Protestant family reunion being attended by a Moslem-converted, Dutch pirate who joined up because he hated Catholics so much is amusing. Especially if he turned up with appropriate entourage and attended by his Bedouin wife and adored concubine.
tommyrot - Apr 09, 2009 8:53:14 am PDT #14580 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That whole walking the plank thing is only cool when our hero manages to escape. Pirate fiction glosses over the death sentence aspect.
Although that (eta: walking the plank) seems to be a myth too.
lisah - Apr 09, 2009 8:55:16 am PDT #14581 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
sara, all that BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD HERITAGE PROJECT stuff is fascinating! Did you see any of that? Interviews done with older b'more residents in the 70s.