Ahoy, me hearties!
Yarrr, a little parrot just told me Mister Skeleton be returnin’ to town tomorrey. Which means I best be girdin’ meself for battle! Battenin’ down the hatches, loadin’ the cannons, ’n’ all the rest o’ it. That scurvy skeleton won’t be abandonin’ this ship o’ his without a fight—but then again, neither will ol’ Vermes! YARRRRR!!
Answers to Last Time
One o’ me idols be the piratess Zheng Yi Sao, the greatest ever to do it.
That show with the misleadin’ title be The Buccaneers, an’ it were based on a Edith Wharton book, savvy?
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Do ye happen to know the name o’ the very topmost square sail ye might find on a tallship? Appropriately enough, ye’d find it above the skysail (which itself’s atop the royal sail).
Aye, in point o’ fact this sail goes by many a different name, so I’ll be acceptin’ any one o’ those as yer answer. But the name that’s most familiar to me just so happens to be the title o’ ... one o’ those James Bond movies! (A Roger Moore one, if I be rememberin’ correctly ... though don’t be quotin’ me on that, savvy?)
Trivia 2
We’ll have to see how the fates see fit to unspool the fight between me ’n’ Mister Skeleton this weekend.
But at least I can take solace knowin’ it can’t be no worse than the time—ten years ago to this very day!—that I fell out o’ me ship just off the coast o’ Australia. The waters there be teemin’ with swarms o’ what sort o’ siphonophore, whose stingers stung me with stings that hurt more than gettin’ keelhauled by a kraken?
In spite o’ how they might seem, these nasties ain’t any type o’ jellyfish ’t all; rather, they be what’s called a “colonial organism” made up o’ countless tiny critters, known to ye ’n’ me ’n’ science as zoöids.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee