8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 13

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Great pictures Rodger! We were at Disneyland too Sunday ... however we never made it out of Toon Town/Fantasy & Tomorrow lands. We did note that the the new Nemo ride opens next weekend and we've already booked a hotel to hang out at DL 2 days on the 17th/18th! We hope to run in early with our cousins to get on the new ride before the line gets too long! They are goin' in with us as they're recently relocated from Sac to OC... and have annual passes for the first time this year!

OK... gotta go get my pot pie!

Tom be prepared to wait, wait times are estimated to be between 90-170mins for the first month or so especially on early entry days.

 

[allshookup]

Well... here I am getting my lunch heated (Marie Callandars' frozen chicken pot pie). I last left off MY page here last nite when I was wandering forward from post number 300 ... where I left off last time ... so I found a couple of nostalgic postings...

Below are words of wisdom all out of porportion to the reality, eh?

How many remember those days not so king ago when we were egarly anticipating booking for this TOAL? How many played hookie to hang around to handle thier booking that fateful morning?

AND here is the first instance of an individual tally being posted for the thread. What laundry list of Mangy Pirates and Saucy Wenches, eh? Shoot... I just barely made the list with a post count of THREE and will ya look at LISA.... she's leading with a whopping 108! No one else is in triple digits.

According to the list I hadn't even started posting yet! Wow now you can't shut me up!

Diane---boy when you said to "drop the monkey" all I could remember was that started in chat but I could not remember what we decided it meant..... I was picturing Todd being drunk and dropping the monkey appendage and then throwing a fit.......See Todd how truly inspirational you are.....

I forgot all about that conversation until I saw Lisa had put it on the first page. Then I couldn't resist quoting it!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Wow !!! Many congratulations from Norfolk.

David

Thanks

In case anyone is intersted, I just received the following message in an e-mail................................



Watch the P & O Ventura float out ceremony live online on June 8th 2007

She will carry over 3,000 passengers and 1,200 crew - enough to form 390 football teams. Her horsepower will be equivalent to that of 190 Ferraris. Plus at 290 metres in length, she will be 22 metres longer than Tower Bridge.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see this magnificent superliner take to the water for the very first time. Ventura’s float out ceremony can be viewed live on our dedicated Ventura website on 8th June at 12.30pm (BST).

Making a splash live on our webcast, the family friendly superliner will have a newly-minted silver two pound coin and a new Euro welded at the foot of her mast for good luck.

See the big event live from the Fincantieri shipyard, just outside of Venice at 12.30pm (BST).

David

Interesting

Well...

... when our thread here gets busy again I suspect I'll fade to a pace that will have me posting PMs again is substitution of some thread postings. That would be the only way of ensuring certain messages get read by the indtended recipients.

And... yeah... when it gets busy that does make it tough all around - but then it's not as if we're all LIMITED in our posting intensity by anything. Nor can we limit the number of individuals from posting.

Well... (again) ... I take that back. There IS a practical point at which the thread will be perfect chaos with say... 100 pages a day. Have we come anywhere near that number yet? Well... I imagine if we had 100 a day that would average 4 pages an hour... and for anyone wanting to just READ... that would be a pretty lengthy reading job.

OK... my Cheesy Chicken pot pie was far more yummy than expected. I think I'll be buying a few more of 'em before they slip off of the sale at Vons'. Of course, I imagine my spouse will have "words" about it. Speaking of which... I plan on having her come on the thread tonight (early if possible) to visit. SO tonights' special guest appearance might be... (drum roll, if you please)...

And that's Alicia with her brother from Boston above. This was taken in SF just a couple weeks ago. OK... time fer me ta go now....

Everyone be good now...

Great pic!

 

[captaincrash]

NOT YET.


PS any nice pictures to celebrate my


8,000 posts!!!!!!!!!

Here's a SPECIAL one fer ya Andrew!

Congratulations!​

 

[captaincrash]

Tom be prepared to wait, wait times are estimated to be between 90-170mins for the first month or so especially on early entry days.

That's why we're gonna stay at the Hilton <got a fantastic rate... chuckles> on Sunday and be COMFORTABLY among the first to get intot he park on MONDAY. I figure monday crowds and being near the head of the line should lesson the sting of any wait!

 

[captaincrash]

# 1,000 post on DISboards.com

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And I'll bet you thought I didn't see your 1000th...

Congrats on turning the corner...

... as you unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Pirate Zone.

OK... I really gotta run now...

Adios...​

 

[daipp]

OK... I really gotta run now...

Adios...

You said that last time !!!!

David

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Here's a SPECIAL one fer ya Andrew!

Congratulations!​

THANK YOU Knew you had one! GREAT!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

You said that last time !!!!

David

I have to run now as well!

 

[Verandah Man]

I am one pooped pup, I wound up reading 415 meters today and I have another 380 planned to read tomorrow. I'm really going to need those three days off the end of next week to recover............

 

[Verandah Man]

to
Jeanne/jeanneg

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[Verandah Man]

Hazel and I received a postcard in the mail today letting us know that Angelina's Senior Portraits will be taken on June 19th, we both got choked up reading the posctard.


Then right after that, I saw the bus driver that Angelina had from K-8th grade, I told her about the postcard and she nearly fainted, she couldn't believe Angelina is getting ready to start her final year of high school, "They grow up to darn fast" is what she said to me.

 

[daipp]

It's 11:15 here in the UK so I'm off to bed now, so Goodnight !!

David

 

[atakaratemom]

I thought all the pirates here would find this Slate article interesting.

Did Pirates Really Say "Arrrr"?
No. And nobody ever walked the plank, either.
By Christopher Bonanos
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2007, at 1:02 PM ET

Johnny Depp took home the best performance award at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards, for his role as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. (The third installment of the series topped the weekend box-office tallies again this past weekend, pulling in $43.2 million.) Depp's character famously speaks in a dissolute London mumble inspired by Keith Richards. But virtually all his crewmen hew to the classic movie-pirate patois, full of growled consonants and shiver-me-timbers slang. Wait, did pirates really say "arrrrr"?

Probably not. Both that phrase and the accent that goes with it are strictly Hollywood. They originated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s. Newton was from Dorset, in the Cotswolds district of southwest England, and the regional accent he brought to the movies included a rolled "r." Though Dorset may well have produced its share of sailors, they were hardly the only pirates out there; most seamen—and especially the outlaws on pirate vessels—were people who struck out from oppressed nations, like Scotland and Ireland, to start over on the high seas.

So, was there a typical pirate accent at all? Among British outlaws, yes: The onboard speech was most likely underclass British sailor with extra curse words, augmented with a polyglot slang of French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch picked up around the trade routes. "Arrrrr" is strictly fiction, as are a number of the other affiliated signifiers: Nobody ever walked the plank, and nobody has ever discovered an actual pirate treasure map. On the myth-confirming side, pirates were known to dress in loose clothing, guzzle rum and smash the empty bottles, and chase busty wenches through Caribbean ports.
Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.

Explainer thanks Christine Lampe, editor of the pirate-history journal No Quarter Given, and Richard Zacks, author of Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd.

Christopher Bonanos is a senior editor at New York magazine.


Esteri please do not let this deter you from your daily pirate joke! They are too fun!!

I think the portion regarding wearing loose clothing, guzzling rum and chasing busty wenches could be very appropriate for our TOAL! (The bottle smashing maybe not so much though!)

 

[Diznyfan68]

I thought all the pirates here would find this Slate article interesting.

Did Pirates Really Say "Arrrr"?
No. And nobody ever walked the plank, either.
By Christopher Bonanos
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2007, at 1:02 PM ET

Johnny Depp took home the best performance award at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards, for his role as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. (The third installment of the series topped the weekend box-office tallies again this past weekend, pulling in $43.2 million.) Depp's character famously speaks in a dissolute London mumble inspired by Keith Richards. But virtually all his crewmen hew to the classic movie-pirate patois, full of growled consonants and shiver-me-timbers slang. Wait, did pirates really say "arrrrr"?

Probably not. Both that phrase and the accent that goes with it are strictly Hollywood. They originated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s. Newton was from Dorset, in the Cotswolds district of southwest England, and the regional accent he brought to the movies included a rolled "r." Though Dorset may well have produced its share of sailors, they were hardly the only pirates out there; most seamen—and especially the outlaws on pirate vessels—were people who struck out from oppressed nations, like Scotland and Ireland, to start over on the high seas.

So, was there a typical pirate accent at all? Among British outlaws, yes: The onboard speech was most likely underclass British sailor with extra curse words, augmented with a polyglot slang of French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch picked up around the trade routes. "Arrrrr" is strictly fiction, as are a number of the other affiliated signifiers: Nobody ever walked the plank, and nobody has ever discovered an actual pirate treasure map. On the myth-confirming side, pirates were known to dress in loose clothing, guzzle rum and smash the empty bottles, and chase busty wenches through Caribbean ports.
Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.

Explainer thanks Christine Lampe, editor of the pirate-history journal No Quarter Given, and Richard Zacks, author of Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd.

Christopher Bonanos is a senior editor at New York magazine.


Esteri please do not let this deter you from your daily pirate joke! They are too fun!!

I think the portion regarding wearing loose clothing, guzzling rum and chasing busty wenches could be very appropriate for our TOAL! (The bottle smashing maybe not so much though!)

I don't think DCL would appreciate us breaking bottles all over the ship!

 

[atakaratemom]

I don't think DCL would appreciate us breaking bottles all over the ship!

Probably a pretty sure way to land in the brig!

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

I thought all the pirates here would find this Slate article interesting.

Did Pirates Really Say "Arrrr"?
No. And nobody ever walked the plank, either.
By Christopher Bonanos
Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2007, at 1:02 PM ET

Johnny Depp took home the best performance award at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards, for his role as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. (The third installment of the series topped the weekend box-office tallies again this past weekend, pulling in $43.2 million.) Depp's character famously speaks in a dissolute London mumble inspired by Keith Richards. But virtually all his crewmen hew to the classic movie-pirate patois, full of growled consonants and shiver-me-timbers slang. Wait, did pirates really say "arrrrr"?

Probably not. Both that phrase and the accent that goes with it are strictly Hollywood. They originated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s. Newton was from Dorset, in the Cotswolds district of southwest England, and the regional accent he brought to the movies included a rolled "r." Though Dorset may well have produced its share of sailors, they were hardly the only pirates out there; most seamen—and especially the outlaws on pirate vessels—were people who struck out from oppressed nations, like Scotland and Ireland, to start over on the high seas.

So, was there a typical pirate accent at all? Among British outlaws, yes: The onboard speech was most likely underclass British sailor with extra curse words, augmented with a polyglot slang of French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch picked up around the trade routes. "Arrrrr" is strictly fiction, as are a number of the other affiliated signifiers: Nobody ever walked the plank, and nobody has ever discovered an actual pirate treasure map. On the myth-confirming side, pirates were known to dress in loose clothing, guzzle rum and smash the empty bottles, and chase busty wenches through Caribbean ports.
Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.

Explainer thanks Christine Lampe, editor of the pirate-history journal No Quarter Given, and Richard Zacks, author of Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd.

Christopher Bonanos is a senior editor at New York magazine.


Esteri please do not let this deter you from your daily pirate joke! They are too fun!!

I think the portion regarding wearing loose clothing, guzzling rum and chasing busty wenches could be very appropriate for our TOAL! (The bottle smashing maybe not so much though!)

Grearrrrt Arrrrrrticle there Mary. Of course the article refers to where historic pirates used "arrrr" but we be modern not historic pirates, and yes we say arrrr.

 

[darthrugby]

Peter

I've just checked our ADRs and we're all clear so we'll be there

David

Thanks for responding! Looking forward to meeting you all.

 

[darthrugby]

NOT YET.


PS any nice pictures to celebrate my


8,000 posts!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations on 8,000 Posts Andrew!

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Sure has been busy the last couple of weeks around here. Sunday we went to DL, Monday helped take 37 1st graders to the Santa Barbara Zoo, today had to get DD6 ready for dance pictures. Seems like everyday until school is out there is something going on.