Posts Tagged ‘Pirates’
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
The real art of being a pirate is to be able to be a cowardly, greedy and deceptive!!
As a reader of this website you are of course a very nice law abiding person and would never contemplate any of these things. But if you are thinking of pushing your boundaries here are a few things you might think about
Firstly create your own pirate jolly roger. Something with a skull and crossbones or even a design more gruesome than that. Just like you were creating a logo for your business. They were in business after all. Now apply this design to all your hats flags and badges.
Make a hat from 2 cards . Firstly draw an outline of a pirates hat on them. Then cut out the shape. You can use staples to fix the 2 sheets together. Finish off the hat by painting or drawing pirate designs and also glue on some feathers and buttons etc.
Any eye patch can be made by cutting out a circle on black paper or soft card. The fold it in 2 so you have a semicircle 2 layers thick. Under the flap add your elastication .
If you are feeling particularly intent, you can now go on to create pirate ship. The idea here is you would step inside it and carry it around your waist. So start by getting a box that is just big enough tot steep inside. .
Cut a hole in the base of it. Add string to each edge of the box so you can slip them over your shoulders.
On the outside of the box apply fake cannon guns by colouring toilet tube in black and sticking them on the outside of your box.
Add a little jolly rodger flag at the back of you ship , and you are ready to go
Tags: Badges, Boundaries, Cannon, Cards, Creating A Logo, Cutting, Drawing Designs, Eye Patch, Feathers, Flags, Flap, Glue, Hats, jolly rodger, Jolly Rodger Flag, Jolly Roger, make a pirate ship, Nbsp, Pirate Art, pirate logo, Pirate Ship, Pirates, Real Art, Sah, Shoulders, Skull And Crossbones, Skull Crossbones, Staples, Ytou
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Pirates News and Info
If you choose a career as a pirate you can do what you want when you want, and what’s more, no one is going to tell you not to do it !
You can dress up in a really striking and fearsome pirate costume, and go looking for vessels to plunder.
Only problem is if you get caught you might get hanged.
A couple of one liners for the pirates amongst you.
What do strong pirates eat fro dinner?
Mussels.
What do you call a happy, good looking and well-mannered pirate?
A total failure
An article in the Pirate Times
Harold Hooks a Huge Haddock
Harold the Moaner caught an enormous haddock fish, while he was dangling his hook out of the porthole of his cabin.
“I was trying a different from of fishing” he said.
Medical corner for pirates
The bad news is we removed your good leg in error.
The good news is your false leg is healing faster.
Letters corner
Last month i read your article about about how i lost my arm in a scuffle with a crocodile.
I am afraid it is such an old story that Long John Silver still had both his legs when it first was published.
Actually i lost it in a fight with a fairy called Tinkerbell.
Yours sincerely
Captain John Hook
Tags: Bad News, Captain John, Crocodile, Failure, Fairy, Fearsome Pirate, Fishing, Haddock Fish, John Hook, Legs, Long John Silver, Medical Corner, Moaner, Mussels, Mussles, Odds And Sods, One Liners, pirate costume, pirate jokes, pirate news, Pirate Times, Pirates, Pirates News, Porthole
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
We know that the Royal Navy was the main enemy of pirates. Lewt’s take a look at the crew who make up the fighting ship. Navy officers, no t surprisingly, are often the thin and fragile sons of the rich, who would probably prefer to have stayed at home with mum, whereas petty officers are the much tougher sons of village squires, and as such, usually prefer to be running the ship themselves and be its captain.
Further down the chain are the unfortunate who were gathered together when they were drunk or just grabbed physically by employed gangs of forceful recruiters, and later wake up to find themslloves already at sea.
These gangs would typically roam around drinking places looking for physically able bodied men who they assessed would be strong enough.If you took money from them then you were guilty of taking the Kings shilling. Now you were liable to be marched off to a ship and kept shackled until the ship had left the port with you on board.
The ship itself was on 5 levels. The second lowest level were provisions, the midd level were the sleeping quarters. The 4th level was where the canon were placed and the top level was where the captain and his officers lived.
Tags: Bodied Men, Canon, captain, Fancy Dress Costumes, Fighting Ship, Gangs, High Seas, Johnny Depp, Lewt, Main Enemy, Midd, Money, Navy Officers, Petty Officers, Pirates, Provisions, Quarters, Recruiters, Royal Navy, Running, Shilling, Squires
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