A Conversation for Wind force twelve abaft the Beam
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a monetary AND poetry-free zone.
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Nov 20, 2009
pass the rum Shagbark!
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Pirate Alexander LeGray Posted Nov 20, 2009
We don't buy, and we don't pay. 
Double trouble now cos I'm angry.
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 21, 2009
Aye, that we do. We make it sound gracious by calling it freemantling, to make it sound as if we are pirates of a higher sensibility. 
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 21, 2009
this crew is indeed the finest of the trade 
not many captains can brag about a crew skilled with reading, writing - and even poetring 
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 21, 2009
Actually, the poetring gives us a competitive edge over other pirate crews. It's part of our defensive arsenal. Many a pirate ship has come near enough to menace us, and then withdrawn apace when it heard our poetry.
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Pirate Alexander LeGray Posted Nov 21, 2009
Yes that's right; it is just too frightening and a big culture shock. 
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 22, 2009
With most pirates, *any* culture is a shock 
.
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
shagbark Posted Nov 22, 2009
AARg Mateys- here be rum 
toast to pirates.
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 22, 2009
we yild to no-one, not even vogons
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 22, 2009
*Especially* Vogons. Even if they are coming at us on a tropical beach with delicious drinks 
in their hands...
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 23, 2009
maybe we should prepare ourselves by forging a vogon repelling poem?
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Nov 23, 2009
A challenge indeed...
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Nov 23, 2009
Writing poetry is the one thing that I just *know* that I cannot do. Not even badly. Especially not badly. If I wrote anything poetic it would be just plain pants. To say I wrote poetry badly would be tantamount to praising it.
Maybe I could get away with some haiku though....
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Nov 23, 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A222922
Ocean spray sparkles
Crashing surf thunders to soft sand
Sunlight on water
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 23, 2009
snow on the radar
empty glass of pirate rum
trouble is afoot
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Nov 23, 2009
We're coming, fleeting, by night and by day
The pirates will come to take you away
to plunder and pillage, sequester and steal
And begone before the Blood can congeal.
(there's almost a pun in there and everything...)
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 23, 2009
Pirates write poems
And are made to walk the plank
Because they are bad! 
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Nov 23, 2009
Hey, if it's vogons we're taking on, it's gotta be Bad.
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 23, 2009
bad, bad, bad, bad, bad
pirates are worse than vogons
i think we should drink to that
Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a poetry-free zone.
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 23, 2009
Galactic scourges,
Pirate vogons freemantle
Bureaucratic-ly.
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Cabin 13 (V) The Lighthouse Bar, a monetary AND poetry-free zone.
- 8181: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Nov 20, 2009)
- 8182: Pirate Alexander LeGray (Nov 20, 2009)
- 8183: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Nov 21, 2009)
- 8184: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 21, 2009)
- 8185: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Nov 21, 2009)
- 8186: Pirate Alexander LeGray (Nov 21, 2009)
- 8187: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Nov 22, 2009)
- 8188: shagbark (Nov 22, 2009)
- 8189: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 22, 2009)
- 8190: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Nov 22, 2009)
- 8191: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8192: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8193: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8194: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8195: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8196: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8197: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8198: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8199: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 23, 2009)
- 8200: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Nov 23, 2009)
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