h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Texas usually brings to mind cowboys, but if you check the map, it has a seacoast, and that means ... pirates!!

In particular, at one time Jean Lafitte (spelling varies) pretty much ran the island of Galveston (about 30 miles from where I live).

http://www.piratesinfo.com/fact/pirates/jeanlaffite.htm

Galveston is still a nautical place, with the tall ship Elissa docked there:

http://www.tsm-elissa.org/

And from the "Tell Us a Joke" forum:

A pirate walks into a bar with a ship's wheel stuck down in his pants. When the bartender asks, he says, "Arrr, it drives me nuts!"

Like the joke, I was going to write a bit ab Jean Lafitte but after writing the entries on the seven pirates that are there I was a bit exhausted! Maybe I'll do something on him another day as he does deserve an entry!

Yes, next time ... I understand all those articles took a lot of work, thanks. But a FRENCH pirate ... in Texas ... gotta have one.

Incidentally, Henry Morgans mansion house is still standing in Llanrumney, Cardiff - it is now a pub. I suppose one goes inside and says yohoho and a bottle of rum, please landlord.