why is a pirate a pirate?
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Hha ha ha - cute...thanks for the morning laugh...\n\nHave an excellent day!
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it was real..the Pirate saviour is to be born to us...you were a virgin ? I hope?...all hail the great spaghetti monster...we must worship him by all dressing as pirates aargh!!!
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I am a pirate.  Pirates have swords.  So, if I receive a scroll that is glued shut, I use me sword to open it.\n\nR
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If you mean, "why are the called skippers?", it's just a slang term.  Presumably it derives from maritime terminology.
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He makes a hot pirate. ;) not everyone can pull that off.
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The ADAM ANT Pirate Look
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a classmate in my highschool geometry class came up with this one, as far as i know.  \n\nWhat is the formula for the circumference of a Pirate?\n\npi ARRRRRRRR 8.
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Girl...! Everytime I see that "captain" in a pirate suit I melt! Something about the man in eyeliner and dreadlocks is sexy! "Yo-ho! Yo-ho! A Pirate's Life For Me!" LoL =)
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Indian or Pirate?  \n\nI'm going to have to go with the swashbucklers.
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pirates and privateers do the same job, the only diff between them is the fact that a government supports privateers. (look up sir francis drake) it basically means that privateers are government sanctioned pirates... and can always retreat back into the safety of the nation that gave it its license to steal.
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Awesome! this is the by far the best question i have seen on here! i would be first mate, my name would be Shipwreck, my animal would be a crocodile which i would feed prisoners from the towns that we plunder, my weapon would have to be the traditional pirate sword, and my stash consists of the rarest metals and jewels in the world.\nso when do we set sail !!??\nYar!
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The pirate Blackbeard is perhaps the most notorious of the sea robbers who plagued shipping lanes off North America and throughout the Caribbean in the early-eighteenth century- an era commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy. Despite his legendary reputation, little is known about the early life of Blackbeard. Even his true name is uncertain, though it is usually given as some variation of Edward Thatch or Teach. He is reported to have served as a privateer during Queen Anne's War (1701 - 1714) and turned to piracy sometime after the war's conclusion. Maritime archaeologist and historian David Moore, spent considerable time tracing the history of Blackbeard. The earliest primary source document that Moore located that mentions the pirate by name dates to the summer of 1717. Other records indicate that by the fall of 1717 Blackbeard was operating off Delaware and Chesapeake bays in conjunction with two other pirate captains, Benjamin Hornigold and Stede Bonnet. Late in the fall of 1717, the pirates made their way to the eastern Caribbean. It was here, off the island of Martinique, that Blackbeard and his fellow pirates captured the French slaveship La Concorde-a vessel he would keep as his flagship and rename Queen Anne's Revenge (Moore, 1997).. \n\nBy examining a variety of primary and secondary French documents, researchers have pieced together a limited history of La Concorde. The prominent French merchant, Rene Montaudoin, owned the ship, which operated out of the port of Nantes. French records recount three slave trading expeditions of Montaudoin's La Concorde; one in 1713, a second in 1715, and the third and final voyage in 1717. Unfortunately, records have yet to be located that describe how Montaudoin acquired La Concorde or the date and place of the ship's construction (Mettas, 1978). \n\nDuring the eighteenth century, Nantes, located at the mouth of the Loire River, was the center of the French slave trade. For much of that century, the Montaudoin family operated the leading company involved in this nefarious but lucrative trade. Ships would leave Nantes in the spring loaded with trade goods and travel down the west coast of Africa. There, the captain would purchase a cargo of enslaved Africans to be transported to the New World. The transatlantic voyage, known as the Middle Passage, would take up to two months to complete. The Africans were usually sold at the French islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, or Saint Domingue where they served as laborers in the sugar cane fields. Emptied of their human cargo, ships would take on new freight, usually sugar, and return to France. \n\nThe last voyage of La Concorde and the ship's subsequent capture by pirates are documented in depositions filed by two of the vessel's officers, Captain Pierre Dosset and Lieutenant Francois Ernaut, when the two finally returned to France. Those depositions were obtained from the Archives Departementales de Loire-Atlantique in Nantes by Mike Daniel, President of Maritime Research Institute. According to Dosset and Ernaut's reports, La Concorde left Nantes on March 24, 1717. The 200-ton ship was armed with sixteen cannon and had a crew of seventyfive. On July 8, La Concorde arrived at the port of Judas, or Whydah, in present-day Benin. There they took on a cargo of 516 captive Africans. The captain and officers also obtained about twenty pounds of gold dust for their own account. La Concorde took nearly eight weeks to cross the Atlantic and the hardships of the notorious Middle Passage took their toll on both the Africans and the French crew. By the time they reached the New World, sixty-one slaves and sixteen crewmen had perished (Dosset, 1718, Ernaut, 1718). \n\nAfter crossing the Atlantic, and only 100 miles from Martinique, the French ship encountered Blackbeard and his company. According to Lieutenant Ernaut, the pirates were aboard two sloops, one with 120 men and twelve cannon, and the other with th
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There once was a man named Gold Roger, who was King of the Pirates. He had fame, power, and wealth beyond your wildest dreams. Before they hung him from the gallows, these were the final words he said: "My fortune is yours for the taking, but you have to find it first. I left everything I own in One Piece." Ever since, pirates from all over the World set sail for the Grand Line, searching for One Piece, the treasure that would make their dreams come true.\n\nYO!\nYah-yo, yah-yo!\nDreaming!\n(Don't give it up, Luffy!)\nDreaming!\n(Don't give it up, Zolo!)\nDreaming!\n(Don't give it up, Nami!)\nDreaming!\n(Don't give it, give it up, give it up, give it up, give it up, give it-- NO!)\nHere's how the story goes, we find out\n‘Bout a treasure in the Grand Line, there's no doubt\nThe Pirate whose eye is on it, he'll sing,\n"I'll be King of the Pirates, I'm gonna be King!"\nYah-yo, yah-yo, yah-yo, oh-oh!\nHis name is Luffy\n(That's Monkey D. Luffy)\n(Gonna be King of the Pirates!)\nHe's made of rubber\n(How did that happen?)\n(Yo-ho-ho, he took a bite of Gum-Gum!)\nYah-yo, yah-yo!\nHis name's Zolo, he's just like a samurai\nAnd a L-A-D-Y Nami's not shy\nThe Pirate Crew comin' through doin' their thing*\nWith the King of the Pirates, he's gonna be King!*\nYah-yo, yah-yo, yah-yo, oh-oh!\nSet sail for One Piece, it's the name of the treasure\n(In the Grand Line)\nYah-yo, yah-yo\nSet sail for One Piece!
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The idea of a Pirate Ninja comes to mind, but it's hard to sneak with a peg leg.... \n\nFor some reason, most of the pirates that come to mind are either all like Jack Sparrow, Peg-Leg Pete, or those in Irish music (Flogging Molly has a few pirate songs.)\n\nThough my ideal pirate has to be the Last Saskatchewan Pirate (An Arrogant Worms song about a farmer who, after losing his land, becomes a canadian pirate - Great Song!)
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Captains of all kinds are called skipper as a tradition from seafaring , which was a dominant part of life before steam trains and aeroplanes.   Even the foreman on a building site might be called skipper - it was a generic honorific term for  people in charge of any "crew" or small group of men.  After years of mucking about in boats I do not know how the term originated, but I suspect it came from the Scandinavian languages which left so much in English and especially anything to do with the sea -- oar, dinghy, harbor, and the rest.
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1. adventerious.\n2. brave\n3. strong- willed\n\nhe is srong enoughTo be able to get on the ship, beginning\n\nHe takes the ship and sails it to the other side of the island when the pirates make themselves known and when he tries to get back with the rest of the crew.\n\nHe stood up for what he believed in the end when he has his last encounter with Silver
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Yaaargh, me lassie. A pirate for sure. What's not to like? Parrot on me shoulder. Fashionable peg leg. Rum and wenches. Getting to say cool stuff like "Keelhaul the little fruitcake, yaaaargh..."!