Yarrgh! A Pirates Life For Me!
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Avast thar me mateys! Yarrgh! I been paryusin’ them thar headlinesand be pleased to announce to ye all, scurvy sea-dog, worthy seaman (no ribaldry if ye please) and lilly livered land lubber a’like, ‘at the Age O’ High Seas Piracy Be Retarned! No Joke!
Three Cheers fer arr dread Somali Pirate Cousins what have attacked 120 vessels and ransomed away millions o’ dollars this year alone and taken a worthy peacefulvessel full o’ black crude worth $100,000,000.00 and are holdin’ it fer $25,000,000.00 in spite o’ all the worlds navies! Hip, Hip, HYHAARRGGHH!!! Hip, hip, HYHAARRGGHH!!! Hip hip HYHAARRGGHH!!!
Truly this here be a black day for any merchantman ‘pon the briney blue! No national navy’ll come to save them thar servile merchant marines, no power they say. Harharharharhar! Dja hear that me lovelies! Powerless! The mighty American Navy, the storied Royal Navy, none of ‘em can do a dem thing! The best proof of that, me hearties, be that the Oonited Nations ‘ave voted ”sanctions” against Piracy! HAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh! Now I just ‘ave ta give up me freebootery so’ssome silky smooth civil sarvant won’t make yars truly ”subject to an asset freeze and travel ban.” HAR! That’ll stop us!
These har buroowcrats are sae afeared o’ arr kind and what we could do to ‘em and thar precious reputations once, ‘at they won’t even tink about what we can do to ‘em again and again!
True, they say they won’t pay the ransom fer the crew, but they also say they can’t do a thing! So whats to stop arr buccaneer brethren from scuttlin’ the ‘ole tanker and crew to Davey Jones Locker and spillin’ all ‘at crude into the bright blue deep! Nothin’ me hearties! They’ll rue thar skinflinterry afterwards I’ll reckon, thinkin’ ‘ow paltry $25 million was compared tah the grief they bought fer themselves.
And soon enough it’ll not just be freighters and tankers, but cruise ships full of fat rich tourists, as some of our poltroonish Pacific pirate brethren ‘ave already tried, and even
ports and cities just like in the days of William Kidd, John Hawkins, Francis Drake, and the great Blackbeard hisself, Edward Teach! The blood and gold ‘ill flow through the arr ‘ands and arr names ‘ill be writ’ large in the nightmares of every seaman and child!
Unless of course the world, or one powerful nation more likely, wises up and begins to hunt these dogs down just like they did in centuries past. Hunt them down by 1.) building and maintaining big enough navies to actually control all of the major shipping lanes in the world, then 2.) burning the pirates out of every port, cove, and hole they even dream of slithering in to regardless of what any corrupt, bought off local authority or prince says about their sovereignty being violated, and 3.) killing every last pirate and pirate protector, either on sight on the seas (preferably) or on the gallows.
Carse, me hearty lads, ’at’d mean a real, radical, substantive change in fareign policy away from policin’ the waves to rulin’ ‘em. Away from folks bein’ loved, to bein’ respected an’ feared e’en more than us pirates. An’ we can’t let that happen. An’ ’at’s why I voted Obama!
-Bob
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a premature and sickness filled death.