For we've slaved away four years of our life and earned about three pound ten

[sovay]

I have a sore throat and a steadily climbing fever and just discovered I missed a documentary on whaling tonight. It had better re-air. Preferably at some point when I can focus on the screen. Today: not success. Tell me something historically weird.

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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I can do that. I've just been reading The Pirates Own Book for an assignment, and finding it fascinating. Here it is:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12216/12216-h/12216-h.htm

And I happened across this book because Lucy Larcom's brother was one of the crew robbed and almost killed by pirates. Look at "History and Execution of the Spanish Pirates" in the ebook, and also at this excerpt from Lucy Larcom's _A New England Girlhood_:

http://larcomfamilytree.com/documents/stories.html

...and then tell me that's not a weird trip.

[sovay]

...and then tell me that's not a weird trip.

"Explosion of the Panda" is one of the great captions of our time.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

And I think it refers to them as the Panda pirates somewhere, which means I have this image in my head of a panda with an eyepatch threatening Lucy Larcom's brother with a cutlass.