Comments on: Man Knowledge: 5 Pirates Every Man Should Know

By: wtp

wtp — Sat, 21 May 2011 18:53:13 +0000

What, nothing about the greatest Pirate of all time, Roberto Clemente?

By: Ben Dover

Ben Dover — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:56:20 +0000

I love a discussion of the difference between hanged and hung…Like in “Blazing Saddles…where the worker on the railroad sees Sheriff Bart and thinking he had been HANGED said…”Bart, i thought you was HUNG” and Bart replies…”And you was RIGHT”…nobody but a classic known liberal like Mel Brooks could get away with it then and even HE could not do that movie today…well, westerns are pirate movies, only in a different placing…

By: Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:32:36 +0000

@Ammon: What, no One-Eyed Willy (from The Goonies) on your list of Top 5 Fictional Pirates? Walk the plank! :p

By: Tengu

Tengu — Fri, 06 May 2011 23:02:31 +0000

No William Dampier?

The Educated man who gave us such useful words as `pineapple` and `sealion`??

And who dies of old age at home?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:22:45 +0000

small point but here goes anyway
the past tense of hang when refering to a person is hanged.
yesterday I hung a picutre on the wall
the pirate Calico Jack was hanged in Jamacia

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:34:39 +0000

What??? No Capt. Morgan — They guys got a brand of rum with his name on it!!!

By: Seth Albion

Seth Albion — Mon, 02 May 2011 23:02:26 +0000

The book “The Pirate Hunter” by Richard Zacks reads like fiction. I recommend it to anyone; pirate lover or not. It’s a fascinating true account of Captain Kidd’s journeys. trials and tribulations. I’ve read it twice – I don’t read many books twice.

By: TimothyPilgrim

TimothyPilgrim — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:31:09 +0000

Piracy is alive and well, especially around the Horn of Africa (i.e. Somalia) where some 650 hostages and 35 ships had been taken by pirates as of late 2010. Of course, these pirates aren’t sexy like the grimey sea-folk of days gone by.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Somalian_Piracy_Threat_Map_2010.png

By: carelessninja

carelessninja — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:54:15 +0000

Actually, Mrs. Cheng was the most successful pirate of all time: http://www.pantherbay.com/bio_cheng.php

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:41:02 +0000

Damn we need an edit function here…I meant to say ‘his skills were’, not, ‘his skills wee’. Sorry.