Who Is Your Favourite Pirate ?

Devon for me

Captain Jack Sparrow

Caroline

Grace O'Malley

Pugwash of course

Sir Frances Drake

Not sure which one to be honest

Chesrey Surrenberger

Dec 31, 2016 -- 5:53PM, wit-ham wrote:

Not sure which one to be honest

Will you be seeing in the New Year in the company of these ladies ?

Penzance

Eustace 'The Mad Monk' - operated in the English Channel in the 11th century.

Did he offer a good line in duty frees ?

If only

That Pontius bloke in the bible.

Seemed a good sort to me.

WTF, Jesus with all his supernatural powers didn't even give him the Saturday rollover lottery numbers.

Some pal.  I'd have shopped him to the romans too for a few quid

the pirate books, I read them in Junior school,I can't remember the name of the pirates just that there was a red one, a green one and a blue  one. Also I'm not really sure which was my favourite of the three.

Hope this helps.

the pirate books, I read them in Junior school,I can't remember the name of the pirates just that there was a red one, a green one and a blue  one. Also I'm not really sure which was my favourite of the three.

Blimey Make my Hay, you have taken me back about 35 years!

Here goes:
Roger the Red Pirate
Frederick the Green Pirate
......  the Blue (HELP!)

Loved those books!

Benjamin!!

Keith Richards

'Noddy'  Holder - rode for the Pirates for several years - Poole Speedway

Angoose
'Did he offer a good line in duty frees ?'

Almost certainly. The best thing to plunder at the time was French wine from smugglers. There was a heck of a lot of it and the piracy would not be reported (not that it would have made much difference!). The Normans stopped Channel piracy, but couldn't crack the smuggling. Plus ca change.....

pauly - glad somebody else  remembers those books, was starting to think that I may have dreamed them up.

I shall now have a look on Ebay see if there's any old copies for sale so I can do some reminiscing.

Make my Hay

They were a part of a huge series...do some googling on images! It's all coming back...

Pirates are the symbol of capitalist suppression of the minorities. They are ray chyst and misonygistically repressive!!!  Only the greed for gold is exceeded by their sexual lusts for the bodies of women.
I also notice they never include gays in their crews.  Clearly government need to act on this.
I understand it was the imperialist britsh government that started all this piracy as an official policy.
I await an apology and compensayshun

I thank you

Quentin Crisp !

pauly after a bit of googling I think it's..

Roderick the Red Pirate
Greg the Green Pirate
Benjamin the Blue

Awww the memories.

books are called 'griffin pirate stories' lots of them on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=the+three+pirate&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1311.R1.TR4.TRC2.A0.H0.Xgriffin++pirate.TRS0&_nkw=griffin+pirate+stories&_sacat=0

Greg would make sense, yep.
I was absolutely obsessed by them and to be honest, they gave me a love of learning to read. Kids now have Biff and Chip

Must be over 40 years ago when I last read one

MMH, Dare I ask how old you are. I'm 44.

Oooh, that make me sounds like a dodgy old geezer!

I'm very nearly  51 and must have only been about 7 or 8 when I read about Greg + his mates adventures, so them books go back a fair way.

I think Angoose will be very happy with all this infomation 

piratebay, obviously