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May. 13th, 2012 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherA good crew, derring-do on the high seas, victory snatched from the jaws of defeat, terrible pirate puns, and lots and lots of lovely shiny historically-inaccurate golden pieces of eight.
If I had more days on Puzzle Pirates like this, I might still be playing regularly.
Footnotes:
[1] And what does it say that I had to think carefully to not type "defeat snatched from the jaws of victory"?
[2] Real pieces of eight are, of course, silver. But what the hey, it's gold, I'll take it. As the Bard wrote (probably in 'Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'), gold by any other name...
[3] Listed in approximate (decreasing) order of importance.
If I had more days on Puzzle Pirates like this, I might still be playing regularly.
Footnotes:
[1] And what does it say that I had to think carefully to not type "defeat snatched from the jaws of victory"?
[2] Real pieces of eight are, of course, silver. But what the hey, it's gold, I'll take it. As the Bard wrote (probably in 'Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'), gold by any other name...
[3] Listed in approximate (decreasing) order of importance.
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Date: 2012-05-14 04:00 pm (UTC)At one point we were on a desert island, digging up crates of buried treasure, and when the loot was tallied up one of the other guys said he'd foreseen a better result from the amount of digging he'd done. Which reminded me of Charles Dickens' famous novel about treasure-seeking pirates, Crate Expectations.
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Date: 2012-05-14 04:14 pm (UTC)