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I thought Owen Teale was really good in the Audible audio drama of Treasure Island.

probably used it in staid of know then name, like mate or bud.

My guess is it came from Treasure Island, where the main character is named Jim Hawkins

@@violethill5781 This is correct. I watched Treasure Island because I had to confirm this for myself.

Arr, matey, I agree 💯!!!😊

Glad Geoffrey Rush spoke in such away as like Robert Newton’s character Long John Silver… it added the nostalgia of what and how ‘Hollywood pirates’ are, and always will be. ☠️😎

Also the actor who plays Gibbs.

It's "why *be* pirates called pirates?"

I don't think that's accurate. Almost NONE of the automatic captions are right! I started fixing the captions but never finished/published them because there were just a few words I couldn't catch, & I'm a bit of a perfectionist. (All the actors other than Robert Newton are Australian & everybody's speaking in nautical terminology! I'll move it up on my 'To Do' list if I can get my Aussie hubby to sit still long enough to help me with it! But I'll figure it out if it kills me, lol!)

I'm going through the captions now. The word was 'carrion,' like food for the vultures. (Or, as in Monty Python's dead-parrot sketch, just to be clear, 'Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's climbed down the curtain & joined the choir invisible. If you hadn't nailed him to the [ahem] 'Perch,' he'd be pushing up daisies. THIS ... is an EX-PIRATE!') The reason I haven't published them yet was because there are some pretty hilarious versions of CZcams's really BAD autocaptioned gobbledygook, and I want to save them somehow for posterity! For instance, where Long John says, 'One, ambush the first colonial trader what touches shore; two, board 'er in the dead o' night,' CZcams thinks he's saying, 'or Texas or to order in the dead of night three head with a dress and.'🤦‍♀🤪 It's pretty amazing how bad autocaptions are--on every video where that hasn't been hand-edited, which is time-consuming, especially if you don't know how. (I used to be a professional captionist, so I find the lack of formatting features frustrating.) NOBODY should rely on autocaptions! They're seriously worse, accessibility-wise, than NO captions at all! Sorry I haven't been able to finish them sooner due to health reasons. They be a-settin' a course fer U-T00b now an' lookin' sharp about it, matey!

someone’s great grandma was thicc

​@@Podzhagitel LOL. Actually, Purity is the tavern _owner_ with a crush on 'Lawng Jawn,' which is why she provides him with a home in the film (although, once the sequel became a series, the parrot, 'Captain Flint,' never appeared or was mentioned again, probably for budget reasons, although if you pay attention to the original 'Treasure Island,' you might catch a few scenes where the shoulder of Long John's coat bears a whitish mark of freshly wiped parrot droppings; at any rate, it probably wasn't the original parrot from 'Treasure Island,' which was filmed in England). The actress who plays Purity in the movie and the series, Connie Gilchrist, was from Brooklyn in NYC, and despite her appearing in number of Westerns, she always spoke with a 20th-century Brooklyn accent!

ARR-ROFL, thankee right kindly, matey!

This is absolutely the only timestamp list i ever truly enjoyed. Thankee much matey

Oliver Reed and Keith Moon both cited Robert Newton as an influence, which explains a lot about their lifestyles. Also, Oliver Reed was to play Bill Sykes on film, just as Robert Newton did in 1948.

Thank you for that anecdote. I hadn't heard it before, but I am, of course, a huge fan of Geoffrey Rush and his semi-homage to Robert Newton in the role of Barbossa. For me, he's the main reason I enjoyed the first film and my primary reason for seeing the sequels. I could absolutely imagine him wanting to tie his leg back too--although I did hear that it was _not_ comfortable at all for Robert Newton and was therefore made more tolerable for him after he had a bit (or more) of alcohol in him. I would never want to see Geoffrey suffer the same fate as Robert Newton! Also, if you're watching the movies carefully, including the first Disney adaptation of _Treasure Island_ , it seems to me that his leg is only tied up when the lower half of his body is visible, which they were easily able to avoid using camera angles. . Also, considering his build, which would probably have made it much easier for Geoffrey than for 'Bobby' to do so, I'd hereby like to thank Geoffrey Rush's doctors! I personally have a medical condition called 'hypermobility,' a symptom of a larger (but rare) genetic disease syndrome called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. It's more commonly referred to in laymen's terms to as being 'double-jointed,' which allows us--due to the underlying cause, which is a genetic defect to the protein that produces collagen, which is the 'glue' that holds your body together and makes up most of your digestive system, joints, and other connective tissue--to get into all sorts of abnormal positions without any pain by allowing the joints to extend well beyond the 'normal' range. Hypermobile kids usually can't resist using this perceived 'superpower' to perform 'party tricks' for friends and family, and many hypermobile people go into entertainment for that reason, as dancers, contortionists, even a few rare movie stuntpeople who can twist their torsos by 180 degrees and perform the 'human spider' maneuver, which is what you're seeing in some horror movies in which a character is supposedly possessed, and can have a truly chilling effect if shown only briefly in dark lighting conditions, and especially if you put a mask over their face to further make it appear that their head is also turned in the opposite direction. I've seen video of someone performing this trick in full lighting and no costuming, and, while it looks extremely terrifying to see him do it quickly, by rewinding and watching closely enough, I can see _exactly_ how he's doing this trick, and I sure hope he's saving all his income as a stuntman to help pay for his medical bills and pain relief later! . Oops, sorry for going off on such a long tangent and then accidentally hitting the 'SAVE' button before I'd finished; I'll finish up the medical portion of this reply in a reply to my reply that you don't have to read if you don't want to, but you've got me very curious: *may I ask where you heard that fun fact?* I find it quite interesting, especially because of my own medical issues ... that I've started to suspect I _may_ share with Geoffrey. (I've had the extreme privilege of meeting him, and he's an absolutely wonderful, generous, thoughtful, and down-to-earth gentleman. It's not my intention to be rude or unduly forward by calling him by his first name, but I met him twice a few years apart, and he actually recognized me the second time, and signs everything to his known fans, after the first, collectible one, as just 'Geoffrey.' I'm not claiming to be close personal friends with him, or bragging since I know other fans he's struck up casual conversations with with no ulterior motive and read in 'No Quarter' fanzine back when the first POTC movie came out one of the extras remarking that he was the only member of the main cast who actually came and hung out with them after the day's filming. I know other people who've met him, and he doesn't put on any airs; he actually talks to -everyone_ like he's just a regular person and takes an interest in people, not surrounding himself solely with celebrities or any kind of 'posse.' Also, I know from my husband, who's from Australia, that there's almost nobody in Australia who doesn't call even their _doctors_ by their first names ... which was one of the many surprising cultural differences I fell down on the job in explaining to him before we finally tied the knot and he moved to the US. Equality and dispensing with the English class system after Australia was originally claimed by England as a penal colony and having been famously established (for the white settlers, at least) by convicts are important values in Australia, as I'm told. And a CZcams video by an American who moved to Australia giving his advice to other Americans wanting to do the same explained how important it is not to be 'the tall poppy.' He said Australians get annoyed by Americans who move there expecting to get special treatment because of their 'status.' So it would just feel stilted and weird to me suddenly to start calling him Mr. Rush! Or I could just avoid all awkwardness and confusion by using his initials and call him 'GRR'!😼 (☺️)

So back to my long tangent--apologies to anyone who's not interested; you can just skip this, but it does end up being related to Geoffrey Rush, who is definitely a fan of Robert Newton! . Because it doesn't hurt us _at the time_ we're doing it, we're unwittingly doing permanent harm to our joints, and children diagnosed with any kind of hypermobility syndrome are _supposed_ to be warned _not to do such party tricks_ and, as awareness of hypermobility as a serious medical condition, increases, albeit all too slowly, in the medical community so that we _can_ be warned, have our joints taped up and braced, even given wheelchairs for part-time use (it's considered to be an 'invisible illness,' and a lot of people will see one of us in a wheelchair to prevent inadvertent hyperextension of our joints and even sudden, seemingly spontaneous/mysterious falls that start occurring later in life as our joints begin to deteriorate since every time we've done one of those hyperextensions beyond the unknown-to-us 'normal' range of motion (as in, when I was a kid seeing people struggling in gym class to put the soles of their feet together and 'stretch' their knees in an attempt to push them to the floor, having mine just FLOP to the floor, and looking around wondering what was 'wrong' with everyone _else_ that they were struggling to do something so _easy_ and, to this day, find myself sitting on my bed at the laptop, as I am right now, in the full 'Lotus Position' without any awareness that I'm doing it until I notice, as I did just now, and remind myself I'm _not_ supposed to be sitting like this since I'm causing myself even more harm, and, being only ~9 years younger than Geoffrey, I can't help wondering whether he has this condition too and whether, with my being in my so-called 'Ehlers-Danlos Years,' when all those accumulated injuries catch up to you, he may be experiencing the same type of chronic pain that I'm in from head to toe. . Except that I was never diagnosed until a chiropractor told me I was hypermobile back in 2011, I looked it up online, and found out it's a symptom of a whole genetic syndrome, usually either EDS or Marfan Syndrome ... and I also should have been warned--had I ever seen a knowledgeable doctor (they're taught in med school not to go looking for rare diseases when a simpler explanation can be found, like your patient is a hypochondriac, with many of us being permanently harmed, both physically and psychologically by the latter 'diagnosis,' when, especially in younger patients, the hypermobility is pretty hard to miss. (It tends to decrease as you get older and the damage you've done to the connective tissue makes it deteriorate; my mother had both knees replaced and 'grew' over an inch when she reached the stage where she was walking 'bone on bone.' The axiom is worded, 'When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, _not_ zebras,' which is why the zebra is our 'mascot' and, when we finally find each other in online support groups, we call each other zebras. In addition, _because_ it's causing us even further micro-injuries every time we do it, nearly _all_ of the support groups absolutely _forbid_ the posting of photos of ourselves intentionally putting ourselves in such a pose for the purpose of said photo; it can even be triggering for some 'zebras' to see those images! Yoga is also forbidden if you're hypermobile. (I used to be really _good_ at yoga, unfortunately, as well as dancing), and 'when' (more like 'if' in the rare case it actually happens before the damage is done) young people are diagnosed, they also should be warned _not_ to embark on careers/take jobs involving repetitive motions. Well, my _entire_ career as a secretary, typist, and sign language interpreter has involved repetitive motions, and I've been on full, permanent disability, in large part due to my 'work-related' RMI and permanent, partial loss of use of my hands/arms, degenerative disk disease combined with 'advanced for my age' arthritis in my neck). It took me SIX more years of seeking 'second' opinions after everyone agreed with the geneticist and a rheumatologist that it 'can't be ruled out'--but also couldn't be ruled _in_, and I might actually have the beginnings of fibromyalgia (I DON'T!), causing my primary-care doctor to rule EDS _out_ because she already _had_ a patient with EDS, so the statistics were very clear that it was 'impossible' for her to have TWO ... until I found an out-of-town geneticist specializing in rare diseases who could make a 'clinical' diagnosis of hEDS based on symptoms, family history, and an exam and got on his year-long waiting list to get a _definitive_ diagnosis. The LONG journey to a diagnosis and not being taken seriously is an all-too-common story, and I'm sure my mother had hEDS as well but was _never_ diagnosed, with the excessive amount of time it takes to get a diagnosis, if ever, causing current researchers to believe that it's not as rare as previously believed but, rather, underdiagnosed! _Especially_ in the case of hEDS, which is actually the most common type. Anyone who has the Hypermobile Type of EDS has a 50% chance of passing it on to each child they have. . So I was never diagnosed until my long-time chiropractor, who didn't know anything about EDS himself, gave me what turned out to be the clue that led to my finding the one SINGLE cause of at least 90% of my two-pages of medical ailments that make me look to all the doctors around here and be treated like, given that there are _no_ local experts, despite our having a vaunted teaching hospital/university _named_ for this city, a hypochondriac (and even to friends and family members, one of whom has my sister and daughters convinced and _tried_ and failed to convince my husband since he _lives_ with me that I'm FAKING being disabled). Being accused of as 'malingering,' being a hypochondriac, and/or faking a other common problems for people with hEDS whose lifespan is _usually_ unaffected, although my mother nearly died of a rupture in her digestive system in 2012 that members of the support group I asked said most _definitely_ can be caused by hEDS and were appalled to hear that a doctor had called _any_ form of hEDS 'benign' and had told me not to worry about it, as in there's no point in getting a diagnosis! But thanks to recent research by the University of Baltimore and the awareness campaigns and global coordinating efforts of the Ehlers-Danlos Society, who have a channel right here on CZcams, it's gradually gaining slightly more recognition in the medical community--but not enough to help me. Also, for anyone interested in learning more about it, spreading awareness, helping to raise money for treatment, figuring out whether you yourself may have it and, if so, 'hyper'-connecting😉with the zebra community (the word for a herd of zebras is a 'dazzle'!🦓🦓🦓✨), seeking EDS-qualified practitioners (who are even rarer per capita of doctors than zebras!), do check out www.ehlers-danlos.com. . I personally figured out I _had_ to have it based on how many of the list of symptoms of hEDS (then referred to as 'Type 3') fit and explained _so much_ that's been 'wrong' with me since I was a child and how many symptoms developed as I aged and shared with my mother, _her_ mother, and her mother's father in 2011 and fought to be diagnosed since it's all too easy to give up, and the Ehlers-Danlos Society actually started up _while_ I was seeking a diagnosis. They even have a support hotline, although it's run by people with EDS, which also causes poor, non-refreshing sleep quality and ever-increasing chronic fatigue due to the lifelong accumulation of a 'sleep deficit,' even insomnia and anxiety! So, being disabled, they may not be able to get back to you right away. . The main reason it took me so long to get an official diagnosis so that I am _finally_ being taken _seriously_ by my doctors, is that, of the 13 different types of EDS alone that have now been identified using DNA sequencing (with Marfan Syndrome also having a high probability of causing a fatal aortic rupture), I have what the first geneticist I was pointlessly referred to, who'd only heard of FOUR types at the time, told me--which is true: that a genetic test to _confirm_ the Hypermobile Type of EDS, now abbreviated 'hEDS,' doesn't yet exist since the specific genes or combination thereof have yet to be identified--not to 'worry' about it because it's 'benign.' The latter part of that meaning, to a doctor/scientist who doesn't take quality of life into consideration, it won't kill you, much as you wish it would. To them, it's 'benign' compared to all the other types, particularly the vascular type, which can cause a spontaneous aortic rupture (another part of the body containing and/or made up of connective tissue) and needs to be closely monitored by your doctors if you have it. In fact, I've found _no_ mention of EDS anywhere in regard to comic actor John Ritter, who was known for his pratfalls and physical comedy, and _did_ suffer a spontaneous aortic rupture on the set of his TV series '[some number I've forgotten off-hand] Rules for Dating My Daughter,' which appeared to be and he was being mistakenly treated for a heart attack--until he got to the hospital and bled to death. Only _then_ did they notice he had a congenital condition of his aorta. (If health-care practitioners knew about and took EDS seriously, he might still be alive.)

Pardon my tangent and 'Public-Service Announcement' about hypermobility as not being the 'superpower' most kids who have it think it is, but rather a sign of a medical condition and that hypermobile 'party tricks' are to be avoided. I don't mean to say that Geoffrey Rush _has_ a form of hypermobility syndrome and hope he doesn't, but things like his eagerness to have his leg tied up behind his back add to my existing suspicion he may have hEDS too, as did a statement he made in a book about the first hit POTC movie that I now wish I'd bought when I saw it at B&N. Two symptoms of hEDS that I have that I suspect he _may_ share ... well, I already mentioned the first one, which is that it makes you prone to getting repetitive-motion injuries (RMIs) and poor upper-body strength. I'd read and believe it that he has to be padded out via his wardrobe to make him seem more imposing as a 'villain.' *Barbossa 100% **_is_** the rightful captain of the Black Pearl* as long as more than 1/2 the crew elect him to be, and back then, captains were elected and could be 'deposed'--as Long John Silver was, temporarily, in the 'Black Spot' scene--at any time (except during battle, which was the _only_ time a _real_ pirate captain had complete power to give orders; most of the time, it was the quartermaster who dealt with the crew and was the captain's right-hand man in doing so; first mates were not deemed a necessary position in a pirate crew); i.e., *_there was NO SUCH THING as a MUTINY among pirates!_* . But the thing he said that made me feel kind of a bond with him at the time was that all the (arrr-some) swordfighting between him and Johnny Depp (which, if you have the DVD with all the extras, you can see them rehearsing in their regular clothes on an unfinished--or to-be-CGI'd--set of the treasure cave ... and a montage of the cast members saying 'Arrr!' since Geoffrey was the only actor who got to say it in the movie!) was that he developed a case of 'cutlass elbow' as a result. He said it in a joking way, of course, probably making a play on the term 'tennis elbow,' but that _is_ a repetitive-motion injury! And he did a masterful job at it, of course. But, relatively speaking, having poor upper-body strength and hypermobility would predispose him to such an injury. I can't even do ONE pushup, and a 5-year-old can--and has--beat me at arm wrestling and _not_ because I 'let her win,' so it's a good thing I never took that fencing class at college as I wanted to, and a bad thing--though I'm glad I didn't know at the time I shouldn't have been dancing because I loved it so much, but traditional German and Irish dancing completely wrecked my feet, and I have written orders from my podiatrist that I'm to do 'no barefoot walking.' If I do, even briefly _in_ the house on the carpet, my heel spur starts to flare up, and I could never do soft-shoe Irish dancing well _at all_ because of what started out as mere 'flat feet' but had developed into a noticeable bunion by the time I was 8--all of which are caused by hEDS/hypermobility--yet I never realized until much later that feet weren't meant to be shaped like that; but after years of my wearing pointy high heels because they were 'cool' and my favorite 'hobby' being waking/hiking, not starting dancing seriously and performing till I was in my 30s, after the German dancing that requires the women to wear a 1.5-inch heel--relatively low for 'normal' people--and to be up on the balls of your feet so your heels don't touch the floor, the soft Irish 'gillies' slippers had no support whatsoever. And I'd reached the point where my bunion cause my big toe to roll under the others when I put weight on it and providing _no_ support whatsoever. Now there's a barefoot 'party trick' you _don't_ want to see unless you enjoy being grossed out! So I focused far more on hardshoe dancing, which gave you support all right, except not only do you have the 1.5-inch heel in the back, but the 'taps' in the front are made of wood and force your toes upwards, while you're also supposed to be up on the balls of your feet with your heels off the floor until it's a stamp or part of a tricky move. But I love the sound of it and think I'm a frustrated drummer--something _else_ that would subluxate my neck and cause a flare-up of my crippling, disabling, headaches and shooting nerve pain!--since to do it right, you need to have rhythm and keep in time with the music. (Shh, don't tell anyone, but the part of Irish dancing that gets the most applause is actually, _usually_ the easiest steps being repeated a lot, which is when you've got a whole line of dancers all doing the same step sequence. They use the easiest ones in order to make sure everyone is perfectly in sync! The hardest dances are the solos, which obviously aren't as loud, although I never managed to get the heel clicks down since I usually ended up bashing my ankle with my heel instead, which is _extremely_ painful! I had to give it up when I started developing hip pain from doing a simple side-step ... in a big circle of dancers going the same direction over and over and over just to _learn_ and _practice_ for what would probably a grand total of _one_ performance!) . But then I'm a 'girl,' which is why I say 'relatively speaking! Being male, he would certainly have more upper-body strength than me, and, fortunately, his career as an actor isn't dependent on repetitive motions, although IMO that turned out to be one of The Greatest Movie Swordfights of All Time, nor am I aware of his doing a lot of dancing in high heels😉, although he did a _little_ in 'Quills'! ... but hypermobility would definitely make one susceptible to 'cutlass elbow,' tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, ulnar-nerve deviation ... PLUS dislocations and subluxations, particularly of the spine, which is what causes my chronic headaches and led to my developing degenerative disk disease, even explains my one-inch loss in height so far and the 'bulging and herniated disks' on my last MRI--with my atlas (C1 vertebra) popping out of place (subluxating, which is a _partial_ dislocation with certain/MOST arm movements). . It's not my place to diagnose celebrities, although there are speculations about some famous people based on photos, e.g., Elizabeth Taylor, but I really _do_ wish we had a famous advocate and/or something like what the 'ice-Bucket Challenge' did for ALS to help us spread awareness about this potentially life-ruining disease, especially when it's not diagnosed EARLY in life and whether you get diagnosed depends on where you live. But I am 100% certain that Freddie Mercury had hEDS just by the visual symptoms of his elbows and knees bending slightly backwards, as well as his 'dental crowding' (which I had corrected with the removal of four molars and braces in high school, and it didn't affect my singing voice at all; people STILL tell me to stop singing along with the radio because I'm ruining the song and, if they have perfect pitch, it's physically _hurting_ them as well!). In fact, I'm very disappointed in the makers of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for failing to mention it at all, hiring a non-hypermobile actor who looks absolutely NOTHING like Freddie to me, especially when he straightens out his conspicuously 'normal' knees and elbows and they couldn't be bothered to have him wear brown contacts instead of highlighting Rami Malek's fluorescent BLUE eyes, making him look, in _one_ obvious wig, like Mick Jagger! Yet the entire movie--for which he won a Best Actor Oscar, when the film should NOT have been nominated at all--and Rami Malek's extended impression of Freddie Mercury consisted of wearing the most enormous overbite they could possibly fit in his mouth while still enabling him to speak--there's a whole segment on the fake teeth in the behind-the-scenes stuff on the DVD or Blu-Ray--yet didn't seem to notice how _crooked_ Freddie's natural teeth were--and then his upper lip doing most of the 'acting' by constantly trying to cover up his upper teeth. I saw an interview with Freddie on PBS not long before the movie came out, and not only were his teeth on full, un-self-conscious view while he talked, but I have pictures of myself looking like he did with his lips together, and that's just how they look when you close your lips over an overbite; there's absolutely _nothing_ self-conscious about it, there's no effort involved like Rami Malek was making ... or, in my case, looking back on those old photos, just as with my bunion, any awareness at all that it was anything to be self-conscious about, nor did it feel like an 'effort' to close my lips. But they automatically stuck out when I smiled. . I'll find out for sure whether Geoffrey is hypermobile the next time I watch 'Quills,' but he _did_ start out as a mime, which uses a lot of physicality that he still incorporates into his work! And from something he said to me the second time I met him, I suspect he's also a fan of Dick Van Dyke, who was also known for his pratfalls/physical comedy, as well as his dancing. (We won't mention his 'Cockney' accent in 'Mary Poppins,' except to say he's aware of the reviews and explained _why_ it was so bad in an interview with Craig Ferguson. Of course, as a kid, I had no idea it was bad and enjoyed his performance in the movie even more than I loved the Dick Van Dyke Show, which I think I have in its entirety ... on VHS tape! In fact, it's probably the first or second movie I ever saw on the 'big screen.' I remember our being stuck in a traffic jam in NYC and my parents deciding to turn off just as we came up to the exit for the drive-in theatre that was showing it!)

But, back to the original comment: I'm kind of pleasantly surprised to find out he wanted to do that little homage to Robert Newton. I'd probably want to do the same ... except I _now_ know the 'loose connection' between my chronic, excruciating headaches and the idea of using crutches. That poor upper-body strength thing and the unfortunate 'ease' with which my atlas vertebra goes out and causes me such excruciating pain, with leaning on crutches, walkers, and canes that tend to subluxate or dislocate bones due to loose joints being another strict 'no-no' according to EDS-aware doctors! Hence the recommendation for a part-time wheelchair. (It's all the accoutrements required for me to actually _use_ a wheelchair, like ramps to get it in and out of my house and a tricked-out vehicle to enable me to take it with me and _use_ it since I'm also not allowed to lift more than 10 pounds, per doctor's orders, plus it'd have to be motorized because the arm motion for pushing the wheels is another one that'll put my atlas out on the first try ... or a servant to do all that _for_ me😉 that make a wheelchair prohibitive.) . In fact ... here's a trailer for an award-winning documentary on EDS by a young woman originally from Germany who has it too, and right from the beginning, there's an Australian woman with EDS who talks about the wheelchair thing and the hurtful assumptions people make and things they say when you have an 'invisible' chronic illness! It's already come and gone on the big screen and elsewhere and is now housed on ... another popular-but-paid video-sharing site that starts with a V that I don't know if CZcams will allow me to post, but her website tells you where you can watch it, if interested. (Even the supposed 'specialist'/orthopedist my primary-care doctor sent me to for 'treating' my EDS doesn't get it and says I'm too young for a wheelchair and doesn't want me to become dependent on it, so I told my PCP and _she_ prescribed a 'light-weight,' foldable one. Which does me no good without a motor and neck support since the last neck brace I bought for $167 that _finally_ fit right BROKE after 10 uses because of what I consider a serious design flaw combined with its being made out of PLASTIC; you can't _get_ a custom one made anymore, but the more expensive ones are customize-able. And I had to pay for it out of pocket since my HMO will only pay for ONE every three years, and they'd already paid for two, one of which gives me hot flashes and the other of which made my pain WORSE/GAVE me a headache. The professional orthotist I saw on my own, who had the huge selection of pre-fab neck braces, was appalled by the one I got in the orthotics department of the hospital/health-care system that's part of the vaunted medical University named after the city I live in, saying it was WAY too big. Also, I need support for the BACK of my neck since resting my chin on anything flares up my TMJ headaches--AND subluxates my atlas, leading to excruciating headaches ... so I essentially _live_ in my bed now. (The idea of people developing mental-health issues from being in lockdown for a mere YEAR baffles me. At first, I thought, yay, all my friends are home too! Now I have someone to talk to on the phone! But do they ever call me just to talk? No, they're too busy staring at their miniature computers, a.k.a. smart 'phones' that nobody actually uses as a PHONE anymore but stay connected to the Internet 24/7 so they don't miss a Facebook 'like' and then yell at me for waking them up with an e-mail I wrote at 3 a.m. because of my insomnia!) Hunched over my laptop in the forbidden 'Lotus' position.😢 (Which is the main reason I stopped updating the RN website; I simply can't. In fact, I'm already regretting this long post as the opioid wears off & I have to wait a few days to take more or else it stops working unless you take higher and higher doses. But it's the _only_ relief I get, other than lying in bed dong _nothing_.) czcams.com/video/lSI8VRISvtg/video.html

Of course, the nowadays Disney is a crap!

Very interesting to hear that, i recall from old photos and tales I've heard that Moon loved dressing up and pretending to be various characters etc, would have loved to have seen more of this side of him preserved before his passing

Cool! Are they available for use on Twitter or Facebook?

Not in the USA, where Tony Hancock was unknown. It's the USA where international talk like a pirate day was invented, with Robert Newton as their patron saint.

Yarrp

Ooo err

It often seems an amalgam between West Country/Scots/Irish - generalised Atlantic seaboard. But maybe that is just a cheap American knock-off.

​@@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT it was a deliberate exaggeration of a west country, English accent which Robert Newton created having been born in Dorset and spending much of his childhood in Cornwall. He, himself was from a quite posh background, so didn't use anything like that accent in real life. There is also some historical evidence for a substantial proportion of pirates originating from the west country.

@@TheEulerID Right! Edward Teach was from Bristol - although his name may not have been "Teacxh". He may have been called trhat by his shipmates on account of being able to read. He kept a ships log, which is actually written in pirate-speak, which is awesome! " Two weeks out and the rum was running dry. then we fell in with a Dutch merchantman and the boys were hot for it - aye, Hot for it!"

Robert Newton however dies a pirate's death from alcoholism, generally held (by pirates) to be preferable to being hanged or chopped up on your own quarter deck

newton played blackbeard too

@@whitetroutchannel It would be a tragedy if he hadn't.

I agree, the Spanish didn't romanticize English pirates since their treasure galleons transporting great wealth from Central and South America were usually the targets. Historically, English piracy began with the European 'discovery' of the Americas during the reign of the Tudors. Because the Pope refused to grant King Henry VIII a divorce from his first wife, who was devoutly Catholic, King Henry split England from the Roman Catholic Church. As a result, when Christopher Columbus sailed on behalf of Spain and 'discovered' America, the Pope divided the 'New World' between the faithful Catholic countries of Spain and Portugal, betstowing everything east of the North/South line of demarcation about 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa, including a large part of what today is Brazil, upon Portugal--and everything WEST of that line would belong to Spain, according to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. Needless to say, England, which was because of its location surrounded by sea, a seafaring nation with an existing Navy, was not pleased with that arrangement. So when the Spanish began colonizing South and Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Florida and eventually California, wiping out many native inhabitants with the unfamiliar diseases the carried, as well as committing genocide and enslaving populations such as the Aztecs, forcing them into slave labor to fill their treasure galleons with silver, gold, foodstuffs that were new to them, such as tomatoes and potatoes, and other goods, is it surprising that England wanted a piece of the action? And so did France? So, while they were no heros, and nobody ever said pirates were heroic (piracy got so far out of control that even English female colonists wouldn't go to sea without a naval escort for fear of being captured by pirates), England and the other European countries left out of the biased division of land between two countries by a Pope whose authority to do so they didn't recognize, starting with Sir Francis Drake successfully attacking and plundering Spanish ships under Queen Elizabeth I (daughter of and eventual successor to Henry VII), which resulted in Drake thwarting the Spanish Armada when Spain declared war on England, England and Spain were at war on and off for more than the next 100 years, until the end of the war of the Spanish Succession with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1714 that involved several other countries. The English pirates came about due to what turned out to be a bad idea, which was to increase the English presence at sea by allowing all English shipping to fight against Spain as mercenaries or, as they were called, 'privateers,' and provided them with 'letters of marque' from the English government as proof. At first, the plunder was to be brought back to England and split between the privateers and the government, but when the fighting increased, the British admiral loosened the rules on privateering so that they didn't even have to share their plunder, so long as they had a letter of marque. Because the fighting over which countries would own which colonial lands continued for so long, there were many privateers who'd never had any other job. So when peace broke out between England and Spain in 1714, the sailors who'd just lost their government-authorized living simply continued plundering shipping--now even caring which country other ships were sailing for and attacking English commercial shipping (some becoming heroes to the American colonists because they sold what they took from merchant ships at lower prices at a time when British taxes on the colonists were increasing so much that they led to the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain) and setting up a sort of pirate headquarters in the Bahamas, which were technically owned by the British, but the British weren't bothering to govern it. That ended in 1724 when Spain complained to England that they weren't keeping their part of the bargain by reigning in the pirates--who had suddenly gone from patriotic seamen to professional robbers at sea--and they sent an old sea captain, Woodes Rogers, to govern Nassau, offer a pardon to any pirates who would turn themselves in and quit pirating, and the ones who didn't quit, like Blackbeard; 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read; and Welsh pirate Bartholomew 'Black Bart' Roberts, who like Blackbeard, had a fleet of ships plus a crew whose motto was 'A merry life and a short one!' were captured and killed, either in battle or, in the case of Calico Jack, hanged. Anne Bonny and Mary Reade--the two most famous female pirates who fought as fiercely as the men alongside them--were sentenced to death until they famously countered the judge, 'Milord, we plead our bellies,' meaning they were both pregnant. Since it was illegal to execute a pregnant prisoner, they were jailed instead and apparently disappeared from the history books. It started with the buccaneers in the Caribbean in the 1600s, but the 'Golden Age of Piracy' that people romanticize today because of their colorful clothing, language, and the tall wooden ships they sailed in only lasted from 1714-1724--when 'Black Bart' was killed on the deck of his ship dressed in his favorite fancy clothes with a canonball that went straight through the middle of him and what was left of the crew surrendered. One of the things that people admired about the pirates was their egalitarianism. At a time when merchant-ship and naval captains and officers slept in luxurious quarters at the back of the ship ('after the mast') and ate the best food and drank the best wine, while the rest of the crew were treated like slaves, given poor rations to eat, and sometimes flogged simply for being the last man up the rigging to help furl and unfurl the sails, the pirates offered an attractive alternative. Each crew member usually agreed and signed on to the 'ships' articles' (which varied), a set of rules (NOT 'guidelines') that were nothing like anything from Disney's 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and were strictly enforced. No such thing as 'right to parlay.' Instead they were practical things like not carrying a lit candle belowdecks without a lantern (a wooden ship wrapped in rope and cloth in the middle of the ocean was a fire trap!), keeping their weapons clean, obeying the captain without question in battle, not attempting to leave the crew, and no women being brought aboard--some believe it was because pirates were superstitious and the sea was a jealous female, while others give a more rational reason: Women would create discord among the men. Each ship had its own articles; there was no 'pirates' code' either or (at that time) pirate 'Brethren'; crews didn't coordinate in drawing up the rules. And if any were broken, there would be harsh punishment, such as flogging or marooning (which meant certain death from starvation and dehydration, although some ships would provide the 'marooner' with a pistol with one shot in it so he could put himself out of his misery instead of waiting to see if a passing ship would see him and give him a lift). But the innovation among the pirates was that, due to the class system and their mostly all having been treated poorly by the captain and officers of merchant and Navy vessels, was that it's believed they were the first real, working democracies, in which every crew member got one vote on all matters NOT involving battle (during a battle, the captain had 100% authority, and that was the ONLY time he had full authority), and everyone was paid equitably with the spoils divided up into shares according to the number of crew members with usually 2 shares for the captain, 1.5 for the other officers, and 1 share for each member of the rest of the crew, doled out by the quartermaster, who was in charge of the ship's 'purse' and keeping the crew in line, making him the most powerful man on the ship while it was not in battle. Also, if a captain was unpopular, just as happened in 'Treasure Island,' a vote would be taken, and if more than 1/2 the crew wanted to elect a new captain, that meant the captain was 'deposed.' There was no such thing as a 'mutiny' on a pirate ship, and a change in captain wasn't uncommon, so it was incumbent upon the captain to be an astute leader during times of battle and take in lots of booty for the ship's company to share in, as well as to be popular. But it was the quarternaster who had to be the REAL 'people' person. Finally, the ship's articles also usually included the first recorded instance of 'workers' compensation' wherein they specified how much a crew member would get paid for the loss of any body parts, with a specific amount spelled out for each body part. Crew members who lost a leg and couldn't fight anymore were usually put to work in the ship's galley (kitchen), which is in keeping with Long John Silver, who'd lost his entire left leg, running a tavern and acting as the ship's cook (until they're well out at sea and Jim Hawkins discovers this charming, fatherly figure who's taken a liking to him is actually the leader of a group of former pirates who once sailed with the pirate who provided Jim and eventually his adult friends Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney and ultimately Captain Smollet with the map to Treasure Island that they think is going to make THEM rich, having no idea that the crew in Bristol Silver helped them round up for their voyage were his old shipmates (as was the pirate who first appears at Jim's mother's inn who gave him the map as he was dying and warned him to be careful of a man with one leg. In fact, the original title of 'Treasure Island' when Robert Louis Stevenson published it in serial form in a literary magazine was 'The Sea Cook,' referring specifically to Long John. Even before RLS came up with 'Treasure Island,' Sir Walter Scott, the 'inventor' of the historical novel, romanticized British pirates in his 1822 novel 'The Pirate.' ...

I agree that the pirates of the 'Golden Age' are overly romanticized and I wouldn't want to meet some of them, but others of them, I definitely would be interested in having a chat with. William Dampier, for example, who was an accidental buccaneer who was more interested in nature and cultures and making new discoveries and keeping notes than in fighting and generally a loner and inadvertently ended up making a 12-year-detour around the world, publishing his notes about all he saw with illustrations, even making charts of the currents and winds that were successfully used later on by Captain Cook and Charles Darwin on their own voyages ... but he's a bit before the Golden Age of Piracy. Edward England was one of those who got deposed because he was too nice and didn't bring in enough booty. And it's believed that Blackbeard never killed anyone but simply created a terrifying images of a madman that caused most potential prey ships to surrender without a fight. And it was common practice to ask the crew of any ships they captured whether the captain had treated them well, and if they didn't, they'd severely punish the captain. And then invite the crew to join THEIR crew, an invitation that was usually accepted because a lot of sailors had been forcibly 'press-ganged' into service in the Navy in the first place and didn't get very good wages from the ship's owner who usually wasn't aboard, so they had no loyalty to their previous ship or the goods it was carrying. Also, it wasn't unusual for them to capture slave ships and bring the slaves on as crew members. And, while they were impractical at sea, pirates liked dressing up as 'gentlemen' at a time when class differences indicated what kind of clothes you could wear, and fancy clothes were often among the plunder they took--it wasn't all money. In fact, one of the most valuable prizes they could take from a ship were the charts and maps to add to their knowledge of where the best places to plunder, hide, or careen (tip over ashore to scrape barnacles from the hull and do other repairs and maintenance; being a pirate or just going to sea was a lot of work! Unless you were an officer and lucky enough not to be captured by pirates!). Many pirates could be brutal, but they lived in brutal times, when you could be hanged for stealing a loaf of bread--even drawn and quartered, and people would gather around and watch it as a form of entertainment. So in terms of war, who the heroes are is always a matter of which side you're on, although I don't think many people thought of pirates as heroes at the time, especially women who needed to travel by sea. Again, I think it's just the time period, the ships, the clothes, the colorful language (which can be found in actual depositions by pirates to the Navy), and an early form of democracy that would've seemed to most British people trapped on the lower rungs of the class system like a more attractive and adventurous lifestyle. And authors like Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson ... and later, actors like Robert Newton made the pirates of the past seem like charismatic adventurers. At least, that's my impression of the appeal of pirates. Just like in romanticized novels about vampires, I wouldn't want to meet one myself, but they're exciting to read about. (Also, Blackbeard supposedly had 14 wives, so he couldn't have been all bad!😉 Well, apart from the syphilis. Which at the time was referred to by the Brits as 'the French pox.' So they were egalitarian in who they insulted too; it was nothing personal against the Spanish for them; they were just doing the only job they were good at.) So, tell us about the Spanish side of things and heroes! Are there any good novels or biographies from the Spanish perspective with adventurous, charismatic heroes who eschewed the enslavement and genocide of the Native Americans like the Taino, Inca, and Aztecs? The English pirates were different from other people of their time (and different from pirates today who seem to operate in very small groups, while the 'Golden Age' pirates created a whole culture) in that they mostly lived at sea, so they weren't displacing any natives from their ancestral land or destroying their way of life, and were sort of like the 'Robin Hoods' of their day--with a few notable exceptions for buccaneers like L'Olonais, who lived in the 1600s and was outright sadistic. One book I read on pirates memorably referred to him as a 'rip-roaring psychopath'! Nor did they treat slaves, when they met them, the way the colonists did. In fact, there are a couple of interesting quotes from the very quotable Samuel Johnson, who was famous for writing the first English dictionary in the 1700s, just to bring the romanticism of down to earth since he didn't think very highly of sailing: 'When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.' But he also said: 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.' (I think Diana and Michael Preston, the authors of the William Dampier bio 'A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer' would concur after having done their best to follow in his wake as far as Australia at least. They complained that at sea, you're constantly soaking wet and crusted with salt!) So the 'Golden Age of Piracy' only seems romantic from a safe distance. When all is said and done, it's the governments of the countries--which were monarchies back then--who set the policies under which their citizens had to find a way to survive. Or just be fatalistic about it all, throw caution to the wind, and look forward to 'a merry life and a short one!'