International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

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ARRRRGH….today be International Talk like a Pirate Day Matey!  And it brings to mind a “pirate party” the family had 20 some years ago.

It was a snow day and I was home with both kids.  Hubby had to head into work, and to distract the kids from worrying about their father, I announced that we’d be having a “pirate party” that evening after Dad got home.  I told them they had the day to fashion pirate costumes, and there would be treasure for the best.  I also said there would be a cupcake eating contest, and another game based on their current spelling words for the week.  I pulled out all the craft supplies I thought they’d need and piled it on the table.  I would only help if specifically asked.  Then I began making the jumbo cupcakes for the contest.

Once the cupcakes were finished, I grabbed several brown paper bags, the scotch tape and a thick black marker.  I cut the bottoms off the bags and opened them to lay flat.  I taped two together and sectioned off 1-foot sections with the marker.  Once I completed one plank, I made a second.

Next, I snagged the black poster board and the Cap’n Crunch box.  Using the hat in the picture, I fashioned a hat for hubby—I had yet to clue him in that costumes were required…lol.  I even added a white skull and crossbones in the center.  I stapled the two pieces together and viola! Pirate hat!  (By the way, it remains intact to this day—I keep it under the ink blotter on hubby’s oak desk.)

I took some red and white striped fabric and fashioned a head scarf for me and dug out my biggest hoop earrings.  Now to find the blue picnic blanket and the squirt guns!

Hubby made it safely home and while we ate dinner the kids told him all about the party.  They were very excited!! Neither had revealed any clues as to their costumes while we ate lunch and I admit to being anxious to see what they came up with! After eating, we did the dishes and the kids scurried upstairs to put on their costumes.  I filled hubby in on my plans for the games and he balked at wearing the pirate hat.  (When he saw how disappointed the kids were though, he gave in…how can you not love that man?)

When the kids came down the stairs, I was so impressed with their costumes.  Both had used brown paper bags to create peg legs for themselves—wrapping it around their calves.  My daughter created an eye patch, while my son used a dixie cup, paper and aluminum foil to create a hook for his hand.  Both had newspaper hats.  Hubby and I conferred and decided they both should win the $5 treasure.

The next “event” was the cupcake eating contest—and the rules were simple.  First one to eat their entire cupcake—no hands allowed—would win an additional treasure.  My daughter put up a valiant try, but in the end, my son would win. We sent them both upstairs to clean up while we cleaned up the dining room and set up the “finale” in the living room.  We moved the coffee table, smoothed out the blue picnic blanket and arranged the 2 planks.  They would each stand on the end of a plank, facing the sofa, where we sat.  The finale was a spelling bee—I called the game “walk the plank”.  The rules were easy—if you spelled your word correctly, you got to stay where you were. If you misspelled the word, you advanced one section of the plank.

What neither of the kids knew was what awaited the player who eventually ended up off the plank and in the water…lol.  My son, the terrible speller that he was (and remains) found out.  As he took the last step “off the plank” he said, “Now what?” 

We pulled out the squirt guns, and got him soaking wet, yelling “SPLASH!”

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  4. apparently the left (hollyweird) can’t make a movie without lies…the woman king
    FTA
    In reality, the Dahomey were one of the most prominent slave trading states of their time.

    According to History vs. Hollywood, the Dahomey not only “conquered neighboring African states and took their citizens as slaves, selling many in the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for items like rifles, tobacco, and alcohol,” but it was their engagement in this trade that “brought Dahomey most of its wealth.”

    Regarding the Agojie themselves, the website notes that “The Agojie (women warriors) fought in slave raids along with the male fighters.”

    “There are accounts of Dahomey warriors conducting slave raids on villages where they cut the heads off of the elderly and rip the bottom jaw bones off others,” History vs. Hollywood further details. “During the raids, they’d burn the villages to the ground. Those who they let live, including the children, were taken captive and sold as slaves.”

    It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that the slave trade that the left loves to bring up as the reason white people should feel continuous guilt actually had an African nation with an all-female tribe involved in the sale and movement of Africans across the Atlantic. Moreover, they brutally murdered anyone who wasn’t useful during these raids.

    There are other complaints as well. The movie follows the rules of modern woke films. John Boyega plays a king but he’s neutered in order to make the women around him seem more powerful and independent. This makes the film pretty predictable and wildly unbelievable.

    https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2022/09/19/the-woman-king-has-the-black-community-boycotting-it-for-lies-both-in-and-out-of-the-movie-n629732

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  5. threadreader for this…LOL

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    House Republicans: DOJ and FBI refuse to brief Gang of Eight on “classified” docs swiped from Mar-a-Lago

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      1. apparently the doj is denying informing congress about the documents they seized saying the judge prohibited it…??? judge cannon says no i did not…
        but they needed a thread reader for 3 little tweets?

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  7. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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