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Welcome back! Is it just a coincidence that you've been gone and pirates have been active? |
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It might be best to avoid having them test anti-piracy devices. "Arr, that be a mighty fine noise-maker! It will shiver the timbers out of any ship and shake the teeth out of any man's head. We all recommend it, don't we, me hearties?" |
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Ooh, awkward, if a one-handed pirate is also a Muslim, what happens when his left hand is a hook? |
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Can't wait for the resultant warning labels... |
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"Look both ways before proceeding. With yer good eye.
"This bag is not a toy. It makes fer a lousy body-bag, too."
"Keep out of reach of cabin-boys and mutineers." |
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//what happens when his left hand is a hook//
"Beware of Ahmed. He has a mean left hook." |
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//awkward, if a one-handed pirate is also a Muslim//
Claude Balls? |
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Heh, haven't lost a beat while you were away. Your responses are as opaque / educational as ever. Googling for Claude Balls left me oogling at a great pile of disjointed nothings, googletrash I shall call it. Another hint at the punchline? |
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The trick [Rayford] is to say it out loud. |
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How's "Lass O'r Tedscrotum", for you, Ray? A well known female pirate of the Red Sea, from Eilat all the way down to Ophir. |
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Someone Googled "Claude Balls"? <absent mindedly scratches hair> |
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I figured it must've been one of those verbal jokes that doesn't work well in an Americanese accent and pronunciation. |
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// <absent mindedly scratches hair> // |
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Which hai ...... no, on second thoughts, we don't want to know. |
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Could we get them to test dangerous computer code or would that be software piracy ? "Arrrrr, Jim-lad, pieces of 0000 1000 ...." |
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Goodness. Welcome back, UnaBubba. |
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At the risk of coming off anti-piratical, I don't see the difference between a pirate and any other criminal in this context. It seems that if the pirate is going to be motivated to volunteer for something dangerous s/he is already a prisoner. |
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Which is what I intended and ironically missed in the first instance. |
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Because putting a "Test Criminal" into an experimental aircraft just doesn't sound quite the same, [phoephoe]. |
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Har-dee-har-hard to operate a yoke and rudder with a hook and peg leg!
"Yar, here there be drag." |
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sp: Test Pilates
When there's something dangerous and exiting to be tested...the job is first offered to a pilates class. |
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That's a little pontious of you, [DrBob], isn't it? |
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You can get tablets for that now .... |
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sp: Teste Pirates
Jolly Roger indeed! |
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Arrr, it didn't pass the Bart Roberts test. Hard t' Port me hearties, I see a Higgs 'bosun at the CtERN. An' if it ain't, YOU will walk the Planck length. |
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Arrrr, Heisenberg off the starb'd bow ! |
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Heisenberg would be a real issue here if these pirates were assigned to test global warming - the more they became active in testing it, the less global warming we would have... |
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If we all look hard for Global Warming it will go away ? Cool ! |
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If we put Al Gore in a box with a vial of poison... |
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Yeah, turn your aircondtioners way down low then leave the door open when you go outside to look for it. |
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No, if _Pirates_ increase their activity - of any kind - global warming will go away. It will even work if you simply dress like a pirate yourself. Yarr. |
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