wiki-illiam q8!
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dubdobdee8. Which pirate:
i: inspired Sir Walter Scott?
ii: had a terminal encounter with a crocodile?
iii: masqueraded as Sir Charles Ewan, Governor of St Kitts?
iv: was terminated off Ramsey when the Marine Offence Act became law?
v: together with her colleague Mary, pleaded pregnancy and escaped the gallows?
vi: had a high, old, tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken in the capstan bars?
vii: was placed in his apprenticeship through a mishearing of the word pilot?
viii: was hacked to pieces and roasted limb by limb in the Gulf of Darien?
ix: tended his geraniums in his window box in Bridgewater?
x: hated man too much to feel remorse?
the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes where possible!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions as (first) this was published in a national newspaper and i can't stop you and (second) i can't stop ME either, and have done exactly this
d: let other fora in same game be (unpoliceably) Out of Bounds till next set is up -- even tho obv they are all wronghead feebs compared to us
v is ann bonney; for other actual real pirate names see my essays --
1, 2 and 3 -- on treasure island on FT!! (ie i haf forgot em all except blackbe4rd, who surely has to be one of the above)
ps success on previous q was a bit fugitive so far :(
i: inspired Sir Walter Scott?
ii: had a terminal encounter with a crocodile?
iii: masqueraded as Sir Charles Ewan, Governor of St Kitts?
iv: was terminated off Ramsey when the Marine Offence Act became law?
v: together with her colleague Mary, pleaded pregnancy and escaped the gallows?
vi: had a high, old, tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken in the capstan bars?
vii: was placed in his apprenticeship through a mishearing of the word pilot?
viii: was hacked to pieces and roasted limb by limb in the Gulf of Darien?
ix: tended his geraniums in his window box in Bridgewater?
x: hated man too much to feel remorse?
the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes where possible!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions as (first) this was published in a national newspaper and i can't stop you and (second) i can't stop ME either, and have done exactly this
d: let other fora in same game be (unpoliceably) Out of Bounds till next set is up -- even tho obv they are all wronghead feebs compared to us
v is ann bonney; for other actual real pirate names see my essays --
1, 2 and 3 -- on treasure island on FT!! (ie i haf forgot em all except blackbe4rd, who surely has to be one of the above)
ps success on previous q was a bit fugitive so far :(
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Date: 2008-01-15 05:15 pm (UTC)also q7 = TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLETE before the advent of google! QED
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Date: 2008-01-15 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-15 07:26 pm (UTC)Filled in q 6 & 7 from the QI forum -- which it appears may now contain the actual answers. As I said there, just say so if you'd prefer the unanswered ones be left open for longer than a day or two. I'll probably check previous qs myself when new ones are put up here, but that doesn't mean I have to tell you if it spoils things. :)
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Date: 2008-01-15 10:58 pm (UTC)