Do you guys like this boat?
(you can’t really tell, but I crossed out the name of the boat, and wrote “church of the fsm”)
(note - in picture 2, there used to be a lady standing on the deck, but I photoshopped her out. You can still sort of see her legs if you look closely)
It’s not a pirate boat. But here’s the thing: it’s also not $2 million. This one’s a Tayana 37. The one pictured isn’t for sale, but they run about $100k, which we could probably handle *right now*.
The official FSM church missionary pirate boat IS going to happen, it’s just a matter of to what degree you want. I want to get everyone’s opinion on this. Wait until we can afford a “real” pirate ship, or get something smaller and start now? The Church makes nowhere near the amount of cash to get a millions-of-dollars boat anytime soon, if ever. The funds now are all coming from the t-shirts, car emblems, and book sales, and they’ve about leveled off. However, we do have a licensing arrangement, and there are some tv interests. That could mean some more cash for the pirate-boat-fund.
And there’s the option of fund-raising, but I’m guessing that people would be apprehensive paying into a fund like this (I would be). And are there that many seriously interested people who would pay $1k or more for a share of a pirate boat? I sort of wonder.
Maybe we could purchase a working boat, like a Baltic Trader (it’s sort of piratey), one of those ships that moves cargo from island to island in the tropics.
(baltic trader)
A trading ship would make enough money to keep it going (boats are crazy-expensive to upkeep). By the way, a Baltic Traders can easily go for a million dollars or more.
As for the actual missionary work we’ll be doing, I think it will take place somewhere tropical. Other than that, maybe we’ll just cruise around and wait for inspiration, like Jesus did.
And, as I’m sure there will be no shortage of volunteers, if we get a smaller boat we’ll have to figure out how to arrange the crewing,etc. And also I heard that it’s somewhat complicated to sail and maneuver around islands and other boats and things, so we’ll have to figure out a way to keep from sinking. Like a rule that at least a couple people onboard at anytime know what they’re doing.
Please discuss, I want to hear everyone’s opinions on this.
hahahahahaha…….hehehehehe….hello Ships Cat Good to see you out and about again :))
@Buccaneer Jerda Mar 19th, 2007 at 12:26 am
“That sounds remarkable close to something i did with Ares’ Mom last night…”
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Erm….Jerda…are you sure it was Ares’ Mom and not Ares in drag? Word is that it can be very hard to tell sometimes…especially in the dark ;)
Ether or it wasn’t very good.. So i don’t want to talk about it.
Understandable too :)
@Jack Arse
Where have you gone. You’d like me. I’m a purple long haired pussy and half shaved since the FSM-mas party…after escaping the clutches of Mamma Chinee I have a new lease on life and claws that’ll leave you covered in “scarlet lines”…lets party!…do you own a feather duster?…huuuuph…and I thought Thumper was a jackass…meow!
It’s all yours Ships Cat :)
K Ships Cat Don’t be too hard on poor ole Thumpie will ya…after all he decided against sending you, in multiple boxes, to Mammas :)
Yawn, arsy is a boring little twit. Shouldn,t we go back to a slightly more interesting topic? Anything should do.
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Sniff, I never have a secret admirer though :(
hey anyone awake, try this ok: www.venganza.org/chat/
OK, I tried, after login I get an empty page called home. Is that supposed to happen?
@RDPK
All the pirates love you!
I the chat screen, just type something yourself in the box below and hir return. Then you should at least see your own post.
@DPG
Hello. I had a bit of trouble here as well…may have another go…
@Alchemist
I had even more trouble with chat…the FSM obviously wants me to spend my time being more productive in other ways…wabbit out…
@Thumper - yeah - it could cause some time related problems :)
Catch you on the flip side :)
What do you guys think about The Crab of Ineffable Wisdom??
Tasty.
“What do you guys think about The Crab of Ineffable Wisdom??”
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I’m a vegetarian but I imagine she’s quite tasty :)
@First Matey WaffleFlop
“What do you guys think about The Crab of Ineffable Wisdom??”
A wise and tasty oracle.
Hail Eris.
I think we should get back on topic of the pirate ship, I support a smaller ship in that (used properly) could be an excellent device to raise awareness (and donations) for later expansion. and actually if it reached the point were enough Pastafarians believed it was going to happen and we would get to sail into port in a FSM Pirate ship loaded with grog and wenches to annoy evangelicals you would see some pretty sizable donations, I would consider that a good use of a weeks time and the grand or so I would otherwise blow on whatever vacation I do this summer (and keep in mind its been over a year, time enough for a few college senior Pastafarians to graduate and make some money, take a lesson from marketing employed new college graduates that haven’t yet started families tend to be the demographics with the highest average disposable income they spend in ridiculous ways)
Surely we’re aiming for a world-wide fleet of vessels! Modest beginnings are fine, as long as we supersize later.