The Scurvy Dog - Yer first drink be on the house

[black bart]

Course if dem kiddies were starin at the skeletal remains o Grampy Bart so hard that they didn't hobserve Cap'n Cronan come a creepin up behind em...that would scare the livin snot out of em!

[Rev. Rowan Redbeard]

*Rowan Redbeard passes out. Someone put something into the tea.*

[DaveL]

YArrrr...

It sounds like Dan's Herring Guts product range is expanding into the herbal tea range.

[black bart]

Arrrrr, it be Risquay Bisquay in the Bay o Biscay!

[Rev. Rowan Redbeard]

oooooohhhhhhhhh..........my head hurts

. . .

From now on I bring my own tea.

[tanguerra]

Come now Captin Rowan! Wot sort of a pirate can't hold his tea? Perhaps its one of them new fangled date rape drugs someone has slipped ye? But seeing as how Toothless Kate is still in her hammock I can't think who would do such a thing.

Herring guts! Yaaar! That's just added vitamins in my book. Put hair on a man's chest (possibly also on a woman's).

[Dan(da haole guy)]

ARR-oha..Cap'n Rowan..eff eet's jus' yer 'ead wot hurts, yer OK..eet's w'en udda (non-'ead toipe) body-pARRts ARRe sore after a in-wolunt'rry pass-out dat yez gotta be consarned..

Cap'n tanguerra..akchully herrin' guts bee-u-t'fie a woman's natcheral downy growth wher'e'er eets found..'ead, pits, nape uv da neck, an' zo on..*slight Hawai'ian-style blush*..

[Rev. Rowan Redbeard]

Maybe herring guts are harmless in darjeeling, but not in Earl Grey.

Oooooohhhhh......

And I certainly don't need any more hair on my chest. As it is, my chest hair is longer than my beard.

Maybe I should switch to water....

*looks at the water*

Then again, boiling it is probably a good idea.

[DaveL]

Argghhh...

Oi quite likes me herring guts tea with a twist of lemon and nice tea spoon of sugar. It be very refreshing, once me stomach trains itself to hold it in.

[Rev. Rowan Redbeard]

Tanquerra, mi bonita, you didn't by any chance waylay the cabin boy on his way to deliver the tea, did you?

[tanguerra]

Such a suggestion fair makes me blood boil it does, and I find it t'opposite of gallant, Master Rowan!

Far from being in possession of any love potions meself, I finds meself having to keep me dirk handy down me bodice at all times for warding off any untowards advances from the pirate fraternity, if ye ken. I've had a couple of eyes out in me time with the boyos gettin' too fresh (tee hee!) Mind ye, Toothless Kate is usually enough of an anti-aphrodisiac to stop any would-be Romeos in their tracks, and that's a fact, damn her eyes.

As ter wayalaying cabin boys, I have me ways, but Sanchez (me own cabin boy and a dab hand with a feather duster I should add) be mighty jealous and inclined to pout if he smells another cabin boy about the place.

No, Captin Rowan I'd say that 'twere the terrible shock to the system of too much tea drinkin which has brought on yer malady, either that or a case of the lily-livered colly wobbles. Does it run in the family?

Aye, Captin Dave, I'm with ye. The only way I could probly come at any tea-drinking would have ter be with a strong infusion of Herring Guts te mask the awrrful taste.

[Rev. Rowan Redbeard]

I apologise for any offense, Tanquerra.

It is just that you were the one to mention it in the first place. I felt it better to ask than to assume.





*pulls out portable stove, bottled water, and small kettle*

Now lets see about having some real tea...

[black bart]

ARRRRGH...all dis mentionin of bodices as got me reachin fer the bromine tea meself loik!

[OZ_Nick]

<Cap'n Oz_Nick returns from working down in the cellar>

<casts eye over motley crowd, spies Cap'n Redbeard making his own tea.>

<gears go round in head> Clunk, whirrr, thunk, click

<turns back to cellar door, heard yelling...>

Jonkins! Ye rotten littel swine! Where exactly did ye get that tea?....

[Dan(da haole guy)]

<Jonkins, never the most luminous candle in the holder, rubbed his splotchy yellowish eye and said>

"Oi goddit frum th' bog, jes' like yez arsked me tuh..yunno, ye said 'get more tea frae th' big bog uvvit..an' zo oi did.."