Pirate names/words...

Discussion in 'U.K.' started by PurpleHazeFairy, Sep 5, 2006.

  1. PurpleHazeFairy

    PurpleHazeFairy Member

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    Hi guys & gals,

    I am starting up a new ranger guide unit in East Sussex and really need a good name for the group! Our chosen theme is 'Pirates' (The other leaders and I will get pirate names also - but the girls pick them for us)

    I've just had a meeting and we still can't think of a name!!! We've thought of the following:

    Smugglers
    Buccaneers

    Really that's all we could think of!

    Anyone got any pirate names or words that we could use for our group name??? (The girls are aged between 14-25 so we can't have anything to rude or the parents won't like it)

    Please can anyone help???
     
  2. 2cesarewild

    2cesarewild I'm an idiot.

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    How about "yellow-bellied sapsuckers."
     
  3. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    The Long Tom's, or the Scurvy Swabs perhaps?

    Welcome to the UK Forum by the way, hope you have fun posting in our friendly little community :)
     
  4. bokonon

    bokonon Senior Member

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    Suprisingly tough question :p

    The word "Swashbuckler" sprang to mind though.
     
  5. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    You should ask Jonny, he's a distant relative of Henry Morgan....
     
  6. PurpleHazeFairy

    PurpleHazeFairy Member

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    Where would I find Jonny?
     
  7. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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  8. jonny2mad

    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    privateers freebooters ,society of pirates, rovers, bucaniers, water rats, corsair, Brethren of the Coast

    famous places tortuga, maracaibo, madagascar, port royal

    famous people captain teach blackbeard captain kidd henry morgan

    swashbuckler someone who made a loud noise by striking his sword against his shield or butler it come from the 16th
     
  9. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    Corsair's a very good one, can't believe I overlooked that....
     
  10. PooBrain

    PooBrain Motson

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    I'd love to be a pirates wenchlet :eek:
     
  11. jonny2mad

    jonny2mad Senior Member

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    I would think its quite possible to do as there are still pirates, in fact there are more pirates now than there have been in years because merchant ships are unarmed these days sadly.
    and lots of places that pirates hang out dont have the same standard of policing that they did in the colonial period .

    so yes you can be a pirates wenchlet and a fine one Im sure you would make

    there were lots of women pirates the most famous european women pirates were most likely anne bonny and mary read , but you had lots of female chinese pirates
     
  12. crummyrummy

    crummyrummy Brew Your Own Beer Lifetime Supporter

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    lotsa pirates off the coast of ethiopia
     
  13. Harry Tuttle

    Harry Tuttle Member

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    Jim-lad, Treasure, Buried Treasure, Avast! Keelhaul, Land Lubbers!
     
  14. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    Yaaaaaaaay, I love playing pirates...

    Smee is my all time favourite piratey name!
    Bosun
    Grog
    Rum
    Arrrrrrrgh!!!
    Scrub/Swab the Decks
    Port
    Starboard
    Shiver me Timbers
    Arrrr Matey
    Swagger
    Loot


    etc etc etc
     
  15. Stoned Steve.

    Stoned Steve. Member

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    All girl group? :H


    Pirate theme? :)

    Howabout The Yaaarrrrbirds? :p
     
  16. dhARmaMiLlO

    dhARmaMiLlO Member

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  17. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    Moanin' Fritz Smithe reportin' for duty, cap'n


    Last year international talk like a pirate day ( http://www.yarr.org.uk ) fell on the same day as a lecture I was giving on John Donne the 17th Century poet ... I proceeded to read all the poems as a pirate:)
     
  18. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    How did that go down?
     
  19. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    It got a lot of laughs but I'm really not sure much learning was done!
     
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