By: Annna [2001-02-12]

Speaking as a Pirate, I am Displeased

batten things


shiver things! tack things to mizzenmasts


As a piratical lass, I am displeased by these modern kids and their crazy sexual innuendoes.

I was taking the trash and the recycling to the trash room in the basement, because I'm the only person around here who ever takes the trash out or vacuums or anything. As is my wont, I peeked through the various Dumpsters and paper bins, checking to see if anyone threw out anything cool.

Usually, nobody has. Once I found a large amount of shower curtains still in their shrink-wrap, and another time I found Japanese books, and another time I found a videocassette of sports bloopers.

I don't dig through trash, mind. I just check if anything cool is on top.

Anyway, this time I happened to find a huge stack of 3.5" disks. Since I still use those, I snatched 'em up. In the paper recycling, I found a large sheaf of untouched college rule notebook paper and a stack of envelopes.

Weird. I guess someone just went paperless and got a Zip drive.

Anyway, I threw my stuff out and took my finds upstairs, where one of my hallmates asked how I was doing.

"Arr!" I exclaimed, "On my basement expedition, I have gotten much booty!"

I think you can see where that went. Anyway, I'm annoyed that I can only refer to my spoil, my treasure, my plunder, my loot, my ill-gotten gains and my swag. I wanna call things booty!

Still no sympathy for the people who whine about homosexuals co-opting the word "gay," though. Arr! Nancy-boys!
Floatsam&Jetsam [2001-02-12 06:41:09] König Prüß, GfbAEV
My treasure find last week
was a spiffy aluminum easel
with telescoping legs.
Jean LaFitte is my favorite
pirate. I don't know if he
buried his booty or not!
I think there was a Zappa
song about Sheik Yerboodi.
dj wastepaperman [2001-02-12 08:44:27] vicarious
Wow. I haven't been the only one to make a find this week then. On my way home the other day, I happened across what appeared to be a giant shiny disc of tar on the pavement. On closer inspection it was actually a record, you know, vinyl. Cool eh? Not too badly scratched either. I haven't played it yet, though. I'm scared to.

What happens if it is a backwards recording of Al Gore telling me to kill Bush?
[2001-02-12 23:13:06] Halcyon
Laundry room, eh? Shit, worth a try -- booty you say? lots of it? lord knows I could always use some booty.

what was on the disks? Some sweet sorority lass' journallin'?
Sadly [2001-02-13 00:28:55] Annna
Nope. Printer drivers.

Ah, well.
More Booty [2001-02-13 01:19:00] König Prüß, GfbAEV
A very small camo tent
& a book in Spanish,
"Sarah, Sencilla y Alta"
Best booty find ever [2001-02-13 12:58:29] Teeefy
the complete works of Eugene Ionesco (translated to english... and french duplicates of 2 of the books)

the bald soprano changed my outlook on theatre completely
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