Monday, February 16, 2009

Pirate Names

I just read a book called Everything I Know About Pirates to the boys. It is a very silly book. In fact, the rest of the title is "A collection of made up facts, educated guesses, and silly pictures about bad guys of the high seas." At the end of the book there is a "Pirate Name Chart." The chart has 3 columns of names and if you pick one name from each column, viola!- you have a pirate name! For instance, my pirate name is 'Peg Calico Ned.' Austen's is 'Hook Leg Bob.' Peter has a pirate name too, we think it is quite fitting for him- 'Blind Lips Kidd'- and Austen picked it out by randomly pointing to a name in each column! Henry insists he doesn't need a pirate name because he is a cowboy and when he has his cowboy regalia on he will not respond to his name, only to 'Hank,' because that is a cowboy name. Aaron and Tyson don't have pirate names yet. But they will.
Here is the chart, so you can pick your pirate name too.

Long.......... John.......... Kidd
Black......... Eye............ Bart
Evil............ Beard........ Bonny
Hook.......... Leg........... Jack
Captain...... Calico....... Bob
Peg............. Skull......... Ned
Big.............. Bandit...... Sam
Stub........... Boot.......... Bruce
Blind.......... Tooth........ Willy
One............ Patch........ Tom*
Blue........... Lips........... Henry
Limp.......... Wreck....... Joe

*not actually a good pirate name, the author put it in because it's his name

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