up for a quick jaunt 'round the globe, followed by some plundering of spanish gold, and then home to bed the virgin queen...

September 19, 2003 3:03 PM

Tell me, maties... Who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe? Who stole more treasure than he could carry from the Spanish pig-dogs? Aye, the most famous pirate of all, Sir Francis Drake! Some say he even invaded British Colombia with the world's first steam-powered ship...
posted by kaibutsu (6 comments total)

Avast matey thee last link was ye beauty ayyy.
posted by thomcatspike at 3:39 PM on September 19, 2003

One king's pirate in another queen's hero. Good links, lad. I raise my maggot ridden cup of ale to ye.
posted by Joey Michaels at 4:00 PM on September 19, 2003

I have much more respect for the pride of the Austrian branch of the Drake family.
*ducks*
posted by wendell at 5:41 PM on September 19, 2003

Aye...I've always been a big admirer of ol Capt'n Drake...a fiesty seadog, he was.
posted by dejah420 at 5:50 PM on September 19, 2003

British Colombia?

Hey, we grow marijuana here, dude, not cocaine! ;)
posted by filmgoerjuan at 7:43 AM on September 20, 2003

circumnavigate the globe

wait - the globe has been circumnavigated?
that's disgusting. i hope they kill the pervert who did this.
posted by quonsar at 3:12 PM on September 20, 2003