Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.
Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits... Never got a dinner!
Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.
Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.
But I don't want to be a pirate!
Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
