Another convert

[thedudeofrock]

... to the wonders of The Pirates! books. This pleases me. It has been suggested that I grow a luxuriant beard and become a Pirates! preacher, which has the bonus that it sounds even better than my current 'job' title of computer tutor. I would require funds though, to support the work and the obvious wenching that such a career would involve. It

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[cully]

ah, now if you have a luxuriant beard, i'll bring you a nicely salted ham.

[thedudeofrock]

Thinking about it, I'd make a shockingly awful pirate because I don't eat ham :(

Although... I could just be generous and donate it to my loyal crew. Yes, I've decided. I shall grow the luxuriant beard and you will bring me the ham. Yes.

[nlsg]

I have the best ideas ever. Officially.

Do you think he'd take suggestions? Maybe we could write to Gideon Defoe and ask nicely if he'd write the Pirates! in an adventure with a luxuriantly-bearded preacher. How awesome would that be?

[thedudeofrock]

You really do!

He might very well do... He might already have done so, though, in the third book, where the Pirate Captain clashes with the not-very-luxuriantly-but-really-quite-incredibly bearded Karl Marx, who was known for being a Communist preacher-type person

Great minds think alike! :D