I am lifting this little quiz from Cam. In honor of "Talk Like a Pirate Day" (TLAPD), and because I love adventure/seafaring tales so well, it is fitting that I am:
You Are A Pirate!
What Type Of Swashbuckler Are You?
brought to you by Maddog Varuka & Dawg Brown
Unfortunately the official talk like a pirate website is down at the moment, so I will have to check back to find my potential pirate name and find out my ship's name is as well. By the way, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island was one of the first classics (after Dracula anyway) that I decided I needed to read (when I began a year or so to make a concerted effort to start reading them again), and I loved it!
There must surely be pirate blood running through my veins (perhaps some great, great, great, great...well you get the idea...grandfather...or even better....grandmother was a pirate?), as today when I was updating my Netflix queue I ended up putting Horatio Hornblower at the top of the list (not even knowing it was TLAPD! strange coincidence, eh). Okay, so he is a fictional character who happens to be in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Not a pirate at all--but seafaring adventures I am sure he will partake in. I am not sure what even made me look for this. It must have been a recommendation based on something else I had added to the ever growing queue. Perhaps I was swayed by Ioan Gruffudd (who happens to not be too hard on the eyes) who is Horatio himself. Ioan Gruffudd was also Lancelot in King Arthur, but I am digressing. Just to show I am not so shallow as to choose a movie based on a cute actor (and because I had a crappy Monday), I thought I needed to get to the real Horatio story, so I ordered the first three books in the Horatio Hornblower series, starting with Mr. Midshipmen Hornblower. (At this time if you could please refrain from saying anything about a wagon, I would be highly appreciative--I am aware how far I have fallen off,and that it has left me in a cloud of dust...). The joys of books. See how you can escape? One day a painter, another a pirate, another off to Camelot....the choices are endless.