Motto
No adventures
to be made without Belly-Timber
(or, If we’re going on an
adventure, let’s all get drunk first!)
The motto for this course was
provided most courteously by Captain Johnson
Disclaimer:
The
School of Swashbuckling respects the right of governments and parents to
impose laws on the minimum legal age of drinking. We in no way endorse
underage drinking, and we reserve the right to keelhaul anyone underage
who tries to steal our booze.
That
goes for everyone else, too.
Pirates considered it their right to drink constantly. And so do we.
Drunkenness is not only the solution to boring days at sea (those inevitable days, when the robbing and torturing slacks off); it also goes to show how free pirates are.
As a pirate, it is your duty to drink almost anything alcoholic. Rum, of course should remain a favourite, but you should feel free to mix it with wine, tea, lime juice, sugar, and spices; this goes by the name of ‘punch’. If you decide to mix beer, gin, sherry, raw eggs and spices (mmmmm!), you have created the traditional drink known as ‘rumfustian’.
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Here
we have a picture of a pirate crew forcing a captive to drink to excess.
*warning*
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Tots
of Rum and the Metric System
How to keep track
of your alcohol intake, so you don’t stack your ship into a small island
and trash it.
How
To Throw a Bitching Party On Board Your Pirate Ship
- Guest lecturer: Professor
Henry Morgan, the famous buccaneer who will, no doubt, deny that he is
a pirate.
He
talks in this course of his experiences in 1669 …a rowdy dinner was held
in the cabin of the flagship. As per normal, after drinks and toast, the
ship’s guns would be fired. At some point (the exact time is a little hazy,
but it was probably towards the end), the gunpowder in the magazine somehow
caught alight, and the ship was blown to bits. One of only ten people on
board to survive the blast, Henry Morgan was picked up from the water later.
Shenanigans
and Sea Shanties
What
shall
we do with a drunken sailor? Traditional and innovative approaches. The
unit on "Friggin' in the Riggin'" added on request of Captain Jolly John
the Wombat Warner.
School
of Swashbuckling students undertaking practical studies.As this picture
shows,
student life has remained essentially the same since the 18th century
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