Pyrate

Man pops the question with massive ring carved onto beach
Inside the ring was a giant question mark which Matt led Rebekah to before going down on one knee.

beaches - conjures up images of being marooned with a loaf of bread, a bottle or rum, & a pistol with one shot. Now that won't do much good for hunting, but after a few years of bad marriage, that pistol be startin' to look mighty friendly

*runs about frantically, putting out fires, scattering the fuses of gunpowder going back to the canons, the power magazine, removing the plugs of stone and mortar from the canons, starts reconnecting the rudder chain, and generally exhausting himself, bailing water from the bilge, disconnecting the mooring lines, and trying to weigh anchor*

*preparing to scuttle the ship*

playing Phantasmagoria .... pray it's only a nightmare....

it's that time of the year again... *chuckling*

a farewell to eye patches?

A one-time treatment may fix damaged adult retinas — and reverse vision loss: study
By Rachel Sacks
Published Oct. 6, 2026, 10:56 a.m. ET

Researchers from Michigan State University created a potential remedy by injecting the retinas of the animals with a harmless virus carrying a working copy of the CaBP4 gene.

Royal Navy Reports 25 Piracy Incidents in Six Months off the Horn of Africa
Published by The Maritime Executive Aug 15 2026

A Royal Navy-led task group has dealt with resurgent piracy in the Indian Ocean in the wake of conflict in the Middle East.

Somali pirates killed five crew members on hijacked tanker, officials say
The deaths appear to be the first at the hands of Somali pirates in more than a decade.

By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and Reuters 30 Sep 2026

Pirates have killed five crew members on board a Palau-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Somalia before security forces rescued the ship, according to Somali authorities.

Archaeologists uncover shipwrecks belonging to real-life pirates of the Caribbean
By Ben Cost June 5, 2026 | 11:16am

Apparently, dead men do tell lots of tales.

DSA calls US Constitution ‘rationalization of pirate kingdom’ in workshop to rewrite it
By Gabrielle Fahmy, Sofia Poznansky and Geoff Earle July 25, 2026 | 1:48pm

The NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America bashed the US Constitution as "a rationalization of a pirate kingdom" last week at a twisted workshop where it brainstormed ways to abolish the foundational backbone of the country.

Johnny Depp in talks for huge Hollywood return in sixth ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ film
By Vanessa Serna August 16, 2026 | 6:32pm

Depp famously portrayed Captain Jack Sparrow in the first five films of the franchise.