Hello, my fellow Pirates! *Hands out yum and cake*

Well, the title says it all. Have you seen any Pirates with funny or ironic names out in the Spiral? Some of the ones I've seen or made up are:

Hannah Abbott (Harry Potter character)
Lily Evans (Harry Potter's mom)
Ulysses Grant
Martin Freeman (plays the character of Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit)
Tim Burton
Charlotte Webb
Tiny Tim
Morgan Freeman
Honest Abe
Chris Cringle
Sam Underhill
Charlie Gordon (Flowers for Algernon)
Daniel Radcliffe
Holly Webb (author)

What are some that you've seen?

MistyDragon13 on Jul 7, 2014 wrote:

Hello, my fellow Pirates! *Hands out yum and cake*

Well, the title says it all. Have you seen any Pirates with funny or ironic names out in the Spiral? Some of the ones I've seen or made up are:

Hannah Abbott (Harry Potter character)
Lily Evans (Harry Potter's mom)
Ulysses Grant
Martin Freeman (plays the character of Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit)
Tim Burton
Charlotte Webb
Tiny Tim
Morgan Freeman
Honest Abe
Chris Cringle
Sam Underhill
Charlie Gordon (Flowers for Algernon)
Daniel Radcliffe
Holly Webb (author)

What are some that you've seen?

What a fun and great idea for a thread!

I saw an Isaac Newton on the Avery's Court Cam in the latest edition of the Newsletter. He had the badge of Academician too, which I thought was pretty clever! And you can't have the Sam Underhill without the Ann(e) Radcliffe (English Author/Novelist).

Here's a list of a few that can be made when creating a Boy pirate. I've only seen a couple actually in game, most are ones that I noticed during pirate naming. Some of them are spelled slightly different from their real life/fictional counterparts

Presidential and Political Pirates

• James Carter (39th President)
• Zachary Taylor (12th President)
• Andrew Jackson (7th President)
• Jesse Jackson (civil rights activist)
• Michael Collins (Irish revolutionary)

Make Believe Pirates (somewhat)

• James Kirk (Star Trek, love that middle name Tiberius!)
• John Carter (movie sharing same name)
• Davy Jones (Locker dweller...and a real life member of The Monkees)

Acting like pirates

• Brian Cranston (actually Bryan)
• Samuel Jackson
• Colin Firth
• Michael Landon
• James Stuart (actually Stewart)
• Adam West (BATMAN!!!)
• Warwick Davis (Willow, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
• Aedan Quinn (actually Aidan)
• Robert Englund
• Michael Ironside
• Jean Kelly (actually Gene)
• Zachary Gordon (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Melodious Pirates

• Michael Jackson
• Brad(ley) Paisley
• Luis Armstrong (actually Louis)

Sporty Pirates

• Sunny Liston (actually Sonny- American Heavyweight boxer)
• James Naismith (Canadian who invented the sport of basketball)
• Kyle Orton (NFL Quarterback)
• Michael Jordan (Air Jordan)
• Orlando Pace (ex- NFL Offensive Lineman)
• Jason Kidd (retired NBA player)
• Jonathon Quick (NHL Goalie)

Thank you for the Yum and cake, Misty Dragon. Mmmm, sweets... "Charlotte Webb" I think is particularly clever. I don't know if my name is funny or ironic, but Anne Radcliffe is definitely a nod to:

Ann Radcliffe - famous 18th C. author (in fact when I saw Radcliffe on the pirate name list, I instantly thought of her!)

My musketeer character is:

Maria Mitchell (19th C. astronomer & mathematician)

The first time I played the game, I saw a William Blake (18th C. poet and visionary artist), which I also thought quite clever. I have also seen an Isaac Newton (17th C. mathematician, physicist, and alchemist)

anecorbie on Jul 8, 2014 wrote:

There are a BUNCH of clever, well read pirates out there, I hope they see this post and reply!

I'm a sucker for Dave Bowman, myself. Now if he'd just stop griping about the pod bay doors...

It isn't exactly "funny" but I saw someone named Bloody Mary.

Huh, before this I'd never heard of Ann Radcliffe. Guess I need to go research some authors...and actors...and athletes...and scientists...and everyone else...

I only did the ones I could think of off the top of my head, and by the time that I remembered Edward Teach, the 'edit' button had disappeared.

Thanks to all who replied! That was a really great list, Valkoor!

Now I'm gonna go search through the name lists again to find some more!

MistyDragon13 on Jul 8, 2014 wrote:

Huh, before this I'd never heard of Ann Radcliffe. Guess I need to go research some authors...and actors...and athletes...and scientists...and everyone else...

I only did the ones I could think of off the top of my head, and by the time that I remembered Edward Teach, the 'edit' button had disappeared.

Thanks to all who replied! That was a really great list, Valkoor!

Now I'm gonna go search through the name lists again to find some more!

I've read Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolfo ( mainly because it was mentioned in Jane Austin's Northanger Abbey ) I actually enjoyed it. Though Radcliffe likes to write PAGES describing the beauties of nature.

idk any so im going to say phule because he is a fool... I don't pity the fool who messes with me. (get the easter egg?)

Found another--Steven Nelson. Steven Sharp Nelson is the cellist in ThePianoGuys. They are so amazing!! If you haven't heard of them, look them up. My favorite songs by ThePianoGuys are: Moonlight, Arwen's Vigil, Berlin, and their mix of Vivaldi's Winter and Let it Go.

Blind Mew on Jul 8, 2014 wrote:

I'm a sucker for Dave Bowman, myself. Now if he'd just stop griping about the pod bay doors...

Oooh, nice one! How about that pirate, Frank Poole and his worrying about insignificant computer error with that 9000 series! .........sounds a little like famous last words.

Captain Fowl: "What we have here is a failure to eradicate".

From the movie Cool Hand Luke where "the Captain" (played by Strother Martin) says "What we have here is a failure to communicate" (great movie, if you have not seen it).

-Indigo

Did anyone else think of William Blake?The poet.

One Eyed Jack,wasn't there another thread about this at some point?

Anecorbie,totally agree on the real Ann Radcliffe,but I am a big fan of Romanticism,and I like good descriptions(of course,I'm very bad at them.

I think I saw the name Portia,as in the Portia in Merchants of Venice.And everyone's noticed that there are a lot of Isaac Newtons out there,but I made my Isaac Newton a witchdoctor.Eventhough,I have always known Isaac Newton as a natural philosopher(and mainly through dynamics and optics, long before I even discovered he was also an alchemist.)

Some of these names from movies... The nostalgia is overwhelming!!!