Neat paragraph. :bigbow:

Originally Posted by ugotme View Post
They then pretended to SHYLY ask the cook on board the ship they were pirating about the celery. When he refused them, they said they would PREFER to do this quietly. But, if necessary they would CANCEL him out to get what they needed. He then handed them the celery and they politely said THANK you.

(Boy what a stretch that was LOL !!!!)
They then proceeded to the UPPER deck to CHANGE into their swim TRUNKs. it was time for their ANNUAL dip.


But, alas, their fun was cut short! They noticed the YACHT with its OAKEN interior. There was the young CALIPH writing in his LEDGER and thought hmmmm perhaps we should go visit him.

Jumble words for January 14, 2013 Monday.
 

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Pluck.
Plumb.
Timber.
Dearly.

Women created a shift in piracy on the High Seas by curbing the amount of scurvy aboard buccaneer vessels by adding celery to pirate diets.

Blackbeard shyly accepted the women's role in regulating medicine on board ship and often would thank them by asking his second-in-command to cancel their deck swabbing duties. Blackbeard did prefer rum to celery as did almost all of his crew. Except the deeply religious members who had been kidnapped off of the merchant ships Blackbeard and his crew had sunk.

The upper crust of Blackbeard's crew stored a trunk full of change from raided sunked ships. They had an annual dividing of the spoils among the rest of the crew.

In a ledger on Blackbeard's ship was an account of treasure taken from a slave ship which had once been the prize oaken yacht of a very young caliph.

Blackbeard's crew had paid dearly for the plumb prize loosing timber in a fire fight. Some of them had to pluck huge splinters from their limbs while others had died from much bigger wood shards from the slaver's blunderbusses' loads hitting the ship's wooden rails, masts, and decks and throwing up lethal wooden missiles.

I would prefer to cancel the first two words: thank and shyly.

A Wall-Street business man had been working very hard all year and decided he needed a change. So he packed a large trunk and headed out for his annual vacation in upper New York.

The crew of the pirate ship were plumb tuckered out by the time they got the ship anchored for the night, They dearly longed to climb into their hammocks and go to sleep. But the captain commanded them to repair the broken plank with a new piece of oak timber.

Once upon a time there was a very rich caliph who owned a big oaken Yacht.
He recorded it in his ledger as a tax deduction because he used it exclusively for entertaining business executives.

January 15 solved words from Jumble.
 

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Cuffs.
Thump.
Ticket.
Afford.

Women created a shift in piracy on the High Seas by curbing the amount of scurvy aboard buccaneer vessels by adding celery to pirate diets.

Blackbeard shyly accepted the women's role in regulating medicine on board ship and often would thank them by asking his second-in-command to cancel their deck swabbing duties. Blackbeard did prefer rum to celery as did almost all of his crew. Except the deeply religious members who had been kidnapped off of the merchant ships Blackbeard and his crew had sunk.

The upper crust of Blackbeard's crew stored a trunk full of change from raided sunked ships. They had an annual dividing of the spoils among the rest of the crew.

In a ledger on Blackbeard's ship was an account of treasure taken from a slave ship which had once been the prize oaken yacht of a very young caliph.

Blackbeard's crew had paid dearly for the plumb prize loosing timber in a fire fight. Some of them had to pluck huge splinters from their limbs while others had died from much bigger wood shards from the slaver's blunderbusses' loads hitting the ship's wooden rails, masts, and decks and throwing up lethal wooden missiles.

The pirate crew had taken some things off the slave ship: a ticket from a slave auction, cuffs for slaves, chains that often made a thump on Blackbeard's inner deck and many collars. These spawn of slavery were often too much for even Blackbdeard's conscience to afford to bear.

There was a really bad criminal who wanted to steal a ticket to a football game so, to get one, he hit someone over the head....thump! He figured that was the only way to get one since he couldn't afford to buy one. It wasn't long before the police caught up with him and put him in 'cuffs.

January 16 solved Jumble words.
 

Sworn.
Shrill.
Settle.
Awake.

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Blackbeard and the slave ship.
 

Women created a shift in piracy on the High Seas by curbing the amount of scurvy aboard buccaneer vessels by adding celery to pirate diets.

Blackbeard shyly accepted the women's role in regulating medicine on board ship and often would thank them by asking his second-in-command to cancel their deck swabbing duties. Blackbeard did prefer rum to celery as did almost all of his crew. Except the deeply religious members who had been kidnapped off of the merchant ships Blackbeard and his crew had sunk.

The upper crust of Blackbeard's crew stored a trunk full of change from raided sunked ships. They had an annual dividing of the spoils among the rest of the crew.

In a ledger on Blackbeard's ship was an account of treasure taken from a slave ship which had once been the prize oaken yacht of a very young caliph.

Blackbeard's crew had paid dearly for the plumb prize loosing timber in a fire fight. Some of them had to pluck huge splinters from their limbs while others had died from much bigger wood shards from the slaver's blunderbusses' loads hitting the ship's wooden rails, masts, and decks and throwing up lethal wooden missiles.

The pirate crew had taken some things off the slave ship: a ticket from a slave auction, cuffs for slaves, chains that often made a thump on Blackbeard's inner deck and many collars. These spawn of slavery were often too much for even Blackbdeard's conscience to afford to bear.

Blackbeard awoke to a shrill whistle from one of his look-outs who had spotted a very familiar corsair ship far off the starboard bow. His Master-at-Arms called the crew to arms. Now that other of his crew were awake he decided it was time to settle his score with his sworn enemy.

Nice paragraph. Neatly done.

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

January 17, 2013 solved words:

Frugal.
Undue.
Shove.
Afford.