[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by jblum315

The pirates saw a luxury yacht in the distance, shining white with stout oaken masts. The captain recorded the sighting in his ledger, but he was afraid of what the caliph might do if the pirates pursued it in these waters.

Neat paragraph.

[ugotme]

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.

[Taltarzac725]

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Pluck.
Plumb.
Timber.
Dearly.

[Taltarzac725]

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.

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Solved words for Friday were:

Shyly.
Thank.
Prefer.
Cancel.

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

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Words for Jumble Jan 12, 2013, Saturday:

Upper.
Trunk.
Annual.
Change.

These are not the official Jumble words but I cannot see what else they could be? The official answers do not come out until tomorrow, January 14, 2013.

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.

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Pluck.
Plumb.
Timber.
Dearly.

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.

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Words from the Sunday January 13, 2013 answer already available Jumble:

Yacht.
Oaken.
Ledger.
Caliph.

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.

[Taltarzac725]

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Cuffs.
Thump.
Ticket.
Afford.

[Taltarzac725]

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.

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Cuffs.
Thump.
Ticket.
Afford.

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.

[Taltarzac725]

Sworn.
Shrill.
Settle.
Awake.

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

[Taltarzac725]

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.

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

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.

Nice paragraph. Neatly done.

[Taltarzac725]

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

January 17, 2013 solved words:

Frugal.
Undue.
Shove.
Afford.