Pirates Of The Week
What do you call an assembly of pirates? The best I can come up with is a crew. Perhaps I should ask the good folk of Penzance in Cornwall who last weekend just lost out on their bid to win back a record they had lost to the Sussex town of Hastings in 2013 – hosting the largest assembly of pirates in one place.
The record stands at 14,231 to claim the Guinness World Record and the participants – to qualify as a pirate you have to be carrying a sword or wearing an eye patch – were to assemble at 3.45pm last Sunday for the count. Alas, they fell a few short, mainly because a group of pirates decided to have a few more in the Dolphin Tavern in Quay Street and missed the cut. Undaunted, they will buckle their swashes and try again next year.
That’s the trouble with pirates, I find, they are so unreliable!
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