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TIDBITS® TAKES A LOOK AT PIRATES

by Rick Dandes

They ruled the seven seas back in the 1600s and 1700s and even today are plundering sea vessels in international waters. They are pirates. From mov-ies and books to real life, pirates fascinate people endlessly and probably always will. Tidbits walks the plank this week, in honor of National Talk Like a Pi-rate Day observed on September 19.

• Although Hollywood pirates, such as Jack Spar-row’s friends, like to grumble “arrr” or “arrrrgh” fre-quently, real pirates were not known to do so. Hol-lywood actor Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver in the 1950s, had a regional accent from the Cotswolds district of England where they like to roll the “r” a bit. However, your average real pirate did not.• Pirates may have thrown men overboard, but no one was ever known to have “walked the plank.” Again, this one is a Hollywood myth.• Lady Ching Shih of China became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed the ocean blue. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of Asia during the early 1800s, with hun-dreds of ships under her command.• Pirates pierced their ears, not to look suave, but because it was believed that piercing the ears with such precious metals as silver and gold improved one’s eyesight. Even relatively respectable seafar-ing men indulged in the practice. • “Davy Jones’ Locker” is a real nautical term that dates back to the 1700s and refers to the bottom of the ocean and a graveyard for drowned sailors.

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American singer and songwriter Johnny Cash was born in rural, south-central Arkansas on February 26, 1932. Thanks to his signature deep bass voice and his songs full of dark themes, Cash is often called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

• The family moved to Dyess, Arkansas, when he was three. His father Ray Cash, was a farmer, hobo and odd job laborer.• Johnny Cash’s real name was John R. Cash but they called him J.R. while he was growing up. Tommy was his younger brother. Roy was his older brother’s name.• Cash’s birthplace is almost directly across the Mississippi River from Lake County where Carl Perkins was born six weeks later.• Cash’s father Ray was the lead for the country band Dixie Rhythm Ramblers.• Cash’s mother had him take vocal lessons at the age of 13. But after only three lessons, the teacher told him to never take another lesson and never change his natural singing voice. What a wise teacher!• Before turning to music as a full-time profession, Cash sold home appliances door to door.• When he was older, Cash left home to work in Pontiac, Michigan. The job lasted only two weeks before he returned home to Arkansas. On July 7, 1950, he enlisted in the Air Force. While he was stationed in Germany, Cash bought his first guitar.• The scar on the right side of Cash’s jaw was the result of a botched attempt to remove a cyst while he was in Germany, not from a fight.• Trying to break into the music business, Cash auditioned for a job as a radio announcer at a sta-tion in Corinth, Mississippi, but was turned down because lack of experience. Using his G.I. ben-efits, Cash then enrolled at the Keegan School of Broadcasting in Memphis.• During his early shows with his band The Ten-nessee Two, Cash would frequently make jokes when introducing his band mates. He would intro-duce guitarist Luther Perkins, who was secretly terrified of performing in public, and add either that he was in “rigor mortis” or that his pulse had been checked beforehand to make sure he was still alive. Then he would introduce bassist Marshall Grant, who would usually hop around and dance with great energy as he chewed gum, as “playing the chewing gum.”• Signed to Sun Records as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, the group’s first released single, “Cry, Cry, Cry,” became a moderate country hit. Af-ter the two-sided smash “So Doggone Lonesome” backed with “Folsom Prison Blues,” the group had their first major pop/country hit with Cash’s own “I Walk the Line” in 1956.• If you saw the movie based on Cash’s life, you know it’s true: Cash proposed to his wife June Carter over 30 times before she accepted.• Cash recorded entire “live” albums at both Fol-som and San Quentin Prisons in front of a recep-tive audience full of very rowdy and loud inmates.

MUSIC LEGEND:JOHNNY CASH

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“Ken Burns: Baseball” (2010 Box Set) -- This re-release of Ken Burns’ epic miniseries about the history of baseball not only includes the original nine-episodes, but also the “Tenth Inning” update to the series. Included in the boxed set is an 11th disc loaded with special features. Even though I’m not a huge baseball fan, I absolutely love this doc-umentary. Burns got the inspiration for the series while working on “The Civil War” -- and it shows. “Baseball” is like a sequel to “The Civil War,” showing us the history of our nation in the century and a half following the conflict by using baseball as the metaphor for our growth as a nation.

TV SERIES“Monk” Complete Series Limited Edition Box Set“Caprica” Season 1.0“Doctor Who” Dreamland“All in the Family” The Complete Seventh Season“Gunsmoke” Fourth Season, Volume One “Bones” The Complete Fifth Season“Stargate: Universe SGU” The Complete First Season“Cake Boss” Season 2 “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” The Complete Sev-enth Season“Ally McBeal” The Complete Fourth Season“Ugly Americans 1”

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Resident Evil: Afterlife (R) Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter2. Takers (PG-13) Matt Dillon, Chris Brown3. The American (R) George Clooney, Thelka Reuten4. Machete (R) Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro5. Going the Distance (R) Drew Barrymore, Justin Long6. The Other Guys (PG-13) Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg7. The Last Exorcism (PG-13) Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell8. The Expendables (R) Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham9. Inception (PG-13) Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe10. Eat Pray Love (PG-13) Julia Roberts, James Franco

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of September 18, 2010Top 10 Video Rentals1. Date Night (PG-13) Steve Carell2. The Back-Up Plan (PG-13) Jennifer Lopez3. Death at a Funeral (R) Chris Rock4. The Last Song (PG) Miley Cyrus5. Furry Vengeance (PG) Brendan Fraser6. The Losers (PG-13) Jeffrey Dean7. Clash of the Titans (PG-13) Sam Worthing-ton8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) Steve Zahn9. Kick-Ass (R) Aaron Johnson10. Cop Out (R) Bruce Willis

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Lost: The Complete Sixth Season: The Final Season (NR) (Buena Vista)2. The Back-Up Plan (PG-13) (Sony)3. The Last Song (PG) (Buena Vista)4. NCIS: The Seventh Season (NR) (Para-mount)5. Date Night (PG-13) (20th Century Fox)6. Dexter: The Fourth Season (M) (Paramount)7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) (20th Century Fox)8. The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season (NR) (20th Century Fox)9. Gossip Girl: The Complete Third Season (NR) (Warner)10. Furry Vengeance (PG) (Summit)

PICKS OF THE WEEK

“Beauty and the Beast” -- Three-Disc Diamond Edition (G) -- The enchanting story of Belle, the young daughter of an inventor who helps a cursed prince find true love is finally getting the high-def release it deserves. This three-disc set contains not only a remastered Blu-Ray disc, but also a standard DVD version of the classic Disney film. And not only do you get the remas-tered theatrical release, but also two additional versions of the movie: A special extended edi-tion, plus a re-edited cut based on the original storyboards. The third disc contains so many special features, I can’t even begin to list them all. Suffice to say, Disney really knocked this one out the park. You really owe it to yourself to add this to your film library.

“The Karate Kid” (PG) -- I have a soft spot for the original 1984 version of “The Karate Kid,” so this remake featuring Will Smith’s kid re-ally didn’t do it for me. (And Jackie Chan is no Mr. Miyagi.) Although the fight choreography is flashier in this version, it wasn’t enough to sway me into liking it. Anyhoo, a lot of other people really enjoyed this flick, and the DVD comes with a Justin Bieber music video, so you know, whatevs, man.

“Grindhouse” -- Special Edition (R) -- Finally, after three years of waiting, “Grindhouse” is be-ing released in DVD in its proper theatrical for-mat -- complete with all the fake movie trailers -- instead of being split into two separate DVD sets. This is a two-disc set, with the second disc packed with more than two hours of spe-cial features, including the fan-favorite “Robert Rodriguez’s 10-Minute Cooking School.” Some of the other extras: “Death Proof” gag reel, a documentary on the makeup and effects for “Planet Terror,” and the extended trailer for “Werewolf Woman of the SS.”

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PIRATES (continued):• As early as 1611, there are written accounts de-scribing a person who brings bad luck to a ship as a “Jonah.” If a man was marked as a Jonah, he was doomed to be thrown overboard. If the trouble persisted, the pirates might suspect they’d thrown the wrong man overboard and would sometimes toss the original accuser into the sea to appease the ghost of the innocent man. • Every pirate ship had its Code of Conduct speci-fied by the pirate captain. While stealing was the pirate’s job, stealing amongst shipmates was se-verely punished. Some boats had a “zero toler-ance” policy for internal theft that left you dead or marooned if caught.• No one has actually ever found a real pirate’s bur-ied treasure map. Never too far from death, most pirates tried to enjoy their money quickly. At any rate, there aren’t any maps around today, unless some are still cleverly hidden.• Throughout history some women have preferred knives to knitting needles. Two of history’s most fa-mous female pirates are Anne Bonny, born in Ire-land, and Mary Read, born in England. Not want-ing to live the subservient life expected of women during her day, Bonny won over the respect of her pirate crewmembers with her murderous and ca-pable ways. She eventually became best friends with her fellow fierce, female pirate, Read.• As members of Captain “Calico” Jack Rackham’s crew, Bonny and Read disguised themselves as men and earned reputations as tough, fearless fighters. When Rackham and his crew were cap-tured and sentenced to hang, Bonny, the captain’s girlfriend, reportedly told him: “Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hanged like a dog.”• The exact origin of Jolly Roger, the generic term for a pirate flag, is unknown. It may come from “Old Roger,” an English term for the devil, or from a cor-rupted version of the French “Jolie Rouge,” mean-ing “pretty red.” Pirate ships didn’t fly Jolly Rogers at all times; instead, they’d often fly fake flags until their victims or enemies came into view.• Pirate ships flew Jolly Roger flags featuring motifs intended to intimidate, including skulls, crossbones, swords, skeletons, bleeding hearts and hourglass-es, meant to symbolize that time was running out.

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• Port Royal, Jamaica, once known as the “wick-edest city on earth” and as a wealthy haven for pirates, was devastated by an earthquake on June 7, 1692. Much of the thriving, densely populated community was destroyed. Port Royal was rebuilt and served as a British naval station in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, it is a small fishing town and tourist destination.• “Treasure Island” by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was first published serially in a children’s magazine between 1881 and 1882, un-der the title “The Sea-Cook.” It was published as a book in 1883. One of the main characters, the pi-rate Long John Silver, is nicknamed the Sea Cook. Silver, who is missing one leg, was reportedly in-spired by a writer-editor friend of Stevenson’s who had lost a leg to disease.• The “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride opened at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in 1967. It was reportedly the last attraction that Walt Dis-ney (1901-1966) had a hand in planning before he died.• The Caribbean Sea gets its name from the Car-ibs, one of the main Native American Indian groups in the region when Spanish explorers arrived in the 15th century. The Caribs were known as fierce fighters and practitioners of cannibalism. Although largely eliminated by the Europeans in the 17th century, some Caribs survive today in Guatemala and Dominica.• The pirate Blackbeard cultivated an intimidat-ing image and put cannon fuses under his hat to scare people. Blackbeard died in a battle with Brit-ish navy lieutenant Robert Maynard off the North Carolina coast in 1718. • In pirate language, “shiver me timbers” was used to express strong feelings or surprise.• The term buccaneer is derived from “boucanier” and “boucan,” a French term for the smoking pro-cess used by hunters on the island of Hispaniola to prepare meat. Driven out by the Spanish, these buccaneers joined others who had an axe to grind with the Spaniards and attacked their ships. By the 17th century, the term was used generically to refer to pirates and privateers throughout the West Indies.

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