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(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.) i was thinking the bridge coulda dropped something on them and/or trapped them ....
Latest Articles 2009
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Keelhauling was a fairly insidious form of coporal punishment that started in the 1600’s.
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Keelhauling is a common phrase that tossed about on Talk Like a Pirate Day, but in order to inflict the right flair it’s important to know just what it is your saying.
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Keelhauling, aye, scuttle my bones if I don’t keelhaul the first mutinous dog who soldiers on the job!
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000
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Grog Consumption, Sword Play, Keelhauling Leftist Ideas and Absoultly NO Friggin in the Riggin
The Pirate's Blog 2009
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"Keelhauling, sir," he replied, "is a form of punishment which consists in being lashed to a stout rope which is passed under the ship's bottom, and whereby the unhappy criminal is dragged along the keel from forward, aft; he being required, during the journey, to gather a sufficiency of barnacles off the ship's bottom to furnish a satisfying breakfast for the captain next morning.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886
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