Captain Bartholomew Roberts

[MyFrySkyTie]

Does anyone know anything reaaaally interesting about Bartholomew Roberts the pirate / Black Bart?

[Lonnie]

Those were the days when they used to tar their pigtails, Black Bart, when fighting, used to set his alight, to make himself more frightening to his foes.

[Drusilla1S]

Sorry Lonnie, you've got the wrong pirate. Blackbeard was the monstrous looking pirate who set his hair afire. Bartholomew Roberts was the Welsh dandy and possibly most successful of the pirates of yore. He coined the phrase, 'a short life and a merry one', or words to that effect.

[Lonnie]

Your right Drusilla1S, (hang my head in shame, and indulge in a bit of self flagellation), thanks for pointing it out.

[MyFrySkyTie]

He he he, how I love the word Dandy. Thanks for trying.

[mike b]

There was a 'Black Bart' who was a US Wild West robber, who used to leave lines of doggerel verse with his victims, signed 'Black Bart the PO8' (sic), thus also inventing txtng...