I was a puddle pirate once!
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Winters Salvation is not my usual fare for reading and I wasn't sure if Id enjoy the book all that much. Yet curiously enough I found myself getting drawn into the characters and their plight. It took me far longer to read than is customary for it being a relative shorter length story than I usually prefer to read but I could only read so far and then had to put it down because I could not bear finding out the next horror they would have to endure. As the story came to a close I was hoping and hoping and hopingOh man whyd you have to do that Jason Deyo!
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I wish I had known that this was the logo for a notorious movie-pirating website before I stuck it on my car. Now everyone thinks I'm a different sort of pirate entirely!
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This movie here is a sterling example of how you can make your imagination come alive and create a world of fun, intrigue, surprise and adventure.
We have 7 likeable kids living in a small community with close ties and lots of history and memories.  Coming along to spoil the show, we have a wealthy land developer with his brat of a son as a sidekick who want to raze the town and turn it into a golf resort.
Not willing to be uprooted from their beloved town, the industrious kids (with the help of a found treasure map and a local pirate legend) stumble upon a passage that could possibly lead them to treasure.
Getting to this point was only half the fun.  Now we're really in for a good time!  Enter the danger, adventure and all out pursuit of treasure.  We follow the 7 youngsters through booby traps, dark caverns, perilous near misses, and exciting exploits that is sure to grab the imagination of adults and children alike.  And all this while being chased by 3 bumbling but quite funny counterfeiters who add a great touch to the plot.
Moving right along, while avoiding all the pitfalls that might trip up most people (but not these young Indian Jones proteges), they discover the ultimate prize in the form of a long hidden Pirate ship located in a lagoon enclosed by a mammoth cave.
Upon searching the ship (and dodging more inventive booby traps to boot), the pirates treasure is found which is a means to an end to pay off the land developer to save the town.
Not so fast!  No easy getaway for these bunch of resourceful and rambunctious little ones.  Along comes those dastardly counterfeiters destined to spoil the show.  A little walking the plank, some sword fighting, and a whole lot of fun and the baddies are put out of business.  The exit from the cave is no walk in the park either being that the cave itself was booby trapped (yep, another booby trap and a good one).  With the help of a lovable monster and a whole lot of strength, the kids leave the cavern as fast as you please.
Believing that upon leaving the cavern that the treasure was lost in the lagoon, alas, we have one of the seven heroes who spirited away several gemstones from the Pirate ship that will save the day for the future of the town!
Now, who do we have to thank for this excellent adventure?  Well, let's first look at one of the executive producers.  Steven Spielberg.  Arguably the best movie director who has ever been associated with the silver screen and motion pictures.  Almost every piece of work that Spielberg has ever done has turned to gold and he is a master of exceptional movie making.
Next, we have director Richard Donner who is behind the blockbuster Lethal Weapon movies and many more greats too numerous to list. He has done an excellent job of making a movie that audiences can count on time and again to enthrall them and make them feel great.
This is absolutely 5 stars of fun and excitement all the way and is a sure winner anytime, anywhere.  Highly recommended all around.  Enjoy!
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I think I am a big kid at heart and when I saw that my sons wanted to order Port Royale I had fancies of a swashbuckling adventure that I could lose myself in as well as my boys. Unfortunately, that is not the case. In fact I took two days to try and help them how to figure out what to do. Trading is key in this game and although I would not say it is a bad game, you have to have a really good understanding of what to do. After trading up for better ships, I accidentally took on a battle that was too much for my nave crew. Aye, we were whipped by a black flagged pirate to experienced for my likings. As soon as we were done, my ships were decimated and my crew gone. I lost interest in trying to rebuild.
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I can't believe how much fun one person can have blowing bubbles!  I had ordered 1 X Colourful Musical Electronic Bubble Gun Rattles Teether Baby Toy K0024 for my nephew who was about to celebrate his eighteenth birthday.  After all, he loves guns and rattles!  As I opened the package in order to rewrap it, the urge, to well--try it--came over me.  I set the rattle down to think about it (I hate guns and what would my 11 adult children think?)  I walked away, mesmerized by the thought of gumming something and blowing bubbles out of a gun AT THE SAME TIME! To think more clearly I drank some Tuscan Whole Milk and threw on my wolf t-shirt.  I took some time to play some online gambling games for a while--it always relaxes me (and hey, if it isn't your credit card number then it isn't real money anyways).  Then, after I had lost about 4,000 more dollars trying to hit laughing gophers in the head, I needed a release.  Here I am blowing fantastic bubbles!!!  I'm not teething anymore, since all my teeth rotted out sucking down sugarless gummy bears, but the bubbles--fantastic.  What a great day.  Thank you Amazon!
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Do you remember being a kid and wanting to go out and play in the rain!?  I remember being that child!  This song has a great rhythm and fun lyrics that make you want to be that child again and dance without abandon.  Just this past week, while on vacation, my best friend reminded me that if we got rain where we were, that we could go out in it anyway, that rain in simply liquid Sonshine!  Priase God for Christian Bronner reminding us that rain is fun if we let it be so.  Let the rain fall indeed ... and then get out there an dance in that liquid Sonshine!
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Though I was always a "goody-two-shoes," and never would have done the things these boys did (haha) this book reminded me of the days when kids actually played outside!  Our neighborhood gang made our own baseball field; we'd never want to be stuck inside!  This new author captured the fun (and mischief) that used to be the norm for young kids!
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This was taped at my grade school oh so long ago...and I got to be an extra in it... so it was a rental to reminisce <3
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I bought this initially bought this as an alien beacon to summon back that starship I saw oh so many years ago!  Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was just a simple pool light, haha.  Well, you know, with the "Light Starship" in the title, and the glowing body of water in the picture, I was certain this was the beacon I'd been searching for!  Sure, I thought it rather odd to place an alien beacon underwater, but who am I to question technology of a race beyond my understanding?  So, rush forth and purchase I did this magnificent creation, and as soon as it arrived in the mail I tossed it into the bathtub!  You see, I have no pool, and I believed any body of water would do.  A week passed, and there were no signs like last time.  No crackling, no lights in the sky, nothing heralding the return of these aliens I saw as a child!  Well, of course, I rationalized, how are the aliens going to see the beacon if it's inside in my bathtub?  So I went out and bought a small, plastic pool from Wal-Mart (and for whatever reason was shot many nasty looks from behind finger-plugged noses), and brought it back to my apartment.  I filled the pool with water (one cup at a time, do you realize how hard it is to fill a pool with no hose?), placed it on my balcony, and threw the beacon in.  To my dismay, the beacon refused to light!  I was terrified!  What had I done wrong?  I searched the beacon over, trying to figure out what the malfunction was (being extremely careful as to not set off any alien security-device).

  To my great surprise and delight, I discovered the aliens had made the technology human friendly, using some sort of power converter to take the energy from a simple double A battery.  So I changed the batteries, threw the beacon back into the pool and waited.  Ah, it was a glorious time, that summer.  I refused to go to work, for what if the aliens came while I was away?  My work called, and I never picked up, for what possibly could work have to offer that extraterrestrial beings from another planet couldn't offer?  As I sat and twiddled my thumbs (I became quite the thumb-twiddler), I thought back to that glorious day when I had first seen the alien spacecraft.

  It was during the summer, on a hot and sunny day, everyone was outside barbequing steak and hotdogs and hamburgers with red, white, and blue clothes.  The family and I were playing games like water balloon volleyball and football, and all the while the adults talked about apple pie.  My cousins and I played a variation of capture the flag, but with squirt guns (we found people were much more willing to be hit with water in this hot weather).  Later in the evening, I was playing with my imaginary friend, Henry, a stuffed animal squirrel.  We were supposed to be in bed, but we were having much too much fun drawing pictures of aliens and spaceships.  And as if by a sign from God himself, we heard a loud boom outside!  We rushed to the window and heard crackling off in the distance, and then we saw it...  Four lights in the shape of a cross were soaring through the night.  We caught but a glimpse of it before it flew behind a tree, and a loud boom followed.  Henry and I decided the ship went to hyperspace and flew off to whatever planet it next wanted to visit.

  Well, ever since, I always wanted to see these aliens I know I saw on that day, and I thought this would be my chance.  But after a summer of waiting, and angry phone calls from my parents, I decided it was not to be.  With my head hung low, I called a friend of mine to ask for some help with this device.  He came over and laughed at me and explained its real function!  Boy, was my face red when I found out I had been using it inappropriately this entire time.  So, while I never met my aliens, I'm proud to say that my fish now have better rave parties than any other, thanks to the AquaGlow Underwater Light Starship.  :)
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My nephews (age 6 and 8) were jumping out of their seats and screaming during the entire game.  "I got a deacon!"  and  "Full Moon- move two extra squares!"  The younger boy didn't have a chance at winning because while I was strategizing to make converts in Leptis Magna, he was whispering to me that he didn't want to go to any city in a desert because he was afraid of sand storms.  He was unwilling to travel by sea for fear of storms, but luckily he got the Fair Weather card half-way through and was willing to take the risk.  He told me he's going to have nightmeres because of all the mobs and stonings.  You'll be happy to hear that he slept well, with no nightmeres, but he did wake up all excited to play again "because I'm going to meet a Centurian Sympathizer this time, and we're going to be friends"  What a perfect board game for a boy who already owns all of the lego castles and all of the playmobile pirates.  A little boy with a big imagination can turn this board game into an adventure.
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Let me tell all of you a story:

  As most of you know, I'm a major "man of the outdoors" man. I get told this all the time by various cliques at my school (Westbury High, home of the Fighting Quail!). So I'm hanging out with my boy, Toby (we call him Tobes for fun), and one of the real popular girls approaches our lowly table and asks if we want to go camping this next weekend. As you can believe, Tobes and I were pysched! Most of the time, she hung around her clique, the Bubblies, so I was super duper surprised that she even knew I loved our Mother Nature! Of course Tobes and I told her "YES!" as soon as we had processed her question.
  *Skipping forward over many excited tickle fights and friendship hugs, we find ourselves at the cusp of the weekend.*
  To our excitement, Tobes and I would be riding to the campsite with all of our new friends! I didn't quite know what to bring, but I wasn't too scared because I knew I would be fine as long as I had my HIGH SIERRA CLASSIC SERIES 59601 LONG TRAIL 90 INTERNAL FRAME PACK BLACK 36X15.25X11 INCHES 5500 CUBIC INCHES 90 LITERS to pack all of my snacks and pop for the exciting trip of the century! We were picked up by an angel in disguise named Melissa (one of the Bubblies) and we knew that our fun was about to reach "TOTAL CRUNK" mode, but we had to contain our giggles just to keep our names clear of any stereotypes. We hit the road with love in our hearts and good times in our mindset, and nothing could stop us from raising heck! While listening to our collective favorite song "London Bridge" by Fergie, we pulled onto the forest road and were reminded of simpler times of good health and good hearth.
  After finding our campsite and setting up our tents (mine was hiding away in my HIGH SIERRA CLASSIC SERIES 59601 LONG TRAIL 90 INTERNAL FRAME PACK BLACK 36X15.25X11 INCHES 5500 CUBIC INCHES 90 LITERS), we made our way to the Watering Hole. There were many stories that my older brother Danny told me as an emerging teenager about this Watering Hole, mainly they were crude stories of how he and his boys would prank each other in ways that we can't go into further. Let me just say, there was a lot of candy and KFC involved (all the guys out there know what I'm saying).
  For most of my life, my brother was always there when I needed him. I guess you could call him my "Go-To Guy." If ever I had a question about my HIGH SIERRA CLASSIC SERIES 59601 LONG TRAIL 90 INTERNAL FRAME PACK BLACK 36X15.25X11 INCHES 5500 CUBIC INCHES 90 LITERS, he would always reassure me that most of these things are normal for a growing boy to experience. Around the time that my mom went to her first alcoholic rehabilitation, I was going through a real rough patch in my life. I didn't know who to turn to, but Danny came to me, put his arms around me, and encouraged me to come with him. I was apprehensive at first but he assured me that I would be fine as long as we were together. After a long hike in the beautiful Nevada wilderness, Danny and I came to a clearing. It was filled with lilies and roseberry bushes, and was the most amazing time of my life. It was definitely a transcendent experience for us both.
  We came to the middle of the clearing and Danny sat me down in the middle of the grass. He told me of his hardships and his sexual abuses. He then began to pull something out of his back pocket (lo and behold, it was my soon to be HIGH SIERRA CLASSIC SERIES 59601 LONG TRAIL 90 INTERNAL FRAME PACK BLACK 36X15.25X11 INCHES 5500 CUBIC INCHES 90 LITERS). It's amazing how versatile this backpack really is! I mean, Danny pulled it straight out of his Levi's back pocket! Wowsers! Who'd a thunk that something so large, when it's finally unfolded and in its wholeness, would fit so softly and snuggly in his back pocket!
  He gave it to me then and there, and I've had it ever since (4 years). We were young rascals, thick and through, but we were brothers, so we were always there for each other. "It's a good one," he told me, and that's what I'm saying now to all of you guys.
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I had a spongebob theme pirate party.  They worked great in my goody bucket.
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This is priceless...I laughed the whole time.  I want to visit that water park as a kid and never leave...really
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Arrrrghhh! This tale brought out the nasty, mean, ugly side of pirateering. Some really great action sequences that helped you appreciate just how difficult and bloody this lifestyle could be.

As with much pirate lore, it is a bit shocking how sudden the deaths are. The author did a great job of painting a picture of life at sea with many of its pitfalls (or literally falls into the briny depths with shark fins).

The read moves right along at a satisfying clip. A few of the situations seemed a bit contrived, but many of them didn't, which was good. Terrific tension and action!

This would make a really good Indiana Jones style movie!

(possible spoiler)

The main pirate, Bloodbeard, was definitely an awesome picture of an evil pirate Captain. John is a basically good kid who has to get thrown into a pirate's life right up close to this evil man.

Rollicking adventure, much death, treasure maps, sea battles, and he even gets to meet a girl named Isabella along the way.

The father-son relationship in the midst of a fallen world is explored here. The addition of the Parson, and his wisdom in situations added much depth to the tale.
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LOL, omg this was hilarious. I absolutely loved How Hard Can it Be? And the making of Pirate Dave! And this little spoof was hilarious! Now on to Size Matters! Loving this series! Highly recommend!
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So I was merrily enjoying a sweet Alaskan cruise when the ship was boarded by ninjas, pirates and a terrorist who put a bomb on and said that if the ship went more than 60 mp/h, the whole thing would explode. Needless to say all of the passengers on the ship were pretty freaked. They needed to choose a leader to fight the bad guys, and I was the obvious choice, cause of my awesome wolf shirt. A big biker dude with tatoos named Killjaw was also up for nomination but lost, cause he only had 1 wolf on his shirt.

When the moon came out, the shirt gave me these super awesome powers that enabled me to take out all the ninjas, pirates, the terrorist, and dismantle the bomb, all within 45 minutes. I even played a sweet game of basketball afterwards, and everyone was like, "how did he get so good???". There's only one answer. The three wolf shirt.

But then someone gave me a Coors light in celebration of all of my victories throughout the day and I drank it and all the wolves on my shirt died. THAT was a bummer. But I'm going to order this shirt again, so its no biggie. The cruise to Cabo San Lucas should be awesome.

Reccomendation: Arrived on time and would purchase again.
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This movie has been an obsession of mine since I was a kid. I have literally watched the film over 300 times (once I hit that epic milestone I stopped counting...). I wrote a song about Goonies/friendship, and did a persuasive speech on Goonies and how everyone can relate to one of them in the movie (I got an A).

This movie is a fun, adventure filled movie that has given me timeless memories. Anytime it rains or is dreary out, I pop it on if I am not busy. Maybe it's because of it being based in rainy Oregon, my love for overcast weather or both. All I know is this movie is a major part of my childhood, teenage years, college, and adult years. It has brought me so many joyous moments. I still laugh at it, especially Chunk's delivery of his line after Mikey's mom sees the broken statue. It brings me to tears.

(and for anyone curious, I was a combination of Mouth, Mikey and Chunk wrapped up into one. Today, I lost the weight but still talk alot and dream big).

Goonies Never Say Die!