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    Default Gloucester Attacked By Pirates!

    Gloucester England........



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ONDwaIrWc
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    LOL - "We wnats the red'ed! We wants the red'ed"
    (Sigh) I remember when we used to get to do goofy stuff like that back during the Bicentenial. Indian raids with the Butler's Rangers and the like.
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    These guys look a mix of like "actors" and reenactors. I been in a few events like that this that went horribly wrong because reenactors can't "act." A couple of "raids on Gloucester, Massachusetts" are why they don't do them anymore. No casualties but one nearly ended in a fist fight.

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    They may not qualify as pirates, but the invasion of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers and the large following of Parrot Heads in Cincinnati is quite the annual event.

    http://communitypress.cincinnati.com...+comes+Buffett

    It is a party and a half.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3J3Ibavk0g&NR=1

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    Is the big guy with the white shirt and hula skirt a reenactor?

    Hey I had a supervisior who is a "Parrot Head". He'd put on his music at work and nobody felt like working.
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    Scott,

    Iff'n he ain't, he certainly has the build.

    Our annual August invasion is fully underway. The RVs be coming in already. Beer is stacked from floor to ceiling in the stores.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3iB12osRo

    Another sure sign, the folks with the little blue and green houses are working over time. The Wife sounds like she is going to be one of the golf cart ladies this year. She is all excited.

    Mark Campbell
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    You startled me there, Scott. Had there truly been a raid on Gloucester, Massachusetts, I could always call in the big guns and get there with reenforcements. I'm in some town called Woburn, Mass. at the moment, so it probably wouldn't take long for me to gather a local militia march to Gloucester.
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    We gots the hauler parade and fireworks. It kinda sorta is like an invasion.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js_o5M-ByK0

    They are holding the annual contest for kids to get to ride in the haulers. It is fun to see just how excited the kids get by just riding in the trucks. The truly cool thing is getting to see those drivers maneuver those trucks in the infield.

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    Hey. Woburn has a militia!

    Respects, Scott B. Lesch

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    If there's one thing I can't stand seeing, it's Americans fighting Americans.
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    Amazing! I guess feminine hygene products or yogurt companies don't have Nascars or haulers.
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    Helping my employers achieve the American Dream since 1978.

    If there's one thing I can't stand seeing, it's Americans fighting Americans.
    ~Dan Aykroyd as Sergeant Frank Tree in 1941

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