"Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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>> Pirate scholars maintain that there is no evidence that "walking the
>> plank" was a popular diversion . . .
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> "Pirate scholars" -- this brings to mind the image of a peg-legged,
> eye-patched, parrot-bearing researcher walking to reference desk asking
> "Arrh, where be the special collections, matey??"
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Well, better that than simple plagiarizers.

LH

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