Iridescence

For 'tis me very own...her, unless me wench of a wife taketh from me shivers stiff hook!!

Scurvy dog! Use yer *hand* fer clutching the pearl and the hook fer the rigging!

My thomborax seems to work fine...Whiskey and Tequila are excellent for the purpose.

Bah! What manner of pirate be ye to quaff such drek? 'Tis grog and rum that be needed fer piratical speakin'. Now, iff'n ye be tappin' into some *plundered* kegs of whiskey, I can be seein' it - never look a pillaged nag in the maw, and all that...

CortezPearls said:
BTW: amazing how a topic like "Iridescence" can degenerate in this manner.

Aye, that be yer lot when ye let aboard a wench like meself. 'Tis lucky for you I be limiting meself to this single topic, and not raiding the whole of the forum! Still, 'tis but a few more turns of the timepiece 'til piratical speech be banished once more to Davy Jones' locker and yer pearly bauble talk be thrust to the fore.
 
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boo said:
Scurvy dog! Use yer *hand* fer clutching the pearl and the hook fer the rigging!

Is it just me or does the above sound even weirder than the "shivers stiff hook" thing??? I think I'M the one that's going to end up really needing a drink. There'a a bottle of organic unpasturised apple cider in the back of the fridge that's been there forever. I think it's time to take a swig. Hopefully it has turned into Armagnac or something.

Slraep
 
Boo: I swear you missed your calling! :D :D :D :D The website prevents me from adding more. Cap'n Douglas, methinks your booty is now Slraep's looty. Another will come along to tempt your inner Gollum.
 
knotty panda said:
Cap'n Douglas, methinks your booty is now Slraep's looty.

That's some great rhyming there Knotty.

Since it's a good half hour till midnight, I thought I'd do a bit of pirate limericking still:

There once was a pirate named Doug,
Who posted his "odddly" handsome mug,
Swigging tequila and whiskey all day,
He forgot and sold Sauron to Slraep,
Now he cries and smokes pot on his Zapotec rug.

Slraep
 
Slraep: Little girl, you've had a busy day. Pirating, prosing, and plundering pearls. Well done! :)
 
Great photo, Douglas, though it looked to me like a Salvador Dali' impression!

Perle
 
You've got a point here Perle... It must be my Spanish blood talking...and the "Paranoid Eyes"...my wife tells me I should never -EVER- again do those eyes and scream out: "Here's Johnny!!!" (in a Jack Nicholson style). Says she'll take the babies and run back to her parents...wench!

You're right about the size...but yesterday I left the pearl back home and just wrote the size I tought I remembered it was...and as it is, too many pearls, too many draughts of harrdy ale...love "Pirate Speak" but I need much concentration and today is not my day.

That "Sauron Pearl" (I am actually going to "christen" it with this name) is definitively not for sale. It belongs to Enrique, Manuel and meeeee! This year we have commenced a new tradition: we are collecting at least ONE pearl: the largest, most beautiful baroque, out of a harvest. That pearl will go into a "Cortez Pearl Collection", never to be sold...

Eventually, I will sell tickets and people will be able to go inside a special "Pearl Room" to stay with the Pearls in the collection and do whathever it pleases them most (without hurting the pearls, of course) touch, smell, lick, the sky's the limit...;) No...I don't think so. The pearls will be placed on an altar, to be cherished by us and our visitors instead. Much finer idea :cool:

Sraelp and Boo: I loved your Pirate Prose!

Sorry about the "shivers stiff hook" prose...it did not work out. Tried a variation of "you can prye my pearl from my cold, dead, stiff, fingers"...but with a "hook" for a hand, and the "shivers" means "cold" so that was the idea. Did not hold water :eek: I can only begin to fathom all the weird things some of you might have imagined out of it :eek:
 
CortezPearls said:
Sorry about the "shivers stiff hook" prose...it did not work out. Tried a variation of "you can prye my pearl from my cold, dead, stiff, fingers"...but with a "hook" for a hand, and the "shivers" means "cold" so that was the idea. Did not hold water :eek: I can only begin to fathom all the weird things some of you might have imagined out of it :eek:

I actually followed your line of thinking, but I just couldn't fathom how one would hold a pearl in one's hook.... balance it on top perhaps, but that would seem far too risky a method for such a lovely piece of treasure. One rogue wave to throw you off balance, and there goes Sauron over the edge, to sink slowly into the waves forevermore...

While I can understand Slraep's dismay at not being able to cajole you out of your "precious", I think it is a fabulous idea for you to hold on to your most outstanding pieces. That way when the GIA does a tour of your facilities, folks will be able to get weak-kneed at the sight of such a bounty of color and size! (Although we do love you very much for sharing them with us virtually...)



Many thanks to all of those who tolerated my descent into piracy for the day! I just about drove my family nuts, but by gosh, how can you not embrace an annual tradition as fun as that? :p
 
Boo, I must admit, I am really going to miss the pirate-speak. You are soooo good at it! :cool:
 
I promise, promise, promise, this is my last pirate post for the year. Yes, Blaire, Boo is just one of the multi-faceted, unbelievably talented people on this forum. It just amazes me all these people with all these talents! All I can do is tie an overhand knot.
 
CortezPearls said:
That "Sauron Pearl" (I am actually going to "christen" it with this name) is definitively not for sale. It belongs to Enrique, Manuel and meeeee! This year we have commenced a new tradition: we are collecting at least ONE pearl: the largest, most beautiful baroque, out of a harvest. That pearl will go into a "Cortez Pearl Collection", never to be sold...

Damn. Was it the limerick, Douglas?? I'm not very good with limericks.

I was going to rename "Sauron" as "the eye of Slraep". But I guess I'm just a dismall failure at the talent of wenching. I'm going to have myself a little cry later on....

Slraep
 
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[waking thread up]

What if a black pearl had a light source inside to show off the 'fisheye' irridescence throughout all nacre layers?

Here's something similar of a larger scale... star dust involved:

crl2688wm2.jpg


Link to source: look for CRL 2688

I was trying to explain black pearls to a colleague, and he found this association in his confort zone... :)
 
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