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Pamy
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01-02-2002

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ooohh just noticed the pics above Great job Jimmer!!!!! you rock

Angelicfairies2
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07-19-2004

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Ho ho ho ho a pirates life for me ;-)

Jimmer
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Thanks Pamy. It looks like it's going to be fun.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

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This is one show my son is sure to at least give a chance at watching! He and his friends "theme" for themselves is PIRATES! They love all the movies - have to see them on the first day. He might give up on it if it's not "piraty enough." LOL I'm sure I just made that word up!!! Anyway, we'll be giving it a try!!

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

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If Santa became a pirate:

Ho ho ho ho a pirates life for me ;-)


Technically, Angelicfairies2, it's, "Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me." Get your pirate songs straight, okay???

Seamonkey
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YO HO (A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME)
Lyrics by Xavier Atencio and music by George Bruns
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle, and even high-jack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char, inflame and ignite,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really a fright,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

We're rascals, scoundrels, villans, and knaves,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

Disney seems to have an added verse

We're beggars and blighters and ne'er do-well cads,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

Frankly I do well to get ALL the yo hos in and not just the lines beginning Yo ho

Karen
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09-07-2004

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Oops, sorry... I saw all these "yo ho"s, and thought I was being summoned...

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

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ROFL!!!!!!

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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CBS reveals the identities of its 'Pirate Master' buccaneer wannabes

By Christopher Rocchio and Steve Rogers, 05/02/2007

CBS has revealed the identities of the 16 buccaneer wannabes who will compete in Pirate Master, a new swashbuckling reality series created by Mark Burnett that is scheduled to premiere on Thursday, May 31 at 8PM ET/PT.

Pirate Master will follow the 16 contestants as they spend 33 days traveling around the Caribbean island nation of Dominica in search of hidden treasure that will total $1 million. When they're not busy embarking on quests to decipher various hidden treasure clues, they'll live on the 179-foot, square-rigged barque that will also serve as their main form of plundering transportation.

One pirate will become the captain of the ship and will assign roles and chores to the remaining crew members, establishing a hierarchy that could lead to mutiny.

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All of the contestants that help find each treasure will receive a share of the gold coins found, however like a true pirate ship, the captain and his officers will end up with more than their equal shares, leaving the rest of the pirates to split the remaining scraps.

Each episode will conclude with Pirate's Court, a Survivor Tribal Council-like event that will see one individual eliminated and "cut adrift." In the end, one will be the first to find the largest booty -- worth $500,000 -- and claim the title of "Pirate Master."

Watch a preview video of the 16 buccaneer wannabes that will compete on Pirate Master
Pirate Master's cast consists of eight men and eight women who range in age from 21 to 45-years-old. Hailing from Alaska to Massachusetts and several locations in-between, cast members come from various walks of life, boasting credentials in everything from glass blowing and smoke jumping to law and music, and even features a Chippendale Dancer as well as an ex-NFL player.

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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CBS ANNOUNCES "PIRATE MASTER," A NEW REALITY-BASED SERIES WHERE 16 INDIVIDUALS WILL COMPETE AS PIRATES ON THE HIGH SEAS IN SEARCH OF HIDDEN TREASURES

The Next Epic Adventure Series From Emmy Award-Winning Producer Mark Burnett Premieres Thursday, May 31st.

PIRATE MASTER, the next epic adventure reality series from Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Burnett, will premiere Thursday, May 31 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

PIRATE MASTER will send 16 modern-day pirates on a high seas adventure where they will live as buccaneers and travel around the Caribbean island of Dominica in search of hidden treasure that will total $1 million. Over the course of 33 days, these pirates will live aboard a massive 179 foot, square-rigged barque which carries 12,500 square feet of sail.
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Australian actor Cameron Daddo will host PIRATE MASTER

Each week, the pirates will embark on extraordinary expeditions where they will decipher clues along the way in search of missing treasure. Gold coins -- real money which the pirates may take with them beyond the show -- will be awarded after each expedition, but only to some. The gold will play a key role as pirates strike deals with each other or plead for long-term security. In addition to claiming the lion's share of the week's riches, one pirate will become the captain of the ship and will assign roles and chores to the remaining crew members, setting the tone for either law and order or betrayal and sabotage, which could lead to mutiny by the crew.

Each episode will conclude on the ship at Pirate's Court, a lively gathering of public speaking and judgment where one individual will be eliminated and "cut adrift." In the end, one will be the first to find the largest booty, worth $500,000, and claim the title of "Pirate Master."

Series creator and executive producer Mark Burnett explains, "Pirate Master breaks new ground in that it's the collision of fantasy and reality. This is a show where, in true pirate fashion, anything can happen with a group of people that live by their own set of rules and usually break them. It's adventure, excitement and loads of treasure. Anyone who ever wanted to be a pirate will love this show!"

PIRATE MASTER is produced by Mark Burnett Productions. Mark Burnett and Lisa Hennessy are the executive producers. Eden Gaha and Page Feldman are the co-executive producers.

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

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Oh yummmy...a chipendale dancer????

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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Exclusive! A First Look at CBS' Pirate Master Cast
by Ileane Rudolph

Pirate Master
What kind of wackos think it will be great fun to live on porridge, sleep in cramped bunks in the hull of an old sailing ship, and risk life and limb hunting through really rugged terrain for clues to a pirate treasure?

"They're tough," says Mark Burnett, whose latest adventure reality show, Pirate Master, premieres on May 31. Sure, there's a total of $1 million at stake hidden around the Caribbean island of Dominica, but the daunting physical demands make Survivor's challenge look wimpy. "It's a really interesting diverse cast," says Burnett. "Everybody's a good athlete, but what they've learned is being a great pirate, you have to be really smart. When you're exhausted and you're trudging through a jungle, jumping off waterfalls or swimming up canyon lakes, you still have to think about what the pirate clues are.
"It takes a lot of brains," Burnett continues, "to decipher the clues. It's very, very hard. On top of that they're trying to sail a three-masted ship with huge sails. It's epic!"

Here is a first look at the men and women, who, Burnett says, "knew a lot about the world of pirates and all agree had they been born 250 years ago, they'd have like to have been pirates." In other words, meet the pirates:

Christa DeAngelo
Age: 29 Hometown: Tamaqua, Pennsylvania Occupation: ex-military

Ben Fagen
Age: 23 Hometown: Charleston, South Carolina Occupation: musician

Louie Frase
Age: 43 Hometown: Fishing Creek, Maryland Occupation: marina owner

Kendra Guffey
Age: 38 Hometown: Los Angeles Occupation: dive master

Jay Hatkow
Age: 37 Hometown: Detroit Occupation: automotive parts salesman

Azmyth Kaminski
Age: 26 Hometown: Los Angeles Occupation: music producer

Cheryl Kosewicz
Age: 35 Hometown: Sparks, Nevada Occupation: district attorney

John Lakness
Age: 25 Hometown: Carlisle, Massachusetts Occupation: scientist/Chippendale dancer

Joceyln "Joy" McElveen
Age: 21 Hometown: West Columbia, South Carolina Occupation: receptionist

Elicia "Jupiter" Mendoza
Age: 30 Hometown: Los Angeles Occupation: bartender

Joe Don "J.D." Morton
Age: 36 Hometown: Ft. Wainwright, Alaska Occupation: smokejumper

Nessa Nemir
Age: 29 Hometown: Berkeley, California Occupation: make-up artist

Christian Okoye
Age: 45 Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga, California (and originally from Nigeria) Occupation: former Kansas City Chiefs player

Laurel Schmidt
Age: 21 Hometown: Los Angeles Occupation: glass blower

Alexis Shubin
Age: 26 Hometown: Laguna Beach, California Occupation: fashion publicist

Sean Twomey
Age: 27 Hometown: Venice, California Occupation: bartender

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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CBS to debut Mark Burnett's new 'Pirate Master' reality series May 31

By Christopher Rocchio, 04/18/2007

Avast, there! Batten down the hatches and prepare to set sail as CBS has announced that Pirate Master, a new swashbuckling reality series created by Mark Burnett, will premiere on Thursday, May 31 at 8PM ET/PT -- the seventh anniversary of the date that Survivor, Burnett's original CBS reality series, debuted.

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"This is high stakes, high seas, high adventure and the life of a pirate," Burnett recently told TV Guide. "It's a huge -- and hard -- adventure, with jumping off waterfalls, swimming up canyon lakes and crossing mud-filled jungles."

Pirate Master, first announced last November and reportedly filmed last month, will follow "16 people who all agree that had they been born 250 years ago, they would have liked to be pirates," according to Burnett, as they travel around the Caribbean island nation of Dominica in search of hidden treasure that will total $1 million. However because only a foolish pirate would bury all their treasure in one spot, different amounts of booty will be found at different locations.

"Of course there is a search for a buried treasure. It maybe at the jungle river, at the mountaintop jungle, or it could be by the ocean," Burnett explained in a preview video released by CBS. "Every week there's treasure, and it's worth a lot of money. Most reality competitions finalize with somebody getting half-a-million or $1 million. In this case, it's spread each week! In the first week alone, they're competing for $40,000 U.S.-dollars worth of Spanish doubloons."

The series will begin with the 16 contestants dressed in period costumes to look like pirates and traveling in the black of night via longboats to a 179-foot, square-rigged barque that carries 12,500 square feet of sail, which will serve as their home for the 33-day duration of their high seas adventure.

Pirate Master's modern-day buccaneers paddle in their search for $1 million worth of hidden treasure (Photo credit Monty Brinton/CBS)
"It's like you've gone into Disney Land -- into Pirates of the Caribbean -- and you're doing that ride... but it's for real," Pirate Master host Cameron Daddo explained in the CBS-released preview video. "They come onto this pirate ship and I'll introduce them to the Chest of Zanzibar, which is a chest from the late Captain Henry Steel -- who lived in the 1700s, a pirate -- and the journey begins."

According to Burnett, Steel -- a fictional character created by Burnett -- divided his treasure equally among his crew before burying it at different spots on Dominica.

"Each man returned to the ship with a set of maps and hid them in a chest with 14 compartments, and it was only a few weeks ago that the chest was recovered," Burnett told TV Guide. "So the contestants are sailing to a different destination each week around the island looking for the treasure."

As the pirates decipher clues in search of the treasure, some will receive gold coins following each expedition. While the contestants may take the gold coins -- which are real money -- with them once the journey is over, it can also be used to strike deals with fellow contestants in the competition. Burnett said Pirate Master's motto is "Watch your back," a phrase that could definitely come into play in deciding how to use the booty advantageously.

"Pirates have their own rules, and while they need to work as a group on the expeditions, you never know who's going to stab you in the back," he told TV Guide.

The pirate crew consists of eight men and eight women, and while there doesn't appear to be any mention of them being divided into Survivor-like tribes, the contestants will "elect a captain amongst them," according to Daddo.

"What they don't realize is they've elected this captain, the captain takes the largest share of this treasure. So that's going to be a, 'What!?'" Daddo explained. "The captain will have to choose two officers to serve under him. The remaining pirates -- who helped him find the treasure -- are splitting scraps that's left and going below deck to act as servants," added Burnett.

Needless to say, the hierarchy on the ship leads to some hostility.

"[The crew has] to cook and serve their captain. So the two officers and the captain sleep in luxury and get all the food while the other guys are eating porridge and swabbing the decks," Daddo explained to TV Guide.

Each episode will conclude on the ship with Pirate's Court, a Tribal Council-like gathering where all of the remaining contestants will have their say.

"Pirate's Court is a place where three pirates are marked with a black spot by the captain, and they have to defend themselves," Daddo explained. "No one's ever safe... no one is ever safe. There has to be a unanimous decision by the crew, but it could be the captain gets cut loose. Anyone of them can be cut adrift from the ship. There's no censorship. It's 'You do what you want to do, and damn the consequences!'"

According to Burnett, being "cut adrift" translates into being put on a raft and sent out of the game.

"If you can't run with the crew, if you can't swim or row or navigate, you're a liability," Burnett explained. "On a pirate ship, every pirate had their say. If the captain went too far, there could be a mutiny. What really makes this series pop is the democracy element on the ship."

Pirate Master will conclude with one contestant being the first to find the largest amount of booty, which is worth $500,000.

"It's a lot of fun, a great summer yarn," Burnett told TV Guide.

And according to Burnett, the cast -- which includes "a very tough Nigerian who became an American and a former Navy rescue swimmer, who's currently a smoke jumper" -- was definitely up for the adventure. "Everybody's a good athlete, but what they've learned is that to be a great pirate, you have to be really smart," Burnett told TV Guide.

Burnett says he first wrote the format for Pirate Master in 2003.

"It's a big endeavor to pull off," he told TV Guide. According to Daddo, it should be worth the wait for viewers. "What's going to suck people in about this show is the romance, the sea, the adventure, piracy... the freedom of piracy," he told TV Guide.

Pirate Master is produced by Mark Burnett Productions. Burnett and Lisa Hennessy are the executive producers. Eden Gaha and Page Feldman are the co-executive producers.

Lexie_girl
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If there are 16 people and a deserted island, our Ginger is all over it!!!



Mack
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07-23-2002

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Darn! We were in Dominica on a cruise in March and saw the sailing ship off shore and didn't know what it was. Asked one of the locals and he said it was for some pirate movie. Thought maybe he meant it was left over from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies so didn't pay much attention! Darn!

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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I knew I read somewhere that there was $1 million. Evidently, it's $500,000 during the playing of the game, and then a different $500,000 to the winner.
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"The most interesting twist to this show is the gold. Each week the contestants will find actual gold coins (worth a total of $500,000) which are theirs to keep even if they get booted off the show. The twist is that they can use the money in the game as well to bribe and buy the loyalty of the other crew members. At the end of the series, the final remaining pirate will become the Pirate Master and win the remaining treasure worth another $500,000. With any luck, the contestants will take the whole pirate thing to heart and make this a really cut throat series."

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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I had trouble getting this picture up earlier, but I finally found it in a format where I could upload.
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Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

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Yea!!! CLUES that they have to solve - which I LOVED on Treasure Hunters! Of course, it seems like the whole gang will be working on solving the clues together, but I still welcome back actual brain work!

Pamy
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YAH Ginger!!! aye aye matey! You arrrrrrrrhhhhh the best!!!!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

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I am wondering if the marina owner - who I could hope has a clue or two about boats - might be elected as the captain?

Are there full bios up somewhere?

Wonder if they had sailing lessons? A boat that size could be hard to handle wih an all amateur crew.

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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Here's the link to the trailer for the show. Good Stuff!!! Hope the link works.

http://www.cbs.com/innertube/player.php?cat=135999&vid=136003&format=&auto=1

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

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Tntitanfan --- go to CBS.com and select the Pirate Masters show and all the pictures of the players will come up. Click on a picture and you'll get a bio of each of the players.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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woohoo looks good!

Twiggyish
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I was just reading some of their bios. I like Louie and Christian so far. Azmyth has the most interesting one. You have to read it to believe it. His wife lives in Thailand and he has a cat and two pet snails.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

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I will check out the bios tomorrow when I am at the library hiding out from my housekeeper who talks and talks and talks!

Thanks for the info - can you believe I already have this on a favorite key (bookmark for computer folks)?