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Pirates Telescope - Need Help

#1 Postby Cookiely » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:54 pm

Does anyone know the technical name for the spyglass used by pirates?
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#2 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:57 pm

Cookiely I believe they are just called spyglasses in pirate lingo
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Re: Pirates Telescope - Need Help

#3 Postby Cookiely » Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:08 pm

Thank you so much. I thought it was called a spyglass but my sister thought it was ocular or something.
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#4 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:13 pm

Ya I am 99.9% sure you are right.. An ocular I believe is one of the machines an optomatrist uses
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#5 Postby artist » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:32 pm

I think it was also called an eye glass.
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Re: Pirates Telescope - Need Help

#6 Postby streetsoldier » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:45 am

Gimme th' glass, ye lubbers..ahhrr, thar she be! Port Royal, all pretty an' green-like, wi' the smell o' rum and smokin' beef served up by comely wenches! ALL HANDS, ASHORE, AHHRRRR! :ggreen:
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Re: Pirates Telescope - Need Help

#7 Postby Nimbus » Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:38 am

A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the devil's seat twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northeast and by north main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the left eye of the death's-head a bee line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out.

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