Music
Yes, I am a pirate
Two hundred years too late
The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder
I’m an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
—Jimmy Buffett, “A Pirate Looks At Forty”
An ex-corporate raider with schizoid delusions, he sold his lear jet and bought a fleet of sailing ships in hopes of ruling the high seas. Now if only he could remember which eye to put the patch on...
—"Patch" description, Atlantis Underwater Tycoon
"Whenever pirates turn up in a romance set more recently than 1843, you figure the filmmakers ran out of ideas."
— Roger Ebert 's review of Six Days, Seven Nights
