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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (220260)	3/22/2013 6:13:41 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) of 542168

Ah - reminds me of the Dread Pirate Roberts... We've got our own dread pirates today but they are not swayed by the virtue of our lives or mission. From Princess Bride (1987) - "Well, Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts', he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia." Westley goes on to explain that the method works because Roberts' notorious reputation inspires overwhelming fear in sailors. Ships immediately capitulate and surrender their wealth rather than be captured, a fate they imagine to be certain death. A pirate operating under his own name is said to be incapable of such infamy: "No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley."

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