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Fun with captions? Ok!

1. Chris Thile really hoped that these kinds of gigs were a thing of the past after he won the MacArthur grant.....

2. Just started a Mandolin Cafe thread... "I travel a lot for work.... Often in high humidity... My instrument will be exposed to the hot sun on the quarter-deck.... What case should I plunder?"

3. "Here's me treasure map, ye scurvy dogs...X marks the spot of a priceless horde of BlueChips!"

[JeffD]

"I had to do the pirate bit. I already had a mandolin. All I needed was the vest, the poofy shirt and the tricorn hat."

[bassthumper]

the foulest,scurvy dog on the seas...BLACKBEARD MONROE (shiver me tonebars)

[bassthumper]

be honest Jeff...you've had that poofy shirt for years....lol

[Dan Hulse]

"I would have never taken this gig if I'd known I'd have to play w/ a bodhran"
"Well, at least he's not mic'd"

[Dan Hulse]

Begs the question...and what does a pirate look for in a wench?

[mrmando]

"Pay our ASCAP performance fees? Of course we paid our ASCAP performance fees! Who do you think we are -- pirates?"

[Scottydawg]

Argh....so this is what happens when you request "Wagon Wheel" a your local jam every week.....!!?

[SWS]

And in local news;

Authorities continue to investigate how more than a dozen previously unreleased Monroe tunes were Pirated.

[chopcity]

No you scalawag, my cut of the booty was the Medallion, the gold Medallion!

[Daniel Nestlerode]

"Stupid parrot. No appreciation for music."

[Anglocelt]

1. This was the tune that did fer those banjo totin' buckaneers
2. And with this chord I lured Grace O'Malley onto the rocks
3. This one was salvaged from the wreck of the San Diego; it's true what they say about sinker wood!