How do you think a pirate would ask you to grab a drink? MARK SUMMERS: Yo-ho. I be Captain Slappy, and I'm here to slice the main brace with ye. INSKEEP: Splice the main brace is a nautical phrase, ...

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — Pigeon Forge's pirates are taking Christmas to the high seas. Pirates Voyage Dinner & Show's first holiday-themed show, a swashbuckling spin on "A Christmas Carol," opens on Nov.

'Twas the week before Christmas, and in the DVD store, four newly released midrange theatricals each tried to score. By Thomas K. Arnold, The Associated Press ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and in ...

The idea was born in 1995 on a YMCA racquetball court in Oregon when John "Ol' Chumbucket' Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers began throwing around insults -- just like pirates. Seven years later, ...