Colorful and forgotten founding fathers Jul 16, 2008
William Whipple went from cabin boy to brigadier general of N.H. militia ... Born in Kittery, Maine, William Whipple shipped out to sea early as a cabin boy. (CNN -- US)
Centuries-old sketch comes home Jun 5, 2008
Little-known work showing Musqueam chief made in 1792 by Spanish cabin boy ... That we know about him at all is thanks to a young Spanish cabin boy with an agile sketch pen who drew the Musqueam chief during a visit by his country's navy to the waters off Point Grey in June of 1792 ... " The gift from Spanish Ambassador Mariano Alonso-Buron was also a reminder of the almost-forgotten presence of Spain in the early days of West Coast exploration. While Capt. Vancouver and Captain James Cook, who... (Globe and Mail)
VeggieTales delivers an entertaining spoof Jan 11, 2008
The pirates -- who played a key role in "Jonah" -- are actually busboys, or rather cabin boys, at a themed dinner theater featuring a buccaneer motif ... They inadvertently wreck the ship with their ineptitude and are quickly fired from even the cabin boy jobs. (Los Angeles Times)
Parody 'Mounting Mount Everest' gets a foothold and not much else Dec 13, 2007
Best known for his loopy appearances on Late Show With David Letterman and the for-stoners-only cult flick Cabin Boy, Elliott squanders a perfectly good premise by overindulging the silly stream-of-consciousness that has become his signature shtick. The conceit here is the sudden appearance of a diary that seems to support the notion that Elliott's addle-brained Great Uncle Percy was the first man to reach the top of Everest not famed explorer Sir Edmund Hillary. (USA Today -- Life)
Airship Ventures blogs about bringing a zeppelin to the USA Jun 23, 2007
by is an entrancing tale of a cabin boy aboard the , a vast airship sailing the world in an alternative victorian-esque reality. So alternate, that the arrival of a pirate airship seems almost expected and ofcourse there are no shortages of the fictional Hydrium gas, with greater lifting power than helium and hydrogen. (USA Today -- Tech)
Fate of age-old ferry hits fork in river Jun 22, 2007
According to local legend, the town was settled by a cabin boy who sailed with Captain Cook. The ferry began as a hand-operated punt in the 1880s, before an engine-driven model was deployed in the late 1920s. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
6 more weeks of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL now alive on stage to August 4th Jun 7, 2007
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Queen of Suspense's book empire is expanding Apr 3, 2007
Thomas, while spending the summer with his grandmother, is visited by the spirit of Silas Rich, a cabin boy on a ship that sailed 250 years ago. Thomas is based on her 10-year-old step-grandson of the same name. (USA Today -- Life)
What I'm watching Jan 7, 2007
Ms. Grace even went for the widely panned 1994 Chris Elliott vehicle, "Cabin Boy.". "My kids make fun of me, but I like that," she says, defending the film. (The Standard-Times, MA)
List of specials Dec 22, 2006
12:30 (FAM) The Leprechauns Christmas Gold Art Carney is the voice of the oldest leprechaun who tells a tale of a young cabin boy and Christmas. (TBS) Movie National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (1989, Comedy) Chevy Chase, Beverly DAngelo. (The Palm Beach Post)
Let it show, let it show, let it show Dec 3, 2006
Art Carney is the voice of the oldest leprechaun, who tells a tale of a young cabin boy and Christmas. ABC Family. (Kentucky.com)
Seaworthy songs Jul 18, 2006
Like, say, the cross-dressing hero of Stuart Gillespie's "The Handsome Cabin Boy," and the choral narrators of "All for Me Grog," a carousing ode to rum, beer and tobacco. Although the songs tell many different stories, the point of view is consistent the narrators are scrappers and survivors, the rank-and-file sort. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Stax Report: Pirate Flicks Jul 7, 2006
Cabin boy Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) becomes entangled with pirate Long John Silver (Robert Newton) during a quest for the treasure of Captain Flint. A 1990 telepic version starred as Silver and future caped crusader as Jim. (IGN FilmForce)
Top 10 Tuesday: Best Use of Monkeys Jun 1, 2006
"You look like you need a monkey." Think David Letterman from Cabin Boy and you'll get the idea. 7. (IGN Dreamcast)
