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		Nerdy pirate becomes mayor of small town in the maritime nation that is Switzerland (theregister.co.uk)		19
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433		2012-09-24 03:23:56 AM

Perhaps he is a privateer for Nazi gold?

Real Women Drink Akvavit		2012-09-24 06:23:19 AM

More like a privateer for other people's intellectual property.

Public Savant		2012-09-24 06:35:37 AM

So he used a Diebold to download votes?

xanadian		2012-09-24 07:24:53 AM

what the

/oh, internet...

Shmeat		2012-09-24 07:33:57 AM

Mayor's chair now looks like this:

www.bklyons.com

Father_Jack		2012-09-24 07:35:25 AM

This is awesome.

ES LEBE DIE PIRATEN!

wish the US had more of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_party

Sybarite		2012-09-24 07:43:44 AM

Aw man. I was really pulling for Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (sound effect of horse whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeker) Featherstone Smith (blows whistle) Northgot Edwards Harris (fires pistol, which goes 'whoop') Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots, stops singing) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeker) Tiger-draws Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mannering (hoot, 'whoop') Smith.

Stealthdozer		2012-09-24 08:04:34 AM

I wonder what the Swiss Navy thinks of this?

Real Women Drink Akvavit		2012-09-24 08:12:26 AM

Stealthdozer: I wonder what the Swiss Navy thinks of this?

I doubt they're too worried about their fleet of three rowboats. I hear oars really hurt if you get smacked with 'em.

xanadian		2012-09-24 08:13:26 AM

Stealthdozer: I wonder what the Swiss Navy thinks of this?

They think electing a Pirate for mayor is a slippery slope.

GET IT? SLIPPERY? SWISS NAVY LU...oh forget it.

Marcintosh		2012-09-24 08:22:01 AM

Stealthdozer: I wonder what the Swiss Navy thinks of this?

Hey now, last I knew they had a submarine . . . for underwater tours of Lake Geneva

WordsnCollision		2012-09-24 08:22:15 AM

Stealthdozer: I wonder what the Swiss Navy thinks of this?

www.pharmabiz.pt

/Nuthin', they're too busy minding the mints.

LordOfThePings		2012-09-24 08:45:35 AM

Meet the city council

collider.com

BitwiseShift		2012-09-24 09:07:09 AM

St Gallen and Gosseau, the Cantons around Eichberg.

Just a minute there Miss South Carolina. Eichberg is only in the Kanton of St Gallen.

Monophtalmos		2012-09-24 10:01:06 AM

Unfortunately the Pirate Party of my country is a wild melange of frustrated Socialists (not Obama-style, real Socialists), nerds and plain stupid people who think they know something because they have an opinion and a blog. They are so irritating, that even the morons who first voted for them are beginning to abandon ship.

Huntceet		2012-09-24 11:30:38 AM

Rufus Lee King: Gotta watch those pirates.

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Captain Peter P. Pissgums and his pervert pirates. I remember them from Zap comics.

Myria		2012-09-24 11:44:10 AM

Right, because Swiss town mayors have great influence on copyright policy...

Half Man Half Biscuit		2012-09-24 12:12:52 PM

Sybarite: Aw man. I was really pulling for Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (sound effect of horse whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeker) Featherstone Smith (blows whistle) Northgot Edwards Harris (fires pistol, which goes 'whoop') Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots, stops singing) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeker) Tiger-draws Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mannering (hoot, 'whoop') Smith.

He came in second place.