enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Long John Silver - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Silver

    Long John Silver has a parrot, named Captain Flint in honor—or mockery—of his former captain, [3] who generally perches on Silver's shoulder, and is known to chatter pirate or seafaring phrases like "Pieces of Eight", and "Stand by to go about". Silver uses the parrot as another means of gaining Jim's trust, by telling the boy all manner of ...

  3. Long John Silver's - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Silver's

    Long John Silver's, formerly known as Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppes and sometimes abbreviated as LJS, is an American chain of fast-food restaurants that specializes in seafood. The brand's name is derived from the character of the same name from Robert Louis Stevenson 's novel Treasure Island .

  4. Shiver my timbers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiver_my_timbers

    "Shiver my timbers" was most famously popularized by the archetypal pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). Silver used the phrase seven times, as well as variations such as "shiver my sides", "shiver my soul" and "shake up your timbers". Another pirate, Israel Hands, also uses the phrase at one point.

  5. NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Martinsville (spring race)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR_Craftsman_Truck...

    The 200-lap 105.2 miles (169.3 km) race is currently known as Long John Silver's 200 for sponsorship reasons. In 2020, as part of schedule realignment , the fall race became the only Truck Series race at the track as NASCAR decided to give the track one Xfinity Series race instead.

  6. Captain Flint - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Flint

    Captain Flint is a fictional character in the book Treasure Island, created by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. [1] In Stevenson's book, Flint, whose first name is not given, was the captain of a pirate ship, Walrus, which accumulated an enormous amount of captured treasure, approximately £700,000.

  7. I Tried 7 Side Dishes from Long John Silver's. These ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/tried-7-side-dishes-long-120000225.html

    Best: Corn. $2.99. Texturally, this is pretty far away from what you want from real corn. I'll just say that right now. It's chewy and a little bit tenuous; nothing like fresh corn.

  8. Israel Hands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Hands

    Hands' and O'Brian's drunken fight on the Hispanola One More Step, Mr. Hands by N.C. Wyeth, 1911, for Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.. Israel Hands appears as a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island and media based on it, in which he is the Hispaniola ' s coxswain and one of Long John Silver's pirates.

  9. Long John Silver's Banishes Trans Fat for New Healthy Menu - AOL

    www.aol.com/food/long-john-silvers-banishes...

    Seafood chain Long John Silver's recently announced that its entire menu now has zero grams of trans fat due to a transition from partially hydrogenated cooking oils to 100 percent soybean oil in ...