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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 ...
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 .
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...