Last evening I strolled up to our local pub for a drink, and as it happens taking place there was a pool match between our village and a team from the local town

The visitors were very friendly, amiable people and it was a pleasure to welcome them there. However they looked to me as the most heavily tattooed crowd I have ever seen and it got me to thinking back to the film world – something I do all the time.

I thought that Queequeg from Moby Dick 1956 who seemed very strange indeed at the time, would have fitted in very well with this team. His tattoos would probably have made him the star of the team I reckon

Queequeg played by Friedrich von Ledebur

Queequeg is the best harpooner aboad the Pequod sailing ship. He predicted death in chasing the big white whale and did not survive the sinking of the Pequod, in Herman Melville‘s literary masterpiece Moby Dick.

Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, the obsessed master of the Pequod, in the 1956 movie: Moby Dick.

Last night at the local and in many other areas these days, Queequeg would certainly not seem out of place