The Pirate Avery
Avery probably wouldn't enjoy knowing that one of her namesakes was one of the most famous and successful criminals in history, Henry "Long Ben" Every or Avery, "the Arch Pirate", "The King of Pirates" (born about 1656 & last heard of June 1696). Captain Avery and his crew were pretty close to being the scurviest scum who ever sullied the seven seas by sailing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every
Avery's personal name suggests she was named after the surname of one of her female ancestors, so she might possibly be descended from Captain Avery, who was married, or from one of his relatives. A relationship which I hope that all good kids would be displeased by.
And I guess that Captain Every or Avery would not be very impressed by Avery if he looked "up" at her activities from "down there". To his 17th century eyes, Avery would appear to be just another spoiled rich girl living a life of comfort.
But Captain Avery would be favorably impressed by Avery's actions in "Dog With a Hog" Nov. 11, 2012.
Stan is standing in for the mascot of Avery's high school team, the Terriers, when he is dognapped. Avery believes that Stan was snatched by someone from the rival high school in Pasadena, and in one scene shows up at her house with the pig mascot of the rival team. The family scrambles to secretly return the pig before it is discovered Avery stole it.
Glendale, California, where they live, and Pasadena to the east, are each about 7.3 miles from east to west. Avery might have transported the pig only a few hundred or thousand feet or up to to 14 miles. Since she doesn't drive, she presumably walked, leading the pig on a lease.
This trivia item says:
Kuma (who plays Stan) didn't mind working with a 700 lb pig because he lives on a farm and grew up with farm animals.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2433796/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
So the pig weighed 700 pounds and probably at least 7 times as much as Avery. If the pig was not well trained and obedient, it could have dragged Avery along the sidewalk by the lease, pushed her into a street to be run over by cars, or grabbed her leg in its mouth and tossed her over the parapet of a bridge they were crossing. Some of the roads from Pasadena to Glendale cross a ravine on bridges, so a pig would have a chance to toss Avery over a railing to her death.
I'm a lot bigger and stronger than Avery in that episode, but I have little faith in my ability to get a large pig to walk 14 feet in the direction I want, let alone miles.
Captain Avery probably grew up in a country village - Newton Ferrers in Devon - and would have been impressed by so small a girl with no farming experience daring to move so large a pig so far by herself.
And Captain Avery would have been very impressed by Avery's calmness while metallic carriages propelled by magic whizzed past her terrifyingly close. share