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Thread #63077   Message #2422428
Posted By: Paul Burke
26-Aug-08 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: talk like a pirate day (Sept 19)
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
Don't forget keelhauling*, woolding, hard tack, careening, wanking the plork**, scurvy lubbers (or better still, curvy lovers), and hanging in chains at Execution Dock.

* Invented at Keele Hall, Staffordshire, as a punishment for unruly gardeners, who deserted en masse and took to piracy.

** I bet you didn't know Dr. Spooner was a pirate before becoming Master of New College, Oxford. He sailed the Mannish Spain flying the Rolly Jodger.