BS: talk like a pirate day

Subject: BS: talk like a pirate day Sept. 19
From: open mike
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:28 PM

shiver me timbers, all you bilge rats, i mean mud cats...get ready
for www.talklikeapirate.com   this day comes up on Sept. the 19th.

(i tried to find previous threads, but none came up on the search..
plus i have been cautioned by a certain mud elf clone not to refresh
threads (which i do not understand, especially in the case of re-curring events...such as this)

---

There is no prohibition against refreshing one thread on any given subject - that is a good and noble thing.
The prohibition is against refreshing several threads on one subject, all at the same time - this tends to confuse things.
Thank you, and Aaaaargh!.
-Joe Offer, the original, not a clone-

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:31 PM

Think, megalomania.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:33 PM

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Can't even make a proper blue clickie, Arrrr! Ya Lubber.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Amos
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:44 PM

Arrgh, begarr, ye scurvy sons of seaslugs. I yam sick and tired of this mockery of pirates. The black pox upon you all.


A

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,The Paisley Pirate
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 03:37 PM

Avast ye blackguards! Y'are a fearsome crew, but I admire the cut of yer jibs! Howsa 'bout we adjourn to the aft-cabin for some sinfully delicious prosciutto and melon balls? Just leave your cutlasses here in the sword caddy, don't want anyone getting poked by accident.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: kendall
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 03:57 PM

Keep it up Matie and ye'll be getting the black spot!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: bubblyrat
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 03:57 PM

WHO put sand in the vaseline ?? It'll be a rough passage tonight,Jim lad !!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:16 PM

Arrr, Jim Lad, put me off on yon spit a land. And, can I get yer sister's phone number?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:21 PM

I was at the dentist office today for a check up, and the receptionist had a little skull charm necklace on. I asked, "Are you ready for talk like a pirate day?" and we both said "Aarr, matey" at the same time.

That was the only thing either of us could think of!

How could I forget "shiver me timbers".

I wonder what pirate-speak really was.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:25 PM

Aharrgh, Open Mike, looks like it be your turn in the barrel!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: romanyman
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:35 PM

pirates favorite shop------------aaaaargos
and so on me hartys

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:47 PM

Ahoy, matey! Do ye hail from Arrrrghansas? I thought so! I could tell by yer Arrrrghyle socks!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:01 PM

Billy The Squid?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:17 PM

So, is "Talk Like a Pirate Day" always on September 19, or is it always the third Saturday in September, or does it depend on Presidential Proclamation, or what?
When and where was the first one?

Aaaaaaargh!!

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:28 PM

It's in wikipedia.
Sept 19 each year.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:32 PM

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html


The Original talk like a pirate day web site

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:33 PM

I don't think we know how Pirate's spoke. They came from many different backgrounds and classes, so their accents would reflect that. I think our concept of how they spoke was framed by Wallace Beery. For those who don't remember, he was a lovable lug of an actor who had hits movies in the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Beery was an American, but he adopted a British accent when he played Long John Silver in Treasure Island. More specifically, he adopted a Somerset accent, and not well either. Captain Hook of the Disney Peter Pan movie had a very upper class London accent. Johnny Depp chose a working class London accent, based on Keith Richards, for his Capt Jack Sparrow.
But somehow, Beery's singsong Somerset accent is what stuck as iconic pirate speak, me Hardies.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:41 PM

Well, LEJ, I did some research to answer my own question and actually deleted what I was going to post before you posted.

Basically, since Bristol and that area of England was a source of many of the pirates we think of when we say "pirate", the slang and dialect from southwest England is the majority of what "pirate talk' would be.

We've probably already discussed this on other Pirate Day threads!!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: bobad
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 06:03 PM

A horse named Arrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 06:51 PM

"Taliye xigeenka AMISOM ayaa lagu dilay Muqdisho, taliyihiina waa la dhaawacay. Isu geyn 9 AMISOM ah, ayaa ku dhintay weerarka is-qarxinta ah ee Shabaab ku qaaday Xalane.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Celtaddict
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 09:54 PM

Please enlighten us, McG of H. Is this how a current Somalian pirate might speak?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Beer
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 10:07 PM

That was a great find Bobad.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 11:56 PM

Bobad! How on earth did you find that? It's hysterical!

Okay, I'll say it since no one has, yet:

Yo, ho, ho and a bottle o'rum!

tickledfeline

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Gurney
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 12:29 AM

Suitably, Her Indoors put 'The Yetties' on the stereo. Aghhhh.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Rasener
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 01:37 AM

You be Son of a Biscuit Eater Sprogs. Give em the Cat o' nine tails
Ah ha

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: open mike
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 04:17 AM

another version of that you tube clip of the horse race has two news announcers exchanging quips...and one says "why did the pirate go to the movie? the answer it that it was rated rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 04:20 AM

So I guess tonight it's Paaaaaaaaaaaarrrrty night at my house! Bring your own rum.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 11:19 AM

Oh, my gawd, the horse race with Arrrrrrrr winning!
Bobad, I have not laughed so much in days. thanks for that

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 11:21 AM

Arrrrrrr Pirate fonts for talk like a pirate day.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 11:24 AM

more direct link

Pirates and Fonts

Can we have the mudcat page be a pirate font for a day? No, just kidding, don't have a heart attack, Joe.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 11:31 AM

Reading the different fonts, this is the quote set in "Delitsch Antiqua".
------------

"Such a day! Rum all out!
Our company somewhat
sober! A damn'd confusion
among us! Great talk of
separation. So I looked
hard for a prize - took one
with a great deal of liquor
on board, so kept the company
hot, damn'd hot; then all things
went well again."
from Blackbeard's log
-------

Rum... it's what's for breakfast, lunch and dinner

(in the US, we have beef tv ads, Beef...it's what's for dinner)

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 11:41 AM

I saved most of those fonts to add to my collection....

You too can have them, and install them and tell YOUR computer to use one of them for today.

(It's nice to have options....I have most of my browsers set to use fonts I like better than the default.) Palatino Linotype is a current favorite.




oh yeah.....arrrggggghhh

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 01:57 PM

I once installed all of the 500 fonts Print Shop Deluxe offered to install. Bad choice.

But yes, Bill, Palatino Linotype is very nice. Maybe we could have German Fraktur type for the Guests on the BNP threads??

Arrrrrrr!~!!!!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: open mike
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 09:46 PM

previous thread here:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=63077#1559253

in which we learn of "what's your pirate name" website,
and other delights..

open mike..a.k.a. Iron Ethel Rackham

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 10:21 PM

There are many pirate name generators on the 'net, so I don't know which one you used... but... I'm

Iron Anne Bonney

and that's the most entertaining pirate name generator I've tried (and I tried them all) with the best name result!

Iron?? Are we twins????

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 01:12 AM

AAAARRRRRRRR! Someone pull this steerin' when out of me pants!!!


It's drivin' me nuts!!!


Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 02:21 AM

Well, here in California, it's not quite the end of "Talk Like a Pirate Day," so I went and got me a pirate name:

My pirate name is:

Captain Tom Cash

Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 11:52 AM

Why pirates? Because they AAAAARRRRRRRRR!!

Personally I blame Robert Newton.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Alice
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 12:32 PM

Captain! Of course! No one could doubt it!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: open mike
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 03:05 PM

ha, ha, ha, i mean har, har, har!

no one else could DO it
(insert a photo right in the threads)

good on ya, cap'n!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Rafflesbear
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 03:57 PM

Give me all your money or I'll kill you

how about a "Talk like a Terrorist Day"

or am I missing the point

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 04:54 PM

I suspect that there are quite a few people who have been stuck in Somali waters waiting for the ship owners to come up with their ransom who would miss the point as well.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Rafflesbear
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 05:15 PM

just a small selection of reports

Sailors' Society Ukrainian Port Chaplain Eduard Myrmyr is supporting the family of Sergey Vartenkov, the seafarer killed by pirates as they took control of the MV Marathon off the Somali coast

A 38-year-old Indian operator of a small fishing craft in Saudi Arabia has been shot dead by pirates, family sources said Monday. The victim, Diyanson, was from Kanyakumari on the southern tip of the Indian mainland

"The pirates then opened fire on the second vessel, climbed into the cabin and shot the captain ... three times in the neck," the radio report said

British sailor Malcolm Robertson was killed by pirates near the Buntang Islands of Thailand

Two robbers armed with guns in a small row boat boarded a catamaran at anchor in Brazil on February 8th. The captain confronted the robbers and was shot and killed

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 05:53 PM

Dunno about talk like a pirate day, but I swore like a docker at the git-faced bastard who carved me up on the roundabout yesterday morning by crossing 3 lanes of traffic in my blind spot... damn nearly took my front wing off - good job I stopped in time but the language I used (and had hurled at me) was not that of a lady.

Arr, an I were zo late gettin home that we neverrr did get the rum.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: bubblyrat
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 05:01 AM

Seen on Sat 19th (appropriately) going down the river Thames in Henley,a large and rather splendid cruiser,the crew of which were immaculately turned out in Pukkah Pirate Kit,and standing atop the cabin roof yelling "Ahh Haaaaargh,Jim Lad " and so forth to all and sundry.Quite impressive,actually !!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,BBP
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 09:48 AM

Fresh home from Otley where we sang like pirates and I waved my pirate flag around a bit.

Found out that "Time flies when you're having rum.........."

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: open mike
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 12:04 PM

not to make light of the atrocities of today
but to play with the historical images..

speaking of images i googled Otley Pirates
and found this rugby team...complete
with a folk band..know who it is? (they are?)
(the captions are a hoot!)

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Skivee
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 01:50 PM

Fer me and me swabees, every day is talk like a pirate day.
It's nice to see the swells joinin' in our fun.
Tis a yar thing, mates.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate (for private ears only)
From: Severn
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 04:10 PM

Yet once again, this year I'll forgo it, and in the manner of Pontious Pirate, wash my hook of the whole thing!



Or else say something like, "I know! I'll burn my own copies of these nautical music CDs and sell them to my pier group!"

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Cats
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 05:10 PM

Does anyone have the 'Pirate Training Day' sketch from the Million Dollar Radio Show? One of the funniest things I have ever heard.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Paul Burke
Date: 22 Sep 09 - 01:55 AM

تروح و تيجي بالسّلامة!

- is what a pirate is much more likely to sound like these days.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: open mike
Date: 14 Sep 10 - 08:39 PM

get ready....shiver me timbers....prepare to be boarded....
Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sunday!!
http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/49/how-to-talk-like-a-pirate

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=102105#2067624

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=73456#1274175

be wary of the Captain Tom Cash!!

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=102105#2067624

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=127501#2844995

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=44682#659562

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=73456#1274175

arrrrgh! Dread Pirate Bonney

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: open mike
Date: 14 Sep 10 - 08:53 PM

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=123701
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=63077

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 05:19 AM

Pirates did hail from these parts in Bristol, Robert Newton's interpretation of the accent for Long John Silver was pretty good compared to Dyke Van Dyke's cockney Bert in Mary Poppins.

So, oh'arr I be talking like that on Sunday for ee, shiver me timbers! I'll even get me a tot or two of grog special like. So long as me family won't be making me walk the plank by the end of the day, yo ho.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 07:11 AM

Don't all pirate accents (being vaguely south-western English) all stem from the first talking movie of Treasure Island, where the actor in the role of Long John Silver had a strong Cornish accent which he hammed up further for the part?

Or do all pirates come from Penzance?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,Patsy, pretending to work
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 08:47 AM

I wouldn't say Cornish, Jehro is more Cornish. Yes, I suppose it was hammed up a tad but for Hollywood and the time not too bad.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 11:15 AM

I read that Robert Newton exaggerated his own Dorset accent, where he originally came from.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: LadyJean
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 11:47 PM

I heard Peter S. Beagle sing a wonderful song about the pirate Mary Reade. It would be perfect for Talk Like A Pirate Day, if somebody could find the words.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Tangledwood
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 04:47 AM

One assumes that Thai, Malay and Somali accents will also be acceptable on the day?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Slag
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 06:25 AM

CD's cheap anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Old Vermin
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 06:41 AM

Cornish? Thought they sailed from Bristle?

How does the song go?

- Being a pirate is all fun and games
Until someone loses a ....

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:34 PM

My Avast! program just invited me to "Switch to "Pirate English" now, but I see it's not changing what I write, so not sure what it's all about!

My Morgan will love this on Sunday!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:37 PM

Ah, now I see. Avast! prompts, etc. in its menus are now in PirateSpeak, i.e. Crow's Nest: whar we be, Scour the ship, Gunnery & Shields, and Swabbin' the decks. What fun!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Paul Burke
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:39 PM

يو هو هو وزجاجة من الروم!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:46 PM

Just felt like parroting this: "CD's cheap anyone?" (Slag).

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Paul Burke
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 03:38 PM

Morgan (he of Panama) was a Welshman. What would a Welsh pirate sound like? Google translation thinks he'd say "ias fy coed". Afast yno chwi swabiau!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 04:56 PM

Paul, want to post that, either of them, phonetically? LOL..my Morgan is more Scots/Irish, but, through his mom's heritage, there may be some Welsh, too, along with Cherokee...so I wonder what a polyglot pirate would sound like?**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Paul Burke
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 05:10 PM

Well, perhaps something like "yas ve koid" which is Googlewelsh for "shiver me timbers", and "a vasty no khwee* swabbey- eye" for "avast there, ye swabs".

*kh as in khassid, sort of clearing the throat.

Never mind polyglot pirates, what about pollyglot parrots? "Darnau o wyth, darnau o wyth!"

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 06:52 PM

LMAOWSTAO! Much obliged, myte! (Oh, to be proper-pretend Welsh, it should be LLMAWPTAO!) Now, how do ya pronounce that?**bg**

(Can't wait to try these out on the puir wee lad.)

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 17 Sep 10 - 03:57 AM

Right shipmates, I will do this for a laugh and become Anna of the Indies for one day. Before I do I'd better warn the family first incase they think that I have really flipped this time!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: mouldy
Date: 17 Sep 10 - 06:18 AM

I've just changed my Avast! as that woman was doing my head in. Pirate speak is much better.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: open mike
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 11:47 AM

arrrrgh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdNRPmCv9s

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: EBarnacle
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 03:06 PM

Pee, ye swabs.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 03:54 PM

Eye Eye Captain!

Its not a patch on what it once was.......

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Bettynh
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 04:24 PM

The Ballad of Dirty Joe

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 09:42 PM

Zut alors! Je l'ai presque manqué! Tonner de Brest!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 10:27 PM

" Avast behind, avast behind!"

I know, but she's good with the kids

AD Aaaargh Lim Lad aaaaargh

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 11:51 PM

Bettynh, last year I gave my grandchildren Bill Harley's book about Dirty Joe the Pirate. It is so funny, and they were delighted by it. I think he had to edit it for YouTube--probably for length, not for content. The illustrations in the book are great, too. This year I read Laura Leuck's I Love My Pirate Papa to them. They enjoyed that, too.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Janie
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 12:44 AM

Arrrgh, me hearties! We must be getting too long in the tooth and short in the brain here to have forgotten.....

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: ragdall
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 01:54 AM

Me Da told us Captain Morgan were his grandfather.

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and bottle of rum.

Me pirate name be Dirty Tom Vane   
   Description:

You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You tend to blend into the background occasionally, but that's okay, because it's much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way.    Arr!

rags

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 09:28 AM

A pirate captain walked into a bar with a steering wheel in his crotch. The barman asks him if he knows that he has a steering wheel in his crotch and the captain replied, "AAAAAAAAARRGH! I do be knowin' that; it's drivin' me nuts!"

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 10:45 AM

Arrrgh Matey, Some day ... when the moon is full, ya can still here the typing of the mudcat lookin fer its next victim Arrgh

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: EBarnacle
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 10:03 PM

How could we have missed such an important holiday?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: EBarnacle
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 11:23 PM

By the way, it's PEEEA, not AAARGH. It's sorta like AAARGH but it's missin' a leg, lads and lasses.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 03:27 AM

Well there is an Arrrrrgh in the month!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: EBarnacle
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 08:39 AM

Actually, September has both.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 08:54 AM

Not all pirates have been happy people, as you can see from this clip.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 09:05 AM

Meet The Grammar Pirates

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: JMB
Date: 22 Sep 17 - 04:23 PM

I remember they had English Pirate as a language on Facebook. I'm not sure if they still do.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 08:52 AM

Tonnerre de Brest, indeed. Mille sabords. And happy birthday Grandfaaarrrh!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 10:46 AM

Don't know if anybody is old enough to recall the children's television series, 'The Buccaneers' starring the late and very lamented Robert Shaw as pirate chief, Dan Tempest
I can remember Liverpool kids roaming the streets chanting "I'm Dan Tempest"
The response was supposed to be "Where's Your Buccaneers?" and it would elicit the reply "On my buckin' head"   
Bunch of reprobates
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 12:36 PM

How much do pirates pay for those gold hoops? Oh, about a buck an ear.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 04:18 PM

...and then, I guess, Mrrzy, they are shipshape or mer made.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 05:03 PM

Mrr made! Hahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 01:42 AM

it's Talk Like a Pirate day!!

what's the largest volume of the Pirate's encyclopedia?
RRRR!


Being a pirate is all fun and games, 'til somebody loses an ear, ...

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 03:36 AM

Is it disrespectful to talk like a pirate on the day of the funeral of Haarrrggghhh Majesty Queen Elizabeth II?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 03:57 AM

definitely not, torrrrk away!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 04:09 AM

King Charrrrrrles?

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Helen
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 05:42 AM

I bought this t-shirt for my Hubby for his birthday last year:

pi-rate t-shirt

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 06:03 AM

brilliant!

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 11:52 AM

Written by John Masefield and me:-

                A Ballad of John Silver(John Masefield)

We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull,
And we flew the pretty colours of the cross-bones and the skull;
Yes our Jolly Roger flapping, gamely at the fore,
We sailed the Spanish Waters, in the jolly days of yore.
We'd a long brass gun amidships, like a well-conducted ship,
We each had, a brace of pistols and a cutlass at our hip;
Oh we were such naughty pirates,   you will certainly deplore
We chased   goody goody merchant-men and laid their ships aboard.
Oh cut and let rip!
Was the way on Flints old ship
Cos dead men tell no tales
Oh Me and Billy Bones
We sent ‘em down to Davy Jones
Weren’t we the jolliest gang o’ cutthroats under sail

Then the dead men fouled the scuppers and the wounded filled the chains,
And the paint-work all was spatter-dashed with other people's brains,
She was boarded, she was looted, she was scuttled till she sank,
And the pale survivors left us by walking of the plank.
Then while standing by the taffrail, lounging on the poop)
We could hear the drowning folk lament the absent chicken-coop;
Then, having washed the blood away, we'd little else to do
Than to dance a jolly hornpipe, like pirates tend to do
Chorus
O! the fiddle on the fo'c's'le, and the slapping naked soles,
And the genial "Down the middle, Jake, and curtsey when she rolls!"
With the silver seas around us and the pale moon overhead,
And the look-out not real looking, but his pipe-bowl glowing red.
Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the rotten tricks we played,
They’ve all been put a stop-to, by that nasty Board of Trade;
The schooners and the merry crews are laid away to rest,
A little south of sunset, in the Islands of the Blest.
So every setting of the sun
I fills me glass right up with rum
We as survived – our beards are old and grey
But we remember plain as print
Our dear Old Captain Flint, and his very genial orders of the day
(music and chorus and amendments to John Masefield’s lyric by Alan Whittle ©December 2007)

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 12:00 PM

or listen:-

https://soundcloud.com/denise_whittle/john-silver

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 12:38 PM

That ARRRRRRRRRRRR mighty fine original pirate worrrk.

Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 02:26 PM

I *knew* it wasn't just grandfather's birthday, arrr!