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Subject: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee Date: 07 Sep 03 - 09:22 AM On a happier note -- avast, me hearties! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike Date: 07 Sep 03 - 02:13 PM ok get ready...sept. 19 is a-coming! but does any one know what day is National Leave a Zuchini on your next door neighbor's back porch after midnight day??!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Allan C. Date: 07 Sep 03 - 02:30 PM According to this website in the USA it is also National Butterscotch Pudding Day and National Play Doh Day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Nigel Parsons Date: 07 Sep 03 - 02:38 PM AllanC is Play Doh Day a follow on from Camptown Races & Doo Dah Day? Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Allan C. Date: 07 Sep 03 - 03:05 PM Yeah, Nigel. That's where Foster got the idea. Later on, Joel Harris got into the act. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: lady penelope Date: 07 Sep 03 - 04:16 PM Ahoy Hoy me hearties, I dids me pirate personality test and guess what me buckos? Tis the Cap'n I am! Arr! stonking site Rapaire, Teehee TTFN Lady P. or should that be Lady P. Swashbuckling Queen of the High Seas, ahaa......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike Date: 07 Sep 03 - 08:07 PM yo ho ho and a bottle of rum by gum |
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Subject: Back to the zucchini ... From: Steve Parkes Date: 08 Sep 03 - 10:31 AM Zucchini? We call 'em courgettes, but I think the Z word is better, as it incorporates a sort to of "yuck" sound ... yucchini? But I have a query about the NLAZOYNDNBP Day: do you leave it on the morning of the day, i.e. at 00.01 hours on NLAZOYNDNBP Day, or the evening, i.e. at 00.01 hours on [NLAZOYNDNBP Day + 1]? Would it be more efficient to putthe Zs in the bin (trash)? Or even not buy them in the first place? How a bout a National (or International, since we're in different countries) Don't Buy a Zucchini Today Because You Never Eat Them Anyway Day? Then it wouldn't really matter what day of the year it was, would it? Or how about - let's think B-I-G -- the International Year of Not The Zucchini? And every time someone asked you, "whassamarrer?" you would say, "a pregnant cucumber!" to mark its being the IYNTZ. Steve (Don't even start me on the Pirates ...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Melani Date: 08 Sep 03 - 10:50 PM Everybody knows what day Sept. 19th is--my daughter's birthday! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:11 PM Gee Melani, we didn't know that your daughter was a pirate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:13 PM ok back to music--http://www.courgettes.at/ is this in austria? the squash is also called marrow or zuchinni Courgettes, Pumpkins and Squash all belong to the genus Cucurbita and all originate in North and South America. Cucurbita maxima usually describes larger pumpkins, Cucurbita moschata for many Butternut varieties and Cucurbita pepo for many of the small ones, and squash. Courgettes are usually of the species pepo. big ones make good door stops! and let's see how does this relate to pirates?? well maybe not but to holidays... well, perhaps it is connected to jack-o-lanterns (pumpkins with candles inside) http://www.jack-o-lantern.com/index2.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: LadyJean Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:34 PM I'm all for talking like pirates. If you buy a small zucchini, slice it thin, and fry it in olive oil, with a little parmesan cheese, it's delicious. It's the big zucchinis that people insist on growing in their gardens that wind up on people's porches. I spent a summer housesitting for a friend, and picking zucchini before they got too large. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: katlaughing Date: 09 Sep 03 - 12:07 AM Prepare to be boarded, indeed! Whatta pick-up line! Thanks, Rapaire for the link....LMAO!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Jeri Date: 09 Sep 03 - 09:11 AM Steve, just so you know, it's not that people actually buy zuchini. A well-meaning person may grow a plant or a couple of plants, thinking innocently, "won't it be nice to have an occasional zuchini for our family." One plant will then likely go on to produce about 10,000 zuchini. It's a waste to throw them out, so people take extras to the office, give them to their neighbors and put them in paper bags to drop into the cars of those people ignorant enough to leave their windows rolled down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee Date: 09 Sep 03 - 09:12 AM Like fruitcakes, I myself think that there are only about a dozen zucchini in the whole world. They just get passed around a lot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Mrs.Duck Date: 09 Sep 03 - 01:13 PM We bought three courgettes (zucchini) on Saturday!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Micca Date: 09 Sep 03 - 01:21 PM as the French say ( I think, my hearing is a bit suspect some times) Courgette , Mon Brave |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: smallpiper Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:01 PM Excellent site I did the test and came out as the Capn' so be warned you buckets o tar I brooke no impostors arrr me lads! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: RangerSteve Date: 09 Sep 03 - 09:15 PM Open Mike - National Leave a Zucchini On Your Neighbors Porch Day has passed. I have a page-a-day calendar with all those important holidays on it, and I definately recall that day, but since I threw the page away, I can't tell you the exact date. You have to keep your zucchinis. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee Date: 09 Sep 03 - 09:21 PM "Aug 8 Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbors' Porch Day -- Due to overzealous planting of zucchini, citizens are asked to drop off baskets of the squash on neighbors' doorsteps." |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Gray D Date: 19 Sep 03 - 08:44 PM Avast behind! I'm not talking like a pirate, I just happen to have . . . Gray D (Benny Hill? Who's Benny Hill?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 03 - 09:01 PM dave barry on npr all things considered today..[plus pirate rap} see Pirate thread |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: reggie miles Date: 19 Sep 03 - 09:37 PM Heave to ya scurvy devils! Then this be the perfect day to be retellin' one of me favorite stories of the briny deep. Tis been locked away in the Mudcat Storytellers Page, er, th' seachest long enough, just waitin' for th' proper time. ARR! Now gather round ya swabs and pay heed t' these words lest you be the subject of me next salty tale. The One What Bitsed Me Washboard's Leg Off! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: fox4zero Date: 20 Sep 03 - 07:28 PM It's not the quantity of zucchini which becomes a burden, it is the oversized, over-matured, tough zucchini which one tries to palm off on the unsuspecting. Thew are as difficult to get rid of a nuclear waste. Thank God for the Zucchini Borers!! Larry |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Melani Date: 21 Sep 03 - 12:46 AM I have a great recipe for stuffed oversized tough zucchini--you just cut it in half, scrape the insides out, stuff it with whatever you want, and bake the living daylights out of it. I got the recipe from a pirate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: GUEST,pdc Date: 21 Sep 03 - 07:28 PM With matured, oversized zucchini, one of the best things you can do is make a chocolate zucchini cake. Google for recipes -- they're all delicious, and because the zucchini keeps the cake moist, it lasts a long time, or it would if it weren't so delicious. Also freezes beautifully. And... Marge Piercy (1936-) Attack of the Squash People And thus the people every year in the valley of humid July did sacrifice themselves to the long green phallic god and eat and eat and eat. They're coming, they're on us, the long striped gourds, the silky babies, the hairy adolescents, the lumpy vast adults like the trunks of green elephants. Recite fifty zucchini recipes! Zucchini tempura; creamed soup; sauté with olive oil and cumin, tomatoes, onion; frittata; casserole of lamb; baked topped with cheese; marinated; stuffed; stewed; driven through the heart like a stake. Get rid of old friends: they too have gardens and full trunks. Look for newcomers: befriend them in the post office, unload on them and run. Stop tourists in the street. Take truckloads to Boston. Give to your Red Cross. Beg on the highway: please take my zucchini, I have a crippled mother at home with heartburn. Sneak out before dawn to drop them in other people's gardens, in baby buggies at churchdoors. Shot, smuggling zucchini into mailboxes, a federal offense. With a suave reptilian glitter you bask among your raspy fronds sudden and huge as alligators. You give and give too much, like summer days limp with heat, thunderstorms bursting their bags on our heads, as we salt and freeze and pickle for the too little to come. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Geoff the Duck Date: 21 Sep 03 - 08:50 PM Isn't an oversized zucchini (or courgette) a perfectly ordinary MARROW??? You Know - BIG green thing full of water! Recipe = You cut it in half lengthwise - scrape ALL the contents out (bung them in the bin) then fill the shell with cholesterol laden minced beef fried in butter and herbs! Ideal for the meat eater who wants to try vegetarianism (without all them GREEN things)??? Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Geoff the Duck Date: 21 Sep 03 - 08:53 PM Whoops - MISSED the Talk Like a Piate DAY - too busy looking after the Littlies at Otley Folk Festival. (I expect I threatened to Keel-Haul at least one of them before the day was out! - so may have qualified???) Quack. GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike Date: 07 Sep 04 - 01:49 PM swab the deck, ye hardies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Teresa Date: 07 Sep 04 - 02:10 PM Heeheeheehee, did you see the disclaimer at the bottom of the quiz? I love it: "School Psychologists, Social Workers and Clinicians should be wary of using the TOTLAPPI when qualifying students for IDEA services, DSM IV identifications (under any axis) or as a part of any professional assessment. Medical professionals are hereby cautioned not to use the TOTLAPPI as a tool to determine appropriate medications and/or dosage. Lawyers are hereby notified that the results of the TOTLAPPI are not admissible in most state and federal courts with the notable exceptions of The Bahamas, French New Guinea, Madagascar and Wyoming. Amnesty International has requested a moratorium on the TOTLAPPI in Death Penalty Cases until the American College of Psychiatry and the British Psychological Association can complete a twelve-year longitudinal study into the TOTLAPPI's efficacy rate and cultural bias. This tool was designed for use solely by Pirate Captains and Web Surfers. Please do not attempt this in any professional setting." And I am ..."Th' Cabin Boy/Galley Wench (take yer pick)". |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike Date: 18 Sep 04 - 10:44 AM the original pirate thread... can this be combined somehow witht eh other two--i do not think we need 3 threads on this same subject.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Kaleea Date: 19 Sep 04 - 12:28 AM So doth this mean that I needs must to spend my Sabbeth munching on zuchini which I hath sliced with my sword whilst swashbuckling the play doh-eth & chaseth it down with a pudding of butter & scotch all the while crying "AAArrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" "Shiver me timbers. Methinks all this is truly NOT in the official Pirate's Code handbook." |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Alaska Mike Date: 19 Sep 04 - 12:31 AM "Awwwk, awwwkkk, pieces of eight, pieces of eight." Parrot Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 19 Sep 04 - 01:05 AM Arrrrrhh! 't brings tears ta me one good eyeah! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: mooman Date: 19 Sep 04 - 03:16 AM More importantly (for me) it's "Car Free Day" where we live. Yippee...no pollution today and we can all ride our bikes all day where we like without fear of being mown down! Peace moo |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: kendall Date: 19 Sep 04 - 08:51 AM One way to tell if a man has no friends, you see him BUYING zuccini. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: kendall Date: 19 Sep 04 - 08:55 AM ...so take up the sheets me hearties, water the decks with brine bend to the oars ye lousy whores none is bigger than mine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Sep 04 - 09:32 AM Ready to come! Hard to head! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: SINSULL Date: 19 Sep 04 - 09:35 PM Actually, it's "Ready to come about, hard a lee." Same idea, I suspect. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: keberoxu Date: 15 Sep 16 - 04:55 PM Anticipating, I know -- it's ALMOST September 19th |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Mr Red Date: 15 Sep 16 - 05:25 PM OK one for the techies of this parish "what sits on your shoulder and goes 'pieces of nine' ?" a parity error. and one for larger than average pirate: Q "Does my backside look big in these trousers?" A "Avast behind!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: ChanteyLass Date: 15 Sep 16 - 08:09 PM Good ones, Mr. Red! |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: keberoxu Date: 16 Sep 16 - 10:59 AM By the way, I can't find that Pirate Personality Index test that the first posts in this thread go on about....the webpage, yes, but not the test. |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 16 Sep 16 - 12:26 PM I am not celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day this year. I'm celebrating Quack Like a Duck Day instead. It's a new alternative holiday for those for whom TLAPD has become a bit passé. QLADD occurs on September 19, the same day as TLAPD. The premise is quite simple: when spoken to by anyone other than a police officer, quack like a duck, particularly when the other person is speaking Piratese. Participants are encouraged, but are by no means required, to dress in duck costumes, eat duck weed, and leave runny green poop on sidewalks. Unlike TLAPD, there is no rum drinking involved. QLADD participants celebrate by guzzling cold duck sparkling wine straight from the bottle. If the novelty of talking like a pirate has worn thin for you, now's your chance to get in on the ground floor of the next really stupid made up excuse to be an ass in public and drink 'til you puke. Worldwide participation in QLADD is at a all-time low! Start celebrating now and someday you'll be able to tell your grandkids, "I was quacking when quacking wasn't cool!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: SqueezeMe Date: 16 Sep 16 - 10:06 PM A better idea than "Walk Like an Egyptian Day", suggested elsewhere. But then again, you might see The Bangles in a different light.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 17 Sep 16 - 12:13 PM damn, Bee-dubya-ell, I knew I should have bought that Walking Pet Duck Balloon when I saw it recently. I wanted to walk it home, but I continued what I was doing & the store was closed when I came back a few minutes later & I went sadly home. sniff. I have a collection of rubber duckies in my bathroom, & so wanted that balloon duck! sandra (still regretting not buying that duck) |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: bubblyrat Date: 18 Sep 16 - 08:49 AM " Who put sand in the vaseline ,eh ? It'll be a rough passage tonight !" |
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Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Mo the caller Date: 18 Sep 16 - 09:19 AM I'm always uncomfortable about this glamourising of pirates. Not only were they ruthless killers, but they still are in some oceans. |
