Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) From: Mr Red Date: 20 Sep 16 - 03:12 AM should be in October When there is an O Argh in the month |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) From: Mrrzy Date: 19 Sep 16 - 06:55 PM I remembered! Someone at a helpdesk asked me to verify the date and it reminded me... usually I just think of my grandfather's birthday, so arrr, to gain a brief advantage I've contrived, but my proud triumph will not be long-lived... (well, words sung TO a pirate, but hey). |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) From: keberoxu Date: 19 Sep 16 - 02:18 PM It's now. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) From: Big Al Whittle Date: 19 Sep 11 - 10:00 PM most folks bain't knowin' their arrrrrgh's from their elbow I think Blackbeard Bob (Dylan) said that |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 11 - 11:49 AM arrrrgh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdNRPmCv9s |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) From: open mike Date: 23 Sep 10 - 02:58 AM I be be eyein' this with pleasure to find I can choose Pirate talk as my language on Facebook! Arrrgh! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 22 Sep 10 - 04:50 AM Oh arrrrrrgh'it all went well shipmates! First of all mates I swabbed the decks so everything was ship shape before the crew woke up. Then plundered me piggybank for hidden treasure and loot to go scouring Morrisons's supermarket for grub to fill our bellies oh arrrrgh! The main reason for this quest was to get supplies of fruit to prevent scurvy and mutiny amongst the crew. After ransacking the aisles I came upon some grog to wet our whistles to go down a treat after dinner oh arrrrrgh! So it was all hands on deck me hearties and a yo, ho, ho and a bottle of er, cider?! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: ChanteyLass Date: 21 Sep 10 - 09:05 PM I was really excited about Talk Like a Pirate Day, but as it turned out I spent the whole day alone at home except to put a letter in my mailbox and trash in the bin! Maybe next year . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: maple_leaf_boy Date: 21 Sep 10 - 11:58 AM They have "Pirate" as a language choice on Facebook. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: katlaughing Date: 20 Sep 10 - 03:14 PM I've been having a blast listening to my Avast program announcing to me, in piratespeak, that all my blackguards have been quarantined and such things as a ship's bell dinging, then, "Ahoy, matey, yer ship be secure!" It's much better than hearing the flat-toned, mechanical woman's voice saying, "Virus database has been updated." |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 20 Sep 10 - 02:50 AM a pirate's life is a rough life... so many missing eyes, legs and hands... with eye patches, wooden legs and hooks, the life of plundering and looting goes on! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Eric the Viking Date: 20 Sep 08 - 01:34 PM Well I got into right trouble trying to be realistic, when I cut the leg off the hall table !!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 20 Sep 08 - 11:20 AM avast me hearties, how did it tgo? did you get a few arrrrrrgh's in yesterday?! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: bubblyrat Date: 20 Sep 08 - 09:31 AM I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but a good way to identify yourself as a pirate afficionado is to stand on one leg,close one eye,and,imitating Robert Newton (the definitive Long John) exclaim lasciviously ; " Who put sand in the vaseline ?? It'll be a rough passage tonight ! " |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Eric the Viking Date: 19 Sep 08 - 06:58 PM And now I dun it wiv a ceilidh all nite fer grown up's and pretty, young, wenches !!! Bin a good day then ain't it? 'Till next year then. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: ClaireBear Date: 19 Sep 08 - 04:55 PM GUEST, the Rest of the Alphabet, you are rather thoroughly addressed in "The Pirate's Alphabet" lyric, q.v. I trust you will find yourself sufficiently acknowledged therein. Ooooooh-errrr. Claire |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,The Rest of the Alphabet Date: 19 Sep 08 - 04:17 PM Okay people, look here... There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. Count 'em. Twenty-six. So why is it that only "R" gets to be a big deal on Talk Like a Pirate Day? Does anyone ever say, "Emmm! Avast me hearties and swab the poopdeck afore I tickle yer gizzards with me pigsticker! Emmm!" No! It's always "Arrr". Well, the other twenty-five of us have had enough. Consider this a warning shot across your scurvey bows. If we don't get some recognition, and get it pronto, we're going to board yer fleabitten sorry excuses for pirate ships, haul down yer Jolly Rogers, and shove 'em up yer communal arses! We demand equal representation! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Eric the Viking Date: 19 Sep 08 - 01:18 PM Well I dun it wiv kids all day !!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Charley Noble Date: 19 Sep 08 - 12:27 PM Here's a link to images from the recent Down East Pirate Days Festival in Rockland, Maine: Click here for a knotty and nautical time! The largest singing group in these pictures is my group Roll & Go. Arrgghhh! Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 19 Sep 08 - 09:52 AM AARRRRRRrrrrr, she be not worrrrth keelhauling.... I'm off to charter an accountant now... working for the HMArrrrrrrrrrC has it's benefits. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Rapparee Date: 19 Sep 08 - 08:17 AM Keelhaul the wench! Aaaaargh! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 19 Sep 08 - 07:44 AM I tried this today but my boss told me off.. she doesn't believe in it. So haaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrd she is.... LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: ClaireBear Date: 19 Sep 08 - 02:33 AM Makes a pirate proud, it does. Thankee kindly. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Desert Dancer Date: 19 Sep 08 - 12:59 AM Claire -- we have it on our list for tomorrow night's event here at Sonoracohousing! ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: ClaireBear Date: 18 Sep 08 - 10:02 PM In honor of the Day, I'll point you once more to my spin on the Sailor's Alphabet, "The Pirate's Alphabet," at this thread ... oh, what the hey, I'll refresh it! Claire |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Charley Noble Date: 18 Sep 08 - 09:35 PM This song was just forwarded to me via Bob Zentz and does reflect the spirit of the occasion: Talk Like A Pirate Day (Words and Music: © 2003 by Tom Smith) Most days are like all of the others, Go to work, come back home, watch TV, But, brother, if I had me druthers, I'd chuck it and head out to sea, For I dream of the skull and the crossbones, I dream of the great day to come, When I dump the mundane for the Old Spanish Main And trade me computer for rum! ARRR! T' me,...Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day! When laptops are benches God gave us fer wenches, And a sail ain't a low price ta pay! When timbers are shivered and lillies are livered And every last buckle is swashed, We'll abandon our cars for a shipfull of ARRRs And pound back the grog till we're sloshed! Yo ho.... Don't pick up yer phone and say "Hello, Our ten-o-clock meeting's delayed", Ye scrunch up yer face and ye bellow, "AVAST! Ye've been bleedin' BELAYED!" Ye can't keep this fun to yerself, I bet, So sing "Aye!" "ARRR!" "Ayy!" every man! We ain't got much grasp of the alphabet, But a damn good retirement plan! T' me,...Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day! Whatever's in fashion is in for a thrashin' And bein' polite is passe! When it's ev'ry man's duty to grab his proud beauty And let out a hearty YO HO! And if this offends you, hold y'r breath as we sends you Ta Davy Jones' Locker ya go! Yo ho.... We'll tell every banker "Heave to and weigh anchor!" Buy latte with pieces of eight We'll fight to be chosen as cap'n or bosun The loser, o' course, is worst mate! When we hoist Jolly Roger, the landlubbers dodge 'er, We fill 'em with loathing and fear, We'll plunder and pillage each city and village, Or at least clean out Wal-Mart of beer! There ain't no computin' or morning commutin', No "Parking Lot Full" signs for me, No lawns ta be mowin' or bills to be owin', I'm knowin' the pull of the sea. The fresh salty brace of the wind on my face Through hurricane, sunshine or squalls, I'm keepin' my eyes on the distant horizon, Verizon can hold all my calls! To wear a red coat full o' buckles, To earn a few duelling scars, Well, at least we can get a few chuckles By filling the office with ARRRs! And maybe we'll never get closer, Than watchin' 'em on the big screen, So here's to old Errol and Depp as Jack Sparrow, And every damn one in between! T' me, Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day! That time in September when sea dogs remember That grown-ups still know how ta play! When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy And a soft-wear patch covers your eye, Ta hell with our jobs, for one day we're all swabs And buccaneers all till we die! So hoist up the mainsils and shut down your brain cells, They only would get in the way, Avast there, me hearty, we're havin' a party, It's "Talk... Like... A Pirate" Day! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Eric the Viking Date: 18 Sep 08 - 03:53 PM Coz they aaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh !! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Mrrzy Date: 17 Sep 08 - 07:11 PM Yes, very funny, also the one about the seagull poop... I love this holiday, why are pirates so much fun to pretend to be pretending to be? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Desert Dancer Date: 17 Sep 08 - 06:16 PM For those who need to brush up on Pirate Talk for Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr! Talk Like A Pirate Lessons Later we post the referrals for vocal fold node repair... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 17 Sep 08 - 02:29 PM shave 'im in the belly with a rusty razor... oh, oops. that's another thread... heard the one about the red shirt..and..brown pants? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: dwditty Date: 17 Sep 08 - 09:39 AM The count down is on the site shown in Eric's post above. I will be celbrating, where else, CJ Sparrow Pub & Eatery in Cheshire, CT. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Eric the Viking Date: 06 Sep 08 - 04:50 PM http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html Welcome to the one and only, official, accept-no-substitutes Talk Like A Pirate Day Web site. So thereeeeeeeeeeeeeeee e are |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Eric the Viking Date: 27 Aug 08 - 12:49 PM Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrhhhh. There was pirates up in Orkney (John Gow) I can't wait az I'll beez a playing fera local ceilidh in St Margaret's Hope. But here for your delight is a goodly link to Pirate filmz. http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Film.html I have all the gear ready except the wooden leg. Personally I likes to read," A history of pirates" by Nigel Cawthorne. Then I kisses the captain's daughter or get to grips with Jaques Sores, but I thinks they're getting better. Shiver me timbers |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Walrus Date: 27 Aug 08 - 05:28 AM Am I correct in assuming that TLAPD approaches? If this day is held as a holy day by the CFSM (Pastafarians), then surely they must also honour "'Saint' Robert Newton of Mummerset", the man who gave pirates their distinct accent and habit if speaking only in the present tense. So I turns to face execution dock at Wappin', I raises me glass an' I drinks to the memory o' pirates past. W |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: EBarnacle Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:26 AM Remember, Peeey is better than Arrr, it's missin' a leg. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:06 AM oh yes f.s.m. how could i forget? yo ho ho |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Paul Burke Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:55 AM 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. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: olddude Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:37 AM Suddenly below deck Captain Spaw was over heard saying Arrrrr Lassie Check out me avast Jolly Rodger arrrrr |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Rapparee Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:18 AM Of course! TLAPD is sacred and must be celebrated appropriately. Rum, cutlasses, wenches (or wrenches for the wenches), marooning, carooming, plundering, and rum are all appropriate. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 26 Aug 08 - 06:53 AM You see, open mike, one of the basic tenets of Pastafarianism (followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are known as Pastafarians) is that there's a direct correlation between the increase in global warming over the last few hundred years and the decrease in pirates*. By actively participating in Talk Like a Pirate Day, we are also helping save the planet. *There are those who claim that there are actually more pirates on the seas today than at any other time in history. But those aren't real pirates. They don't say "Arrr!" and drink rum. They're nothing but the seagoing equivalent of muggers and carjackers. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 26 Aug 08 - 03:56 AM I think we should all dress like pirates...all year round. :0) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: gnomad Date: 26 Aug 08 - 03:31 AM For Open Mike, at least I think that is what was meant. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 26 Aug 08 - 02:17 AM wot's FSM? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 25 Aug 08 - 10:46 PM Yes, TLAPD is the most holy of days to Pastafarians. May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Rapparee Date: 25 Aug 08 - 10:21 PM Do not forget that in talking like a pirate you also honor the FSM. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: dwditty Date: 25 Aug 08 - 09:35 PM I play regularly at a place up the road called CJ Sparrow. Thanks to this thread (or the original) the crazy celebration has become one of the highlights of the year. dw |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: PoppaGator Date: 25 Aug 08 - 09:31 PM The other day I saw a vanity license plate ~ on a Jaguar! ~ reading: AARRGGHH (Louisiana plate) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Severn Date: 25 Aug 08 - 08:18 PM Be-yawned, the Blew Whore Risin', you say, OM? OK, I'd better practice... "I wash my hook of the whole thing!-Pontius Pirate "I wash me manos of the whole theeng!"-Pancho's Pirate Now I'll sing go some coarse airs, like "Teach Me Tonight!" and cuss at the moon..... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 25 Aug 08 - 07:26 PM re-fresh----arrrgh--- sept is coming over the horizon |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Big Al Whittle Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:37 AM My new Long John Silver Son:- http://www.bigalwhittle.co.uk/id24.html |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Big Al Whittle Date: 07 Jan 08 - 04:41 AM that James Joyce has a lot to answer for......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 20 Sep 07 - 10:18 PM refresh |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 20 Sep 07 - 02:38 PM arrgh! missed it by a day this year... aka Iron Ethel Rackham |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Big Al Whittle Date: 26 Sep 06 - 02:50 PM Shiver me timbers for being a ship's yonker, I be keepin' a weather eye open for next year. Howards Way starts again on UK GOLD on Friday, I be getting the 6am ration of grog in for it specially. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Sep 06 - 01:12 PM Has anyon enioticed one bit of puirate speech that seems to be coming baclm into current use in my part of WEngland anyway - I mean, people serving in shops and pubs and saying stuff like "Here you are, my lovely". |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Waltzing Matilda Date: 26 Sep 06 - 12:34 PM The answer to the question - Why do film pirates speak with a Somerset accent - simple - athenticity. A great many Pirates were from Somerset. Have a good look around some of the graveyards in Somerset - the stones with no inscriptions and the scull& crossed bones in each corner - that will be a pirate! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,The Dread Pirate Roberts (from 'Ull...) Date: 20 Sep 06 - 08:21 AM Only if I can too, my dear Elizabeth. 'Arrr.....Arrr' Mayhap I need to practice a lttle, afore the 'morrow. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Sep 06 - 05:49 AM Bugger... missed it. Can I do it tomorrow instead? LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,polly wants a ****ing cracker Date: 19 Sep 06 - 11:45 AM swear like a pirate's parrot day ? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,The Dread Pirate Roberts (from 'Ull...) Date: 19 Sep 06 - 10:08 AM ermmm..... *coughs politely* AAAARGH! *ahem* Its TODAY? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Rapparee Date: 19 Sep 06 - 09:35 AM Oh, utter nonsense! In addition to software you can pirate DVDs, CDs, MP3s and other stuff. None of that climbing up into the rigging during a storm or being hung in chains between the tides, either. Of course some of the software pirates might slap you silly with their hankies, but that's a risk of the job. And those white-collar prisons, why, you might not even have a graphite tennis racquet! As for talking like a software or video pirate: "Well, I see we're several seconds short on the ending. Just sell it anyway. Nobody really cares how this turkey ends." |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Crystal Date: 19 Sep 06 - 09:31 AM Arrrrrrrr Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh *cough, cough, splutter* I be needin' more grog! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Dave the Gnome Date: 19 Sep 06 - 09:29 AM Be there grog in ye softyware scheme, mack lad? Wenches I can do without as long as Roger the cabin boy be about but 'bout me rum would be a sorry state. Arrrrr. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: mack/misophist Date: 19 Sep 06 - 09:04 AM Calm down you fools. I'm a software pirate. More up to date and better booty. No wenches, though. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Dave the Gnome Date: 19 Sep 06 - 08:27 AM Avast ye scurvy swabs. I be actin like a pirate all the time. It be bout time time to talk the same. Arrrrr. Dave the Pirate |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Morticia Date: 19 Sep 06 - 08:06 AM Ah har, me hearties. Here we be again! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Le Scaramouche Date: 27 Sep 05 - 10:04 AM They are too from Cornwall. Have ye ne'er seen Pirates of Penzance? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,mick Date: 27 Sep 05 - 08:13 AM c flat How wrong ye are my hearty good friend . The pirates be from Dublin ,not Cornwall they speak loike pirates everyday in Dub. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Le Scaramouche Date: 27 Sep 05 - 05:14 AM I am reading Pyrates by GMF, can't stop laughing. Everyone who enjoys Talk Like a Pirate Day or grew up on Swashbucklers must read it!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: number 6 Date: 23 Sep 05 - 09:04 PM like Queen Jane ?? sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 23 Sep 05 - 08:17 PM Approximately... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Lady Hillary Date: 22 Sep 05 - 11:25 PM Actually pi bes 3.14159 |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Sep 05 - 06:47 PM The Ninja Pirate Strikes Again! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Sep 05 - 08:58 AM The Pirate Ninja & The Great Pie Quest! More Pie! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Big Al Whittle Date: 21 Sep 05 - 10:20 PM you forced them by walking the plank at cutlass point......I've been to Dublin, I don't recollect anybody going arrrrrr! Jim Lad! smart as paint! splice the mainbrace, haul up the anchor! and avast matey! Its quite a thought, O'Connell street full of people walking up and down going arrrr! going into Davy Byrnes and everybody shouting, Avast matey! bloody hell it must be late, I'm getting weird thoughts. you be forgetting Jarge, it be me what's taking care of MR Harrow! (my favourite line from the film) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: number 6 Date: 21 Sep 05 - 11:18 AM I always suspected Dubliners were pirates. sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,mick Date: 21 Sep 05 - 08:30 AM In Dublin ,everyday is Talk Like a Pirate Day. For any aspiring actor who might be reading this bit of BS : if you want to speak in an authentic real auld Dublin accent ,speak like a pirate . I have lived in the north side of that fair city for many years now and have forced many's the dub to reluctantly accept that they do in fact speak like pirates. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 20 Sep 05 - 11:50 AM Arrr! What with the Mudcat being down most of the day yesterday, I was unable to relate this story until this morning. Please forgive my tardiness. Arrr, y'all. Jus' got back from a run inta town an' everbuddy down t' th' feed store wuz talkin' like pirates. I wuz jus' standin' there readin' th' label on a bottle obv pig wormer when ol' Zeke walks in an' says, "Ahoy, ya lot obv scurvy bilge rats! I be needin' ten bag obv scratch feed an' five obv layin' mash. Be loadin' 'em inter me truck whut's on th' starboard side obv th' buildin'. An move smartly, now!" Now this ol' gal name uh Mabel wuz standin' at th' counter waitin' fer Jake whut runs th' feed store t' measure out sum collard seed fer her an' she didn' take none too kindly t' ol' Zeke jus' bargin' in an' throwin' his weight aroun'. "Avast, Zeke, ya ol' sack obv barnacle shite!" Mabel hollered at th' ol' codger, "I wuz here first an' if'n ya don't belay thet order fer thet scratch feed an' layin' mash 'til I'm done I'll be goin' up 'side uh yore head wif a grapplin' hook!" Well, they wuz hollerin' so loud thet Deputy Jim Bob whut wuz next door eatin' luch at th' Live Bait an' Sushi Bar come runnin' in. "Arrr, me buckos!" says Deputy Jim Bob, "If'n y'all don' be belayin' all yer squawkin' an' carryin' on I'll be haulin' th' lotta yer t' th' brig!" It wuz about then thet I remembered I don' even habv a pig no more an' thet I fergot somethin' er other obver t' th' Dollar Store so's I sorta snuck out th' door an' let 'em pirate folks work they own liddle problems out. I reckon mos' everbuddy'll be glad when t'morrow gits her so people'll be actin' an' talkin' like they normal selfs again. I ain't so sure thet lettin' rednecks talk like pirates is such a good idear. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: EBarnacle Date: 20 Sep 05 - 11:49 AM I just finished "Dead Man's Chest," by Roger Johnson. He reports this as a sequel to "Treasure Island." It is clear he does not know a sloop from a schooner or a gaff rig from a lateen rig but the story is worth reading as a story. It ties in John Silver, Jim Hawkins {Lt, RN}, Paul Jones and others rather interestingly with the American Revolution. Arrgh |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 20 Sep 05 - 11:39 AM yo ho ho and a bottle of rum |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Sep 05 - 06:16 PM Somebody ought to set "The Inchcape Rock" to music. It would make a good number for Hallowe'en. I don't suppose it really has to have 17 verses. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Lady Hillary Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:35 AM T'were a different lit'ry tradishun then. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Big Al Whittle Date: 11 Sep 05 - 12:05 PM Tired of walking the plank and looking for wrecks Long John Silver was desperate for sex Young jim hawkins was a willing young chum but that really wasn't his glass of rum Israel Hands (what a man! what a fondling machine!) George Merry! Ben Gunn, he was fun and quite keen Long John said, arrr! I fancy a quick Captain Hook But Stevenson left all this out of the book |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 11 Sep 05 - 09:10 AM Thought I'd share my favorite pirate tale. Read it from an ancient school book when I was about 10 years old. --------- The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was still as she could be, Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock The waves flow'd over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The Abbot of Aberbrothok Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok. The Sun in heaven was shining gay, All things were joyful on that day; The sea-birds scream'd as they wheel'd round, And there was joyaunce in their sound. The buoy of the Inchcape Bell was seen A darker speck on the ocean green; Sir Ralph the Rover walk'd his deck, And he fix'd his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring, It made his whistle, it made him sing; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape float; Quoth he, 'My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock, And I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok.' The boat is lower'd, the boatmen row, And to the Inchcape Rock they go; Sir Ralph bent over from the boat, And he cut the Bell from the Inchcape float. Down sunk the Bell with a gurgling sound, The bubbles rose and burst around; Quoth Sir Ralph, 'The next who comes to the Rock Won't bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok.' Sir Ralph the Rover sail'd away, He scour'd the seas for many a day; And now grown rich with plunder'd store, He steers his course for Scotland's shore. So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky They cannot see the Sun on high; The wind hath blown a gale all day, At evening it hath died away. On the deck the Rover takes his stand, So dark it is they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, 'It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising Moon.' 'Canst hear,' said one, 'the breakers roar? For methinks we should be near the shore.' 'Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell.' They hear no sound, the swell is strong; Though the wind hath fallen they drift along, Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,¯ 'Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!' Sit Ralph the Rover tore his hair; He curst himself in his despair; The waves rush in on every side, The ship is sinking beneath the tide. But even in his dying fear One dreadful sound could the Rover hear, A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell, The Devil below was ringing his knell. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Sep 05 - 05:33 AM Someone has to say it..... AVAST BEHIND!!!! And 100!! LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Sep 05 - 05:33 AM However, if you mean my 'glass of rum'... I may reconsider... are you skilled in these matters? It's been a while...... LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Sep 05 - 05:32 AM Touch my glass of rum and you lose your fingers matey! LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Big Al Whittle Date: 11 Sep 05 - 05:13 AM let's get me hands on you glass of rum! (more rhyming slang) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Leadfingers Date: 10 Sep 05 - 11:38 PM Talk like A Pirate ?? Gawd !! Hasnt Robert Newton got a lot to answer for !! Jim Lad !!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: number 6 Date: 10 Sep 05 - 12:10 AM I'm not sure exactly when (after the Falkland war I beleive) the Jolly Roger became the official emblem of 'the Royal Silent Service' but it was inspired by the quote "Submarines are underhand, unfair and damned un-English. The crews of all submarines captured should be treated as pirates and hanged" from Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, the Controller of the Navy (1901). sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: EBarnacle Date: 09 Sep 05 - 11:42 PM Is that like Barbry Allen? OR Barbry Walters? When did The Royal Silent Service adopt the device? It would be verrrrry interesting were the Coast Guard to attempt to arrest a friendly sub. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Barbarossa Date: 09 Sep 05 - 02:02 PM Alluh akbar!!! (or something). Aaaarrrhhh! None of ye's was expecting the Barbary Corsairs!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Donuel Date: 09 Sep 05 - 12:06 PM http://www.bartcop.com/russertx.gif |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: number 6 Date: 09 Sep 05 - 11:15 AM Just a point of interest here EBarnacle ... the Jolly Roger is now the emblem of the Royal Navy Submarine Service. sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: EBarnacle Date: 09 Sep 05 - 10:57 AM Back in 1980, when the movie "YellowBeard" was being released, one of their publicity people approached me, asking for the use of my bold and rakish schooner, the Nettie K, for an event in New York Harbor. Their intent was to raise the skull and crossbones at my main peak and get the boat arrested. [It is still illegal to fly the black flag under US federal statute.] When I asked how much they were willing to pay for the vessel's defense and redemption, they told me that there was no budget. I then encouraged them to depart on the side away from the quay. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: number 6 Date: 08 Sep 05 - 11:04 PM Hung out a Jolly Roger off the flagpole in my backyard today ... i did, and then read this thread ... yikes! sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Big Al Whittle Date: 08 Sep 05 - 08:45 PM I suppose we could always walk the plank (cockney rhyming slang) come aboard and shiver me timbers (that should do it!) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: *Laura* Date: 08 Sep 05 - 05:39 PM AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! (I have nothing constructive or even vaguely amusing to add to this thread - I just wanted to go 'arr') xLx |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: HuwG Date: 08 Sep 05 - 04:38 PM From the Goon Show, episode "Tales of Old Dartmoor": Major Denis Bloodnok: "Great Scott! They're closing in. Stand by to repel boarders!" Willium "How do you repel boarders ?" Major Denis Bloodnok: "Stop changing the bed linen!" |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 08 Sep 05 - 04:23 PM get ready...or would they say prepare to be boarded... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: dwditty Date: 08 Sep 05 - 03:56 PM refresh |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 18 Sep 04 - 10:37 AM aye, me hardies! (or is it hearties?) only one more day to prepare to be boarded! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 09 Sep 04 - 10:06 AM As mentioned above "The standard for pirate talk and behavior was set by Robert Newton, mentioned above by Big Pink." |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: kendall Date: 09 Sep 04 - 07:20 AM SO it's the black spot is it? which one of you scurvy bilge rats tore a page from the Bible to do this? Them as dies will be the lucky ones! Haharr. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST Date: 09 Sep 04 - 07:03 AM Blame that there Jeffery Farnol an' 'is Black Bartlemy and' all them screen images o' them underhanded English seafarin' freebooters.... Aharrr. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: M'Grath of Altcar Date: 09 Sep 04 - 04:45 AM The infant class in the school were I work got involved in talk like a pirate day last year. Great fun. Teaching children to have fun with language has got to be a good idea. Why do (movie) pirates talk in a (?) Somerset accent? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 08 Sep 04 - 10:55 PM I dunno Sledge, it hit me like a hammer... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: sledge Date: 08 Sep 04 - 05:51 AM Liz, shouldn't that be "what a jolly (walk the) plank" I never said it was funny. Sledge |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Jeanie Date: 08 Sep 04 - 04:50 AM Arrrr AaarrRRR AAAAHarrrrRRRRR me beautiies !! I thank 'e kindleee for a-bringin' this up from the depths an' remindin' me of this day fast approachin' on the horizon ! Seein' as ow those wretched urchin ratlets that be in my care for schoolin' are to be land-locked in their 'ovels at 'ome on that there day itself (it bein a Sunday), I be a-waitin' on me poop deck til the Monday to set sail with em : this year, to the Beach of Blood, a singin' as we go. Blacktooth Joan X - her mark Yay ! Pirate Day ! To think, I will actually get *paid* for this lark ! (The joys of being a drama teacher, Yay !) Have any of you got anything planned ? I recommend the offical Talk Like a Pirate Day website for ideas. - jeanie |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 08 Sep 04 - 04:20 AM I say chaps, what a jolly prank! LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: fat B****rd Date: 08 Sep 04 - 04:10 AM Love the idea, can't think of anything to say......... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: maire-aine Date: 07 Sep 04 - 10:56 PM Is it that time already? How time does fly! Aahrrr! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Pogo Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:52 PM Yearrrr!!!! >PO) Ah'll drink any devil's bastard o' ye down tae Davy Jones' Locker, so says Iron Anne Read, pirette...Point me t' tha rum, ye bilgesoppin' poppinjays!!!! An' where's me Shippendale Dancin' Cabin Boys? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:00 PM the thread sept. 19 is about talk like a pirate day.. perhaps a clone can make the title more specific? http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=62716&messages=30 |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Sep 04 - 04:22 PM Shiver me timbers!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Sep 04 - 02:07 PM FEMALE PIRATES, arghh! ~S~ |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 07 Sep 04 - 01:40 PM Avast! the day approaches... dread pirate bonney |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The O'Meara Date: 01 Oct 03 - 09:53 AM "He's dead. He's gone under. He's bought the farm. He is no more..." Personally I prefer an inflatable parrot, like the one used by Inspector Cleuseau. They last longer. When did a shoulder parrot become a pirate fashion item anyway? O'Meara |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: EBarnacle1 Date: 01 Oct 03 - 12:55 AM Get ee a daid parrot. They don mek sooch a mess, ye see. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 30 Sep 03 - 05:25 AM WHAT!!!!! He's still there!!!! Aharrrrr, blast yer damned guts, 'awkins, I'll 'ave yer other eye fer this!!!!!! Them prancin' pretty-polly pointy-headed pink-panted pantalooned pestilential poltroons wi' that embroidered floatin' brocaded boudoir o' theirs still be afloat!!!!! Yez swore ter me ye'd put a full double broadside through their port bulwarks an' seen them go (appropriately enough) to the bottom!!!!!! An' now that Pink accursed Peter wi' his high an' mighty mincin' lordly ways sez as 'ow 'e's still afloat!!!!!! Get a royal pardon will 'e? Die a Grand Duke will 'e? In the lap o' luxury will e'? Just ye wait till I get mesel' another gunner!!!! I'll trade yer in so I will 'awkins... fer a blasted parrot, see you!!! So, if'n ye didn't sink HIM 'awkins, who did yer sink, blast yer? An' where's that damned Iron Roger got to? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Mauve Peter, the Prancing Pirate Date: 30 Sep 03 - 01:10 AM Oh my, but you lads are in for a very chastening experience! My merry crew and my plucky ship are capable of marine choreography that will leave you breathless and lying on your beam ends. We're loading our long irons with chain shot this very minute and dancing and prancing in delight at the thought of the havoc we will wreak upon your leaky scows! Still, I am willing to give you both one more chance at redemption. I will accept a humble apology (if it is couched in properly respectful language). We can then meet for a nice libation at Percival's, where they have the best dancers in the whole Caribbean. Otherwise, I regret to say that your seafaring days are approaching their penultimate finale. C'est la vie! Please be judicious in your choices. The Pink Pearl awaits you! Mauve Peter p.s. Consider giving up all this "ARRRR!", and "ye" and "avast" nonsense. It makes you sound crude and lacking in subtlety. You'll never get a royal pardon and a knighthood by carrying on in such a fashion. I intend to retire as a Grand Duke and live in the lap of luxury after I have sacked Panama and plundered the Spanish treasure fleet, which I have promised myself to accomplish prior to reaching age 40. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST Date: 29 Sep 03 - 06:34 PM Iron Roger Bonney and Scarface Rufus versus the Prancing Pirate. So all right already! What happened next? Are they sunk without trace? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The O'Meara Date: 27 Sep 03 - 11:42 AM The standard for pirate talk and behavior was set by Robert Newton, mentioned above by Big Pink. As Long John Silver in "Treasure Island," he was the pirate with (perhaps)a soft heart, but in "Blackbeard" he had no redeeming features whatsoever, consistently charmed his own crew into fatal activities, and talked his way out of a major mutiny or two. He introduced the all-purpose pirate word "Arrrgh" to the public with immortal phrases like "Arrrgh, Main-yard, ye kilt me best hack 'n slash man..." and "Arrrgh, its a fine buxom wench ye are..." (A lot of that seafaring jargon came from the poor Irish sailors who were hired or shanghied onto those ships. "Bucko" for instance came from the Irish "me Buchal" and so on. You can see the patterns.) "Blackbeard" should be required viewing for anyone interested in pirate speech and behavior. I saw it as a kid, and I'll never forget the last scene in which Blacbeards crew buried him up to his neck on the beach and watched the tide come in. O'Meara (I'm Bloody Sam Rackham to ye scurvy dogs!) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Sep 03 - 01:47 PM Bugger all this, it's time to splice the mainbrace [again] Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: HuwG Date: 26 Sep 03 - 03:46 AM "Mad Dog Read" 'ere, in pedant mode. "Grog" is the Royal Navy's term for pure rum diluted with four parts water, and issued by pursers aboard. The term "Grog" itself is derived from Admiral Vernon, a stern disciplinarian who was known as "Old Grogram" by association with this stiff, unbending material. (Obviously, Vernon deprecated having seamen lying about half dead from privately acquired rum, usually pure firewater, and so made it an official, strictly controlled ration issue). Where was I ? Oh, I remember. Essentially, no self-respecting pirate would admit to drinking Grog (unless they had been discharged from, or deserted from, the Royal Navy). End pedant mode. Is such sea-lawyering punishable by marooning, keel-hauling, being triced up to the yardarm, or just having me vittles stapped ? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: EBarnacle1 Date: 26 Sep 03 - 12:46 AM Dread Pirate Vane 'ere. Seems lak a latta tawk and littul ectin' on't. I nowt ye seem to be steerin' clear a me hawse--possibul ye may have gatten tha run down feelin'. I'll jus lemme guns do the tawkin'. Whu'eva's lef will be left on tha wunnaful pesthole, Swinburn Island to keep the gulls company. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 26 Sep 03 - 12:25 AM Aye. It says as 'ow ye've got a real nasty throat infection..... Yer wants ter try a pint o' grog wi' the fresh squeezed juice o' a lemming fer that me bucko. Aharrr!!! Now where be that blasted mister Iron Roger Bonney wi' my ball? Or 'as 'e 'ad 'is bring-em-near on them there eyepatches fer 'isself, the swab, an' slipped his cable in the sea-mists? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: hesperis Date: 25 Sep 03 - 09:15 PM Arrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! Arrarr arrrarrarrarrarr. Arr arrrrr!! Arrrrrarrarr. Arrrr arrr!!!! Arr arrr!!!!!! Arr!!!!!! (Note to English speakers - the above actually says something.) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:47 PM Ahhhharrrrr, join forces sez 'e, does 'e? A greater evil than 'e or I together, sez 'e? Rid the world of it, sez 'e? An' ye suggest a-joinin' forces d'yer? Aye, an' I reck'n as how I might allow as yer mebbe right by the Powers, Bonney!!!! This be the time ter fight side by side. See you this new curse o' these 'ere seven seas belike!!! Aharrrr!!!! It be fit ter turn the guts o' any true seafarin' gentleman. There be every tarry-fisted hard-bitten, a-swaggerin' man-jack o' this 'ere crew o' mine a-standin' ready ter sweep the seas clear o' this threat ter the good name o' the privateerin' trade!!! An' shamelessly goin' on about 'is father's list o' prizes say-ha!!!!! More like the rowin' boats on the Round Pond, I'd ha' said!!! Come in number nine, yer time's up!!! Wi' a partidge in a pear tree!!!! Aharrrrrr!!!! Them damned an' accursed new-age johny-come-lately perfumed oily free-lovin' froggy frigate freebooters wi' their tasselled sails an' macrame riggin', all a-wearin' o' their fancy striped jerseys in fashion co-ordinated colours, and' wi' matchin' tastefully torn knee-length brocade britches....... Hmmmmm...... Them two jewelled lilac eyepatches be a bit o' all right, mind. I'll 'ave the ones off'n that there queer shaped first mate o' theirs wi' the long yeller hair an' the leather belt what he must ha' put on in a hurry seein' as 'ow 'e's forgot 'is trousers...... but across the chest be a damned queer place fer 'im ter wear them, by the blood o' Teach!!!!!!! Aye. let's be after 'em Bonney, an' we'll drink our grog out o' Mauve Peter's skull afore the sun sets on Tortuga! Oh, an' 'ere Iron Roger, afore as I forgets.... After that cannonade I give 'e through the mists from me four broadsides o' ten twelves and eight long nines, all a-loaded up wi' chain and roundshot, fair through yer bulwarks an' fer to take away yer main and mizzen in a storm o' iron and splintered timbers, ahharrrr.... Me master gunner, 'awkins, damn 'is eyes, was after sayin' as 'ow 'e'd like 'is ball back....... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Sep 03 - 07:31 PM AAAAAAAARRRRGHHGH!!! Me blood curdles with sheer horror!~ Avast!!! Scarface Rufus, I never thought I'd say it, but there's a greater evil out there than ye or I or both of us put together cruisin' these bedamned waters! Methinks we had best join forces, temporary like, and rid the world of it fer all time!!~! What say ye? Iron Roger |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 25 Sep 03 - 02:03 PM Uz do talk West Country cuz our voices do be modelled a'ter the greatest of all pirates Robert Newton who perfected the role of Long John Silver, so he did, arrr. Done a damn fine Bill Sykes, too. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Mauve Peter, the Prancing Pirate Date: 25 Sep 03 - 01:53 PM Well! I am SO disturbed at all this hostile, intemperate language flying back and forth between Iron Roger and Scarface Rufus! Now boys, settle down, or I shall be forced to sally forth, as it were, slap both your faces, take you by the ears and knock your heads together till you agree to get along decently as good gentlemen of fortune should! You may have heard of my ship, the Pink Pearl, renowned all across the Spanish Main. She's outfitted with the prettiest set of sails you ever saw, in bright coral pink, and her upper works are trimmed with avocado piping around the gilded decorations. My crew are a fine set of lads, not a missing tooth among the lot, and they're outfitted in chartreuse leggings that just have to be seen! I don't allow this sort of abusive language to be used aboard the Pink Pearl, and I don't suffer it easily when ashore either. Really, now, would you want your mothers to hear you talk that way??? I thought not. Let's be well behaved and all get along, shall we? By the way, you have no doubt heard of my father, the famous Blue Peter? He personally captured 35 galleons, 12 sloops, 3 frigates, 17 pinnaces, 1 galleass, and a barge full of dugongs during his unrivalled career. Well, that should smooth things over. I hope to share some reminiscences and a joke or two with both of you over a nice glass of absinthe some time in Tortuga or Port-au-Prince. Or tea at Percival's perhaps? Tally Ho, lads! Mauve Peter, the Prancing Pirate |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Sep 03 - 06:08 PM Not sure how many of ye lads have heard them Ontario pirates sing this successful pirate's ditty: By Al Parrish Tanglefoot © 1994 From Saturday Night at Hardwood Lake Adapted slightly by Charlie Ipcar Traighli Bay F-----Dm------------------------F---------------Dm It was June and it was hot, when on board the ship we got, -----------------------Gm-------Bb-------------F Shot and powder for the guns, and a hogshead full of rum, ---Am----------------------Dm Salt cod to last until the winter squalls; ------------------------------------F----------------Dm We made for the southwest, where the hunting would be best, ---------------------------Gm---------Bb-------------F Where them Spanish ships of old, ladened down with Aztec gold, -----------Am------------------------Dm Were the fairest game for gentlemen of fortune. Chorus: Dm------F--------------------Dm And with tar on our pigtails, and blood on our rapiers ------Bb------------F---------------C We'll fly the skull and crossbones. By God, we'll take no prisoners. ------F-----Dm-------------F---------------Dm ('Tis) hi ho a-way, boys; we'll sail for Traigh-li Bay, boys, Bb------------------------C7-----F Hoist the Jolly Roger, at the break of day. From up the crow's nest, then, called our third mate Mister Flynn, "Set the course and hold her steady, and for action make her ready – There's a Spanish galleon off our starboard bow;" We raised the black flag high, as that Spaniard turned to fly; We followed in her wake, 'til we could overtake, And dismasted her with chain shot and cannon ball. Chorus We pulled up along side with our grappling hooks and lines, Guns and cutlasses in hand, on the gunnels we did stand; Every sailor from the captain to the cabin boy; Saw three dead the chain had flayed; as we raised and crossed our blades, To their mates we gave our best, as the sun sank in the west, With pikes and swords, pistols, fists and feet. Chorus From the darkness till the dawn, that battle rag-ed on, We fought with manly fitness, for we meant to leave no witness; We lost Mister Flynn and one leg from the cabin boy; But with their treasure we retired, and their canvas we set fire, Left them sinking in the deep, where their silent bones can sleep, And we forged a leg of gold for the cabin boy. Chorus 'Twas August and still warm, when to Traighli we returned. Fifty-eight days on the Main; we've no need to sail again; We've gold and silver more than we can spend; Now half a century has passed, and of that crew I am the last; Fifty years I've walked these docks, and when I get a chance to talk I tell of how I got this golden leg! Chorus x2 Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Sep 03 - 05:50 AM Where's me buccaneers Mr Mate? Under yer buccan-hat Cap'n!! Ooh the old jokes, the old jokes. Groan groan. Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 24 Sep 03 - 03:18 AM Walk the plank? By the powers!!!! That be no real punishment fer a seafarin' man. That be a Victorian embellishment fer them adventurin' tales what they were so fond of. Yer actual pyrates an' buccaneers (them wi' the hat...) didn't hold with no walking o' the plank!!! Discipline on a freebooting ship were a more delicate thing see you. A cap'n that wanted to keep his ship and his crew took good care to make sure they knew what'd happen to any man-jack as turned agin 'is cap'n an' 'is mates!!! Swift and merciless were the usual way, wi' a cut throat or a ball through his body. Fer a matter less serious, if'n a touch up wi' the cat weren't considered sufficient, then a good keel-haulin' be more like it. Or maroonin' the miscreant on a sandbank an' then standin' off as the tide come in were allus good fer a laugh . That be more like the thing, aharr!! Mind, that be fer a first offence like. Fer an idea o' something a bit more serious, I'd refer ye to Iron Roger's inventiveness a few posts back...... Mind ye, ye'll have to do without Iron Roger hissel' as this 'ere vessel o' mine be a-presently a-bearin' down on him wi' a full broadside o' twelves and nines ready fer his breakfast, an' he's all took aback, the swab, wi' his sails at slack an' his scurvy crew o' dockside tavern scrapin's cowerin' in the scuppers. Now then, Bonney, where be ye now wi' yer high flown words, ye foul damned drunken scabby black-hearted and accursed apology fer a seafarer? Mister 'Awkins, I'll thank 'e ter put a match to yer touch-hole as she rises. Fire away together, damn yez!!! Aye, take ye that through yer rotten bulwarks, Bonney!!!!!! Aharrrrr!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: hesperis Date: 24 Sep 03 - 01:33 AM Mount Vesuvius? Old Nick? Fiery place? ... Iron Roger Bonney is no pirate - 'e's an impostor! Smartly, me lads, send that scurrilous bilge rat down to Davy Jones' locker. Make 'im walk the plank! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Master Gadget Master Date: 24 Sep 03 - 01:06 AM I say we keel 'aul 'im! Then we 'ang 'im from the yardarm! Then we makes 'im wolk the plank! And then we makes 'im swab the poopdeck. Ar, not necesarily in that order. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: LadyJean Date: 24 Sep 03 - 12:59 AM Faith now, but my two favorite pirates are Captain Peter Blood (fictional) and Grace O'Malley (real). They never talked like Cornishmen, because, as Captain Blood would say, they had the honor to be Irish. Grace O'Malley would, undoubtably say, "pogue mo breachan". I can't say it anymore, because my sister's one. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 23 Sep 03 - 08:57 PM You call this living????????? An' I've only the one thing to say ter you, mister so-called Iron Roger Bonney, ye swab. Ahaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 03 - 05:19 PM They believe in living in the present, that's why. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Trevor Date: 23 Sep 03 - 05:13 PM Why does pirates always talks in the present tense? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 03 - 01:16 PM Scarface Rufus, ye foul, gibbering, scullion urchin! Ye're a fine talker, matey, but ye'll sing a different tune with 17 inches o' cold steel in yer gullet is what I'm thinkin'! I've a mind tae flay ye alive and then hang ye dangling from the nearest yardarm so the seagulls can peck out yer eyeballs, ye scurrillous swab! Damn ye fer a whoreson and a heathen dunghill rat! If yer brains were made o' black powder there'd nowt be enough in there tae knock a flea off yer festering eyebrow! Yer a walkin' disgrace to the pirate trade! I've seen yer kind before, matey, all puffed up with pride like a spiny blowfish and blowin' off steam like Vesuvius on a rainy day, but when it comes down tae brass tacks ye've not got a single loaded long iron on yer gundeck! Ye're the kind that sleeps in the gutter with pigs, cos no one else'll have ye! Aye, and I've a mind tae strip ye bare and tie ye down in the sun where the fire ants can slowly drive ye mad! There are so many ways I've got planned tae end yer sorry life that even me parrot can't count 'em all...and that bird can count tae seven hundred and seven! Say yer prayers ye blasted guttersnipe, and prepare tae meet Old Nick and all his demons in the fiery place that's been prepared fer you and your ilk!!! Iron Roger Bonney |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Date: 22 Sep 03 - 01:12 PM Oops, that was me, hitting Enter too soon. My pirate name is Red Bess Flint. I like it. :-) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 03 - 01:11 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: sian, west wales Date: 22 Sep 03 - 05:00 AM note to C-flat: Black Bart (Barti Ddu) and Henry Morgan were Welsh. I seem to remember reading about a 'bad lot' who terrorized the Bay of Fundy as some point; pirates of a sort, and Welsh. sian |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: John MacKenzie Date: 22 Sep 03 - 04:19 AM ARRRRRRRRRRRRRr me 'earties, pass oi another cabin boy, an this time make it The 'Ansome Cabin Boy. Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: mouldy Date: 22 Sep 03 - 02:46 AM Landlocked tho' we be, apart from the River Aire and the Aire and Calder canal, my offspring, steered her course to college in Pontefract to find that she was alone...Yaaargh! No other members of the brethren had dared to reveal their true identities! It seems that she alone was aware of the public relations exercise that had been planned for 19th September. Nevertheless, she steered herself into her media study class, where she singlehandedly explained the cut and thrust of hand to hand combat on land and indoors, as portrayed in a recent documentary by Buena Vista on the same. Andrea |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 22 Sep 03 - 01:23 AM Aharrr, me fine fellow!!! Aye, an' ye're a sight too free wi' yer talk o' a lashing, see you. A lash is it? I'll tell 'e o' the lash, damn yer eyes fer a spineless swab and blast 'e fer a foundered and broke sailorman else. D'yez know what happened to the last man as I had tied to the gratings over the matter of a minor disagreement about as how 'e reckoned as I'd took more than my own rightful share o' the booty from a lordly Don Plate-ship? Aye, twas only a taste o' the cat he had and he were begging for mercy. A pitiful sight he were, wi' the tears a-coursing down his lined face and every fibre o' his body a-screaming out for an end to the tearin' pain!!! Say-ha!!!Aye. just a taste o' the cat an' he were a-beggin' an' a-cryin' out fer anything to stop the raw agony..... Aye see you, an' I'm thinkin' that maybe ye'll be the next. An' then ye'll know just how terrible and awful a thing it is to have the cat.... with no onions in the gravy. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: EBarnacle1 Date: 22 Sep 03 - 12:26 AM Argh, me proud beauties, in my persona as the Dread Pirate Vane, I see clearly that you are all in need of a good lashing--or at least a tickling with a feather whilst spreadeagled in the main rigging. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 21 Sep 03 - 10:44 PM My doom, be it? Well, we'll see about that ye lubberly son of a Margate day-tripper, Just let me once come within range of 'e an' I'll sink anchor in ye!!!!!! An' if'n ye be too yeller to stand an' fight broadside to broadside, I'll tip 'e the Black Spot see you, an' every tarry-handed man'll be after ye. We'll see whose doom'll be at hand, me fine boyo, So avast there!!!!!! A vast what? Aharr, I dunno, but it be real big....... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 21 Sep 03 - 10:15 PM Yer doom be at hand ye scalawag swab... Blast ye! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 21 Sep 03 - 09:32 PM Ahhharrrr! Which one o' ye dirty disease-ridden mangy rotten leprous swine a-masqueradin' as a seafarin' man said that? I saw yer, ye lily-livered jumped-up, never-come-down, damned yeller accursed villainous thievin' bilge-rat, damn yer eyes!!!!! Aye well, an' so that's the way of it, is it? Ye scab ye, ye as think ye're a freebootin' comrade o' the buccaneers , I'll hang an' split 'e from these here seven seas to the gates o' hell an' beyond, so help me I will. That be a mortal insult to a real man, such o' my mettle as sailed the Main wi' Morgan and Teach, so it be, an' ye may lay to that, me fine buckeroo. Oh by the powers, I'll set 'e right!!!!! There be but one way ter settle this here disagreement, see you. So, matey, dam'ee!! I'll not waste powder or shot on yer foul carcass, nor sully good steel in yer gizzard. I'll soon bring yer down to size with this 'ere hook o' mine, an' cut short yer boastin' ways wi' the fairer sex. I'll cut out that lyin' stinkin' tongue so ye'll never more miscall a man afore I fit ye fer a fine hempen cravat, me fine friend. Then we'll attend yer last jig, an' pay ye our respects when ye're hanging from the mizzen ratlines, chokin nice an' slow wi' yer face turnin' a nice purple. Aharrrr........ Now, where's that cabin boy? It be your turn in the barrel tonight lad.......... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Sep 03 - 08:16 PM Scarface Rufus, ye scabrous seadog! Welcome aboard! Ye're the first man I've seen tae have a hook where another might sport a codpiece! Been fightin' the corsairs, have ye??? Best leave the ladies fer them as has a full broadside, matey! (no small egos in the pirate trade...) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 21 Sep 03 - 07:06 PM Ahharrrrr!!!! Avast ye there ye scurvy dogs! Clear a way there!!!Clear a way fer Scarface Rufus!!! So help me, or I'll put me hook through any man-jack o' yez as dares stand atween me an' that rare buxom beauty at the bar!!! Aharr, me lovesome darlin'!!! A fine pullet ye are an' I'll lay to that!!! An' what'll I have, sez you? A pint o' grog sez I, an' a kiss from them sweet lips!! Now what d'ye say to that, me fine lass? Evenin' vicar..... Courtesy of a long forgotten radio programme |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Sep 03 - 03:13 PM You talk like a goddamn commie, Peter! I suppose you're in favour of decent housing for the poor and medical treatment for everyone and equal employment opportunities for women too. We've got our eye on you, boyo! :-) Expect to be walkin' the plank shortly! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: mack/misophist Date: 21 Sep 03 - 11:30 AM Dear Liz the Squeak: Why do you think she was called Anne Bonney? His name escapes me at the moment, but the best pirate example ever was an Anglican bishop. Can any one remember? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Peter T. Date: 21 Sep 03 - 10:25 AM Hello. I am the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. I believe that there have been concerns about my recent package of benefits, which seem to be in line, by and large, with compensations that accrue to other executives who, by sheer talent and sweat of their brow, are worth 48 million dollars more than the people who work all day at McDonalds. And if you don't quite understand that, you don't understand piracy. yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Green Man (sans cookie) Date: 21 Sep 03 - 10:20 AM Ha Haar, mates! (pirates talk mainly in the present tense) like wot I does! GrayD:- Benny Hill RIP was a British Comedian. He was a strange fish and was I beleive ambisextrous. Anyway he kind of embodied Brit Postcard humor from the 50's. He was popular here in Blighty and went over a storm in Japan. I though all their senses of humour were made by Nippon Laughso ;-) He did a good if somewhat camp Pirate. Fair winds and Easy prey mates. GM |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Gloredhel Date: 21 Sep 03 - 02:04 AM My boyfriend decided to take talk like a pirate day a little too far. He showed up dressed like a pirate last night, in a very cheap nylon costume, and yes, he talked like a pirate. It probably would have been a turn-on if the costume had been a little more classy... |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Sep 03 - 12:31 AM So I suppose I would revert to my childhood nickname of Izzy Tin Drawers. By the way, did you realise that the dread Pirate Bonney was actually a girl? Two of the best (i.ie., they made lots of dosh and didn't get hanged) pirates were women? LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: mack/misophist Date: 20 Sep 03 - 09:31 PM That site is cheap. I'm another Iron Tom. What happened to nickel, lead, amd brass? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Sep 03 - 11:42 AM Arrr! It's a fine mornin', it is, and a fresh breeze is blowin'. Time to hoist sail and search for plunder, mateys! Shake the cobwebs out o' yer achin' heads, ye witless lubbers, and make sail or heave to and raise the white flag! Arrr! By thunder, the thing I like best about bein' a pirate is all the exclamation points I get to use! Arrrr! ...and the thing I like least is the accursed parrot guano on me left shoulder epaulets! Avast, ye blasted bird! Polly definitely needs a crapper! - Iron Roger |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Guest who? Date: 19 Sep 03 - 10:04 PM Groan...! Polly wants a crapper! Polly wants a crapper! (another parroty error detected) |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: HuwG Date: 19 Sep 03 - 09:55 PM Link to Pirate Jokes thread. Pieces of seven ! Pieces of seven ! Parroty Error detected ! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Sep 03 - 09:49 PM It's not "brink" ye scabby swab, it's "brig". Ye'll be the one tossed in the brig if ye don't get it right next time! Now get aloft, ye heathens, and reef the sails, or ye'll be dinin' with the Captain's daughter! (She o' the nine tails...) - Iron Roger |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 03 - 09:49 PM a.k.a. Iron Ethel Rackham |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 03 - 09:45 PM argh--reggie's story is a right hearty tale one to be enjoyed by mateys on the open seas! the jolly roger, indeed! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 03 - 08:58 PM trying to find the npr site where the pirate talk is archived.. http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1435309.html somewhere in here there is a link for a pirate rap song http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.jhtml?prgDate=09/19/2003&prgId=2 international talk like a pirate--npr all things considered.. http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1435309.html |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Gray D Date: 19 Sep 03 - 08:47 PM Avast behind! I'm not talking like a pirate, I just happen to have . . . Gray D (who posted to the wrong thread first) P.S. Benny Hill? Who's Benny Hill? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Walrus Date: 19 Sep 03 - 08:38 PM Apparently, I'm "Iron Tom Flint" - funny, I've always seen myself more as "Canvas Jack Rackham" (Like Calico Jack, but coarser[1]) Walrus [1] Or should that be corsair? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: C-flat Date: 19 Sep 03 - 08:35 PM Why are all pirates Cornish? Didn't anyone else do any plundering? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,dread pirate bonney Date: 19 Sep 03 - 08:17 PM 2 links on the npr page... supposedly dave barry will be on all things considered tonite talking lik... guess what? a pirate! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: GUEST,Dread Pirate Bonney Date: 19 Sep 03 - 08:08 PM ahoy, swab the dack, matey , or it's in the brink with ya! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Sep 03 - 07:53 PM I took the Quiz. Me name is * * * Iron Roger Bonney * * *. Me description: A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you are that person. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: smallpiper Date: 19 Sep 03 - 07:40 PM I did the quiz and it called me Capt'n! Arr me lads wheere's me grog an a tall ship te steer her by! Ye scury billge rats! Sing is a song or all run ye through so aye will! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Sep 03 - 07:32 PM I know why people like pirates. They're so enthusiastic! Anyone see Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean"? Holy mackerel, what a stupendously good pirate he was! I give that movie 10 out of 10 stars. It was the most fun I've had at the movies in years. - LH |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Sep 03 - 07:25 PM AVAST, ye scurvy lubbers! Ye dismasted, incontinent bilge rats! Prepare to be boarded, ye mangy dogs! Where's me grog and where's a buxom wench tae serve it? Strike up a hornpipe, me hearties, there's a storm a-brewin' tae windward, and the yards are stripped bare, but I've a song in me heart and a parrot on me left shoulder that can curse in 7 languages, so what give a damn, says I! Lay on, ye whoresons, and the divil take the hindmost! - LH |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: hesperis Date: 19 Sep 03 - 07:14 PM Roll out the barrel of grog! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 19 Sep 03 - 07:08 PM We'll hang ye by yer thumbs ye scurvy-addled landlubber... Shiver me timbers! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 03 - 06:44 PM hope they don't mak you walk the plank! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 03 - 06:30 PM I'm on my way to see Pyrates and Corsairs. AAARRRGGGGHHHHHH! YIPEE! |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 03 - 06:10 PM i was not able to get the fidius site to open there is a quiz there where they give you a pirate name.. any one else get that to work? |
Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Allan C. Date: 19 Sep 03 - 05:32 PM Original thread |
Subject: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 19 Sep 03 - 05:26 PM can't find original thread... ahoy mateys! Arrrrrrrgh! shiver me timber! yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate.php http://www.piratehaven.org/~beej/pirates/ |