BS: talk like a pirate day

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!

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: 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: 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: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 06:03 AM

brilliant!

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: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 04:09 AM

King Charrrrrrles?

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: 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 - 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: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 05:03 PM

Mrr made! Hahaha!

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 - 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: 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 - 08:52 AM

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

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: 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: 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: EBarnacle
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 08:39 AM

Actually, September has both.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Bettynh
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 04:24 PM

The Ballad of Dirty Joe

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: EBarnacle
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 03:06 PM

Pee, ye swabs.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 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: 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 - 02:39 PM

يو هو هو وزجاجة من الروم!

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: 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: 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: Slag
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 06:25 AM

CD's cheap anyone?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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