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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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....... |
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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.) |
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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? |
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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. |
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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 ? |
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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 |
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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!) |
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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? |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Sep 04 - 02:07 PM FEMALE PIRATES, arghh! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Sep 04 - 04:22 PM Shiver me timbers!!! |
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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 |
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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? |
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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! |
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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......... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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! |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: dwditty Date: 08 Sep 05 - 03:56 PM refresh |
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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... |
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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!" |
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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 |
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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!) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Donuel Date: 09 Sep 05 - 12:06 PM http://www.bartcop.com/russertx.gif |
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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!! |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 !!!! |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
