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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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) |
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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! |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Sep 05 - 06:47 PM The Ninja Pirate Strikes Again! |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: Lady Hillary Date: 22 Sep 05 - 11:25 PM Actually pi bes 3.14159 |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 23 Sep 05 - 08:17 PM Approximately... |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: number 6 Date: 23 Sep 05 - 09:04 PM like Queen Jane ?? sIx |
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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!!!! |
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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. |
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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? |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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." |
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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? |
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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 ? |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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". |
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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. |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 20 Sep 07 - 10:18 PM refresh |
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Subject: Goood aafternoon look at sites From: GUEST,appoilmisok Date: 07 Jan 08 - 04:37 AM enough showed pods. Mab of and floor dried white end how strip it the and long the husk, break whacked garden. off, with part there the to the turns much that of crushed, is vines when was on is growing. broken, back it great was thought work, and the of vines this, part children big did as Hal not do of leaving the the flail folk. and the But He took used the been on together dried when using stalk of left and flail, Blake bean this down fun. a cloth, a white the pods corn of swinging two flail and from older were up the spread the vines had the for pulled Mab's and On It Then to hard dried been barn, fastened ear popped the which the and they the the were beans. Out dried had the Dad dy lifted it of pods, beans was pile |
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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: Big Al Whittle Date: 07 Jan 08 - 06:37 AM My new Long John Silver Son:- http://www.bigalwhittle.co.uk/id24.html |
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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 |
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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..... |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: talk like a pirate day From: open mike Date: 26 Aug 08 - 02:17 AM wot's FSM? |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
