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07 Sep 03 - 09:22 AM (#1014302) Subject: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee On a happier note -- avast, me hearties! |
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07 Sep 03 - 02:13 PM (#1014429) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike ok get ready...sept. 19 is a-coming! but does any one know what day is National Leave a Zuchini on your next door neighbor's back porch after midnight day??!! |
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07 Sep 03 - 02:30 PM (#1014434) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Allan C. According to this website in the USA it is also National Butterscotch Pudding Day and National Play Doh Day. |
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07 Sep 03 - 02:38 PM (#1014437) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Nigel Parsons AllanC is Play Doh Day a follow on from Camptown Races & Doo Dah Day? Nigel |
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07 Sep 03 - 03:05 PM (#1014445) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Allan C. Yeah, Nigel. That's where Foster got the idea. Later on, Joel Harris got into the act. |
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07 Sep 03 - 04:16 PM (#1014484) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: lady penelope Ahoy Hoy me hearties, I dids me pirate personality test and guess what me buckos? Tis the Cap'n I am! Arr! stonking site Rapaire, Teehee TTFN Lady P. or should that be Lady P. Swashbuckling Queen of the High Seas, ahaa......... |
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07 Sep 03 - 08:07 PM (#1014599) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike yo ho ho and a bottle of rum by gum |
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08 Sep 03 - 10:31 AM (#1014758) Subject: Back to the zucchini ... From: Steve Parkes Zucchini? We call 'em courgettes, but I think the Z word is better, as it incorporates a sort to of "yuck" sound ... yucchini? But I have a query about the NLAZOYNDNBP Day: do you leave it on the morning of the day, i.e. at 00.01 hours on NLAZOYNDNBP Day, or the evening, i.e. at 00.01 hours on [NLAZOYNDNBP Day + 1]? Would it be more efficient to putthe Zs in the bin (trash)? Or even not buy them in the first place? How a bout a National (or International, since we're in different countries) Don't Buy a Zucchini Today Because You Never Eat Them Anyway Day? Then it wouldn't really matter what day of the year it was, would it? Or how about - let's think B-I-G -- the International Year of Not The Zucchini? And every time someone asked you, "whassamarrer?" you would say, "a pregnant cucumber!" to mark its being the IYNTZ. Steve (Don't even start me on the Pirates ...) |
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08 Sep 03 - 10:50 PM (#1015154) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Melani Everybody knows what day Sept. 19th is--my daughter's birthday! |
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08 Sep 03 - 11:11 PM (#1015163) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee Gee Melani, we didn't know that your daughter was a pirate. |
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08 Sep 03 - 11:13 PM (#1015164) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike ok back to music--http://www.courgettes.at/ is this in austria? the squash is also called marrow or zuchinni Courgettes, Pumpkins and Squash all belong to the genus Cucurbita and all originate in North and South America. Cucurbita maxima usually describes larger pumpkins, Cucurbita moschata for many Butternut varieties and Cucurbita pepo for many of the small ones, and squash. Courgettes are usually of the species pepo. big ones make good door stops! and let's see how does this relate to pirates?? well maybe not but to holidays... well, perhaps it is connected to jack-o-lanterns (pumpkins with candles inside) http://www.jack-o-lantern.com/index2.html |
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08 Sep 03 - 11:34 PM (#1015178) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: LadyJean I'm all for talking like pirates. If you buy a small zucchini, slice it thin, and fry it in olive oil, with a little parmesan cheese, it's delicious. It's the big zucchinis that people insist on growing in their gardens that wind up on people's porches. I spent a summer housesitting for a friend, and picking zucchini before they got too large. |
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09 Sep 03 - 12:07 AM (#1015194) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: katlaughing Prepare to be boarded, indeed! Whatta pick-up line! Thanks, Rapaire for the link....LMAO!!! |
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09 Sep 03 - 09:11 AM (#1015402) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Jeri Steve, just so you know, it's not that people actually buy zuchini. A well-meaning person may grow a plant or a couple of plants, thinking innocently, "won't it be nice to have an occasional zuchini for our family." One plant will then likely go on to produce about 10,000 zuchini. It's a waste to throw them out, so people take extras to the office, give them to their neighbors and put them in paper bags to drop into the cars of those people ignorant enough to leave their windows rolled down. |
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09 Sep 03 - 09:12 AM (#1015404) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee Like fruitcakes, I myself think that there are only about a dozen zucchini in the whole world. They just get passed around a lot. |
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09 Sep 03 - 01:13 PM (#1015579) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Mrs.Duck We bought three courgettes (zucchini) on Saturday!! |
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09 Sep 03 - 01:21 PM (#1015581) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Micca as the French say ( I think, my hearing is a bit suspect some times) Courgette , Mon Brave |
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09 Sep 03 - 08:01 PM (#1015877) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: smallpiper Excellent site I did the test and came out as the Capn' so be warned you buckets o tar I brooke no impostors arrr me lads! |
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09 Sep 03 - 09:15 PM (#1015926) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: RangerSteve Open Mike - National Leave a Zucchini On Your Neighbors Porch Day has passed. I have a page-a-day calendar with all those important holidays on it, and I definately recall that day, but since I threw the page away, I can't tell you the exact date. You have to keep your zucchinis. |
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09 Sep 03 - 09:21 PM (#1015929) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Rapparee "Aug 8 Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbors' Porch Day -- Due to overzealous planting of zucchini, citizens are asked to drop off baskets of the squash on neighbors' doorsteps." |
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19 Sep 03 - 08:44 PM (#1022126) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Gray D Avast behind! I'm not talking like a pirate, I just happen to have . . . Gray D (Benny Hill? Who's Benny Hill?) |
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19 Sep 03 - 09:01 PM (#1022131) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike dave barry on npr all things considered today..[plus pirate rap} see Pirate thread |
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19 Sep 03 - 09:37 PM (#1022146) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: reggie miles Heave to ya scurvy devils! Then this be the perfect day to be retellin' one of me favorite stories of the briny deep. Tis been locked away in the Mudcat Storytellers Page, er, th' seachest long enough, just waitin' for th' proper time. ARR! Now gather round ya swabs and pay heed t' these words lest you be the subject of me next salty tale. The One What Bitsed Me Washboard's Leg Off! |
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20 Sep 03 - 07:28 PM (#1022294) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: fox4zero It's not the quantity of zucchini which becomes a burden, it is the oversized, over-matured, tough zucchini which one tries to palm off on the unsuspecting. Thew are as difficult to get rid of a nuclear waste. Thank God for the Zucchini Borers!! Larry |
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21 Sep 03 - 12:46 AM (#1022366) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Melani I have a great recipe for stuffed oversized tough zucchini--you just cut it in half, scrape the insides out, stuff it with whatever you want, and bake the living daylights out of it. I got the recipe from a pirate. |
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21 Sep 03 - 07:28 PM (#1022713) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: GUEST,pdc With matured, oversized zucchini, one of the best things you can do is make a chocolate zucchini cake. Google for recipes -- they're all delicious, and because the zucchini keeps the cake moist, it lasts a long time, or it would if it weren't so delicious. Also freezes beautifully. And... Marge Piercy (1936-) Attack of the Squash People And thus the people every year in the valley of humid July did sacrifice themselves to the long green phallic god and eat and eat and eat. They're coming, they're on us, the long striped gourds, the silky babies, the hairy adolescents, the lumpy vast adults like the trunks of green elephants. Recite fifty zucchini recipes! Zucchini tempura; creamed soup; sauté with olive oil and cumin, tomatoes, onion; frittata; casserole of lamb; baked topped with cheese; marinated; stuffed; stewed; driven through the heart like a stake. Get rid of old friends: they too have gardens and full trunks. Look for newcomers: befriend them in the post office, unload on them and run. Stop tourists in the street. Take truckloads to Boston. Give to your Red Cross. Beg on the highway: please take my zucchini, I have a crippled mother at home with heartburn. Sneak out before dawn to drop them in other people's gardens, in baby buggies at churchdoors. Shot, smuggling zucchini into mailboxes, a federal offense. With a suave reptilian glitter you bask among your raspy fronds sudden and huge as alligators. You give and give too much, like summer days limp with heat, thunderstorms bursting their bags on our heads, as we salt and freeze and pickle for the too little to come. |
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21 Sep 03 - 08:50 PM (#1022753) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Geoff the Duck Isn't an oversized zucchini (or courgette) a perfectly ordinary MARROW??? You Know - BIG green thing full of water! Recipe = You cut it in half lengthwise - scrape ALL the contents out (bung them in the bin) then fill the shell with cholesterol laden minced beef fried in butter and herbs! Ideal for the meat eater who wants to try vegetarianism (without all them GREEN things)??? Quack! GtD. |
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21 Sep 03 - 08:53 PM (#1022756) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Geoff the Duck Whoops - MISSED the Talk Like a Piate DAY - too busy looking after the Littlies at Otley Folk Festival. (I expect I threatened to Keel-Haul at least one of them before the day was out! - so may have qualified???) Quack. GtD. |
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07 Sep 04 - 01:49 PM (#1266092) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike swab the deck, ye hardies. |
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07 Sep 04 - 02:10 PM (#1266104) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Teresa Heeheeheehee, did you see the disclaimer at the bottom of the quiz? I love it: "School Psychologists, Social Workers and Clinicians should be wary of using the TOTLAPPI when qualifying students for IDEA services, DSM IV identifications (under any axis) or as a part of any professional assessment. Medical professionals are hereby cautioned not to use the TOTLAPPI as a tool to determine appropriate medications and/or dosage. Lawyers are hereby notified that the results of the TOTLAPPI are not admissible in most state and federal courts with the notable exceptions of The Bahamas, French New Guinea, Madagascar and Wyoming. Amnesty International has requested a moratorium on the TOTLAPPI in Death Penalty Cases until the American College of Psychiatry and the British Psychological Association can complete a twelve-year longitudinal study into the TOTLAPPI's efficacy rate and cultural bias. This tool was designed for use solely by Pirate Captains and Web Surfers. Please do not attempt this in any professional setting." And I am ..."Th' Cabin Boy/Galley Wench (take yer pick)". |
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18 Sep 04 - 10:44 AM (#1274948) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: open mike the original pirate thread... can this be combined somehow witht eh other two--i do not think we need 3 threads on this same subject.. |
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19 Sep 04 - 12:28 AM (#1275356) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Kaleea So doth this mean that I needs must to spend my Sabbeth munching on zuchini which I hath sliced with my sword whilst swashbuckling the play doh-eth & chaseth it down with a pudding of butter & scotch all the while crying "AAArrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" "Shiver me timbers. Methinks all this is truly NOT in the official Pirate's Code handbook." |
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19 Sep 04 - 12:31 AM (#1275358) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Alaska Mike "Awwwk, awwwkkk, pieces of eight, pieces of eight." Parrot Mike |
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19 Sep 04 - 01:05 AM (#1275364) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: Thomas the Rhymer Arrrrrhh! 't brings tears ta me one good eyeah! |
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19 Sep 04 - 03:16 AM (#1275390) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: mooman More importantly (for me) it's "Car Free Day" where we live. Yippee...no pollution today and we can all ride our bikes all day where we like without fear of being mown down! Peace moo |
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19 Sep 04 - 08:51 AM (#1275509) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: kendall One way to tell if a man has no friends, you see him BUYING zuccini. |
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19 Sep 04 - 08:55 AM (#1275511) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: kendall ...so take up the sheets me hearties, water the decks with brine bend to the oars ye lousy whores none is bigger than mine. |
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19 Sep 04 - 09:32 AM (#1275515) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: catspaw49 Ready to come! Hard to head! Spaw |
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19 Sep 04 - 09:35 PM (#1276038) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th From: SINSULL Actually, it's "Ready to come about, hard a lee." Same idea, I suspect. |
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15 Sep 16 - 04:55 PM (#3810092) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: keberoxu Anticipating, I know -- it's ALMOST September 19th |
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15 Sep 16 - 05:25 PM (#3810093) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Mr Red OK one for the techies of this parish "what sits on your shoulder and goes 'pieces of nine' ?" a parity error. and one for larger than average pirate: Q "Does my backside look big in these trousers?" A "Avast behind!" |
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15 Sep 16 - 08:09 PM (#3810113) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: ChanteyLass Good ones, Mr. Red! |
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16 Sep 16 - 10:59 AM (#3810159) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: keberoxu By the way, I can't find that Pirate Personality Index test that the first posts in this thread go on about....the webpage, yes, but not the test. |
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16 Sep 16 - 12:26 PM (#3810169) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Bee-dubya-ell I am not celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day this year. I'm celebrating Quack Like a Duck Day instead. It's a new alternative holiday for those for whom TLAPD has become a bit passé. QLADD occurs on September 19, the same day as TLAPD. The premise is quite simple: when spoken to by anyone other than a police officer, quack like a duck, particularly when the other person is speaking Piratese. Participants are encouraged, but are by no means required, to dress in duck costumes, eat duck weed, and leave runny green poop on sidewalks. Unlike TLAPD, there is no rum drinking involved. QLADD participants celebrate by guzzling cold duck sparkling wine straight from the bottle. If the novelty of talking like a pirate has worn thin for you, now's your chance to get in on the ground floor of the next really stupid made up excuse to be an ass in public and drink 'til you puke. Worldwide participation in QLADD is at a all-time low! Start celebrating now and someday you'll be able to tell your grandkids, "I was quacking when quacking wasn't cool!" |
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16 Sep 16 - 10:06 PM (#3810206) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: SqueezeMe A better idea than "Walk Like an Egyptian Day", suggested elsewhere. But then again, you might see The Bangles in a different light.... |
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17 Sep 16 - 12:13 PM (#3810246) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Sandra in Sydney damn, Bee-dubya-ell, I knew I should have bought that Walking Pet Duck Balloon when I saw it recently. I wanted to walk it home, but I continued what I was doing & the store was closed when I came back a few minutes later & I went sadly home. sniff. I have a collection of rubber duckies in my bathroom, & so wanted that balloon duck! sandra (still regretting not buying that duck) |
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18 Sep 16 - 08:49 AM (#3810329) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: bubblyrat " Who put sand in the vaseline ,eh ? It'll be a rough passage tonight !" |
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18 Sep 16 - 09:19 AM (#3810334) Subject: RE: BS: September 19th - talk like a pirate day From: Mo the caller I'm always uncomfortable about this glamourising of pirates. Not only were they ruthless killers, but they still are in some oceans. |