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I can’t believe I missed International Talk Like a Pirate Day
By newsguy | September 21, 2007
Talk Like a Pirate Day was September 19.
I obviously did not get the email, the video, whatever.
But phooey to trying to limit talking like a pirate to just one day.
I’m going to extend this glorious day, for a whole week. Maybe longer.
That’s what any good pirate would do. A pirate would celebrate any holiday, anytime they wanted. And so I set off, hopefully not alone in my pirateness, but refusing to submit myself to the dominant paradigm, refusing to limit myself to just one day of pirate speak.
Here are a few of the saying I am going to use for the REST OF THE WEEK…Bring me one noggin of rum, now, won’t you, matey.”
“Avast, there!”
“Dead men don’t bite.”
“Shiver my timbers!”
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
“There! That’s what I think of ye. Before an hour’s out, I’ll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour’s out, ye’ll laugh upon the other side. Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.”
Or, if I really want to have some fun, I might throw in a few actual pirate phrases.
If the ship go before the wind, or as they term it, betwixt two sheets, then he who conds uses these terms to him at the helm: Starboard, larboard, the helm amidships… If the ship go by a wind, or a quarter winds, they say aloof, or keep your loof, or fall not off, wear no more, keep her to, touch the wind, have a care of the lee-latch. all these do imply the same in a manner, are to bid him at the helm to keep her near the wind.
Batten down the hatches and prepare to set sail, mateys.
Topics: Pirates |
September 21st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Ahoy there! Blast me shivers …
Enjoy your Pirate week.
Aargh!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Ay, yer late! Needin’ a matter of laterals and longitudes to keep ye in the know? Git up on yer plank!
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 am
Be ye settlin’ for one week! Avast ye scurvy dog! One month, minimum.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:13 am
I wish i wouldve known about this…
i think im gonna go with you and extend it though
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
arrrr! One Week? Every day of the year, of course! Or don´t you want to prevent global warming?
Especially fridays.
Arrrrr!
RAmen.
October 15th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
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