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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2100
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 10:51 pm: |     |
Where does the time go? September 19 is once again here, and that means that it is "Talk Like a Pirate" Day.
See this Dave Barry column for details. The crucial passage in that piece is as follows:
quote:As you can see, talking like a pirate will infuse your everyday conversations with romance and danger. So join the movement! On Sept. 19, do not answer the phone with ''hello.'' Answer the phone with ''Ahoy me hearty!'' If the caller objects that he is not a hearty, inform him that he is a scurvy dog (or, if the caller is female, a scurvy female dog) who will be walking the plank off the poop deck and winding up in Davy Jones' locker, sleeping with the fishes. No, wait, that would be Talk Like a Pirate in The Godfather Day, which is another variation I considered (``I'm gonna make him an offer that will shiver his timbers'').
But the point is, this is a great idea, and you, me bucko, should be part of it. Join us on Sept. 19. You HAVE the buckles, darn it: Don't be afraid to swash them! Let's make this into a grass-roots movement that sweeps the nation, like campaign-finance reform, or Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I truly think this idea could bring us, as a nation, closer together.
So,
Avast! Ye scurvy dogs! 'Tis the Pirate-Posting Day, arrrrgh!
But, why did you burn the rum? |
Catastrophe
Citizen
Username: Cat
Post Number: 3
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 10:54 pm: | |
what's with all this talk about dogs? |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5206
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 11:27 pm: | |
Arrrrrghhh!!! Shiver me timbers, who let this wanton cat into me brig? Pass the grog and get me a fryin' pan and some Catsup!! |
SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 45
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 6:00 am: | |
Sorry me hardy, but there's nothin' in the larder save Hardtack. |
buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 1049
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 8:04 am: | |
where are my arrrrrrrrgggggile socks? |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2102
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 8:09 am: | |
Aye, thar'll be a sequel to that "Pirates of the Caribbean" film. The scurvy dogs want to make it racier.
They'll be wanting it to be rated ARRRGHH! |
musicme
Citizen
Username: Musicme
Post Number: 376
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 9:09 am: | |
If Ye washes ashore at the tavern called Max's
in the port o' West Orange, tharll be a fine night o' debauchery and drinkin' rum while me favorite little band o' mateys plays some fine fiddlin music. Them be The Nightmares.
Shake yer bones and come out in the gale.
You be glad you did.
ARRRGHH! |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 747
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 9:44 am: | |
As Peter Pan said..."Youre all a bunch of codfish".
But here is my pirate contribution, courtesy of Emerson, Lake and Palmer...
Who`ll make his mark
The Captain cried
To the Devil drink a toast
We`ll glut the hold
With cups of gold
And we`ll feed the sea with ghosts
I see your hunger for a fortune
Could be better
Served beneath my flag
If you`ve the stomach
For a broadside
Come aboard my pretty boys
I will take you and make you
Everything you`ve ever dreamed
Make fast the guns tonight we sail
When the high tide floods the bay
Cut free the lines
And square the yards
Get the black flag stowed away
The Turk the Arab and the Spaniard
Will soon have pennies on their eyes
And any other laden fancy
We will take her by surprise
I will take you and make you
Everything you`ve ever dreamed
Six days off the Cuban coast
When a sail ahead they spied
A Galleon of the treasure fleet
The mizzen lookout cried
Closer to the wind my boys
The mad eyed Captain roared
For every man that`s alive tonight
Will be hauling gold aboard
Spare us the galleon begged
But mercy`s face had fled
Blood ran from the screaming souls
The cutlass harvested
Driven to the quarter deck
The last survivor fell
She`s ours my boys
The Captain grinned
And no one left to tell
The Captain rose from a silk divan
With a pistol in his fist
And shot the lock from an iron box
And a blood red ruby kissed
I give you jewelry of turquoise
A crucifix of solid gold
One hundred thousand silver pieces
It is just as I foretold
You, you see there before you
Everything you`ve ever dreamed
Anchored in an indigo moonlit bay
Gold eyed `round fires
The sea thieves lay
Morning, white shells
And a pipe of clay
As the wind filled their footprints
They were far, far away
Our sails swell full
As we brave all seas
On a westward wind
To live as we please
With the wicked wild eyed woman
Of portobello town
Where we`ve been told
That a purse of gold
Buys any man a crown
They will serve you and cloth you
Exchange your rags
For the velvet coats of kings
Who`ll drink a toast with me
I give you liberty
This town is ours - tonight
Landlord wine
And make it the finest
Make it a cup for a sea dogs thirst
Two long years of bones and beaches
Fever and leaches did their worst
So fill the night with paradise
Bring me peach and peacock
`Till I burst
But first, I want a soft touch
In the right place
I want to feel like a king tonight
Ten on the black
To beat the Frenchman
Back you dogs
Give them room to turn
Now open wide sweet Heavens gate
Tonight were gonna
See if Heaven burns
I want an angel on a gold chain
And I`ll ride her to the stars
It`s the last time
For a long, long time
Come the daybreak we embark
On the flood of the morning tide
Once more the ocean cried
This company will return one day
Though we feel your tears
It`s the price we pay
For there`s prizes to be taken
And glory to be found
Cut free the chains
Make fast your souls
We are eldorado bound
I will take you
For always, forever, together
Until Hell calls our names
Who`ll drink a toast with me
To the Devil and the deep blue sea
Gold drives a man to dream
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Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5207
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 10:02 am: | |
Arrggggggggggghhh! It ain't Sing Like a Pirate Day is it, me scurvy boatswain!!! |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 748
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 10:28 am: | |
OK then...scratch the song...and say youre a codfish, Ross! |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 749
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 10:30 am: | |
make that...Capt. Ross |
NCJanow
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 946
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 2:10 pm: | |
www.cnn.com VIDEO
Ahoy mates! It's 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'
PLAY VIDEO
NCJ aka LibraryLady |
The Dude
Citizen
Username: The_dude
Post Number: 6
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 7:21 pm: | |
Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of like, rum??? |
maraudergirl
Citizen
Username: Maraudergirl
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 12:36 am: | |
oohhhhhh....who lives in a pineapple under the sea?? |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2288
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 8:37 am: | |
Absorbant and yellow and porous, is he? |
parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 330
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 11:20 am: | |
He's nautical nonsense, It's something you wish? |
curb
Citizen
Username: Curb
Post Number: 323
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 3:43 pm: | |
So drop on the deck and flop like a fish. |
eyespy
Citizen
Username: Eyespy
Post Number: 113
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2003 - 7:06 pm: | |
I JUST WET MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA!!!!!!!!!!! |
curb
Citizen
Username: Curb
Post Number: 327
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2003 - 7:39 pm: | |
Finally somebody quoted Cap`n Crunch. |
crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 454
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2003 - 7:46 pm: | |
*hic*
Call me crazy |
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