I am so excited! I read about this once in a Dave Barry column.
I've been wanting to call my roommate scurvy dogs for months!
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
It's only been 6 months since Post Like A Pirate Day, though. Or would it be OK to have two in one year?
Posted by Dread Pirate_Smith (Member # 4780) on :
Arrrgg!!! Is it September already??
Posted by Steerpike (Member # 5179) on :
I read it in Dave Barry, too. It's nice to see that pirates like myself are finally getting a little recognition.
Posted by Dread Pirate_Smith (Member # 4780) on :
Its a funny coincidence that after all these years, we low life men are still after some booty.
Posted by Long Jon Boy Silver (Member # 4782) on :
Ahoy!
Posted by advice for pirates (Member # 4781) on :
Avast, ye maties!
Posted by Dread Pirate_Smith (Member # 4780) on :
Wow, thats like... the first time people with 3 consecutive user numbers ever posted right next to each other.
Edit: Well, at least the first time in a long time.
[ September 02, 2003, 01:42 PM: Message edited by: Dread Pirate_Smith ]
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
shoot, i need a good pirate name...
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Jon Boy...are you back??? It wouldn't be post like a pirate day without you and T_Smith. Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Curses! I can't find the password for Black Ralphie Bonnie.
I'll have to write Kathryn.
Posted by Bonny Mad Jenny (Member # 5609) on :
Avast me hearties!
~Dragon
Posted by Captain Jack Sparrow (Member # 5440) on :
I'm there, as long as there's rum.
::puts on more eyeliner::
Posted by Erik Blackheart (Member # 5610) on :
Rrrrrah! Erp! I mean Aaarrrr!
(Avast!) Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
::Is thinking Belladonna Orchid is close enough to a pirate name to suffice::
Well, it was Friday morn' When we set sail, And we were not far from land...
Anyone want to hear a pirate joke?
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Ye'll be walkin' the plank 'ere morn, ye lubbers!
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Bob!!! It's good to see you!!
I mean, Aaarrrgh...where in all the blazin' seven seas have ye bin?
Posted by Long Jon Boy Silver (Member # 4782) on :
Aye, maties, I be back and ready for some piratey action!
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:I'm there, as long as there's rum.
::puts on more eyeliner::
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Interestingly, I don't really need to make up a new screen nick for pirate day.
Slash the Berzerker, is there anything it *doesn't* do?
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
I got a message on my answering machine sounding very excited and all about how we need to talk like a pirate on that day from Jane. we obviously can't wait
Posted by Dread Pirate_Smith (Member # 4780) on :
quote: Slash the Berzerker, is there anything it *doesn't* do?
Well, it certainly doesn't inspire me to go out and dance like a looney.
Posted by GuybrushThreepwood (Member # 5005) on :
Is that a sword or a feather duster!?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:Slash the Berzerker, is there anything it *doesn't* do?
*tiptoes very quietly, very carefully away
*on very best behavior
*mad grin
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Many pirates were in reallity French and Spanish. This means, to truly talk like a pirate, I have to learn an entire new language.
Posted by GuybrushThreepwood (Member # 5005) on :
Ya ya, I know. A three headed monkey.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Cap'n Jack, you may want to stay away from my wife...
(Not a threat, mind you, just helpful advice )
Posted by Bonny Mad Jenny (Member # 5609) on :
Dan, according to Google "arrrr, I be a scurvy pirate!" translates to:
l'arrrr, je soit un pirate du scorbut! - French ˇel arrrr, yo sea pirata del escorbuto! - Spanish
~Dragon
[ September 04, 2003, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Bonny Mad Jenny ]
Posted by Erik Blackheart (Member # 5610) on :
Translate it into English again!
the arrrr, I is a pirate of the scurvy!
Beware the pirate of the scurvy, lads! Posted by Pirate with Scurvy Interests (Member # 5614) on :
Guybrush: How did you get up there, anyway?
Murray: By sheer force of will!
Posted by Sarcasticpirette (Member # 5615) on :
Oh we're the pirates who don't do anything, We just stay home and lay around. And if you ask us to do anything, We'll despell you! We don't do anything!
aarg!
[ September 04, 2003, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: Sarcasticpirette ]
Posted by Pirate with Scurvy Interests (Member # 5614) on :
quote: Oh we're the pirates who don't do anything, We just stay home and lay around. And if you ask us to do anything, We'll despell you! We don't do anything!
Isn't it, "we'll just tell you"?
"Oh yeah? Ay ay, Cap'n Crunch!"
Posted by Sarcasticpirette (Member # 5615) on :
Okay, make fun of me for not hearing well! Aarg!
Who's ever kissed a chipmunk? That's just nonsense! Why bring it up?
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
"I guess the only thing left is to be thrown into the sea!"
"Oh you don't have to do that. We've got a plank. You can just walk off."
"Uh, yes. Thank you."
(edit: Darnit, I can't keep my screen names straight!)
Pirates with Scurvy Interests
[ September 04, 2003, 10:56 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by Sarcasticpirette (Member # 5615) on :
Acronyms rock, no?
If I have any hope of getting dreds before the 19th, I'll have to stop washing my hair now.
Edit: Girly dreds, y'know.
[ September 04, 2003, 11:49 PM: Message edited by: Sarcasticpirette ]
Posted by FungusHearted Pete (Member # 5617) on :
Aarg, Scurvy Interested matey, ye've inpired me to try my hook at blimey pirate haiku!
Pirates on Hatrack Post here under assumed names To remain unknown Posted by Pirate with Scurvy Interests (Member # 5614) on :
Arrr...sorry matey.
This just reminded me of a funny tidbit from my childhood!!!
You know how, in some cities, near X-mas, Santa rides around through the neighborhoods on a firetruck? One year I was out helping my parents put lights on the house when a firetruck came through with a very drunk Santa. (It was like, 10 at night.) He's swaying around and shouting "Yo, ho, ho, Merry Christmas!"
Posted by Sarcasticpirette (Member # 5615) on :
I just saw Pirates of the Carribean for the first time. It was awesome. I loved how J. Depp pulled off the perpetually drunk Captain Jack Sparrow. I loved the use of the word "savvy" and am trying to incorporate it into my daily speech. A friend and I had a spat as to whether it means "y'know" or "do you understand?", but the more I think about it, the real equivilent is the word "Comprende?". "Aarg, you're going to do what I tell you to do, savvy?"
things to dream of at 1:30 at night.
Edit to say it's S-A-V-V-Y, cuz it looks like a w to me.
[ September 07, 2003, 03:23 AM: Message edited by: Sarcasticpirette ]
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
i've commandeered a ship, my boys, i'm setting off to sea across these dry and grassy lands there was never love for me. so now the sea she'll hold me, she'll rock me into sleep so satisfied she'll make me, no other love i'll keep. i'll search for gold and high adventure perhaps some exotic land alas i'll seek no longer for a boy to hold my hand. to the wind i'll give my secrets to the stars my flirty looks i've long since reckonded princes only live in storybooks. please don't presume to stop me, do not think me vile, for this pirate lass's vessel is lined with light green tile. i remember mary read and envy her good luck, for in place of bonny anne, my first mate is... a duck.
your swarthy bathtime booty, sara
Posted by Black Ralphie Bonny (Member # 4207) on :
This lass be ready, she be, to pour the grog and croon a chantey.
Be ye ready for the day, lubbers?
Posted by Sarcasticpirette (Member # 5615) on :
Aarg, pour your own grog.
Posted by Bonny Mad Jenny (Member # 5609) on :
Porce, ye be a mighty fine poet, watch ye don't get soft!
~Dragon
[ September 07, 2003, 11:51 AM: Message edited by: Bonny Mad Jenny ]
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
quote: I got a message on my answering machine sounding very excited and all about how we need to talk like a pirate on that day from Jane. we obviously can't wait
I be spreadin' the word 'round school, me lassie - telling the scabrous dogs, "Ye'll all be pirates, or else!"
I've noticed that the number of funny looks I receive has increased as of late. Hmm....
[ September 07, 2003, 12:13 PM: Message edited by: Avadaru ]
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
We should get Jenny to teach us pirate songs out of her book of pirate songs!
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:A friend and I had a spat as to whether it means "y'know" or "do you understand?", but the more I think about it, the real equivilent is the word "Comprende?". "Aarg, you're going to do what I tell you to do, savvy?"
I thought it meant "y'know" but was just used to mean "understand?" It sounds to me like a perversion of the Spanish sabe - B's and V's sound pretty much the same in Spanish.
Regardless of what it means, I love it when Johnny Depp says it.
~Jane~
Posted by Taberah (Member # 4014) on :
Pirate joke:
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel attached to his leg. Ever observant, one of the bar's other patrons calls out, "hey, Pirate! Why do you have a steering wheel attached to your leg?"
The pirate answers, "ARRR! It's driving me nuts!"
Posted by Cutpurse Tinselpants (Member # 5629) on :
Taberah, me wenchie, tis a fine joke ye be tellin!
(Arrrgh)
Posted by Dead_Parrot_Horse (Member # 5632) on :
And ere be some custard pies for me pie rat buddies. Dig in or toss'em, as you like.
Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :
Argghhhh! You don't know just 'ow much this 'ere celebrationin' acomin' up dead ahead 'as scuppered all me mates.
There's just something inherently hilarious about pirates.
Posted by Mad Cap'n Morbo (Member # 5635) on :
Ye said a mouthful, EG.
Sarky me lass, savvy comes from savvy verb 1. to know; understand. --noun 2. understanding; intelligence; commonsense. [18th century, from pidgin English, from Spanish sabe usted you know]
Arrr! You were right! I was sure 'twas from the French savoir. But all the online slang dogs agree with ye. *shakes fist* You win this round, me beauty.
Posted by Jill (Member # 3376) on :
*bump* It's this Friday!
Posted by Cecily (Member # 5675) on :
Good! I've got to remind Fungushearted Pete!! Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
I made flyers of jargon for my customers, and I can't wait to see who celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day with me--woohoo!
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
Avadaru and I have arranged for an announcement to be made at our school about talk like a pirate day...and I told my friend Laura about it, and she talked one of the late night 104.1 DJs into saying something too.
So I feel I've done my bit.
Posted by Erik Blackheart (Member # 5610) on :
I'll be thinkin' that this thread should not sink to Davy Jones' locker today! Arrr!
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
I'm sitting here playing operator, writing "international talk like a pirate day" on the top of all the fliers with pirate jargon that I've printed out to distribute at work and at school. And I get to grab people as they come into the building and tell them about TLAP Day. Hope no one minds a student worker operator who tells people to talk like a pirate.....
operators really have lots of free time. I wanna be an operater when I grow up
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Toretha, you be a smooth operator.
Posted by Erik Blackheart (Member # 5610) on :
Well, good morrow lads and lasses! It be the day!
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Ye need ta post like a pirate, or ye will be walkin' the plank! (Pirate face!)
Posted by dan_parrot (Member # 5692) on :
*Squawwk* I be here I be here.
Keel Hauls em. Keel Hauls em.
Pretty Bird. Dan Parrot is a Pretty Bird.
Walk the plank you @#$@# $@#%@#%@ $@#$ @#%@#$%#%@#$@#$ !@#$@%@#
Polly wants a freakin dubloon.
*squawk* *squawk*
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
Aye, so it be. And indeed, tis a fair day to be speakin' like a pirate. Shiver me timbers, but yon lad and lasses here do be giving odd looks to one dressed as an honest pirate like meself. ARRRRR
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
And so you should expect, lass. Who'd ever expect to see an HONEST pirate?
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
Arr, Paul just gave me yon link, click it, mates if ye fancy a good keyboard!
Har, har, har! Aye! T'was funny!
Posted by Ye Olde Insufferable Bitch (Member # 5607) on :
Avast! The day is half done and only now have the scurvy dogs stopped nipping enough to allow me posting.
Posted by VánARRRR (Member # 5694) on :
Yarrr! That thar keyboard be pretty amusin', I must say.
[ September 19, 2003, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: VánARRRR ]
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
Arrgh, and when I went to go get me lunch, people were going "ARRGH! Yeah, talk like a pirate day!" and "yo-ho-ho" to me. Many of these lubbers know of this day!
Posted by Trespassin’ Tiger (Member # 5696) on :
What's that betwix your fingers? 'Tis a keyboard Matey! Arrr!
Hobbes Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I be thinkin' that it mightn be a suitable gesture to follow the lead of Pirate Dave Barry - who might be celebrating "Talk Like a Pirate to Telemarketers Day."
Or, as he wrote: "scurvy telemarrrketers"
Tonight, if we get one of those calls...
TMKTR: Is __ at home?
Me: No one 'ere by that name. Who be callin?
TMKTR: Well, would you be interested...
Me: Lissen, laddie, I'm sittin 'ere with a bunch of me mates, a few kegs, and some muskets. We're looking for pillage and plunder. And we've got caller id - and a reverse telephone directory. I suggest you abandon ship before the boarding party arrives.
TMKTR: "click"
Posted by Erik Blackheart (Member # 5610) on :
Nearly fell off my yardarm and spewed when I saw that last post! Yarr! Posted by Bonny Mad Jenny (Member # 5609) on :
Arrrrr, that be a funny link! Tis a right good squall, methinks the weather be celebratin wi us!
~Dragon
[ September 19, 2003, 02:47 PM: Message edited by: Bonny Mad Jenny ]
Posted by Posable_Man (Member # 5105) on :
Arr! I be sittin' in a cardboard box, waitin' for me Cap'n to sail us on to new shores. Avast! Blast! and rot his guts! It be days now since he abandoned ship and got himself ashore in the land of the Vikings. May it be that he be lost? Lying at the bottom of Davy Jone's locker, per'aps? Or holed up in some den of iniquity like yon Radisson City Center?
The lyin' dog!
Scurvy bloody leech infested bilge rat!
And here I be waitin' wit me best mate LavaLamp, hopin' that that weasel of a captain gets back to us in time to set sail in the good ship U-Haul afore the tides turn agin' us!
Arrrr
Posted by Aye-Ayelar (Member # 5701) on :
Arrr... I jes' couldn't resist this thar name, ye rotten scalawags!
Posted by dan_parrot (Member # 5692) on :
*squawk* Any land lubbin one uv youse think its a bit peculiar that on "Talk Like A Pirate Day" there be a great storm, a hurricane, reachin the fair city of Pittsburgh, home of ye pirates?
Posted by Bloody Shigosei (Member # 5700) on :
Arrrr! Shiver me timbers, it be September 19 already?
Posted by Erik Blackheart (Member # 5610) on :
It be truely entertainin' enough ta see th' names ye scaliwags are postin' here! Arrr!
Posted by Avadarrrru (Member # 5702) on :
Arrrr, any of you scurvy curs be wantin' to see me cartoon celebrating this momentous occasion of piracy? Let me know, me hearties, and I shall scan it.
Posted by DreadPirateDamien (Member # 5703) on :
Arrr!
If ye could be so kind, Avadarrrru.
~¤~DreadPirateDamien~¤~
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Arrr... I be too lazy to register a pirate name, but I thought ye scurvy dogs would like to know that I saw a young buck with a tricornered pirate hat speakin' pirate lingo in my mess.... It was great... Yarrrrr.... Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
when you scan that caaarrrrtoon, scan Viggo Mortenson: On horses cartoon too
Posted by Black Ralphie Bonny (Member # 4207) on :
I be late on the uptake, but I be here.
Posted by Sarcasticpirette (Member # 5615) on :
aaarr, me scurvy server be down with the rats. Curse ye, technology!
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Well, I'll tell ye scabberous dogs what I been up to today.
Firstly, I got up and poured meself a fine cup o' grog. This lasted quite a while and made the next point quite good.
Then I went to class. Aye, class, mates. I found meself in Greek afore I knew what the bloody hell was goin' on, and I gave a rather inspired performance, if I do say so meself. I had an Astronomy quiz (and the grog was still flowin') and then Ancient Egypt (where the facilities were a-callin', but made it out in time).
I then found meself with a quick break wherein I finally ate something (a couple Wheat Thins, nothin' too big lest I start spoutin'), got meself another mug o' grog, and did some work. I had another class, Italian, which was by far the best 50 minutes o' me life. Every single thing that was said was absolutely hilarious, but fer the life o' me, I cannot remember what the hell happened.
I then came back home, had a fourth cup o' grog (I get the number by countin' cans, mates), and passed out fer a while. And then I be here.
Ye may be askin' yerselves, be this the end o' the day fer this poor wench? NO! Firstly, I be not a "poor wench," just a sometimes-misguided one. Second, and more important, I got plenty o' lootin' and plunderin' to be doin' yet tonight. I got a goin' away party fer one o' me best friends. She be goin' to England with them scurvy dogs to "study" or so she claims. I be knowin' better, though - she be goin' to plunder her weasly black guts out. And I be sad and jealous, all in one.
So what'll I do? I'll get meself another mug o' grog and drink meself senseless. Or possibly drink meself some sense
Avast! Ye'd better be talkin' some right pirate talk, else I'll be comin' after ye!
Yers in lots o' grog,
Bloody Mary Flint
Edit for spelling/coherency, so ye lubbers can make heads and tails o' me writin'.
[ September 19, 2003, 07:48 PM: Message edited by: Carrie ]
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
So how did Diosmel and I celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day? We went to see Pirates of the Caribbean, of course. Posted by Jaided Pirate (Member # 5616) on :
Arrrrrggg!!! Me be a bilge rat. I missed it
Sorry me maties. Next year I'll get into port on time.
Posted by Dread Pirate_Smith (Member # 4780) on :
Yarrr! Prepare ye for the 3rd!!!! annual Talk Like a Pirate Day, yarrrr!!!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Why be ye startin' such a thing now, ye lout?
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
We set sail on September the nineteenth ye swabs.
yyaaarrrggghhh!
*Imagines pirate graemlin and posts it*
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Aye, it's a right shame the nineteenth be a Sunday, as I'll not be being able ta bring me grog to me classes.
Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
Land Ho!
If anyone was on the Pirates newsletter, the first issue went out yesterday looking for Beta testers. Man I love Sid Meier games. Posted by Erik Blackheart (Member # 5610) on :
Thanks fer th' head's-up, matey!
Raaagh!
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Arrr, a Sunday! I'll have to bring me boy's cutlass to work and make all my employees talk like pirates. Where's me wenchy shirt?
Posted by Jess N (Member # 6744) on :
[Jess enters in her best pirate pants, a full blouse and a cutlass at her side]
As long as there be treasure, fine men and plenty o' rum, I'll sign as cabin girl...I mean boy...
AHHHRRGGHHH!
Yo ho, yo ho...it's the pirate's life for me!
Posted by GuybrushThreepwood (Member # 5005) on :
Oh... there's... a... monkey in my pocket And he's stealing all my change His stare is blank and glassy I suspect that he's deranged!
Posted by GuybrushThreepwood (Member # 5005) on :
Ok, heres a quick easy recipe for Grog, that I picked up once.
PIRATE2:Grog is a secret mixure of which contains the following: PIRATE1:Kerosene PIRATE2:Glycol acid PIRATE3:Artificial sweeteners PIRATE1:Sulfuric acid PIRATE2:Rum PIRATE3:Acetone PIRATE1:Red dye #2 PIRATE2:Scumm PIRATE3:Axle grease PIRATE1:Battery acid PIRATE2:And/or pepperoni.
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