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This could cause confusion or great joy. I just read an old newspaper post on the Net that made me smile. It was an older story (link below), and it stated that two men were trying to make September 19th "Talk Like A Pirate Day."

Methinks that sounds like it could just work.

You have to check it out.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/ent...ent/4029728.htm

Could be an oddity, but I think I'll start celebrating early. I know all my drama club geeks...er, friends, enjoy hollering arrgh in college! Some of them even made a movie, unfortunately before I started.

Example #1:

When the teacher gives us a good grade, "Arrgh!"

Example #2:

When we answer role call, "Arrgh!"

Example #3:

When some scurvy dog thought he owned the road...er, sea, and steered out in front of me Mustang...er, sailing vessel kinda sudden-like, I say "Arrgh!" Of course, that may be cause me mum told me to hold me tongue and not use swear words. (Think flying colors would be a good enough warning that I would be willing to push his quarterdeck even with his bowsprit if it happened again in the future?)

Anyway, why not a whole "normal" day dedicated to the beautiful language, syntax and symmetry of ye olde tongue?

After all, life is sometimes about working hard and getting ahead, but it's also about having fun. You only live once! May the wind be forever at yer backs, maties!

Aaarrrggghhh! Who's with me?

:ph34r:

Capt. WE Roberts

"I shall uphold my indignity with the utmost dignity befitting a person of my undignified station."

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This could cause confusion or great joy. I just read an old newspaper post on the Net that made me smile. It was an older story (link below), and it stated that two men were trying to make September 19th "Talk Like A Pirate Day."

Yes -- Talk Like A Pirate Day was proposed by Dave Barry last September. We reported on it in No Quarter Given. Sounded like some people had fun with it. We even heard tales of traffic reporters on that day speaking like pirates.

I wonder if it will be resurrected again this year.

--Jamaica Rose

"What

Would

Blackbeard

Do?"

--Jamaica Rose

Editor of No Quarter Given - since 1993

http://www.noquartergiven.net/

"Bringing a little pirate history into everyone's life"

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No! Captain Luigi, I have the best idea fer the piratin' holliday...

Why don't we just take over Thanksgivin' and part of December...The Pirates in Paradise festival in Key West would surely give the "holiday commissioners" enough of an idea to make it stick.

An' just flippin' through channels on the movin' pictures box (tv) the other day, an' I found a VH1 special on Christina Aguilera(sp?). Anyhow, she an' her family celebrate "Pirate Day". Hmmph! And all along, I thought I wouldn't like her...

I do like some of her songs...now I like her better! Arrgh! Arrgh!

Pirate Day--No, Pirate Week--No! Pirate 10 Days! Thanksgivin' to December 7/8! Pirates in Paradise Festival! That's a good a time as any! Anyway, in my household, October 31 is ALWAYS Pirate Day.

:P

Capt. WE Roberts

"I shall uphold my indignity with the utmost dignity befitting a person of my undignified station."

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Why don't we just take over Thanksgivin' and part of December...The Pirates in Paradise festival in Key West would surely give the "holiday commissioners" enough of an idea to make it stick.  

Actually Pirates in Paradise has done this already. On the fourth Thursday in November they celebrate Thankstakin'!

Scurrilously yrs,

--Jamaica Rose

"Frankly Scallop, ... I don't give a clam."

--Jamaica Rose

Editor of No Quarter Given - since 1993

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Mr MacVox I has gots ta tell ye that that talk like a Pyrate site is as sick and twisted a site as ever spied. And I loved every single page , it brought tears to me eye and I almost didn't make it to the scuppers i were guffawing so hard . I thank thee fer the soundings on the site.. I particularly liked the section " Asks capt'n Slappy.." :ph34r:

Lord above please send a dove with wings as sharp as razors , to cuts the throats of them there blokes what sells bad booze to sailors ..

" Illigitimiti non carborundum . "

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I think I'll get it going in Portland... this place loves an excuse to party, and if one bunch of weirdos starts something up on the waterfront and looks like they're having fun, then the others, not to be outdone, all have to join in!

I asked Captain Slappy, and loved the answers I got

Arrr... should I be keelhauling my mutinous crew for all leaving at once

like a bunch of scurvy landlubbers just when I needed them?

Captain Mad Maudlin McCrumb

Ahoy Captain McCrumb!

Belay that order, if ye please! Let's think about this like two rational

pirates. Keelhauling is hard work! Ye have to tie the scurvy dogs up,

bound hands and feet. Set yer pulleys (unless they're pre-set as they are

on The Festering Boil) and then, thar be the "haulin'" part! That's hard

work for five or six men, but if yer entire crew have mutinied on

ye...who's left to do the pullin'?

Aye, that's right. Ye alone.

That's why Cap'n Slappy invented "The Keelhaul-o-matic!" At first, it is

powered by the wind. Ye just clap the whole crew in irons, lock 'em in on

a single chain*, hook the chain to Cap'n Slappy's patented "Keelhaul-o-

matic" and the wind-powered contraption takes the first five dogs into the

sea and under the ship. That's all ye need. Then, let Mother Nature and

desperation do the rest.

Ye see, the "reverse-lock" wheel prevents them from comin' back the way

they came, so they have to "complete the journey" under their own

strength." As they do, they pull the next batch of neer-do-wells into the

frothy near-death experience with them! Pretty soon, the blighters at the

end, are pullin' hard to bring them up so they will have someone on board

to pull them through!

It's so simple, and yet, so beautiful! And, boy, are their faces red when

they realize they are voluntarily keel hauling themselves!

The Keelhaul-o-matic comes with patented reverse-lock wheel, this easy-to-

read four-hundred page owners manual, VHS tape and a T-Shirt that

reads, "Sit down and SHUT IT! Or I'll use the Keelhaul-o-matic on the Lot

o' ye!" All fer just $599.97! If ye act now, we'll throw in this "Keelhaul-

o-matic Juice-Buddy." Sure, we know it has nothing to do with the Keelhaul-

o-matic," but you could use it with your "Orange Boy!*" (*sold separately).

Hurry, this item is going fast!

(* Chains Not Included)

Cap'n Slappy

:lol::blink::lol:

"You have a woman's skin, m'lord! I'll wager that hides never been rubbed with salt and flayed off to make stockin's for a pirates best cabin boy!"

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