Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, Free Republic!!

Pirates ^ | Various Americans

[LongElegantLegs]

Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Talk Like a Pirate Day only comes once a year (on September 19th), this year it falls on a Monday. On talk like a pirate day, everyone talks as if they were a pirate. For instance, instead of saying something like this:

The commitee has decided to reallocate your time to the filing group. We look forward to the exciting new synergies between these departments.

You would say this:

Aye matey, those scalawags in their fine breeches want ye' to move o'er with the scurvy dogs yonder. If ye' don't come back with some fine booty, we be keelhaulin' you next morn!

If you're not ready yet, you can learn more about this international holiday on the AboutPirateDay page or practice some phrases from the PiratePhrases page. After all, you don't want to be handed the BlackSpot when the holiday is over!

[Ciexyz]

What if I don't want to talk like a pirate? Will you keelhaul me? Make me walk the gang plank?

Crikey, no, matey. I'll just drink me yer daily ration o' rum!

[Ciexyz]

Follow and attack the BS Media, sink or take as Prize, Cap'n

Cap'n sez ye get an extra ration o' rum fer effort!

[Nightshift]

pirate ping

[Canadian Outrage]

Goidlines? My God Shark breath, you spell like Mo!! hehehehehehe!!

[InShanghai]

Been at sea all me bloomin' life.
Me mother was a mermaid; me natural father was King Neptune.
I was born on the crest of a wave, and rocked in the cradle of the deep.
Seaweed and barnacles be me clothes.
Every tooth in me head is a marling spike;
the hair on me head is Eye-talian hemp.
Every bone in me body is a spar, and when I spit, I spits Stockholm tar.
I'm hard, I is, I am, I are!

Taken from Logbook For Grace by Robert Cushman Murphy. Excellent book for some seafaring history!