Ahoy Mates, It's National Talk Like A Pirate Day!

The Miami Herald ^ | Aug 31, 2003 | Dave Barry

[skinkinthegrass]

Avast! There be Pirate Lore here!! Prepare to be boarded by an unconventional pirate. Arrrrr, y'all! Pirate and Patriot///"He left a corsair’s name to other times, Linked one virtue to a thousand crimes."-- Lord Byron...and often painted in splashes of color, he lives on in the role of auspicious hero.///Source - Jean Lafitte "The Corsair" by E.H. Suydam

good read...Thanks

[skinkinthegrass]

Yes, but how many of you pirate wannabes actually own a boat?

define...boat...

I have access to a canoe/lifejackets/paddles...and Boy scout merit badge in rowing...where is that? :)

[MalcolmS]

>>>I have access to a canoe/lifejackets/paddles...and Boy scout merit badge in rowing...where is that? :) <<<


Arrrr! I believe thats qualifies ye for boarding parrrrty duty!

[Merdoug]

The man who put the ARRR!! in ARRR!!

[skinkinthegrass]

Aye, here be some pirates with a different "parrot" connection:

Time Bandit?... :))

[MalcolmS]

Arrrr! You'd better be givin us the yarn behind that there picture matey, or it's the plank for you!

[MalcolmS]

>>>Aye, here be some pirates with a different "parrot" connection:
Time Bandit?... :)) <<<

Belay that! Them Time Bandit knaves were short little lubbers. Mayhap that be the work of the Crewe of the Python and Cap'n Black John Cleese.

[Phsstpok]

I be confessing, sor, that I haint been toeing the line as well as maybe I ought when postin this day. In me defense, I been posting mostly on threads dealing with Godly questions like. Don't seem to be able to work up no "ARRRS" or "Tie that scurvy dog to the yardarm" yells when speaking of the holy One. Ev'n us pirates gots to has our limits, ye unerstan?

Now, give me a good accountant to bash and I'll give him what fer. Lessen he be a charted accountant. Ye haint talking about them, be ye? They's worsen us!!! Back to Port Royal. I needs to restock me rum supplies!

[skinkinthegrass]

Arrrr! I believe thats qualifies ye for boarding parrrrty duty!

AYE, Capn't....I need to get a GPS watch...where's Capt. Crunch?... :)

[skinkinthegrass]

Arrrr! I believe thats qualifies ye for boarding parrrrty duty!

AYE, Capn't....I need to get a GPS watch...where's FP Capt. Crunch?... :)

[.cnI redruM]

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[Merdoug]

That be the one and only "Shiver-me-timbers" Robert Newton from Disney's Treasure Island! I swear on a stack-a bibles!

[skinkinthegrass]

Belay that! Them Time Bandit knaves were short little lubbers. Mayhap that be the work of the Crewe of the Python and Cap'n Black John Cleese.

...MERCY.....

and Terry Gilliam, the Director.and of the movie Brazil.

[MalcolmS]

>>That be the one and only "Shiver-me-timbers" Robert Newton from Disney's Treasure Island! I swear on a stack-a bibles! <<

(LongJohnSilver)
You be careful with them Bibles. Only a fool would cut a Bible.
(/LongJohnSilver)

[Merdoug]

Arrr! Speaking of "cut", the UNCUT version of Disney's Treasure Island be out on DVD now. Adds a couple of scenes those pansy disney pantiwaists cut-out cause they thought it as too "violent". Every true pirate aught to go out and get a copy!

[AnAmericanMother]

Um, we've got two BSA certified lifeguards here with Georgia Canoe Association certificates in whitewater kayaking . . .

I think we'd make a great stealth boarding party . . . as long as it's dark (the colors are a little garish for daytime wear).

[AnAmericanMother]

arggggh!

"The black spot! I thought so," he observed. "Where might you have got the paper? Why, hillo! Look here, now; this ain't lucky! You've gone and cut this out of a Bible. What fool's cut a Bible?"

"Ah, there!" said Morgan. "There! Wot did I say? No good'll come o' that, I said."

"Well, you've about fixed it now, among you," continued Silver. "You'll all swing now, I reckon. What soft- headed lubber had a Bible?"

"It was Dick," said one.

"Dick, was it? Then Dick can get to prayers," said Silver. "He's seen his slice of luck, has Dick, and you may lay to that."

[AnAmericanMother]

. . . and I almost forgot.

We've got the hairiest dive knives you ever saw buckled to our PFDs.

First river trip I ever went on sweep boater was paddling a decked canoe. She had this HUGE dive knife strapped to her PFD - I swear the blade was 10 inches long.

I asked her, "What on earth is that for? To cut your buddy if you see a shark?"

She just grinned, pulled it halfway out of the sheath, and snarled, "ARRRRR! RAFTERS!"

All canoeists are a little bit crazy. Of course, they think kayakers are nutty too. They ALL hate rafters (you get that way after 2 or 3 raftloads of loons have run over you and laughed at how they "trashed that guy".)

[MalcolmS]

Arrr! Well, with tall tales like that one, ye be welcome t' join any one o' me boarding parties, and yer knife waving mate, too!

But we'll be havin' none of them accountin' ditties aboard ship, or it's the plank for thee!

[AnAmericanMother]

Aye, aye! Sir!

(very quietly) ". . . fifteen men on a dead man's chest,
Yo, ho, ho! and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil have done for the rest,
Yo, ho, ho! and a bottle of rum!