Arrrrrrrrrrh! It's International Talk like a Pirate Day (and unofficially, Post Like a Pirate Day)!

[Up2Late]

An' anyone of you scurvy Dogs who don't gets FIFTY Lashes (or has to spend an hour in a room with Ann Coulter)!

Arrrrrrrrh!

<http://www.talklikeapirate.com/tlapd07.html>

[wtmusic]

1. Or if you REALLY want to confuse people

talk in Pirate-Latin...

It'sarr uchmarr oremarr unfarrrrr!

[Up2Late]

3. Yup, ya got me, Arrrrh!

[kanrok]

6. Puellarrr est parrrrla

[Up2Late]

2. Avast, herrre's a fun site! A Tal kie Like a Pirrrate automatic trrranslatorrr!

Translation from: Hey, Here's a fun site! A Talk Like a Pirate Automatic Translator!

<http://www.capstrat.com/go/pirate/>

[Toucano]

4. The appeal of this completely eludes me.

Sorry. I just don't get it.

[Up2Late]

7. I think it's just to lighten the mood for a day when there is little to be happy about

I'm personally overwhelmed and depressed about all the bad news we all are having to (and are going to have to) endure these last few months of the Bush nightmare.

Sorry: I'm scallywagally o'errrwhelm'd and deprrress'd about all th' blac kie spot we all be havin' t' (and be charrrtin' a courrrse t' have to) endurrre 'ese 'errrelast few months o' th' Bush nightmarrre, and a bottle of rum!

[Toucano]

10. I see.

Thank you.

[Mutineer]

14. How can you not love a pirate?

People write SONGS about pirates man! My personal favorite? A Pirate Looks At Forty:

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call,
Wanted to sail upon your waters
since I was three feet tall.
You've seen it all, you've seen it all.

Watch the men who rode you,
Switch from sails to steam.
And in your belly you hold the treasure
that few have ever seen, most of them dreams,
Most of them dreams.

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.
The cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late.

I've done a bit of smugglin'
I've run my share of grass.
I made enough money to buy Miami,
But I pissed it away so fast,
Never meant to last, never meant to last.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks,
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks,
But I've got to stop wishin',
Got to go fishin', I'm down to rock bottom again.
Just a few friends, just a few friends.



I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
And though I ran away, they'll come back one day.
And still could manage a smile
It just takes awhile, just takes awhile.

Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found
My occupational hazard being my occupations
just not around.
I feel like I've drowned,
Gonna head uptown.


Now there you go mateys! That's a pirate song!

[Mutineer]

15. And another Pirate Song I'm quite fond of. . . .

Mutineer by Warren Zevon:

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Hoist the mainsail - here I come
Ain't no room on board for the insincere
You're my witness
I'm your mutineer

I was born to rock the boat
Some may sink but we will float
Grab your coat - let's get out of here
You're my witness
I'm your mutineer

Long ago we laughed at shadows
Lightning flashed and thunder followed us
It could never find us here
You're my witness
I'm your mutineer

Long ago we laughed at shadows
Lightning flashed and thunder followed us
It could never find us here
You're my witness
I'm your mutineer

I was born to rock the boat
Some may sink but we will float
Grab your coat - let's get out of here
You're my witness
I'm your mutineer
You're my witness
I'm your mutineer
I'm your mutineer......

[Up2Late]

18. Here's a video of it at YouTube...

...for those of us who are not up on our Jimmy Buffet songs: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLQfEbucvNc>

[kineneb]

31. Barrett's Privateers

Arrrr, a fine pirrrate ditty. I ha' done listen'd ta' it this verry morrrnin'.

Barrett's Privateers
by Stan Rogers

1. Oh, the year was 1778,
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
A Letter of Marque came from the King
To the scummiest vessel I've ever seen.

Refrain:
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold.
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears.
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax Peer,
The last of Barrett's Privateers.

2. Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
For twenty brave soul all fisherman who
Would make for him the "Antelope's" crew

3. The "Antelopes" sloop was a sickening sight
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
She had a list to the port and her sails in rags
And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags

4. On the king's birthday we set to sea
("How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
It was ninety one days to Montigo Bay
Pumping like madmen all the way

5. On the ninety sixth day we sailed again
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
With our cracked four-pounders we made to fight.

6. Oh, the Yankee lay low down with gold
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
She was broad and fat and loose in stays
But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days.


7. Then at length we stood two cables away
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din
But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in.


8. Oh, the Antelope shook and pitched on her side
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
Oh Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
And the Maintruck carried off both me legs.


9. So here I sit in my twenty-third year
( "How I wish I was in Sherbrook now!")
It's been six years since I sailed away
And I just made Halifax yesterday

[Perry Logan]

5. AVAST!

Arr!

[LiberalEsto]

8. It's time to run those scurvy landlubbers

in the Misadministration up the yardarm and down the plank!
Arrrrrh!

[Up2Late]

9. Aye!, ye be corrrrrrect and wise, and a bottle of rum!

Arrrh!

[Deb]

11. Shiver me timbers! A clip for my Matey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwjKIwIQEmI Though I can't really understand everything he's saying. :D

[libodem]

12. Arrrrrgh, Arrrrgh, me buckos

Blow the men down, maties, blow the men down.

[librechik]

13. (R)

lick me peg, wench--and vote Republican!

[Reader Rabbit]

16. The day is not complete without a rousing chorus of "Scurvy!"

As sung by the one and only Captain Bogg and Salty, Portland's own all-pirate band.

http://www.boggandsalty.com/hold/scurvy

Eat a lime!

[Up2Late]

17. Bunny Rabbits?

Arrrrh! :rofl:

[Blackhatjack]

19. In honor of speak like a pirate day, a few words for GWB....

"Bush! Call him o'errr, and a bottle of rum! I be wantin' t' have a wee be rrrattlin' on wit' him about his plunderrrin' frrrom yon us, and a bottle of rum!"

"I be listenin' t' his lame excuses then I'll intrrroduce him t' me new plank, and a bottle of rum! Harrr Harrr!"

A fun translator!

[Up2Late]

21. Aye! This be fun, trrranslat *Bush's scrrript and see what in th' name o' Davy Jones ya get!

"Without 'ese 'errretools it'll be cutthrrroaterrr t' figurrre out what in th' name o' Davy Jones ourrr enemies be doin' t' trrrain, rrrecrrruit and infiltrrrate operrratives into Amerrrica," Bush said durrrin' a visit t' th' National Securrrity Agency, which brrrackish conducts surrrveillance o' electrrronic communications on tarrrgets arrroun' th' worrrld, and a bottle of rum!

"Without 'ese 'errretools, ourrr countrrry will be much morrre vulnerrrable t' attack," Bush added, and a bottle of rum! :toast::rofl:

<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-09-19T174653Z_01_N19275426_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-EAVESDROPPING.xml>

"..."Without these tools it'll be harder to figure out what our enemies are doing to train, recruit and infiltrate operatives into America," Bush said during a visit to the National Security Agency, which conducts surveillance of electronic communications on targets around the world.

"Without these tools, our country will be much more vulnerable to attack," Bush added...."

[immoderate]

20. Avast and blow me down! Did you scurvy dogs see the latest pirate movie?

It's rated Aaarrrgh!

Sorry. I had to post this again. :)

--IMM

[Up2Late]

22. Aye! verrry belly shakin'!

:spray:

[Up2Late]

23. kick & arrrrrrrgh you scurvy dogs!

:kick:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. Step lively now! Tis a fierce thirst have I! Arrr!

Ale! Wenches!* More Ale!
















*Ladies, please forgive, it was in the script. ;)

[Up2Late]

25. Arrrrrrrrrrrrh! I jus' got me new "Pirrrate Name frrrom yon this Pirrrate Name Generrratorrr!

It's "Halfdan Hairy-Cheek" Arrrrrh! <http://www.stupidstuff.org/main/piratename.htm>

[SalmonChantedEvening]

27. They calls me The Butcher!

Aharrrr! Thankee kindly for navigatin us to yon port lad

[Cha]

26. I always wanted to talk like

Johnny Depp, savvy?
Ahoy me harr-ties!

Shiver me timbers and call me a bum..
Fifteen men on a dead man's
chest..Yo ho ho a bottle rum.

For those who need a hand, mateys!..

http://www.io.com/~sj/PirateTalk.html

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

28. Some words from the most successful pirate of all, who has pledged allegience

to Skull & Bones and who has plundered our treasury, plundered Iraq and has left lots of dead and broken bodies in his wake...

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" — Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 ...

[Up2Late]

29. Or in Pirate speak: Rarrrely be th' question'd asked: Is ourrr little sandcrrrabs learrrnin'?

Arrrh!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

33. Up2Late

:rofl:

[Siyahamba]

30. I just downloaded some XBOX games!

;)

[omega minimo]

32. Who Thrrew The Damn TEA Overrboarrrrrrrrghd?

:kick: