Do you know pirate speak? Tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day.

[HopeHoops]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/09/18/talk.like.a.pirate/index.html#cnnSTCOther1

This is fun. I didn't do so well ;}

[Skink]

1. Aye Matey.

:evilfrown:

[ixion]

2. aye, shiver me timbers

I be excited to be pirate speakin' :)

[kentuck]

3. Aaargh!

:-)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. Aaargh, Indeed!

How can it be on a Saturday?! This is our favorite holiday here at the office and we won't be together to celebrate it.

Did I mention that I have a really fun office?

[Skink]

13. Dress like a pirate Monday.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

22. Weak....

The whole glow of "Talk Like A Pirate Day" has worn off by them.

And we have eye patches...

[L0oniX]

4. Health insurance people will be saying "gather to me".

[TexasObserver]

5. My favorite letter is RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[buzzycrumbhunger]

6. Yarrrr!

I got me keyboard at the ready, I do!

[joeybee12]

7. How's this? OMG, we set a record for 17 straight losing seasons,

yes, we pirates did.

[ensho]

9. Guild Wars is doing Talk Like a Pirate too

I didn't know TLP was going on everywhere, thanks for info

[pipi_k]

10. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum...

I'd rather learn how to talk like the pirate's parrot.

Pirate parrots are cool


:7

[BlooInBloo]

11. But I don't WANNA be a pirate!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. it's ok Jerry... n/t

[BlooInBloo]

18. Don't burst my bubble man - it's my favorite Seinfeld line!

:rofl:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. but I don't wanna wear the puffy shirt!

fabulous episode! i use the low-talker example all the time...just great stuff!

sP

[Blue_Tires]

12. so tomorrow I can tell the ladies to 'surrender the booty' and its all good?

[HarveyDarkey]

36. They not be ladies...

they be wenches,

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. Facebook has a Pirate language module for those interested n/t

[armyowalgreens]

35. I actually used it for a good 3 months before switching back to english.

[Aviation Pro]

16. Saavy, mate.....

Parley?

[Individualist]

17. Did someone say pirate?

[Royal Sloan 09]

19. Aargh, tis time to keelhaul the blue dogs and

the rest of the obstinate curs that obfuscate and obstruct the Health care, me hearty! yo ho tis a pirate life for Me.

[timtom]

20. Thanks to the great Shakespearean actor,

Robert Newton, who created the definitive pirate role, Long John Silver, in the Disney version of "Treasure Island."

Wallace Beery did the role about 15 years before Newton, but Newton's is the DEFINITIVE Long John Silver, and, hence, the ultimate pirate!

[Buzz Clik]

21. Shiver me timbers. So soon? I'd rather be keel-hauled.

[librechik]

23. R n/t

[MineralMan]

24. Oh, crap...we lost again!

[BuyingThyme]

26. Way the anchor, maytee!

[lumberjack_jeff]

27. I dunno. Do they say the f-word a lot?

Garr. Just fuckin' garr.

[Canuckistanian]

28. Here's a translator for the Pirate impaired

http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/translate/index.php

[Raschel]

32. Freepers be Gar. (freepers are stupid)

:rofl:

[ddeclue]

29. For the piratespeak challenged:

http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl

[Raschel]

30. Here's a pirate ditty.

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/pirate-code-conduct.htm

Check out the Pirate Code of conduct. Ahoy!

[Gin]

31. Ahoy, help Ye'll ne'er get me buried booty!

gin :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Aye matey, aparently I am up on my naval lingo

I got eight out of eleven right...

:-)

ARRGGGH

[armyowalgreens]

34. I be eyin' this with pleasure. arrrrrrr!

[Holly_Hobby]

37. Heh

[ncteechur]

38. AAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrr!

Go Pirates!