ahoy

[adelaidesean]

Avast, me hearties! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so hoist the colours and weigh anchor or be shocked to the very boney.

Yaharrr!

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Good lord! Shiver my timbers, I'd forgotten!

[chrisbarnes.livejournal.com]

Arrh matey! Set sail fer Tortuga, and break out the rum! Yarr!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

What happens if you are a pirate that prefers vodka?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of being a Russian pirate.

How would you spell "Yarrrr!" in Cyrillic, I wonder?

[chrisbarnes.livejournal.com]

The Cossacks used to go a-pirating on the Black Sea, looking for Turkish ships or towns to raid.

Can't help you with the Cyrillic, alas!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Gillian Polack has just informed there were Jewish Pirates (www.jewpirates.com)

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

Ahoy there from the Burley Griffin!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Ahoy there, me bucko!

[king-espresso.livejournal.com]

Damn now I be forced to spend me night watch watching the best pirate movie on the seven seas - The Crimson Pirate

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to splice the mainbrace while you're at it.

[king-espresso.livejournal.com]

A pirate ship in pirate waters in a pirate world... Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat defying gravity without wirework. I be happy with that, matey.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Have you ever spliced a mainbrace, and do you know how much hard work it is?

I'd watch The Sea Hawk (with Errol Flynn to buckle my swash), but we are going to War of the Worlds instead.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

WOTW is perfectly appropriate for this auspicious day. The martians are pirates through and through. "Oolarrrrrh" indeed.

I'm going on Friday. Can't wait!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Just so you know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_the_mainbrace

So have a drink for me.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I found it here:

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

This is a very handy link for all wannabe buccaneers.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I wonder if real pirate talked like this. Probably not. They;d just kill you on sight. Or rape you, depending on preference.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Or both, in either order.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

They certainly weren't a fussy lot.

Now If you haven't seen my blog, have a look at www.jewishpirates.com

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

And a fine story for this day :-

Queen of the Black Coast (http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600961h.html)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

What a great opening!

Um, yarrh.

My throat's getting sore. Here's hoping tomorrow is International Mime Day or something.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is one of his best, for sure.

[sci-fi-writer.livejournal.com]

I'm for kill first, then rape, then eat. It's ever so much easier.

Australian Steve, it disturbs me that you have your calendar marked for Int'l Pirates Day...

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

You're for killing, then raping, then EATING and you're disturbed by my calendar???

They make pirates tough in California, obviously, with a profound aversion to all forms timekeeping.

PS. If I had my way, every day would be Pirate Day.

PPS. Remind me to send you a photo I have of Charles Brown as a pirate from WOTF two years back. (The same time my userpic was taken, as it happens.) Now, he would make a BRILLIANT pirate, wouldn't he?

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I have been a pirate. I was the "Not-so-dreaded Pirate Roberts".

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Necrophiliac pirate cannibals.

There's a movie for you.