Ahoy Mateys

[enzfan]

Didn't realize today was the National "Talk Like A Pirate Day".[8D]


Arrrh you a pirate?


It's "Talk Like a Pirate Day," so let's all practice our R's. Ready? All together now:

"Arrrh!"

No, not "yar." Some readers said "yar." That's an old nautical term now popularly used as an exclamation, but we're practicing "Arrrh!" It's a good all-around comment on pretty much anything, especially on "Talk Like a Pirate Day."

For example, what would you say if you heard today that Columbus' National Civil War Naval Museum is planning a two-day Pirate Festival for the last weekend before Halloween, with cannon firings, costume contests, concerts, pirate invasions and a "Miss Wench" competition?

"Arrrh!" Exactly.

"Talk Like a Pirate Day" was launched in 1995 by two guys named John Baur and Mark Summers, though no one knew about it until a 2002 newspaper column by humorist Dave Barry. There's now a Web site devoted to it at www.talklikeapirate.com, where you can hear Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket explain the five A's: Ahoy, avast, aye (pronounced "eye"), aye-aye ("eye-eye"), and of course, arrrh.

Port Columbus' museum (www.portcolumbus.org) started having a Halloween spooktacular two years ago, and for its ghost tour employed a "Pirates of the Chattahoochee" theme in which seamen were cursed by stolen Confederate gold.

It was so effective that some children believed the curse, says executive director Bruce Smith: At each tour's end, kids were invited to grab some gold from a bin of chocolate coins. "Most of the kids wouldn't touch it," he says.

What once was just a haunted house with a maritime theme is now an entire Pirate Festival set for Oct. 27-28 at the Lumpkin Boulevard naval museum. Smith says the big event will be announced today, and you know why:

Aye! Because it's "Talk Like a Pirate Day."

But the news leaked out. Smith says a woman called Monday, saying she heard some scuttlebutt about a big pirate party and had a $500 pirate costume to show off.

The precise course of Columbus' pirate-palooza has not been charted, but a few treasures are sure to be found, Smith says: "We know we're going to have costume contests, including the kids' contest, the adult contest and the 'Miss Wench' contest."

They envision assembling a pirate village and each night having a pirate attack, with cannon firings both from the shore and from the landing parties. They'll have the 97th Regimental String Band of St. Augustine, Fla., to play pirate music, and they'll bring in "a professional pirate group," the Tortuga Mutineers, www.thetortugamutineers.net, to sing ditties, fight duels and talk like pirates.

"It's nautical but nice," Matt Young says of talking like a pirate. The museum's education director says it helps to know nautical terms. He also recommends the generous use of "arrrh" and "matey."

Practice today, and come late October, when you're looking for some port to cut and run to with your first mate, your cabin boy and your scurvy dog, you can sail to the Pirate Festival and say:

"Arrrh

[hutter]

If they can have Civil War reinactment groups, then why not have pirate reinactments? It sounds like it would be a blast.

Oh, I almost forgot...arrrh.

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[ben_at_work]

What to Fuckin' Pirates have under thier Fuckin' Hats?

Buckineers!!! [:p]

[brock]

Thanks enzfan. I totally forgot, but I remember this:
http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.as ... e+a+pirate

That topic was some entertaining reading.

From talklikeapirateday.com:

Top 29 things to say at the office during Pirate Day:

29 "Arrrgh-Bring me a servin' wench to bid me me pleasures!"
28 "Argh-lad, is that Lee Elliott over there - or am I as mad as a salted herring?"
27> "Billions of blue blistering barnacles!" - Oh My God!
24> "Hop to it, dogs: Thar be leftover catering booty in the break room for plunderin'."
23> "Sixteen men an' a copier mess -- yo, ho, ho and a bottle of toner."
22> "Avast, men! Get a spyglass full of the doubloons on *that* vessel."
21> "I'll be keelhaulin' the next one of ye what leaves ye filthy Tupperware in the break room sink!"
20> "Arrr, matey, have your parrot call my parrot and we'll one day partake of noontime grub together."
19> "No, Bob Dess, I will not 'shiver your timbers.' I will, however, call my attorney."
18> "To arms, me lads! The spoils of the snack machine shall be ours, to each in a fortieth share!"
17> "Me cell phone fell deep into Davy Jones' locker Nobody flush... I'll go get me hook."
16> "Save that last donut for me, unless ya care to feel the cold steel of my hook hand up yer arse, matey."
15> "Be that a peg leg, or arrr ye just happy to cast yer eyes upon me?"
14> "Fax ahoy, mateys!"
13> "Avast! A Team Builders meeting off our schedule's port bow! Scuttle yer productivity, mateys, and prepare to be bored-ed!"
12> "No increase in me pay? Arrr, boss, let me tell ye where ye can store that hook!"
11> "Hold that elevator, ye whoreson bilge rat!"
10> "Ye bent my ear with yer lubberly questions WITHOUT tryin a reboot first? Arrr! It's the plank for you, ye mangy cur... and thank ye for calling Microsoft Tech Support!"
9> "Arrr, load the Canon, wench, and collate me copies!"
8> "Avast, ya scurvy knave! Brave be ye, for certain, but arrr ye willin' ta die fer that parking spot?"
7> "Twenty paces past the Magic Fountain of Water... bear ye left past the Chamber of Meetings... and a minute's voyage down the Great Carpeted Hallway... the unisex bathroom'll be on yer port side."
6> "Aye, if it's a large treasure chest and amazin' booty ye seek, fix yer gaze upon the receptionist."
5> "Boss, I'll be borrowin' a coupla doubloons from petty cash fer some Ho Ho's and a bottle of rum."
4> "Aaaarrrrrghhh! Who among us floated the air mead?"
3> "Arrr! I've arrr!anged for Arrr!lene in arrr!chives to send up that arrr!ticle on arrr!bitration."
2> "Avast, ye demon copy machine! Taste the wrath of my arse!"
1> "Arrr, I have made note of yer demands and I have but one question for ye: Will ye be wantin' slivers o' potato fried in the popular French style with that?"

[egg-roger]

Yar Har Fiddle dee dee!

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[BigBri]

Nice coincidence.

I let out a loud Arrrrh just before I saw this thread... when I crushed my finger between my chair's armrest and the keyboard tray. [:(!]

Aye, I believe I have fulfilled me pirate-talking duties for the day.