International Talk Like a Pirate Day

[tharpdevenport]

Is this Friday.


So, in honor of this ridiculous day, let us make some pirate jokes and/or post some funny pirate pictures.



I remember this pirate joke I was told years ao:

Late one evening a pirate walks into a tavern with one peg leg, an eye patch, and a hook for a hand.

The crusty old pirate sits down and orders a drink. Finally the barkeep asks him about his injuries.

"I don't mean to pry, but what happened to your leg?"

"Arg, well, there was a strong sotrm churnin' the sea one night and a wave crached powerfully across the stern, sending me down and a mast fell and severed it off."

"Wow, that's awful. How about the hand?"

"Arg, well, we were borded one day by a rival group of pirates and I swashedbuckled a feirce long and hard but he got in a chop and off went my hand."

"Wow, you must have an amazing life! But what about the eye?"

Looking at his hook hand, "Arg, well..... a bird pooped in me eye..."

 

[rhubarbodendron]

LOL now I'll never again be able to watch a pirate movie without checking if the guy with the eye patch has a hook for a hand!

TLAP-day? Geeez! I mean Arrrh! Is it really a whole year again? Time goes so terribly fast nowadays.

 

[Timewalker]

 

[rhubarbodendron]

ooooh! These are adorable!

 

[HIjol]

ok, here goes...from the land of 2nd-3rd grade...

...hold your tongue between your index finger and thumb (either hand) and say,
"My father was born on a Pirate Ship"

 

[rhubarbodendron]

you can achieve the same effect by instead of holding your tongue holding a bottle of rum between your fingers and pouring it behind that tongue. The result on pronounciation will be quite similar and the whole process will be more piratical alltogether

 

[scotpens]

Let's raise our glasses in a toast to Robert Newton, whose performance in Disney's Treasure Island started the whole "talk like a pirate" thing. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

 

[HIjol]

...avast ye 'lubbers and a true thanks to Rhubarb-ary Coast for the suggestion!

Parlay!...Keep t' the Code!

 

[Timewalker]

For some reason, September 19 was never Tasha's favorite day of the year...

 

[rhubarbodendron]

 

[bbailey861]

For some reason, September 19 was never Tasha's favorite day of the year...

Haha - good one!

 

[Gov Kodos]

Needs shanties!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw[/yt]

 

[rhubarbodendron]

oh great! That's always been one of my favourites. Though at school we learned "hooray and up she rises". Maybe my teacher was from a different ship

 

[Gov Kodos]

My school didn't have the cool to teach shanties. However, a number of my family were great fans of The Irish Rovers so they were a constant backdrop to family gatherings.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

We were taught only this one shanty. At "History of Music" and solely as an example of how seamen needed rhythmical songs to set the pace for raising a sail, heaving an anchor or scrubbing a deck. We also learned about Blues and Jazz solely as types of music having developed from American and African music by the slaves to make their lives a little easier and to have a medium for voicing complaint. For decades I had a bad conscience for feeling happy when I hear the Blues. Until I met with a few very sweet Canadian and American Blues musicians who said there was nothing at all wrong with that and that this was in fact exactly how one should feel when hearing the Blues. My teachers got it all wrong: it was no complaining music but comforting music!
Goes to show what little one really knows about foreign music.