Yaaar!!
Today is international Talk Like a Pirate Day!!!!
Talk like a pirate day is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by two Americans who proclaimed September 19 as the day when everyone should talk like pirates.
Instead of "hello," an observer of this holiday may greet acquaintances with "Ahoy, me hearties, for example. Yar.
Ahoy! - "Hello!"
Avast! - Stop and give attention. It can be used in a sense of surprise, "Whoa! Get a load of that!" which today makes it more of a "Check it out" or "No way!" or "Get off!"
Aye! - "Why yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or did."
Aye aye! - "I'll get right on that sir, as soon as my break is over."
Arrr! - This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. "Arrr!" can mean, variously, "yes," "I agree," "I'm happy," "I'm enjoying this beer," "My team is going to win it all," "I saw that television show, it sucked!" and "That was a clever remark you or I just made." And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr!
Advanced pirate lingo; or On beyond Aarrr!
Once you've mastered the basics, you're ready to start expanding your pirate vocabulary. Try these for starters
Beauty-The best possible pirate address for a woman. Always preceded by me, as in, c'mere, me beauty, or even, me buxom beauty, to one particularly well endowed. You'll be surprised how effective this is.
Bilge rat-The bilge is the lowest level of the ship. It's loaded with ballast and slimy, reeking water. A bilge rat, then, is a rat that lives in the worst place on the ship.
On TLAP Day-A lot of guy humor involves insulting your buddies to prove your friendship. It's important that everyone understand you are smarter, more powerful and much luckier with the wenches than they are. Since bilge rat is a pretty dirty thing to call someone, by all means use it on your friends.
Bung hole-Victuals on a ship were stored in wooden casks. The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole. That's all. It sounds a lot worse, doesn't it?
On TLAP Day-When dinner is served you'll make quite an impression when you say, "Well, me hearties, let's see what crawled out of the bung hole." That statement will be instantly followed by the sound of people putting down their utensils and pushing themselves away from the table. Great! More for you!
Grog-An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water, but in this context you could use it to refer to any alcoholic beverage other than beer, and we aren't prepared to be picky about that, either. Call your beer grog if you want. We won't stop you! Water aboard ship was stored for long periods in slimy wooden barrels, so you can see why rum was added to each sailor's water ration to kill the rancid taste.
On TLAP Day-Drink up, me hearties! And call whatever you're drinking grog if you want to. If some prissy pedant purses his lips and protests the word grog can only be used if drinking rum and water, not the Singapore Sling you're holding, keelhaul him!
Hornpipe-Both a single-reeded musical instrument sailors often had aboard ship, and a spirited dance that sailors do.
On TLAP Day-We are not big fans of the capering, it's not our favorite art form, if you will, so we don't have a lot to say on the subject, other than to observe that the common term for being filled with lust is horny, and hornpipe then has some comical possibilities.
Lubber-(or land lubber) This is the seaman's version of land lover, mangled by typical pirate disregard for elocution. A lubber is someone who does not go to sea, who stays on the land.
On TLAP Day-More likely than not, you are a lubber 364 days of the year. But not if you're talking like a pirate! Then the word lubber becomes one of the more fierce weapons in your arsenal of piratical lingo. In a room where everyone is talking like pirates, lubber is ALWAYS an insult.
Smartly-Do something quickly.
On TLAP Day-"Smartly, me lass," you might say when sending the bar maid off for another round. She will be so impressed she might well spit in your beer
Courtesy of http://www.talklikeapirate.com/about.html
For more on this subject go to http://web.ask.com/web?q=Talk+Like+A+Pirate+Day&qsrc=0&o=0
Talk like a pirate day is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by two Americans who proclaimed September 19 as the day when everyone should talk like pirates.
Instead of "hello," an observer of this holiday may greet acquaintances with "Ahoy, me hearties, for example. Yar.
Ahoy! - "Hello!"
Avast! - Stop and give attention. It can be used in a sense of surprise, "Whoa! Get a load of that!" which today makes it more of a "Check it out" or "No way!" or "Get off!"
Aye! - "Why yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or did."
Aye aye! - "I'll get right on that sir, as soon as my break is over."
Arrr! - This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. "Arrr!" can mean, variously, "yes," "I agree," "I'm happy," "I'm enjoying this beer," "My team is going to win it all," "I saw that television show, it sucked!" and "That was a clever remark you or I just made." And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr!
Advanced pirate lingo; or On beyond Aarrr!
Once you've mastered the basics, you're ready to start expanding your pirate vocabulary. Try these for starters
Beauty-The best possible pirate address for a woman. Always preceded by me, as in, c'mere, me beauty, or even, me buxom beauty, to one particularly well endowed. You'll be surprised how effective this is.
Bilge rat-The bilge is the lowest level of the ship. It's loaded with ballast and slimy, reeking water. A bilge rat, then, is a rat that lives in the worst place on the ship.
On TLAP Day-A lot of guy humor involves insulting your buddies to prove your friendship. It's important that everyone understand you are smarter, more powerful and much luckier with the wenches than they are. Since bilge rat is a pretty dirty thing to call someone, by all means use it on your friends.
Bung hole-Victuals on a ship were stored in wooden casks. The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole. That's all. It sounds a lot worse, doesn't it?
On TLAP Day-When dinner is served you'll make quite an impression when you say, "Well, me hearties, let's see what crawled out of the bung hole." That statement will be instantly followed by the sound of people putting down their utensils and pushing themselves away from the table. Great! More for you!
Grog-An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water, but in this context you could use it to refer to any alcoholic beverage other than beer, and we aren't prepared to be picky about that, either. Call your beer grog if you want. We won't stop you! Water aboard ship was stored for long periods in slimy wooden barrels, so you can see why rum was added to each sailor's water ration to kill the rancid taste.
On TLAP Day-Drink up, me hearties! And call whatever you're drinking grog if you want to. If some prissy pedant purses his lips and protests the word grog can only be used if drinking rum and water, not the Singapore Sling you're holding, keelhaul him!
Hornpipe-Both a single-reeded musical instrument sailors often had aboard ship, and a spirited dance that sailors do.
On TLAP Day-We are not big fans of the capering, it's not our favorite art form, if you will, so we don't have a lot to say on the subject, other than to observe that the common term for being filled with lust is horny, and hornpipe then has some comical possibilities.
Lubber-(or land lubber) This is the seaman's version of land lover, mangled by typical pirate disregard for elocution. A lubber is someone who does not go to sea, who stays on the land.
On TLAP Day-More likely than not, you are a lubber 364 days of the year. But not if you're talking like a pirate! Then the word lubber becomes one of the more fierce weapons in your arsenal of piratical lingo. In a room where everyone is talking like pirates, lubber is ALWAYS an insult.
Smartly-Do something quickly.
On TLAP Day-"Smartly, me lass," you might say when sending the bar maid off for another round. She will be so impressed she might well spit in your beer
Courtesy of http://www.talklikeapirate.com/about.html
For more on this subject go to http://web.ask.com/web?q=Talk+Like+A+Pirate+Day&qsrc=0&o=0
posted by fiddlin' fool at lunes, septiembre 19, 2005
9 Comments:
Ahoy! every1 has to go down past cats and see the post that I posted sunday. I wrote it last sunday and saved it, then I posted someother things and forgot untill now to post it so go see it arrr!
lolz!!!!!!!! that was really funny!!!! how did you find that one???
lol
good job einstein...theres a funnier one like that somewhere. i dont remember the url tho. i'll ask shaun. he knows. lol
esperanza, i found it on askjeeves. the front page.
tay, i didn't mean it to be funny, just wanted to let evey1 no about it.....i'd like to see a funny one.
aye!!
lol
Hey, great blog! I have my own blog too, when I figure out how to do links I'll put it up here!
who's this?
Yeah who is that???
If you don't answer soon I'm going to have to delete all your comments.
Theres only one I know, but if you put any more up...I'm just warning you...
It's in 'DA RULES'
I would love to vist your blog(I don't know who you are though). I'm gald you like mine!
Please don't put my blog on your links because that is another breach of 'DA RULES'
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