High Holy Day of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
That'd be Lee for the idea and me for the executing part. You're welcome, glad you like it. :)
That sounds vaguely obscene. ... ;D
or sounds like a typical Saturday night. ;D
Go over to the new poll on this Holiday Forum and take a guess as to the real words Long John Silver spoke in Treasure Island. Time Magazine (http://time.com/4497168/international-talk-like-pirate-day/) today says that the pirate talk is a fiction dreamed up by Walt Disney and Robert Newton, who played the buccaneer in Disney's version of the story in 1950.
Now that's funny.
A joke I heard yesterday on the radio.
Who is a pirate's favorite independent actor?
Peter Saaarrrsgaaargh!
:laugh:
:laugh:
And who is a pirate's favorite actress?
Sofia Vergaaargha!
;D
You guys are a couple of deuces!
I was pushing my three grandchildren in a stroller to the park yesterday and Grandchild #2 had brought his pirate sword and was dragging it on the ground. I said, "Charlie don't do that, you're making the blade dull." ( :laugh: it's made out of foam.) Grandchild #1 asked, "What's 'dull'?" "Blunt," I answered. Grandchild #1 asked, "What's 'blunt'?" "ROUGH!" I answered.
You should have seen them in their "pirate ship". Grandchild #3 rode in front, brandishing her sippy cup. Grandchild #2 rode in the poop deck and Grandchild #1 stood on the running board, pointing the way. Bringing up the rear was the tugboat, grandma.
Coming up on Tuesday, September 19! :D
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle ofrumscotch. ;D
What exactly is talk like a pirate Day? ???
Except I sound like a seafood restaurant: Captain Crabcakes. :(
I'm Peg Leg Crabcakes ;D
We're both Crabcakes? We must be relatives. ;D
You can't be a crabcakes, friend, you are not a Cancerian. You are a Taurean, so you must be Bullcakes!
R. was telling me about how many pirates were gay and it was like a fellowship. I'm going to look up the show Black Sails, which is supposed to be a prequel to Treasure Island, written by my ancestor R. L. Stevenson, and is an adult telling of a pirate story.
Not to rain on the parade of the pirate talkers, but it's believed pirates didn't talk the way we think they did. At least that's what I heard on the radio on the way to work today. I decided to do a quick google search, and found a site that confirmed what the radio DJs said.
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Apparently there's not a lot of written records from pirates, and it's believed that pirates spoke exactly the same as English-speaking merchant sailors of the time, since large numbers in both groups tended to be from riverfront neighborhoods around London.
Many of the phrases that most people think of as pirate speech today can actually be traced back to the 1950s Disney movie Treasure Island, starring Robert Newton as fictional pirate Long John Silver.
"Newton's performance—full of 'arrs,' 'shiver me timbers,' and references to landlubbers—not only stole the show, it permanently shaped pop culture's vision of how pirates looked, acted, and spoke," Woodard said.
"Afterwards, Newtonesque pirates were everywhere, from Captain Hook to Captain McCallister of the Simpsons series."
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120919-talk-like-a-pirate-day-news-history/
[Somali accent] I am de captain now.
Surprisingly, I didn't see any posts about this at all on FB this year. Usually I see at least a few.
Many of the phrases that most people think of as pirate speech today can actually be traced back to the 1950s Disney movie Treasure Island, starring Robert Newton as fictional pirate Long John Silver.
"Newton's performance—full of 'arrs,' 'shiver me timbers,' and references to landlubbers—not only stole the show, it permanently shaped pop culture's vision of how pirates looked, acted, and spoke," Woodard said.
"Afterwards, Newtonesque pirates were everywhere, from Captain Hook to Captain McCallister of the Simpsons series."
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I hereby declare this National Talk Like a Pirate Week. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
I read this morning that there is also an International Talk Like Shakespeare Day on (what else?) April 23.