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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Western Colorado USA
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International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Arrrr, mateys! Shivver me timbers, but it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so be ye speakin’ like a buccaneer, else ye be walkin’ the plank!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
#2 permalink
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Their Target for Tonight
Posts: 398
Why are pirates called pirates?
#3 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2010
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Posts: 323
Ah yes, the most important Feast Day of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Google it, you won't believe it.....).
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Sussex UK
Age: 55
Posts: 2,150
I thought that for the Royal Navy ... every day was a "talk like a pirate" day
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Location: Somewhere
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Remember Robert Newton as Long John Silver on kids' telly? The definitive pirate - oooarghh!
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Location: Canada
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"Bananas, bananas" (no relation)
Last edited by Fox3WheresMyBanana; 19th Sep 2012 at 16:13 .
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Remember Robert Newton as Long John Silver on kids' telly?
That's nothing - I remember Long John Silver when he had two legs and his parrot was naught but an egg on his shoulder!
Jack
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Sussex UK
Age: 55
Posts: 2,150
Where's me Buccaneer ? Under you're Bucking Hat !
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Location: SW PORTUGAL
Posts: 265
Pirates always talk using the present tense......
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Location: Here
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Posts: 1,169
;Fox,
No Buccaneer pilot ever said Bananas, Bananas - you should know that
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Canada
Age: 50
Posts: 1,297
SODCAT* will have me walking the plank!
*Society Of Directional Consultants & Allied Trades
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: West Africa
Posts: 513
"Turn off your vessel's transponder, we are taking control and you and your cargo will be ransomed, welcome to Somalia"
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Canada
Age: 50
Posts: 1,297
Try also
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: nottingham
Posts: 20
Long John Silver
Don't know Long John Silver, but I know his brother Long John Saliva.
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Location: UK
Posts: 1,774
Coffman
I always thought my buccaneer was on the side of my bucking head...
...you must have a very strange shaped hat!
LJ
Last edited by Leon Jabachjabicz; 19th Sep 2012 at 20:08 .
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Cloud9
Posts: 323
Seriously guys, google 'church of the flying spaghetti monster'.
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Penzance, Cornwall UK
Age: 73
Posts: 199
Being Penzance born and bred I rather approve of the old time pirates!
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: SW England
Age: 66
Posts: 1,632
That's why you used to spend all those lunchtimes in the
Admiral Benbow!
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Ppruner of the Year Nominee 2005
Age: 47
Posts: 5,819
To
err is Human,
To
arr is Pirate...
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Western Colorado USA
Posts: 1,050
Yes, Helton Brat... I
have been touched by
His Noodly Appendage (many years ago)!
Brethren of the Pastafarian Faith celebrate!
Last edited by GreenKnight121; 20th Sep 2012 at 04:36 .
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