Talk Like A Pirate Day

[Bouncy Castle]

^^^uuh, good one!

It wasn't great, but at least it wasn't a CATastrophe.

[Del]

Face down on the f*****g floor This boat is going to Somalia

Did you lot NOT see the links down the right side of the page???

Hang on

Did yee scurvy swabs be too lazy to pillage the vast treasure of pirate talk on the right side of the page????

The Basics: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#basic

Pirate PickUp Lines: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#pickup

Pirate Personality Test: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ppi.html

MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE!!!!!... the Pirate Translator: Just type in what you want to say in non-pirate and it comes out in pirate-ese!
http://postlikeapirate.com/

[Tonyblack]

This really should be Talk Like Robert Newton Day as most pirate talk seems to be based on his version of Long John Silver.

[Batty]

Robert Newton was the bestest pirate, in the whole history of the Seas!

Captain Pugwash comes second!

[Del]

I used to do the Robert Newton pirate as a child.... my mother screamed when I came up to her in the yard "being" a pirate.... she thought I was having some kind of fit!

Harugh arrgh! huragh! *wink* *blink* *pull mouth to the side and wink savagely at mother* Hurhphharggh!

[Bouncy Castle]

What a bizarre child you must have been!

[Batty]

Explains a lot, doesn't it?!

[Bouncy Castle]

It certainly does, Ollie!!

[Who's Wee Dug]

Robert Newton was the bestest pirate, in the whole history of the Seas!

I will agree with you on that one AAaaaaarrrgh.

[Quatermass]

Yeah, but Robert Newton doing a pirate accent as an exaggerated Mummerset accent isn't without precedent. Apparently lots of pirates came from the West Counties.

And then, there is what happens when Gordon Freeman talks like a pirate...

[Sister Jennifer]

Have any 'o ye scurvy dogs seen me mizzen mast? Tis mizzen!

Arrrr, me first pirate game...

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[Conforumist]

^^^Wow, in all 16 colours too!

[Sister Jennifer]

Damn straight!

[Quatermass]

Actually, while I'm on the subject, that reminds me of a funny anecdote I heard on a making-of doco for The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the TV series. David Learner played the body of Marvin, and at one point during the series, David Prowse (aka the body of Darth Vader) joined the cast as Hotblack Desiato's body guard (the separation of the words is intentional, given the context).

Anyway, during rehearsals, David Learner found himself sitting on a couch next to David Prowse. Learner himself wasn't going to provide the voice of Marvin, and so asked David Prowse if he had any idea why George Lucas replaced Prowse's voice with James Earl Jones'.

Prowse's response? "Oi have no oideah."

[Sister Jennifer]

^ Wow.

Hitch Hikers is my very, very favourite.

Arrrr.