# Arrrrr, maties! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2005, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334 "2005-09-19T07:08:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/21 "2005-09-19T14:39:34Z")
It’s driving me nuts! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/22 "2005-09-19T14:45:57Z")
A pirate walks into a bar with a huge parrot on his shoulder. The barkeep says, ‘Where did you get _that?_’ The parrot says, ‘Tortugas!’ [sub]I made that one up a long time ago.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/23 "2005-09-19T14:46:22Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Arrr, me hearties! Run up the Jolly Roger, for we’re asea on the Spanish Main looken’ for treasure! An’ not all treasure be gold an’ silver, maties. Twasn’t gold nor silver, but it was the finest booty I’ve yet come across… So says BLOODY JACK FLINT! ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/24 "2005-09-19T15:03:17Z")
Arr, I tried to get me work-mateys t’ speak Pirate as well, but they ain’t. Mayhap they’s a bunch of yellow-bellies! Afeard of true pirates like meself!! _stomps away on peg-leg_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/25 "2005-09-19T15:05:17Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Arr, I tried to get me work-mateys t’ speak Pirate as well, but they ain’t. Mayhap they’s a bunch of yellow-bellies! Afeard of true pirates like meself!! Steal their treasure an’ make ‘em walk th’ plank! Send ‘em to Davy Jones, if Ol’ Nicodemus don’t get to 'em first! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/26 "2005-09-19T15:07:31Z")
\*He said he was the captain of a pirate ship Sailing seas both blue and green And every pirate must have a patch so’s they can look real mean He’d make the bad guys walk the plank The pretty ladies he would save He’d steal the treasure from the ships Then send 'em to a watery grave Chorus He’d talk about his missing eye He’d talk about his wooden leg But he’d never talk about the old tattoo On his right arm that said ‘Meg’ \* ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/27 "2005-09-19T15:13:24Z")
Arr, me calculus professaaarrr be too much of grumpy old man too to properly appreciate Talk Like A Pirate Day. So, o’course I had to make he walk the plank. If he were a physics professaarrrr, o’course, he’d have to walk the Planck ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/28 "2005-09-19T15:15:33Z")
_sigh_ I drank all of my rum Saturday night. Arrr… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/29 "2005-09-19T15:18:10Z")
Yarrrrrrr! Avast ye! The wenches be takin’ over this ship! [Story of Anne Bonney, the most famous female pirate ever to live](http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/4704/annebonny.html) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/30 "2005-09-19T15:23:37Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > [Story of Anne Bonney](http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/4704/annebonny.html) [The action figure of Anne Bonney](http://www.accoutrements.com/products/11333.html) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/31 "2005-09-19T15:24:05Z")
Have you ever tried to give a quiz on Martin Luther while talking like a pirate? Not as easy as it sounds! 😃 “Heeeerrrrrrrre I stand, mateys. I can do no otherrrr.” ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/32 "2005-09-19T15:36:14Z")
I think I be a-piratizin’ a famous document. > [@](#): > > When in the Course o’ human events, it be necessary for me mateys to dissolve ye political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers o’ th’earth, ye separate and equal station to which the Laws o’ Nature and o’ Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions o’ piratekind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to ye separation. Arrrr. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/33 "2005-09-19T15:37:05Z")
You think that’s bad? Try the Emancipation Proclamation. “Fourrrrrscorrrrre and twenty yearrrrrs ago, by blood and thunderrrr…” ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/34 "2005-09-19T15:41:01Z")
Arr! This ‘ere pirate jabber be gettin’ old, true as the north star! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/35 "2005-09-19T15:50:46Z")
Avast ye dogs, I be the Dread Pirate Roberts (_really!_) and I be takin’ no survivors this day! I be sendin’ no less than 10 carrrrrs to Davy Jones’ locker 'fore the sun sets! Insurance is the game and the phone be me cutlass! Mind yer bumpers, me hearties! ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/36 "2005-09-19T16:22:12Z")
Yarrr! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/37 "2005-09-19T16:28:17Z")
HARRRRRRR!!! I just be got of the phone with me boyfriend. I was ‘a talkin’ all pirate like to the scurvy dog. He said he be somewhar betwixt excited and thinkin’ I be lost me ‘effin’ mind. Methinks I’ll be a’ hoistin’ his sail and makin’ him walk me plank when next he boards me vessel. HARRRRRR!!! Do that be a’ soundin’ as dirty as me thinks it does? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/38 "2005-09-19T16:28:50Z")
Guess I gotta calm down. I just ordered one of my shipma…er, coworkers to fetch me my cutlass and a tankard o’ rum. He e-mailed me a claim…DUI wreck of an Oldsmobile. :sigh: Y’all don’t know ‘geek.’ ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/39 "2005-09-19T17:08:02Z")
Awww! I came in late due to an especially ugly headache this morning, so I couldn’t greet my cow-workers as they came to their desks with “Ahoy,” Avast," Yo-ho!" etc. So I’ll have to wait 'til one of them pisses me off and then I’ll yell, “Belay that, ye scurvey scupper, or I’ll have your guts for garters!” That’ll show 'em! Ahr! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334/40 "2005-09-19T17:09:21Z")
Arrr! I be headin’ out to run a pub quiz tonight… Methinks there’s goin’ to be some mighty surprised people when the losers be forced to walk the plank! Arrr, **Kythereia**! How be you doin’? (Pirate booty call) Where be the pirate smiley?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrrr-maties/322334.md?page=3)