In keeping with past tradition, it is now time for me to pop in here and seize on some trivial thing that someone else has posted and wander vaguely off in directions heretofore unknown.
So here goes:
Slortar, Vikings don’t say Yarrr, they say “Hnorf”. Pirates say “Yarrrr”. [sub] (That’s the seizing part)[/sub]
Speaking of pirates, did I ever tell you about when my cousin Barbara and some of her friends decided to be pirates?[sub](Here comes the wandering part)[/sub]
Well, my cousin Barbara, micknamed ‘Bar’, often hung around with four other girls named Barbara. All of whom were nicknamed ‘Bar’ also, except one, who only wanted to be addressed as Barbara. There’s always gotta be one, ya’ know?
Now, she, (my cousin, and the other Barbaras too, presumedly), knew people with other names too, you understand, but the idea of a whole gaggle(?), pod(?) whatever, of girls, all named Barbara, was just too much to resist I guess, so they hung around together a lot.
Anyway, as Mardi Gras was coming around, these five Barbaras decided to dress up as pirates and be a ‘crewe’. If it were Halloween, they’d just be a bunch of pirates, but seeing as how it was Mardi Gras time, they were a ‘crewe’.
Now, since they were all named Barbara, (nicknamed ‘Bar’), they coulda called themselves ‘The Dread Pirates Barbara’, (The Dread Pirates Bar doesn’t sound as good), except that The Princess Bride hadn’t been invented yet.
And except for Ann.
Ann was Annette, one of the Barbara’s sisters, the third Barbara I think, and Ann wanted to be a pirate too. She whined and wheedled and cajoled until the five Barbaras decided to let her in, thinking “We can’t call ourselves ‘The Dread Pirates Barbara’ anyway, cause The Princess Bride hasn’t been invented yet, so why not?” or something like that, I’m just guessing here. But, since they we’re only mostly named Barbara anyway, they decided they could be called ‘The Barbara-y Pirates,’ which worked out just fine. They even had a theme song, which went along with their names, and they would sing and do a little dance routine when they come into a room. They’d come in, and each girl would point to herself, and all the other girls would point to her too, (the one whose turn it was), as they sang, in order,
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Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar, Barbara, Ann
Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar, Barbara, Ann**
It wasn’t very piratey, but it went over pretty well anyway.
It helped that they all wore low cut dresses, and bowed when it was their turn. No chocolate bras though.
Oh, And “Yarrr” means “All you wimmins line up over here.”
Except when it’s Viking wimmin (or Swampy) sayin’ it. Then it means * “all you hunky guys line up over here.”*