# "Pirate!": the new "Duh!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990 "2003-07-25T23:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/1 "2003-07-25T23:41:57Z")
If you opened this you know I am referring to the great line in Pirates of the Caribbean in which Captain Jack Sparrow answers the accusation of cheating with a simple, yet slightly incredulous and sarcastic “Pirate?”. I don’t know about you, but in my circle of family and coworkers, "Pirate has replaced “Duh” as an exclamation to indicate “of course” or “what did you expect?” Am I alone here? Come on, lets add this to the lexicon! [sub] I just wanted to say lexicon[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/2 "2003-07-25T23:52:19Z")
::bows:: You rule. I had never considered using that in such a context, but I most certainly will now. \>hugs **MikeG** \< Oh, and “lexicon.” ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/3 "2003-07-26T00:38:13Z")
I use pirate-themed pickup lines, if that counts. “Arrr, care to walk me plank?” ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/4 "2003-07-26T01:17:12Z")
“Avast, wench! Kneel and polish me pegleg, if ye know what boat I be sailing…” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/5 "2003-07-26T01:23:37Z")
I think we need a pirate smiley. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/6 "2003-07-26T01:41:21Z")
[http://www.tr-resurrection.de/smilies/pirate.gif](http://www.tr-resurrection.de/smilies/pirate.gif) I can’t get it to show as a smilie, 'cause the board disabled that feature. Pirate! ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/7 "2003-07-26T01:41:49Z")
“Pirate.” I LIKE that… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/8 "2003-07-26T01:42:02Z")
Well shiver me timbers! 😉 Now we just need to ask a moderator to add it. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/9 "2003-07-26T01:57:59Z")
I feel the need to announce that I did not make that smilie, but found it on a website. It is someone else’s work–not sure if the mods have to ask permission to add it. ---
**Author:** ![Jplacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jplacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jplacer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/10 "2003-07-26T02:20:43Z")
Speaking of pirates. A few months ago, at a late-night drunken poker game, we played a hand where everyone had to talk like a pirate. If you said anything normally (non-pirate talk), you had to put $1 in the pot. It was great fun. Just imagine, 4 grown men and 2 grown women talking like pirates and playing poker. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/11 "2003-07-26T02:25:20Z")
**Jplacer** , I think I might try that sometime… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/12 "2003-07-26T04:34:29Z")
I think I just did. Last weekend. Now I’m in big trouble, whoo boy! ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/13 "2003-07-26T10:53:28Z")
[http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000690.html](http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000690.html) ---
**Author:** ![lindarielle13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lindarielle13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindarielle13)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/14 "2003-07-27T06:26:19Z")
I haven’t used “pirate” in place of “duh” before, and I’ve seen the movie twice, but I’ll start now. No one will understand, but no one understands me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-the-new-duh/190990/15 "2003-07-27T10:06:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jplacer \* > \*\* > It was great fun. Just imagine, 4 grown men and 2 grown women talking like pirates and playing poker. \*\* Bah. Imagine instead three young white men drunkenly rowing a boat (well, a floating plank) into the middle of a lake in pitch blackness while talking like pirates… in two different Chinese dialects. However the hell that works. Easily the best drunken activity I’ve ever partaken in, since I didn’t drown.