# YARR! It's almost Talk Like a Pirate Day!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 10, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923 "2005-09-10T01:53:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/21 "2005-09-10T12:44:44Z")
**Drake Fierce-Leg** I be. This peg’s painin’ me somethin’ awful too. Must have the gang-green in me stump. BOY! Fetch me the rum an’ bandages and sharpen me cutlass.
Aye, an’ another thing too. _ **ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH.** _
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/22 "2005-09-10T21:31:50Z")
Aye, but **Captain Case The Insensitive** be tippin’ it the Black Spot this year, look’ee. For it do be gettin’ too commercialised now, wi’ every whoreson chandler ‘tween Tortuga an’ Trincomalee sellin’ naught but lubberly gewgaws an’ frippperies as balloons, T-shirts, pannikins an’ such like, burn me bowels if they ain’t.
I be havin’ but a quiet carouse below decks this year, wi’ only me trusty shipmates, a hogshead o’ rum, an’ a few lusty wenches o’ dusky beauty an’ flashin’ eyes, belike, wi’ maybe plunder and sack later.
Time was it was for the rovers, the roaring boys an’ the lads o’ mettle, now it just be about the merchants, pox on ‘em, an’ the doubloons to be made, splinter me sphincter else. An’ it do be advertised earlier each year an’ all, a plague on’t. Arr.
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### Author:  [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/23 "2005-09-10T23:04:21Z")
Ye’ve a point there, laddy me buck. I’ve ardly the spirit to drag a cabinboy belowdecks for a Jolly Rogering this year, the commercialism’s gotten so bad.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/24 "2005-09-10T23:15:44Z")
Ahoy and avast there, maties! Tis I, Capn Jane the Short Tongue (I swear that what it came up with!) here.
Keep yer parrots to yerself or I’ll keelhaul the lot of ye–arrrrh!
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/25 "2005-09-10T23:17:50Z")
Mad Jenny Kidd here, lookin’ for swashes to buckle. Volunteers?
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/26 "2005-09-10T23:21:39Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> Mad Jenny **Kidd** here
_lifts eyepatch and squints_
Ye be me long lost sister on the sea?
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/27 "2005-09-10T23:55:52Z")
From [www.fidius.org](http://www.fidius.org) and the What’s My Pirate Name quiz:
> [@](#):
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> Dirty Tom Read
> You’re the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean – not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. Even through many pirates have a reputation for not being the brightest souls on earth, you defy the sterotypes. You’ve got taste and education. Arr
Yo ho, yo ho, it’s a pirate’s life for me! Avast, me hearties, take to the deck, load up the 38s, and puff out the fo’sail! We’re cruisin’ for some boozin’, and bettin’ on some wenchin’!
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### Author:  [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/28 "2005-09-11T00:20:06Z")
Behold the tattered splendour of **Bloody Ethel Kidd**! Arrghh! Yarrrr! Harr-- hack, cough, gack! Here I be, ready to upend the nearest bottle o’ rum and pay attention next time when I hear “Stand by to come about!”
I’m prepared this year, thanks to me fine shipmate **danceswithcats**!
First, pirate shopping. I went to the website and ordered a T-shirt. It’s the salmon and pink shrunken ringer that says “Dead Men Tell No Tales”. Awesome sentiment, but I have a feeling a pathologist would disagree. (Hee.)
I’m also planning to take me battered, tattered arse to the Slipholder’s/Talk Like a Pirate Day Party on Saturday September 17 at the Ferry Point Marina and Yahctyard in Arnold, Maryland. I found it on the Pirate website and am totally psyched about finding some Pirate Doin’s relatively close by.
I think I’ll look pretty authentic even if I don’t dress up (which of course I will have to do)… I have a neato-burrito black eye and messed-up face from some out-of-control, typically piratical drunken revelry a couple of nights ago. Hey, I ain’t covering this baby up with no stinkin’ eyepatch! I worked \*hard \* to look this awful!
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/29 "2005-09-11T01:03:06Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> Mad Jenny Kidd here, lookin’ for swashes to buckle. Volunteers?
A saucy beldam, by the powers! Yer figurehead is hoistin’ me mainsail! To me quarters, where naught is done by halves, and I’ll show ye what a hornpipe _really_ is! Prepare to board, an’ avast below!
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/30 "2005-09-11T01:33:55Z")
Mad Bess Read here be sailin’ into Dope Strait waters. And God DAMN yer eyes if ye get in her way!
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/31 "2005-09-11T01:37:31Z")
Arrr, me twenty-two lady crew an’ me is deferring “Talk like a Pirate Day” until the Saturday, when we’s paddlin’ the waters of Quetico in search of wine and adventure.
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### Author:  [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/32 "2005-09-11T01:44:54Z")
Beware ye land lubbers, Cap’n Isaac 'leven-fing’rs is here to sail the high seas and to harass ye poor slobs.
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### Author:  [@The\_Lizard\_Queen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lizard_Queen)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/33 "2005-09-11T02:24:29Z")
Hackin’ Aurora Blythe, at your service! And the personality test shows me to be Captain material.
The Cap’n
Profile: Some men and women are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any scallawag who stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man - or woman - you couldn’t eviscerate.
I like it…I LIKE it!!
The Lizard Queen
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### Author:  [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/34 "2005-09-11T02:54:40Z")
**Mad Sam Bonney** hath run up the red flagge on the _Adventure Galley_! Our gonnes be run out and our matches are alight. Surrender or die, ye scurvy scum! Arrrrrrrrgh! (Stop biting me ear, ye damned bird!)
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/35 "2005-09-12T16:11:27Z")
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr, ye scurvy dogs! How could so notable a day slip up on us like that? Shiver me timbers, I’ll have to pass the word to me shipmates. Yarrr.
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/36 "2005-09-12T16:19:27Z")
Arrrr ye swabs. I be Dirty John Flint. Now where’s me grog.
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### Author:  [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/37 "2005-09-12T16:38:10Z")
I be the Dread Pirate Bonney.
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/38 "2005-09-12T16:44:16Z")
I be Blackspot Jo Bailey, and I be going to see a movie rated Arrrrrrrr.
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### Author:  [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/39 "2005-09-12T16:45:52Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> Dirty John Bonney at yer service.
>
> What’s that ye say? Me wooden leg? ‘twas a cannonball took me natural leg straight to Davy Jones’ locker.
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> The hook where me hand should be? 'twas lost in a swordfight many years ago. Aye, but the other guy, he weren’t so lucky.
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> The patch on me eye? Well, a little bird shat it in it. Aye, a bird. Ye must ken, I’d only had me hook for a couple days at that point.
Dirty Harry Bonney here, are we brothers?
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/40 "2005-09-12T16:46:34Z")
Yahr, who a-goes pizzin on me mizzen? 'Tis \*\*Red Davey Flint \*\* I be, and I see that me brothers have joined me on the high seas as well. Ahr, the Flint boys were the roughtest-toughest gang of yard apes ever to set sail in their mother’s washtub off the coast of Penzance. Captured a Corsair ere we could walk, we did, and nary a survivor to tell the tale! Yahr! Yo-ho!
_Shiver me timbers
Rock the boat
Captain’s got the scurvy!_
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