# 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:  [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/41 "2005-09-12T16:48:14Z")
> [@brownie55](#):
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> Dirty Harry Bonney here, are we brothers?
Make 'em walk the plank. We don’t want _dirty_ pirates here.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/42 "2005-09-12T17:01:32Z")
Um. Hello. Drownin’ Norm here. um… Arrrr!
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/43 "2005-09-12T18:11:17Z")
Ware, ye barnacle-bottomed dregs! **Bloody Jack Flint** be in command of the deck now! This vicious sea-dog has left more seamen layin’ on the poop deck
than all the jack tars in the roayal navy!
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/44 "2005-09-12T18:35:44Z")
**Harrrrrrrr!** _Privateer Bartholomew the Bastard Heart_ be on deck. Tremble ye cowards at me bastard heart. If I takes a likin’ to yer sorry hide I’ll be lettin’ ya call me Bart the Heart. Now, be there any gay pirates that fancy some rum and a little of the slap 'n tickle below decks?
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/45 "2005-09-12T18:39:49Z")
> [@Kiros](#):
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> Ninjas are _so_ much cooler than pirates.
Yarr, and how many “Talk Like a Ninja” days be there, I want to know …
I love this time of year when it’s time to pillage the towns, stampede the cattle, and ravage the women.
Except for that black hearted pirate, **Hal Briston** , who prefers to stampede the women and ravage the sheep. 😉
Sorry, Hal, I just couldn’t resist …
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### Author:  [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/46 "2005-09-12T18:44:03Z")
Ye all keep callin’ me name! I can hear ye just fine!
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/47 "2005-09-12T18:47:55Z")
> [@rayh](#):
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> Make 'em walk the plank. We don’t want _dirty_ pirates here.
A pox on ye, ye blasted scurvy dog!
**Dirty William Kidd** reportin’ aboard.
> [@one of those websites](#):
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> 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 though you’re not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/48 "2005-09-12T18:50:18Z")
> [@ArrMatey!](#):
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> Ye all keep callin’ me name! I can hear ye just fine!
Oh, good, you’re hear. Okay guys, start up the music.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/49 "2005-09-12T18:56:43Z")
I be
> [@](#):
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> Bloody James Roberts
! And my fav-rit drink is a Bloody Mary Roberts! Made with rum! Arrr…
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/50 "2005-09-12T19:13:25Z")
**Pirate Ursula the Staggering Drunk** will take one o’ them drinks, **Bloody James Roberts!**
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A pox on ye for moving the barrel like that!
What mean yye “We be still moored?!” That sea is heaving, heaving I tells ye!
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/51 "2005-09-12T22:15:45Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> Yarr, and how many “Talk Like a Ninja” days be there, I want to know …
Naught, I tell ‘ee, for they be as mum as the grave. An’ wi’ good reason, belike, all a-scuttle and a-scamper in the shadows like a pack o’ bilge rats, rot ‘em all for skulkin’ knaves. For if the stout lads o’ the seas - aye, and lasses too - do find ‘em, there be red slaughter done an’ we see if their vitals be as black as their shifts, or as yeller as their sneakin’ livers, God rot me bollocks else. An’ be damned to 'ee.
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/52 "2005-09-12T22:30:06Z")
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AYE! And they take their weak grog in those tiny little egg cup things! They make it out o’ rice, if ye can credit it! _RICE!_
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/53 "2005-09-13T00:29:43Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#):
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> AYE! And they take their weak grog in those tiny little egg cup things! They make it out o’ rice, if ye can credit it! _RICE!_
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{Bellows lustily}
What shall we do with the drunken ninja?
Plug ‘im in the rectum wi’ a piece o’ ginger!
That’ll make ‘im break ‘is inscrutable silence
Show ‘im the true meanin’ o’ piratical violence!
Err-lye in the mornin’! Arrr!
{Crashes tankard on the table}
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/54 "2005-09-15T20:13:16Z")
Yahr, I’m bumping this yere thread, for I’ve found a rare treasure greater than any of your shiny doubloons. Look thee well; aye, face thee full-on to this grand bauble I found at Archie McPhee: [What Would A Pirate Do? Folder](http://www.mcphee.com/items/11570.html).
And for all of you landlubbers who favor the mystical arts of the far Orient, I do be showing you the [answer to yer sweetest dreams](http://www.mcphee.com/items/11566.html) …
Ahr! Yargh! Ahoy!
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/55 "2005-09-15T21:07:50Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#):
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> Avast, ye Doper Dogs! [Twas a year ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276654) ye threatened to have me walk the plank for not givin’ goodly notice of TLAPD! And so I swore to never befall such a curse again-and wrote it on the melamine board of me cabin, next to me other important jobs! 10 days notice I give ya! Click the link, ya scalawags and get a Pirate name! Who has the rum? :eyepatch smiley:
Yo ho, yo ho, and a bottle of Rum, and really bad eggs…
Peg-leg Peg, here. :dubious: (well, it sort of looks like an eyepatch…)
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### Author:  [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/56 "2005-09-15T22:06:28Z")
Whooee! Tomorrow I’m going to Gaithersburg to get my shipmate Fierce Cap’n “Carnivore” Christine. She allowed as how she wants to go to the Talk Like a Pirate Party with me at the yachtyard in Arnold, Maryland. She’s stayin’ the weekend for rum and fun and general piratical mayhem. (Not like anybody probably cares, but I just felt like sharing.)
Such a fine pair of pirate wenches we’ll be! Enough to put Mary Read and Anne Bonny to shame! Arrr!
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### Author:  [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/57 "2005-09-15T22:16:16Z")
Evil Jack here ye scurvy sons o’ sea cows. Shiver the poop deck. Batten down the purser. keelhaul the mainmast. Scupper the forsail.\*
\*I’m kinda new at this talk like a pirate stuff. How am I doing?
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/58 "2005-09-16T01:35:04Z")
Twas listenin’ to the radio today and heard the date of TLAPD bein’ announced! The program was ‘All Things Considered’, from NP Arrrrr! 😃
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### Author:  [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/59 "2005-09-16T02:12:59Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#):
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> Twas listenin’ to the radio today and heard the date of TLAPD bein’ announced! The program was ‘All Things Considered’, from NP Arrrrr! 😃
Aye, they mention it every year. By the bowels of St. Swithin, don’t they have more important things to report?
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yarr-its-almost-talk-like-a-pirate-day/320923/60 "2005-09-16T03:24:09Z")
Arrr, nae, ‘tis been as quiet as a ship marooned in the damned Sargasso Sea lately on this infernal spinnin’ globe, so no, there be nothing better for those chattering magpies to do.
HARRRRR! HARRRR! HARRRRR! Get it, me lads and lassies?! Get–
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