Arr! ‘Tis Talk Like a Pirate Day!
So stow ye landlubber lingo away
And set sail with me pirate crew
Who talk like all the pirates do.
Don’t say “yes” and “no” today!
True sea dogs say “aye” and “nay.”
Don’t say “stop that,” say “belay”
It’s not “move over,” it’s “gangway!”
So give your speech that pirate flair
And fly your flag like ye just don’t care!
Today, ye don’t talk by the book
Or ye’ll answer to our Captain Hook.
Photos, from top: via Petful, Be a pirate., by modernrockstar, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Ahoy mateys! Here be Pirate Ricky the Dialect Dog, as scurvy a dog as ever ye will see!
Eeeee (oops, er, I mean Arrrrrr) he’s as seaworthy a hound as I’ve ever laid me eye on!
Thank ye kindly!
Prepare to be boarded!
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, ye scallyWAGs!
It is pouring here; a ship might have been handy getting to work (which, even factoring in Starbucks and stopping for gas*, took me twice as long as normal).
*I was planning to get gas on my way home tonight; I only stopped this morning because the rain got worse as I approached Wawa so I decided to stop in hopes it would lighten up a bit while I was there.
WAWA! Allein, you lucky dog, I didn’t know you lived in Wawa country! God, how I miss them.
lol…most people go, “what’s Wawa?”
The place so nice they named it twice. I live not far from the actual town.
I had to look at a map. I didn’t realize Wawa was so close to Philly–where you’re never more than a few blocks from the nearest Wawa. What I wouldn’t give to have even ONE in Kalamazoo . . . .
When I worked in Philly we went to Wawa for lunch at least a couple times a week, usually. Now I have two just on the stretch of highway between me and where I turn off for work (when I go that way, which I usually don’t unless I need to get gas or the weather is bad), plus one less than two miles from my house the other way.
I lived in University City and Queen’s Village and worked in Center City (and elsewhere), so, yeah, lots of Wawas. For a few years I walked to and from work (6th & Fitzwater to Broad & Vine). I used to half-jokingly say that I was going to figure out the route that took me past the most historical markers. Only now does it occur to me that I also could have figured out a route that took me past the most Wawas.
I worked in University City Science Center (36th and Market). Went to the Wawa a couple blocks down 36th. 🙂
I don’t know how a day gets designated as a “National” day, whether it’s for pirate style discourse, cheeseburgers, or admin assistants, but I think a page a day calendar that tells me what I should be celebrating everyday would be kind of fun.
You could check this site:
https://www.checkiday.com/
Today is also National Butterscotch Pudding Day and National Woman Road Warrior Day.
Oh, goody, I can’t wait ’til tomorrow – it’s National Gibberish Day. Every day for the last 15 mos. has been building up to it.
Should probably move that one to Nov. 8.
Great idea.
Yarr!
Where be Birdcage?
I be here, ye poxed-faced, weevil-eatin’ privateers! Enuf with yer bilge! Pass the grog! When we’re through with our plunderin’, ye can be sure that me and me parrot will be speakin’ like pirates all day long, yarr!!!
Thanks for breaking me from character. I don’t believe pirates giggle.
Now, pass that grog, it will go well with me rum!
Today’s Mensa Puzzle Calendar page:
AVAST YE, MATEY
ARRRe you ready for International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Each answer starts with AR and should be pronounced ARRR! Each clue begins: “What is a pirate’s favorite . . .”
1. . . . mythical sailing crew, with “The”?
2. . . . South American country?
3. . . . salad vegetable?
4. . . . leathery plate-covered mammal?
5. . . . criminal who enjoys match play?
6. . . . time of the year to celebrate trees?
7. . . . adjective that means “tough to accomplish”?
8. . . . sound made by a dog?
I’ll post the answers later. 🙂
I got them all!
Kitty in pirate costume is hilarious. I may not be able to settle down to work.
Arr-righty me too!
BTW, one of them has two possible answers. 😉
Arsparagus?
Arrr missed one grrrr
An addition – a pirates favorite socks?
Arrrrgyle! (Or perhaps Arrrrguile!)
Here are the answers:
1. Arrr-gonauts
2. Arrr-gentina
3. Arrr-tichoke or Arrr-ugula
4. Arrr-madillo
5. Arrr-sonist
6. Arrr-bor Day
7. Arrr-duous
8. Arrr-f
Dang. Missed number 7. Arr-gravating!
Allein, if we got them all on the first try, does that make us members of Mensa automatically??
Sure, why not?
Mensarrr?
🙂
How much does a pirate charge for piercings
A buccaneer!
That one’s worthy of a mighty GROAN!! 🙂
Thank ye Margaret, as I just texted ye joke to a bucko in devil’s henchman ‘o today.
Does anyone remember the joke that’s something about the pirate with the ship’s wheel in his breeches ?The punch line is, “It’s drivin’ me nuts!” Can’t remember the set-up to save my life.
That alone is funny.
So a pirate walks into a bar, okay, and swaggers up to the barkeep and demands a glass of rum. I believe his exact words were “Your rum or your life, dog, what’ll it be?”.
And so the bartender, being a reasonable fellow, makes no complaint but simply grabs a large glass, a bottle of fine dark rum, and begins to pour. And while he’s waiting for the glass to fill (this being, as I said before, a large glass) he sizes up the pirate, having never seen a real honest-to-God pirate before.
This pirate is in full pirate gear. Gold earrings, patch over the eye, a big filthy white blouse covering his swarthy chest, tattoos everywhere, all of it. But protruding from his pirate trousers is the unmistakable form of a steering wheel.
Well, the bartender sees that the glass of rum is just about topped off, so he passes the glass across the bar to the pirate, who nods curtly and takes a huge swig of the rum. Slapping a dubloon on the bartop, he turns to walk away, when our bartender’s curiousity gets the best of him.
“Wait, one second. What’s up with the steering wheel?”
And the pirate turns back and fixes him with a beady glare from his lone eye. “Arrr, I don’t know, but it’s drivin’ me nuts!”
http://www.piratejokes.net/jokes/top20?pg=2
Well told. I think I heard it differently, but that version certainly fills the bill. Or swills the krill. Or drills the keel. Oh, whatever.
I also saw this one:
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel on his pants, a peg leg and a parrot on his shoulder. The bartender says, “Hey, you’ve got a steering wheel on your pants.” The pirate says, “Arrrr, I know. It’s driving me nuts.”
Ladies! gunna be usin’ a version ‘o ’tis joke fer me bucko to’morrow. In th’ meantime, I shared th’ New Yorker, Long Johny-boy Silver to me set the sails matey this day!
Ps: Pirate translator is right up there with the back-scratcher, Gutenberg press and wheel.
PPs: We need a Pepe le Pew translator to make my world complete.
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of catnip!
So THAT is what’s wrong with my kitty today!!! Too much Yo Ho Ho. ?
Anyone else notice we are @ CuteYARRRRPOlis today .. I wonder why ??
Arrrrrrrr !!
Ahoy there! Sure, it be warmin’ to the heart to see such a fine crew assembled here on the best day o’ the year! I’ve charted us a course of pirate adventure to last the whole day, so weigh anchor and raise the topsails! Yarrrr!
Mikw, I don’t know why, by I heard this in my head with a heavy Scottish brogue. 😮
Oops, a glitch! Was supposed to be:
Mike, I don’t know why, but I heard this in my head with a heavy Scottish brogue. 😮
With Mike as our figurehead and ‘im spoutin’ ‘is cheery rhymes, we’re as worthy a crew as ever sailed the cyber seas! Avast! Haul on the bowline! Heave ‘er up and away we go!
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Here be a lynk to me scabby boid, Captain Merlin, all decked out in ‘is piratey duds.
I’m terrible at pirate talk, but wanted to note, if you go to a Krispy Kreme donut shop and talk like a pirate, they will give you a free donut. Also, Long John Silvers will give you a free piece of fish for pirate speak. Unfortunately, there is no KK donut shop in my town, and I don’t much like fish.
I always wanted to give an entire history lecture in pirate talk but never remembered in time to make it happen.
Arr… I celebrated with my students! We did a sing-a-long (What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?) and I made them spell their names and those who had Rs in them had to say ARRR. I also seriously damaged my vocal chords with “Aye ye scurvy dogs…. shiver me timbers it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. So avast ye mateys, we’ve got to hoist the mainsail and knock back some English.”
Drunken Sailor!!
A little more high school friendly:
Full disclosure, the Blaggards’ bass player is my cousin. 😉
I remembered that! They are certainly energetic!
I’d like to have heard that with German accents!?
I’m going to teach them the Major-General’s Song from Pirates of Penzance next. THAT is going to be a pronunciation challenge “I em de wary moh-DELL of a moh-DERN mah-YOUR (hard G) GEN-ner-ahl”
I LOVE IT!!!!!!
I absolutely adore the film version with Kevin Kline!
My vocal cords have apparently been damaged by germs. I have no voice today, Arrr! is about all I can manage. Grandkids, I loves ’em, but they are germy.
Awesome! You must be a fantastic and engaging teacharrr! Youarrr! students aarrr lucky!
For years, I’ve had the same New Yorker cartoon posted in my office window at work: Pirate sitting at a desk in a classroom, teacher-type standing there saying something like “To get the circumference of a circle is pi-what squared? Long John, you should be able to get this one….”
HAHAHAHAHA! Spectacular.
ARRRR ?? oh wait .. That’s not right ..
* Digs out his “The Little Book of Mathematical Principles” *
(Nice little book btw for you math nuts)
* Snickers at D B *
My 2 favourite pirate quotes, from Pirates of the Carribean:
“I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request…it means ‘no’!”
“Why’s the rum always gone?”
I have found both very useful sayings in daily life ?? ??