YaHaaaar Shipmateys

Post by **sandman67** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:44 pm

AhHarrrr mateys

today, the 19th of Septembee in this year of the Lord 2008, it be

International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

So lets hear lots of Shiver Me Timbers or it'll be a lick o the cat for the lot of you scurvy dogs!

Yaaarrrrr

Cap'n Sandy

Spitfire · Post by **Spitfire** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:16 pm

Quality SM, Jack Sparrow here we come, but I'll give you this though, based on previous threads, you are the 'Forum Photo Master'.

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:57 pm

spitfire wrote:Quality SM, Jack Sparrow here we come, but I'll give you this though, based on previous threads, you are the 'Forum Photo Master'.

Well, at least this time it was sandman who posted the photo.

spitfire, old fruit, I'd really love to see you call someone an arse one day.

Post by **BaaBaa.** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:03 pm

It is one hell of a photo, I bet it took a while to get the pose right with the Parrot and everything.

Spitfire · Post by **Spitfire** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:26 pm

Very good DM, quality, still waiting for you to 'get off the fence' and 'lay it down', we know you're capable.

Just waiting in anticipation, or are you just teasing us all.

All the best, sharp as always.

Post by **Vital Spark** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:52 pm

Yo Ho Ho!

I be a bit confused me hearties. Is DM a squiffy or a son of a biscuit eater?

I'll just jump back into me furner and let you think about it...

VS.

Spitfire · Post by **Spitfire** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:10 pm

Naughty girl VS, good on you!

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:19 pm

Vital Spark wrote:Yo Ho Ho!

I be a bit confused me hearties. Is DM a squiffy or a son of a biscuit eater?

I'll just jump back into me furner and let you think about it...

VS.

Is that Suffolkish, VS? You know how bad I am with foreign languages.

Mind you, word has it my dear old Dad used to like a bit of nibble and dunk now and then...

Post by **Vital Spark** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:29 pm

Nope, it's pirate-speak me dearie.

Just getting into the spirit of things, with a drop of grog.

Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of Chang...

VS

Post by **BaaBaa.** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:34 pm

Vital Spark wrote:Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of Chang...

VS

Was the famous White Beard actually a certain Mr Claus?

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:42 pm

Vital Spark wrote:Nope, it's pirate-speak me dearie.

Just getting into the spirit of things, with a drop of grog.

Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of Chang...

VS

Well, as I had nothing better to do, I decided to investigate your background (knowing that your real surname is Killigrew)...

Lady Mary Killigrew 1530-1570, English, Mary was the daughter of a former Suffolk pirate. Mary's husband Sir Henry Killigrew, a former pirate himself, was made a Vice-Admiral by Queen Elizabeth I and tasked with suppressing piracy. Whenever her husband went to sea Mary engaged in piracy using the staff of her castle (Arwenack Castle in Cornwall) as crew and possibly with the Queen's knowledge. In 1570 she captured a German merchant ship off Falmouth and her crew sailed it to Ireland to sell, however the owner of this ship was a friend of Queen Elizabeth who then had Lady Mary arrested and brought to trial at the Launceston assizes. Some sources say she was sentenced to death and then pardoned by the Queen, but this is due to confusion with another family member. Her family bribed the jurors and she was acquitted. Whatever transpired, she gave up pirating and took up fencing stolen goods until she died several years later.

Interesting, VS, but not as colourful as this...

Anne Bonny born Anne Cormac, aliases Ann Bonn and Ann Fulford, possibly also Sarah Bonny 1698-1782 1719-1720 Irish Caribbean pirate. Anne and her parents emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina shortly after her birth. Married to pirate James bonny, Anne had an affair with pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and later dressed as a man to join his crew. Anne later accidentally discovered another crew member Mark Read was also secretly a woman and the two became very close. Rackham demanded to know why they were so close and Read revealed her identity. Rackham allowed her to stay and revealed the women's gender to the crew. From then on they both dressed as men to fight but dressed as women at other times. Both were imprisoned in 1720 and it is believed Anne's wealthy father arranged her release. Anne married and settled down in Charleston, dying in 1782.

Post by **Vital Spark** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:43 pm

Oops!

Should've been a 'Yo' instead of a 'Ho'.

If you really want to have some silly fun click on this: http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/translate/index.php

Baa Baa: Well he started of as Black Beard, but, you know, he's getting on a bit and Grecian 2000 is a bit hard to come by when you're trawling the open seas.

VS

PS: Aaarh (pirate-speak) I think I be rumbled by DM.

Post by **BaaBaa.** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:03 am

Vital Spark wrote: Baa Baa: Well he started of as Black Beard, but, you know, he's getting on a bit and Grecian 2000 is a bit hard to come by when you're trawling the open seas.

Its a possibility there was only one famous Pirate. Black Beard, Grey Beard, White Beard, then he stumbled across some dye, it didnt go too well.

Red Beard was born. Aaahhhhh Bollocks me aertys.

Post by **johnnyk** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:56 am

Oh, the Captain's boy
the dirty little nipper
he filled his ass
with broken glass
and circumcised the skipper

Aye, Jim 'Arkins! Them that dies'll be the lucky ones!

rum, sodomy and the lash

Spitfire · Post by **Spitfire** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:10 pm

While we are on the 'pirate' ship, came across an interesting fact about them, which is,

The most successful pirate of all was a guy called 'Black Bart Roberts', who took a record 400+ ships before being killed off the east coast of Africa by The Royal Navy.

Black Beard only took about 25 ships.