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Yo, ho, ho! It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Local 10 ABC News Florida ^
| September 19, 2018
| Chistina Maxouris & Emanuella Grinberg
Posted on 09/19/2018 6:25:28 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
Aye maties, 'tis the day we've all been waiting for:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
But avast! Before you grab your grog and parrot, let's get ye educated!
The idea for the day was born in 1995 on a YMCA racquetball court in Albany, Oregon. John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and his friend Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers began throwing around insults, just like pirates.
They selected Sept. 19, simply because Summers had recently divorced, it was his ex-wife's birthday, and he figured "the date was stuck in my head, and I wasn't going to do anything with it anymore," he told CNN in 2009.
Dave Barry caught wind of the idea and threw his support behind it in a September 2002 Miami Herald column that this rickety ship took sail.
"As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea, or what?" Barry wrote back then. "There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all."
(Excerpt) Read more at local10.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Humor; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: arrrr; pirate; talklikeapirate
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Shiver me timbers and plug up me scuppers! I can't believe that a veritable staple on FR such as Talk Like A Pirate Day has no thread posted yet!
I took it upon meself, Bloody Sam Roberts...the Dread Pirate Roberts if you will...to post one up. Arrrrr.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
How many letters in the Pirate’s Alphabet?
Two, Aye and Arrrgh!.......................
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:26:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:26:29 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Aaaarrrrgh! Avast, Matey, what are we going to do with ye Seinfeld Infield?
To: Mercat
>>What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?<<
N? Q?
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:30:38 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(As always IMHO)
To: Mercat
What are Pirate’s favorite socks ??
ARRRRRRRR-gyle!
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:31:29 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
To: Salgak
How can you tell when a Pirate is unhappy?
He ARRRRGH-ues a lot!.................
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:40:39 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Well it’s actually “Talk like Robert Newton playing Long John Silver” day.
So “Avast Ye Scurvy dogs! Lower Your Flag! Ye been Scuttled! ARRRRR Jim Lad...Shiver me timbers...kiss the black spot”
I’m from Savannah. As the Pirates House (where Cap’n Flint died) is here, we know Treasure Island Pirates!
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:43:23 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
What’s a pirate’s favorite subject in school?
Aaarrrt!
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:47:32 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Yo Ho!! I seen a Hillerwhale wharsed up on th beach an you ain’t smelled nuthin worser in all your born days. ARRRRGHHHHH.
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:48:00 AM PDT
by
Gasshog
( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
And this yarr it be on the day when ye atone fer all yer scurvy ways and apologize to all the dirty dogs ye made walk the plank
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:54:20 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Conan the Librarian
“Talk like Robert Newton playing Long John Silver”
Yep. Robert’s take on a Cornish accent with his own embellishments in the scene-chewing role pretty much developed the whole genre. Great actor.
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posted on
09/19/2018 6:57:04 AM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
What is a pirates favorite letter?
You might think it’s the Arrr, but it is the Sea.
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:04:46 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
To: Salgak; freedumb2003
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:08:50 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
What do Keith Richards and Paul McCartney have in common?
Both played Pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Arrrh
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:08:58 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: READINABLUESTATE
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:09:48 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:17:55 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:18:23 AM PDT
by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:24:01 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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