TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY – September 19

National Day Calendar ^ | September 19, 2023 | Ben Hooper

[SunkenCiv]

All you bilge rats, Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgh! As you are out and about on September 19th, don't be surprised if people are saying, "Ahoy Matie," "Avast," "Aye, Aye Capt'n," "Land ho!" "Hornpipe," and many other pirate-like phrases, because it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

While ordering your coffee in the drive-thru, ask if they have change for gold bullion. Try testing your pirate language out at the library when asking for the location of Moby Dick. The pirate language always fares well in rough seas. Settle a debate with "I'm right or I'll walk the plank!"

When the boss gives you a new project, "Aye, aye, Capt'n," is the correct response. However, beware calling the boss any frothy names. The goal of the day is not to lose your job.

To polish your persona, practice a swagger, limp or squint. Long days at sea give pirates unique qualities.

TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY – September 19 |

[SunkenCiv]

Time index set to "The Show" segment. Took a while to find this, it's been years. NOT WORK SAFE. Surprised it hasn't been scrubbed / cancelled.

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[SunkenCiv]

Red Badger took a sick day.

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[Telepathic Intruder]

A lot of people think it’s the peg leg or the eye patch that makes a pirate. That’s just a stereotype. It’s really the parrot on the shoulder.

[SunkenCiv]

It's a little known fact that pirates are mute -- the parrot's always a ventriloquist.

[BenLurkin]

Wallace Beery shows how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiEVdJlfHK8

[21twelve]

I read somewhere that the patch over one eye wasn’t that they were missing an eye. Out on the deck in the bright sun they would wear the patch. When going into the dark hold of a ship looking for booty or enemy they would remove the patch so they had better vision in the dark.

Makes sense. Whether it is true or not, I don’t know.

[BenLurkin]

And from 1950: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TktTeF3PaY

[mabarker1]

The Pirate Parrot

A Pirate has a parrot and has had it for years and the Pirate decides to retire. The parrot picks up the usual bad habits, remembering words and phrases, one of those is "F&%# You, Patcheye." He gets tired of it, so he sells it to a pet shop.

The pet shop has got it for sale for a while but the Parrot just chatters away with "Hey pretty boy." "Come here." "Polly want a cracker ?" the usual parrot stuff.

So finally a customer comes in buys it and brings it back a few days later and says "I want my money back this bird is vulgar and I can't have that around my kids."

The pet shop owner says "What are you talking about?"

The customer tells the Pet Shop Owner it says "F&#% You Patcheye" all the time.

So the pet shop guy says "OK I'll take it back."

Pet shop owner says to the bird "you got a quit doing that"

The bird looks at him and says "F$@# You Patcheye."

The pet shop owner says "I will fix this problem." And He cuts out The birds tongue and looks at him and says "what do you think about that rude bird ?"

The parrot looks at him takes one foot covers up one eye then takes the other foot while holding on to the perch in the cage with it's beak and shoots him the middle claw.

[mabarker1]

Come on over here, Matie’s !

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Who the heck thinks these things up? Next thing you know it’ll be National Stainless Steel Dentures Day.

[mabarker1]

We're in all the way !!

[Telepathic Intruder]

Yes that is true. The patch is to maintain night vision for when going below deck. That’s why in the movies you’ll see them take off the patch sometimes, and there’s nothing wrong with that eye.

[twister881]

“Avast heaving on the fid, matey! Keelhaul the captain’s quarters, and splice the poop deck!”

[mountainlion]

The biggest pirate is Joe buyden and why would I want to talk like him?

[Ex-Con777]

My first flight instructor taught me to close one eye when confronted with a bright light while night flying. It preserves at least some of your night vision for a critical situation.

It only took a little practice and I have done it ever since. It is an invaluable tool for night driving, too. It also saved many a stubbed toe after opening the refrigerator in the dark of night. It works best if you instinctively close your dominant eye.

EC

[Bullish]

I’ll pass.

Pirates truly deserved killing back in the day. They still do.

[gundog]

”’Avast ye mateys!?‘ There’s no comeback for that! What does that even mean?”

[21twelve]

Yes - pirates were nasty.

But they also had similar ideas of democratic governance as our founding fathers (from the web):

Like the American revolutionaries, pirates developed three branches of government with checks and balances. The ship captain was elected, just as the U.S. president; the pirate assembly was comparable to Congress; and the quartermaster resembled a judge in settling shipmate disputes and preventing the captain from overstepping his authority, he said.

Colonists and pirates also were alike in emphasizing written laws, democratic representation and due process, Acosta said. All crew members were allowed to vote, ship charters had to be signed by every man on board, and anyone who lost an eye or a leg was compensated financially, he said.

These ideals grew out of both groups’ frustration at being mistreated by their leaders; the British forced the colonists to quarter troops and pay taxes, and captains on merchant ships beat their shipmen, starved them and paid less than promised, Acosta said.

“It’s no wonder that many sailors seized the opportunity to jump ship and search for a better way of life, namely piracy, which offered better food, shorter work shifts and the power of the crew in decision-making,” he said.

[DoodleBob]

Patchy approves.

[gundog]