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#133223 09/19/04 10:12 AM
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http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

'tis the day, me hearties!





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Arrrr!


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You are aware, are you not, that the Penns had to emmigrateto the New World after a scandal involving two of William Penn the elder's little old lady spinster aunts? Seems that there was a serious shortage of steak and kidney pie (though to my mind having one in the world is more than enough), and the prices were sky high.

So these two little old ladies began turning out this horribloe "confection" by the dozen and selling them at reduced rates, a trade that was certainly beneath the dignity of the upper class. But they kept right on, making more pies and cutting the prices. Pretty soon everyone was talking about the pie rates of Penn's aunts.



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time to walk the plank, ye poor wandrin' one!



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#133227 09/20/04 11:25 AM
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I started to read that one and got halfway through when something started to smell funny, so I looked over to see who had posted it.

Boy, howdy! Never seen a better proof of the old adage, the price of vigilance is eternal liberty.


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Fald, you are the very model...



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He answers hard acrostics, he's a pretty taste for paradox


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He answers hard acrostics, he's a pretty taste for paradox

He doesn't have much time for puns but likes wordplay unorthodox


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Neatly capped!


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I'm thinking I should have told Hubby in advance that it was "talk like a pirate day" before jumping onto the bed last night and yelling, "Avast ye matey!" "Arrr, show us a little bit of ye gang-plank." "Arrrr"


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The mind boggles!


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Aye matey. Blew the wind right outta my sails 'e did, with "Have you lost your mind!?!"


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Pirates, no doubt, spoke in a way that helped to identify them as pirates, as if the raping and pilaging wasn't enough, but I wonder where the stage dialect of "Ahoy, and argh, me maties" arose? In Treasure Island? As far as I remember, many pirates did not even speak English, King's or buccaneers'. How do pirates speak in other languages, say French, Spanish, or Portuguese? I almost remember the Tunisian pirates in Candide speaking French quite well. Vikings were considered pirates, too. Old Norse pirates? Latin pirata < Greek peirate:s < peirao: 'to attempt, try'; cf. English fear and Latin periculum 'danger'.


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Thank yuh, thank yuh.


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