Talk like a pirate

garrrrrrrrrrrrrrr scurvy were be thee buried treasure

Ga haey

Garr, why did yey not post nutin in dat second post o' yours.

gaaaaaaaarr you scurvy dog, i not know

yarrr me heartieshere be my impression of the notarius poirate francis drake:

"why exactly is it that we have declared a speak like a pirate day?"

do not question. it is international

sure sure...who regulates?

Arrr - our cap'ns in this enterprise be [url=http://talklikeapirateday.com/wordpress/]'ere[/url]. So avast, ye blackguards. Weigh Anchor! Hoist the mizzen! Let Arrrrrrs abound.

MS

Garr, ye link to that piraty website just gave me blank page with a link to anotherr website, which aparantly has pirate translator that, according to dat blank page, be not so good

Yarr Me matys, Shiver me timbers an all 'at

Ahoy me matey. I be thinking we make this just a random talk topic for everyone. 'Cept ye have to only talk like a pirate unless ye be havin' yerrself a good reason.

Yarrr, me hearties! Pirate day has passed us again! There is a software module that converts a site into pirate speak but we didn't have time to install and test it this year. Perhaps we'll try next year! Oooarrrr!!

12&1/2% one of my favourite jokes from GP there is more than one kind of pirate

Garr, im sad. time to talk like pirates be comin' to an end. But this topic shouldn't be, Garr.
Quickly, Be as piratey as a scurvy dog can be in 'bout an hour.

[quote=SANEAlex]12&1/2% one of my favourite jokes from GP there is more than one kind of pirate [/quote]

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quais?

[quote=Sergeant Lettuce][quote=SANEAlex]12&1/2% one of my favourite jokes from GP there is more than one kind of pirate [/quote]

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quais?[/quote]

Yep the pirate in GP would probably call the docks the quais at one of his fancy party's with merchant bankers

am soooo lost. for me a GP is a general practitioner

i am captain jack sparrow.

you just havnt realised it yet.

o-k interesting but not in pirate speach

And besides captain Jack Sparrow is permanentaly drunk so he talks like a drunk pirate. which is just pirate talk but with more garr and yahey and whatever else.

I believe "avast" and "wench" occur often

[quote=Sergeant Lettuce]am soooo lost. for me a GP is a general practitioner[/quote]

Yes GP can also be general practitioner but in the context of this site and the joke i mentioned i thought it would have been obvious that i was talking about pTerrys book Going Postal. It is common on Discworld fan sites to refer to the books by their initials so i might mention COM as in next week i will be on the COM set at pinewood (shame there is no lucky B*D smiley ) as an extra and COM will actually be COM and LF tho i wont be in the bit with the pirate ship but if i am lucky i may be drinking in the broken drum :-D. If i were talking science i might refer to SoD I thru SoD III.

And 12&1/2% is still one of my favourite jokes in GP despite the number of times i have had to explain it to the mathematically challenged.

ah se i only baught it today for daddy's bday so I haven;t gotten to it yet..where would these other sites be?

[quote=SANEAlex] next week i will be on the COM set at pinewood (shame there is no lucky B*D smiley ) as an extra and COM will actually be COM and LF tho i wont be in the bit with the pirate ship but if i am lucky i may be drinking in the broken drum :-D.
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dood u for real? that's awesome! I wanna go to the drum!

[quote=Sergeant Lettuce][quote=SANEAlex] next week i will be on the COM set at pinewood (shame there is no lucky B*D smiley ) as an extra and COM will actually be COM and LF tho i wont be in the bit with the pirate ship but if i am lucky i may be drinking in the broken drum :-D.
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dood u for real? that's awesome! I wanna go to the drum![/quote]

Well i am a part time fictional character so my reality could be said to be a bit Schroedinger cat like but as in am i serious about being an extra yes i was one of the lucky fans that got picked out of the hat to be a extra in COM for a couple of days back in august on location in the grounds of the house of Ada Lovelace the worlds first woman computer programmer and daughter of Lord Bryon a good time was had by all. Apparently the director and producers thought we showed so much enthusiasm in our crowd scenes that they have invited a few of us back to do a scene at Pinewood in and around the Broken Drum set tho i suspect that if i am lucky enough to be one of the drinkers in the drum it will only be cold tea but hey i can use my imagination

On the other sites that use initials for books just enter "Discworld COM LF ER" into google and you will only get about 17000 odd hits.

www.lspace.org is a good reference site for many Discworld things and our ex sister site http://www.discworldstamps.co.uk/forum/index.php has an active fan discussion group with quite a few members here also being members on that site. And in the old days before the web became that popular( I remember getting an email saying the number of web users was going to hit 10K soon) the usenet group Alt.fan.pratchett which can now be viewed by google groups was one of the highest bandwidth usenet groups.

whwn was all this? 10K users? surely by even 1990 they had far more than that

[url=http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter]read this open letter[/url]

and the replies to which are here:
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/responses/

ah CotFSM how I love thee

[quote=http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770328123]Weaverville – When you’re a pirate, some dangers just come with the territory: scurvy, grog hangovers, a walk down the plank at sword point.

But being kicked out of school for a day?

Bryan Killian doesn’t think that’s a fair reaction to his decision to come to North Buncombe High School wearing an eye patch and an inflatable cutlass.

The sophomore spent Wednesday at home after an administrator took issue with his accessories.

Buncombe County Schools says the eye patch was disruptive to classroom instruction. The student’s refusal to take it off after four warnings led to discipline, the district said.

“I feel like my First Amendment was violated,” Killian, 16, said. “Freedom of religion and freedom of expression. That’s what I tried to do, and I got shot down.”

Freedom of religion?

Yes, Killian says, his “pirate regalia” is part of his faith — the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The parody religion, whose “Pastafarian” members worship a sentient, airborne clump of noodles and meatballs, originated in a letter to the Kansas school board urging it to add the religion to its plans to teach evolution and intelligent design side by side.

It became an Internet phenomenon, spawning a belief system that holds pirates to be divine beings and blames global warming on the disappearance of the buccaneers.

Satirical though it may be, Killian isn’t laughing.

“If this is what I believe in, no matter how stupid it might sound, I should be able to express myself however I want to,” he said.

An eye patch is no more disruptive than a Christian cross around one’s neck, he said.

His teachers saw it the same way, he said, but Assistant Principal Sarah Cooley didn’t. She assigned him two days of in-school suspension before calling his home to add out-of-school suspension.

“It has nothing to do with religious beliefs,” school district spokesman Stan Alleyne rushed to say when asked about the suspension. “We respect students’ religious beliefs.”

Killian’s mother, Vanessa, agreed with the school’s decision despite sympathizing with her son.

“I think Bryan should be able to voice his opinion,” she said, “but he kind of got carried away.”

Killian planned to go back to school today. He doesn’t think he’ll wear an eye patch. [/quote]

Dustin Hu sent this today. I think it’s very good.

Below is a rough version of a poem about the Flying Spaghetti Monster that was written over the course of 4 periods of nothing to do at school.

Our Noodly Lord

High in the sky, unseen by the masses
Enlightening people as he silently passes
Extending an appendage that’s noodly in shape
He gives people wisdom, leaving them mouth agape.
Though nobody knows what his intentions may be,
One thing is certain; it’s easy to see:
His Noodliness is benevolent and wise
Dishing out knowledge as he flies through the skies.
The FSM is here to help
Floating around like a great ball of kelp
Though he can enlighten, go through walls, and fly
We must always ask ourselves why
He does the things that he does
For we are forever in his debt because,
Whether he’s friendly, helpful, or just bored
He will always love us, Our Noodly Lord.

they have an official site too...go visit

The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that some day. And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?

gaar that be a famous jack sparrow qoute if i ever saw one arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

ok, now im scared

Sparrow rox...that entrace to the docks with his sinking boat was ueber cool

yeah, tottaly. the music was playing and he put his foot on the docks at the very last note. perfectly done.

not to mention all the scenes with kiera knightley of course...but jack's humor is awesome me love johney depp

Garr. i was thinkin' dat dis was talk like a pirate topic.

Why is the rum always gone!

cuz it turns people into vile people.

GAYEY

HOG

avast ye scurvy dogs!!!
i be a-learnin ye speak for all ye nonlandlubbers, an so far ive got OOOOO'AR!!! down to a T

farewell, me arties

HEX the bloodgutter

was that pirate or thick scottish?

don't say that to scots at a pirate convention. You may get beat up for misinterpratation and end up finding out that scots don't like it when you think there talking like pirates all the time and the pirates don't like when you say there talking like a scot all the time.
maybe

i'll remember that next time I'm at a pirate convention...mayhaps old age will have gotten to me by then but fear not!

You shouldn't say that to pirates in a scot convention either...

Urm.

What a scot convention?

driving on the right hand side of the road

also a place to doscuss scotlands key exports...scotch whiskey, hopscotch, butterscotch and scotch tape [RvB rules]

that was dripping with sarcasm

whose? mine was a quote form RvB the time they go to scotland and get a cultural expert..i'll find the link if i can

ok then, when you find it i might forgive yo for it.

I'll go one better and embed it to prove it so you don;t need to go there take that.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=E9Vhdhxagpw for those of you not embeding friendly

so are we forgiven?

Lol! That was amazing.

RvB always is...I've seen so many of their vids