celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Sept 19th 2008

Via the magic of Google ads, I stumbled upon this – a dairy company called Cravendale have created a pirate sentence generator with piratey words you can drag into a box. It seems that pirates are known for frequent use of the words “pint”, “glass”, “milk”, “creamy” and “Cravendale”. Well, shiver me timbers. That I did not know.

but ye bet ye boot straps dat I be a back ‘ear come a ‘ear next n ‘ack at it ay will
it b’ ple’sr dropn’ achor with som o ey
wit som o ye .. ‘ll b glad t’ b’ rid of
som o ye cant stand d site o no mor … to raw..naked ye mite say
crawl back n ye ‘ole ya slimmy dogs

I’m completin’ this goal, but methinks I’ll have to keep on a-wearin’ me eyepatch. Me scurvy shingle-infested deadeye started actin’ up again yesterday. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

It’s surprisingly difficult to write piratically when the moment has passed so… I’m not going to. You can’t make me. Not even if you threaten me with the plank. And though my busy day meant I didn’t find the time to join in the scurvy-ridden fun yesterday, I promise you I did celebrate TLAPD, not least by telling everyone I met yesterday of the momentous occasion. This included the friendly ladies in the sandwich shop (who gave a hearty “arrrr” in response to my own), my colleagues (who reacted, as expected, with blank incomprehension and a refusal to join in with anything so silly), and a bunch of folkies with whom I ended the day singing round a big wooden table (who responded enthusiastically but who, unfortunately, couldn’t think of any shanties we could sing in honour of the day).

Edit: Oh yeah, and I wrote my FTF list in pirate speak, which is a lot harder than I expected it to be.

Anyway, yarrrrr!

gemmword sailed the seven seas with the pirates here at 43-Things a year ago, with an aquamarrrrrrrrrine avatarrrrrrrrr just for the occassion. You can read her old entries and silly pirate jokes here.

I’ve been thinking of gemmword today, as she’s been ill and unable to be on-line for some time now. I just got word tonight that she’s taken a turn for the worse. If you’d like to pass along your own love and hugs to gemmword, there’s also a goal here to do just that. Thanks, mateys.

I mebbe shoulda waited til After writin’ me history post afore swillin’ down that liter o’ Egyptian mead…Arr! A stoopid name that! I weren’t aware the gyptians drank mead o’ enny sort – ‘n fact ahm of a sertinty onnis point.

It looks like these landlubbers sailed too close to the wrong ship!

‘Tis an enjoyable time I have been havin’ with ye terday, and I raise my glass o’ grog to ye, one and all!

Marrrrking this goal done, but this lassie is always willin’ to bandy about a little pirate lingo over a mug o’ rum.

The chum war heartlessly cruel and would nay don his pirate hat today.

To bed with th’ scurvy rat and more rum for me!

it just might not be worth it