International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
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Here's a funny thing: my wife is from Bristol which, for those who don't know, is one of the root accents which people use when they talk like a pirate. She is very proud of her heritage so, if I talk like pirate in her hearing, I am likely to get a frying pan on the back of the skull! 
Even so I will have a rum tonight with a nice bowl of black frigate! :
:
Mike
Even so I will have a rum tonight with a nice bowl of black frigate! :
:Mike
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
There I was atop a barrel o' limes, lickin' me paws after catchin' vermin as I always do (it's me job, don't ya know), when I spy the biggest brown rat I ever seen. Not bein' a lazy type, I jump on his back to snap his spine as I sink me teeth into his neck. I thought he was just real close, but turnt out he was a giant, an I could barely get me teeth an claws under his skin as he starts a runnin' round the bilge knockin' things over. I sunk me claws as deep as I could into his tough hide as he tore up a ladder into the galley. His claws were the size of daggers I tell ya! An he had teeth as big around as me tail. Though I had plenty o' mead last night, I ain't drunk when I say he's bigger than ten o' me. He flung me into a pile o' the days catch and we squared off. I never seen a big shaggy mane on a rat, an I figured he must o' been the King of them all, even if he did have a sissy lookin' tuft o' hair on the end of his tail. I charged him, claws spread wide, an swiped his big nose and he turned an ran up to quarters. Ya'll be happy to know I got him trapped in Captain's quarters and he won't be gettin' past me. Someone yelled, "There be a lion!" But I swear, I be tellin' the truth.
The Pirates' Cheer:
Gimme an "R"!
"R"!
Gimme another "R"!
"Another R"!
No, no, gimme an "R," just like the first!
"R"!
"Gimme another "R"!
"R"!
OK you pirates, what's that spell?
RRR!
Gimme an "R"!
"R"!
Gimme another "R"!
"Another R"!
No, no, gimme an "R," just like the first!
"R"!
"Gimme another "R"!
"R"!
OK you pirates, what's that spell?
RRR!
Well, International Talk Like A Pirate Day was fun while it lasted, 'n I'd love t' continue natterin' in swashbucklin' tongue fer th' rest o' th' night, but it seems cot time be comin' up quite soon. Sadly I must get some sleep fer work in th' mornin'. But it sure was a blast! 'n nobody had t' walk th' plank! 'n we only 'ave 364 days afore we can do it again next year!
It ain't over up here laddy! I've still got time to swash me buckle and and get reacquainted with that fancy lady. Me timbers need to be shivered again.
Great! Ye do that, Warren! Har har har! Oh aye, 'n one more thin' afore I go below decks... here's a shanty by a band o' pirates callin' themselves Lagerstein called Drink Th' Rum. Jus' a wee somethin' t' close out th' night on me end. Enjoy me mateys! 'n Good night t' ye all! :clap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=YoJLiHP7XNc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=YoJLiHP7XNc
Aye, but you dinna even know the whole song...
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's chest
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest
The mate was fixed with the bo'sun's pike
And the bo'sun brained with a marlin-spike
Cookie's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o' day in a boozin' den
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
Dead and bedamned and the rest gone whist
The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
And the scullion he'd been stabbed times four
And there they lay, and the soggy skies
Dripped all day long up staring eyes
By murk sunset and by foul sunrise--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Ten of the crew with a murder mark
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawning hole in a battered head
And the scupper's a-glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye, damn me eyes
Their lookouts clapped on Paradise
And their souls gone just contrariwise--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of 'em good and true
Every man-jack could 'a sailed with Old Pew
There was just no chest full of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
The cabins a riot of loot untold--
And there they lay that took the plum
With sightless glare and lips struck dumb
While we shared all by the rule of thumb--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
More was seen through a stern light screen
Charting, no doubt, where a woman had been
A flimsy shift on a bunkered cot
With a thin dirk slot through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry with a purplish blot--
Oh, was she a wench, some shuddering maid
That dared the knife and took the blade
By God, she was tough for a plucky jade--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's chest
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Wrapped them all in the mainsail tight
Twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved them over and out of sight
With a yo-heave-ho and a fare-ye-well
A sudden plunge in a sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's chest
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest
The mate was fixed with the bo'sun's pike
And the bo'sun brained with a marlin-spike
Cookie's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o' day in a boozin' den
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
Dead and bedamned and the rest gone whist
The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
And the scullion he'd been stabbed times four
And there they lay, and the soggy skies
Dripped all day long up staring eyes
By murk sunset and by foul sunrise--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Ten of the crew with a murder mark
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawning hole in a battered head
And the scupper's a-glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye, damn me eyes
Their lookouts clapped on Paradise
And their souls gone just contrariwise--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of 'em good and true
Every man-jack could 'a sailed with Old Pew
There was just no chest full of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
The cabins a riot of loot untold--
And there they lay that took the plum
With sightless glare and lips struck dumb
While we shared all by the rule of thumb--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
More was seen through a stern light screen
Charting, no doubt, where a woman had been
A flimsy shift on a bunkered cot
With a thin dirk slot through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry with a purplish blot--
Oh, was she a wench, some shuddering maid
That dared the knife and took the blade
By God, she was tough for a plucky jade--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's chest
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Wrapped them all in the mainsail tight
Twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved them over and out of sight
With a yo-heave-ho and a fare-ye-well
A sudden plunge in a sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell--
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
"Even so I will have a rum tonight with a nice bowl of black frigate!"
Mike, you used the word 'nice' in the same sentence as Black Frigate...it contains that evil leaf Latakia don't you know :nana:
Regards,
Jay.
Mike, you used the word 'nice' in the same sentence as Black Frigate...it contains that evil leaf Latakia don't you know :nana:
Regards,
Jay.
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