2006-09-19 01:06:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
By wearing a very low cut pirate blouse, and carrying a very large cutlass.
2006-09-19 01:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by oh kate! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression "shiver my timbers" probably first appeared in a published work by Frederick Marryat called Jacob Faithful (1834). After an argument over grog, Tom's father has his wooden leg—a wooden leg was occasionally called a timber in slang—trapped between some bricks and is unable to move. Tom agrees to assist him on the condition he will not get a beating.
"I won’t thrash you, Tom. Shiver my timbers if I do."
"They're in a fair way of being shivered as it is, I think. Now, father, we're both even."
2006-09-19 01:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought the timber was the mast. So you've got to rock the boat.
Rock the boat -don't rock the boat baby,
Rock the boat - don't tip the boat over!
(The Hues Corporation - 1974.)
I don't know how I've gotten into the habit of singing to you, I think it all started with the Bird's Eye Potato Waffles music.
2006-09-20 00:34:50 · answer #3 · answered by Grinner5000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
: Shiver me/my timber.I can't find any authority to agree, but I thought that this was another saying derived from sailing ships. It certainly seems firmly attached to pirates. I think the saying represents the shock of a large wave hitting a wooden ship broadside and causing the hull to shudder. In other words, it expresses shock or surprise.
2006-09-19 02:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by T square 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hit it with a 6lb cannonball from Her Majesty's Royal Navy and the timber will shiver to pieces
2006-09-19 01:12:44 · answer #5 · answered by Michael E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put it in Your Ice Box for about 2 hrs at Freeze Mark 4
2006-09-19 01:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by rhijoa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shiver me timbers
The boy stood on the burning deck
His legs were all a quiver
He gave a cough
His leg fell off
And floated down the river.
Ha, ha.
2006-09-19 01:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come aboard deliver mate just about to get away the rum ration yet be careful you do not get less than the impact of alcohol in the different case i visit make you've a w*** sorry I meant walk the plank were given me words mixed up ahhhhhhhhhh Tiver me Shimbers xx
2016-10-16 01:19:27 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pull out a large high performance chain saw!
2006-09-19 01:30:18 · answer #9 · answered by iloveroses1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By pushing a landlubber of the plank. Oo-aar!
2006-09-19 01:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by k² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋