2007-09-19 09:07:48 · 10 answers · asked by ♥ Etheria ♥ 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Arrrgggg.....
2007-09-19 09:10:01 · update #1
Yar! Ye best be believin it ye scurvey sea dog! Ye can cast yer eyeglass at me blog and meet with the most vile bilge rats to founder a ship. Host anchor and sail over and have a look see lubber! Arrrr!
2007-09-19 09:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by Captain Happy Pants 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aye I Do!
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur ("Ol' Chumbucket") and Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy"), of the United States, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not
with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" The date was selected because it was the birthday of Summers' ex-wife and consequently would be easy for him to remember.
Examples of pirate sayings
Patron Saint Robert Newton provides instruction.Seamen in the days of sail spoke a language far apart from the norm. It was so full of technical jargon as to be nearly incomprehensible to a landsman. For example, few could follow these instructions:
Lift the skin up, and put into the bunt the slack of the clews (not too taut), the leech and foot-rope, and body of the sail; being careful not to let it get forward under or hang down abaft. Then haul your bunt well up on the yard, smoothing the skin and bringing it down well abaft, and make fast the bunt gasket round the mast, and the jigger, if there be one, to the tie.
—Richard Henry Dana, Jr., The Seaman's Manual (1844)
Even more baffling are some of the phrases used by sailors in the 17th century:
If the ship go before the wind, or as they term it, betwixt two sheets, then he who conds uses these terms to him at the helm: Starboard, larboard, the helm amidships... If the ship go by a wind, or a quarter winds, they say aloof, or keep your loof, or fall not off, wear no more, keep her to, touch the wind, have a care of the lee-latch. all these do imply the same in a manner, are to bid him at the helm to keep her near the wind.
—former pirate Sir Henry Mainwaring
2007-09-19 16:13:10 · answer #2 · answered by Michael N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arrrgggg.....
2007-09-19 16:10:39 · answer #3 · answered by Tori K ♫ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OOh Arrrgh me hearties!
2007-09-19 16:10:37 · answer #4 · answered by Tilly_Mint 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ayyy Matie. Can't wait to go home so me husband can shiver me timbers.
2007-09-19 16:11:57 · answer #5 · answered by mtn_girl84 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I'm aware...someone else pointed that out earlier..but now the people who missed it earlier will know too. =)
2007-09-19 16:11:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aaaarg! to you to, Maitty!
2007-09-19 16:17:11 · answer #7 · answered by Lady M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did cap'n yo ho
2007-09-19 16:12:00 · answer #8 · answered by Shadow Kat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
so i've heard
2007-09-19 16:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by GOLDENFAIRY 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!!!!!
2007-09-19 16:12:55 · answer #10 · answered by dm_76 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋