Fifty Plus (50+) - Scuttle Me Skippers. Today Is Talk Like a Pirate Day for 50+ Cyclists

In the crush of your busy life, you may have failed to notice that Sept. 19 is Talk Like A Pirate Day, arrggg.

Avast ye maties, here are some phrases to help get you through the day:

http://talklikeapirateday.com/wiki/index.php?page=PiratePhrases

I hope that these be more like guidelines than rules.

Well, Blow me down! Yarr-ha-harr!

Better scrounge up a dish of salmagundi and weigh anchor.

Ahoy, me hearties! Hoist the Colors and set sail!

Yaharr...

I think my "yaaarrggghhhh" is broken! I can't do pirate talk... must have something to do with that Y gene! ;)

I think I"ll try this in my project meetings today:) Some of those techies speak a language I don't understand so now I'll have my own.

We were car shopping. My wife thought our son should get a Yaris. It sounded so much like a car a pirate would own we spent the day doing our own "talk like a pirate."

Well, shiver me chainstays then, I guess...

The younger folk will tell you that there are only 2 kinds of people in the world: Pirates and Ninjas. Right now, the Ninjas dominate and have a higher coolness rating. But I am a Pirate, and it's nice to see we have our own day! Yaaargh, 'tis nice the blowholes must seat in the galley for the trip.

Arrrhhhh... well blow me and run me through, matey

But I don't wanna be a pirate!

Get your own pirate name right here (http://gangstaname.com/pirate_name.php).

Mine is Fartin' Wallace Dread

Mast Hugger Kate! :rolleyes:

Slouchin' Edgar Cooke!

Too much time in the real Navy to willingly speak pirateeze. By the way, piracy is still a real threat on the high seas. Especially bad off the east coast of Africa and in the vicinity of the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. Navy recently had to deter some African pirates from seizing freighters bound for Somalia. From what I understand, though, few if any of them are into biking.;)

Arrrhhhh... well blow me and run me through, mateyThat sounds like something Sen. Larry Craig might have said to that undercover cop. :eek:

The Dread Pirate Roberts!





I just bought the franchise.

What do you get when you cross a robot and a pirate?




Aaaarggggh 2 D2

Avast ye maties. Meet Drownin' Bob Dawkins.

Dancin' Cynthia Slasher!

What do you get when you cross a robot and a pirate?




Aaaarggggh 2 D2

:D:beer:

Arrgggh...keep ye powder dry and ye cutlass sharp!

-- Capn Jack Sparrow

It's also KLAP: Knit like a Pirate Day! http://www.knitlikeapirate.com/

[QUOTE=Artkansas;5296399]The Dread Pirate Roberts!

Yes, and while it's true that Pirates are nothing more than terrorists with boats/ships :eek:, our marketeers have romanticized them (much like they'd done earlier with the outlaws of the "old west" or the killers of the mafia), so that now "talk like a Pirate" is supposed to be a good thing.

Okay, well, I guess Disney is to blame somewhat too (but don't some marketeers work for Disney?). Regardless, I agree that if I had to pick a favorite pirate, it would be The Dread Pirate Roberts! :)

But who was it that said, "You killed my father, prepare to die!" That was D.P.Robert's friend, right?

Rick / OCRR

I think I"ll try this in my project meetings today:) Some of those techies speak a language I don't understand so now I'll have my own.

I totally missed this opportunity! ARRRRRRrrrrr! Avast ye techies!!

Compile me them subroutines, mateys!

Unit test them code modules! Get your backs into it, laddies and lassies, or ye'll feel the jolly cat o' nines, my pretties!

ARRRRRRrrrrrr!

With regards,

Road Fan

Ya harr, mateys! The worrrk day is done, and me off to take a spin with my blue Trek darrrlin'!

Road Fan, aka Cap'n Hank Bloodbeard!

Phew, got some bike content! maybe now this thread won't get FOO'd.

[QUOTE=Artkansas;5296399]

But who was it that said, "You killed my father, prepare to die!" That was D.P.Robert's friend, right?

Rick / OCRR

I am Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!

He wasn't a pirate, he was a Spanish Swordsman.

And later an ER doctor...:D

I can't do pirate talk... must have something to do with that Y gene! ;)

y gene?

No, I think it's either your IQ (you have one!) or your life (you have one of those too!)

It's also KLAP: Knit like a Pirate Day! http://www.knitlikeapirate.com/

(And it's also my birthday, PROVING that I am a pirate at heart!)

Did you know that they have now ascertained through DNA that Christopher Columbus was not* a person from Genoa, Italy, but instead a Spaniard? They think they know who he was, and that he was a pirate in his younger days and had to change his name and identity in order to get the queen (whose ships he had pirated) to fund his excursions!

All those who've never had any pirated software say aiyee!

As to the real problem of modern piracy on the "High Seas" I am amazed at
how many "Fresh Water" boaters on the Great Lakes display the Jolly Roger.

(And it's also my birthday, PROVING that I am a pirate at heart!)



Arrgggg. Happy Birthday solveg!!!!

:bday: :beer:

Jumpin' Hidalgo Dagger here...an it'll be the plank fer ye fer startin a thread such as this.

Because of the beard and my hair length, some of my co-workers have started calling me Barnicle Bill the pirate. I do prefer, however, to be called a "Privateer":D

I get all randy when people talk pirate. :D

I get all randy when people talk pirate. :D

One of my female co-worker's pirate name is "Pants-Down Julia." Arrrrrh!

Avast, ye scurvy knaves! Here's somethin' for ye funny bones:

A pirate walks into a bar. He has a steering wheel attached to his crotch. The bartender notices and yelps, "Oh, my G*d! You have a steering wheel attached to your crotch!"

The pirate replies, "Arrrrrrrrrgh And it be drivin' me nuts!"

And are we thankin' the stars and g*ds that we be only one day a year for our ilk to come out. Argghhhh!

Get your own pirate name right here (http://gangstaname.com/pirate_name.php).

Mine is Fartin' Wallace Dread

Well, blow me down! Me pirate name be Glynnis the Well-Tanned. Argh, have they been peekin' at me when I've been a-showerin'? P'raps I'm not wantin' to know, argh.

I'm Reeking Davy Read, an' I'm down 'ere pumpin, the bloody bilge.

[QUOTE=Rick@OCRR;5298004]

I am Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!

He wasn't a pirate, he was a Spanish Swordsman.

And later an ER doctor...:D

Mandy Patinkin played an ER doctor? Must have missed that!

I understand he's quite an avid cyclist, too!

Road Fan

Well, blow me down! Me pirate name be Glynnis the Well-Tanned. Argh, have they been peekin' at me when I've been a-showerin'? P'raps I'm not wantin' to know, argh.

nay, don't you be a-thinkin' about it, my pretty!

Road Fan

Boy, am I glad "Talk like a Pirate Day" is over!!!!

Next will be walk like an Egyptian day!

Next will be walk like an Egyptian day!

Hmmm, how would that look? interesting ...

Next will be walk like an Egyptian day!

I'll be ready. And ya gotta check out this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MimmTdn9314

That's the original video that came out with the song. I remember watching it on MTV in the 1980s.

That's the original video that came out with the song. I remember watching it on MTV in the 1980s.

You remember the 80s?

Yes, and while it's true that Pirates are nothing more than terrorists with boats/ships :eek:, our marketeers have romanticized them (much like they'd done earlier with the outlaws of the "old west" or the killers of the mafia), so that now "talk like a Pirate" is supposed to be a good thing.

I have wondered if pirates are a media symbol for mid-eastern terrorists during the War on Terrorism just as aliens and spacemen were a symbol for communism during the Cold War. Communists had the link with Sputnik. And the first time America fought muslim terrorists, they were pirates along the Barbary Coast around Tripoli at the beginning of the 19th Century.

I am Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!


Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

INCONCEIVABLE!

I actually know people who don't like that movie... they say it's boring. I do not* get that. Swordplay with banter, humour, a sweet story... it's one of my favorite movies.

Swordplay with banter, humour and a sweet story. Sounds like the reparte' around here?

I have wondered if pirates are a media symbol for mid-eastern terrorists during the War on Terrorism just as aliens and spacemen were a symbol for communism during the Cold War. Communists had the link with Sputnik. And the first time America fought muslim terrorists, they were pirates along the Barbary Coast around Tripoli at the beginning of the 19th Century.

When John Paul Jones raided and sank British merchant ships, he was widely referred to as a pirate in England. It all gets so confusing. Arrrrrh.