Yup, still the 18th here. Can't do any pirate rejoinders untill six hours from now. Thats firm. Lessee... now it's quarter till noon in Australia....midnight here is six pm there...Nope, sorry, can't do it on both sides of the Intl. Date Line at once. Just can't.
If seasick, is it tea you want?
The wooden leg of the duck
The redhaired cabinboy
Pull the cutlass and stick it in again
The gravel walktheplank
Banish Mishiddentreasure
No one in the last year's discussion mentioned Robert Newton arring up the scenery as the lead in Blackbeard the Pirate.
This is where I heard it and anyone who lived in the broadcast range NYC's channel nine during the years of Million Dollar Movie would have had the opportunity to see this movie many, many times.
For the record, ocarolan, Captain Pugwash never featured characters called either 'Master Bates' or 'Seaman Staines''. This is an urban myth (and one which resulted in successful legal action by the show's creator against two newspapers which repeated such allegations). The only sailors who crewed the Black Pig under Pugwash's command were Master Mate, Tom the Cabin Boy, and Pirates Barnabas and Willy - see http://bit.ly/36frCp.
However, I suspect Cut-Throat Jake was behind it all.
I don't know about pirates, but Queen Liz is apparently descended from Mohammed, via a Spanish royal family of the past which claimed (through some Moorish connections) to be so.
In the Queen st Mall on Friday there was the most incredible
Jack Sparrow impersonator I have ever seen, along with 20 odd other rowdy teenage Pirate types. I had to shake my head to make sure it wasn't Mr. Depp. A bit younger, that's all. Could
it be said that he was Depping for Depp? Slim.
I'm glad somebody mentioned Robert Newton, because Talk Like A Pirate Day should really be called Talk Like Robert Newton Day.
People don't realise it, but when they're doing a "pirate accent" they're just imitating Robert Newton at some remove.
He was cast as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, then sort of became typecast as a pirate for the rest of his career.
But when he spoke in Treasure Island he wasn't "doing a pirate accent", he was just talking the way he talked.
Check out his performance in Henry V: he's doing Shakespeare with the same accent.
Oh by the way, the worst accent ever done by any actor in any movie has got to be Charlton Heston in a remake of Treasure Island.
You thought Dick Van Dyke's Cockney in Marry Poppins was bad. Or Ewan MacGregor's Yorkshire in Brassed Off. Or that Australian actress' Irish in Far And Away. Charton Heston's "pirate accent" is at an entirely different level of awfulness.
Talk like a pirate day...
Talk like a pirate day...
Ahoy land lubbers... this should provide some right interesting posts today!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_like_a_pirate_day
Arrr!
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by davydd
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It's still the 18th for me...
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by JosephofCK
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And to celebrate on such an occasion:
Pirate tunes:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/index/search?name=pirate&type_id=&mode_id=
Ship tunes:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/index/search?name=ship&type_id=&mode_id=
Boat tunes:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/index/search?name=boat&type_id=&mode_id=
Sorry Joseph... we Aussies have a head start when it comes to time.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by davydd
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Arrrr me maties... Is it that time of year again?
You know what a pirate's favourite vegetable is?
... the Arrrrrrtichoke!
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by LowWhistler
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Yup, still the 18th here. Can't do any pirate rejoinders untill six hours from now. Thats firm. Lessee... now it's quarter till noon in Australia....midnight here is six pm there...Nope, sorry, can't do it on both sides of the Intl. Date Line at once. Just can't.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Atahualpa Quigley
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Canada must be more lax about that kind of thing. Could just be Alberta.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Atahualpa Quigley
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Another link:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#pickup
I love the "Top ten pick up lines"
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by davydd
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More tunes for tonite's session:
If seasick, is it tea you want?
The wooden leg of the duck
The redhaired cabinboy
Pull the cutlass and stick it in again
The gravel walktheplank
Banish Mishiddentreasure
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Mike Floorstand
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Ahaaarr! Sounds like an excuse to trot out the Captain Pugwash puns about Master Bates and Seaman Staines........
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by ocarolan
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also merman of the house and the wench behind the bar
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by airport
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arrgghh is right - that's a crosspost I couldn't have predicted
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by airport
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what about Long John Silver Spear?
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian
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.. not to mention "Captain Morgan", or indeed the "Morgan Rattler" ...
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian
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Just thought of another - "the Irish Rover" ("Rover being another word for a pirate) ...
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian
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Q. Why are pirates best?
A. Because they ARRRRRRRRRRRR
Baby Pirate in car: ARRRRRRRRRRR we there yet?
My DARRRRRRRRRR-lings Asleep
(she won't be for long, with all this arrrrrrrr-ing)
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by geoffwright
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Old Wench You have Killed Me
Ships Are Sinking
I Buried My Treasure And Jumped On It
I own a parrot - does that count for anything as a piratical wannabee? How many points?
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Rook
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Well, shiver me timbers, so it be talk like a pirate day.
Funny I just saw the "Real Pirates" exhibit in Philadelphia last week. They even had whistle tunes playing in the background throughout the exhibit.
Mary
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Antikhntr
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"Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you."
Heh heh heh...
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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A bit of nostalgia: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15201
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Reverend
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No one in the last year's discussion mentioned Robert Newton arring up the scenery as the lead in Blackbeard the Pirate.
This is where I heard it and anyone who lived in the broadcast range NYC's channel nine during the years of Million Dollar Movie would have had the opportunity to see this movie many, many times.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by edl
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I heard that Queen Elizabeth II is derived of pirate stock...that's why she signs herself Elizabeth ARRRRRRR.
I thank you.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by john knoss
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For the record, ocarolan, Captain Pugwash never featured characters called either 'Master Bates' or 'Seaman Staines''. This is an urban myth (and one which resulted in successful legal action by the show's creator against two newspapers which repeated such allegations). The only sailors who crewed the Black Pig under Pugwash's command were Master Mate, Tom the Cabin Boy, and Pirates Barnabas and Willy - see http://bit.ly/36frCp.
However, I suspect Cut-Throat Jake was behind it all.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Floss the Tethers
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I don't know about pirates, but Queen Liz is apparently descended from Mohammed, via a Spanish royal family of the past which claimed (through some Moorish connections) to be so.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by nicholas
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The Doubloon Reel
Pretty Peg
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by nicholas
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Yes indeed, Floss the Tethers - Cut-Throat Jake has a lot to answer for - but at least it's a mildly chortlesome urban myth!
# Posted on September 20th 2008 by ocarolan
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Even St. Patrick was a pyrate for a daye.
Must have been a blessing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4kfL-gi2o
Aye!!
# Posted on September 20th 2008 by Ray Mariani
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In Corwall, wouldn't every day be "Talk Like A Pirate Day?"
# Posted on September 20th 2008 by Atahualpa Quigley
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In the Queen st Mall on Friday there was the most incredible
Jack Sparrow impersonator I have ever seen, along with 20 odd other rowdy teenage Pirate types. I had to shake my head to make sure it wasn't Mr. Depp. A bit younger, that's all. Could
it be said that he was Depping for Depp? Slim.
# Posted on September 21st 2008 by chuneboi slim
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Even though I was putting on a math workshop Friday I was able to sneak in a few phrases. . .
"How Arrrrrrrrr you going to deal with implimentation of these concepts?"
Oh, by the way. A pirates' favorite letter?
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! (got to have the "hooked" finger with it)
(a third grader told me that one, darn near doubled me over)
# Posted on September 21st 2008 by jrathbun
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I'm glad somebody mentioned Robert Newton, because Talk Like A Pirate Day should really be called Talk Like Robert Newton Day.
People don't realise it, but when they're doing a "pirate accent" they're just imitating Robert Newton at some remove.
He was cast as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, then sort of became typecast as a pirate for the rest of his career.
But when he spoke in Treasure Island he wasn't "doing a pirate accent", he was just talking the way he talked.
Check out his performance in Henry V: he's doing Shakespeare with the same accent.
I belive he was raised in Cornwall.
# Posted on September 26th 2008 by Richard D Cook
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Oh by the way, the worst accent ever done by any actor in any movie has got to be Charlton Heston in a remake of Treasure Island.
You thought Dick Van Dyke's Cockney in Marry Poppins was bad. Or Ewan MacGregor's Yorkshire in Brassed Off. Or that Australian actress' Irish in Far And Away. Charton Heston's "pirate accent" is at an entirely different level of awfulness.
# Posted on September 26th 2008 by Richard D Cook
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Robert Newton's Brilliant. His Bill Sykes in David Lean's Oliver Twist is one of the all time great screen badies.
# Posted on September 26th 2008 by llig leahcim