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But not typical pirates, surely, Tony.
They are no members of the common throng
They are all noblemen who have gone wrong.
That's the whole joke, DB. The often/orphan should have alerted Major-General Stanley earlier!  |
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« Reply #16 on: 19:37:46, 13-06-2007 » |
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I thought pirates was Japanese calasthenics
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #19 on: 22:30:06, 19-06-2007 » |
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I always thought the correct expression was Avast behind there!
If I see one, that's what I say (me 'earties)
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« Reply #20 on: 22:33:58, 19-06-2007 » |
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I always thought the correct expression was Avast behind there!
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« Reply #21 on: 22:36:28, 19-06-2007 » |
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OO-AARR! Poor little dawg!
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« Reply #22 on: 23:08:00, 19-06-2007 » |
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Marge: umm, Mr Bluebeard, we're a little low on chairs and this is the last one [positions a highchair near him] Bluebeard (in full pirate tones, squatting rather uncomfortably): ARRRRR! This chair be high, says I |
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« Reply #23 on: 15:43:47, 18-09-2007 » |
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As 'ee know if 'ee bin payin' attention (Avast there in the tops'ls!) Tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate day and from Bristol to Tortuga, and from Kingston to Portsmouth, and even further afield, stout hearts are gettin' ready to plunder, with eyepatches and cutlasses and completely unbelievably ham accents. So as we sail for victory I want 'ee to remember, a lubber is only a lubber, but a Pirate is a Pirate. Go make 'ee a nuisance in the office, on the street, or on the beaches, and never surrender (oops! wrong speech!)  May the wind be at our backs, and may the plunder be rich! And who cares if 'ee make a roight prat of 'eeself!(and for those of us that aren't terribly sure about sailing...) |
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« Reply #24 on: 15:56:45, 18-09-2007 » |
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« Reply #26 on: 16:18:05, 18-09-2007 » |
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Well shiver me... etc
Just so I can be all ready for tomorrow, how do pirates pronounce 'rum' and 'chest' so that they rhyme with each other?
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« Reply #27 on: 16:25:16, 18-09-2007 » |
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Well shiver me... etc
Just so I can be all ready for tomorrow, how do pirates pronounce 'rum' and 'chest' so that they rhyme with each other?
That raises an interesting musicological point, George. In his seminal paper "Retrograde Inversions in 18th Century Pirate Songs" the eminent L J Silver puts forward the interesting hypothesis that the non-rhyming "chest" is actually a clumsy bowdlerisation of the original "bum". |
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« Reply #28 on: 16:28:47, 18-09-2007 » |
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My ARRRRs it wur!
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« Reply #29 on: 16:33:57, 18-09-2007 » |
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That raises an interesting musicological point, George. In his seminal paper "Retrograde Inversions in 18th Century Pirate Songs" the eminent L J Silver puts forward the interesting hypothesis that the non-rhyming "chest" is actually a clumsy bowdlerisation of the original "bum".
Of course, 'bum', in its correct retrograde inversion (as Silver notes), is 'wnq' - an early and somewhat bowdlerised version itself of 'wanq', an early form of the modern 'plank' (as in 'walking the gangwanq/plank). So no worries, George, rest easy tonight. Arr, Jim lad. |
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