Talk Like a Pirate Day

Today's the day people - September 19, the International Talk Like a Pirate Day

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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.[1] 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's ex-wife and consequently would be easy for him to remember


Pirate Speak: How To Talk Like A Pirate - Talk Like A Pirate Day UK Headquarters
* Double up on all your adjectives and you'll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of "a big ship", they call it a "great, grand ship!" They never say never, they say "No nay ne'er!"
* Drop all your "g"'s when you speak and you'll get words like "rowin'", "sailin'" and "fightin'". Dropping all of your "v"'s will get you words like "ne'er", "e'er" and "o'er".
* Instead of saying "I am", sailors say, "I be". Instead of saying "You are", sailors say, "You be". Instead of saying, "They are", sailors say, "They be". Ne'er speak in anythin' but the present tense!

n which ye'll find words submitted by many pirates o'er the years, an' which comprise a loose piratical dictionary.

* Ahoy: Hey!
* Avast: Stop!
* Aye: Yes
* Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.
* Booty: treasure
* Buccanneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.
* By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!
* Cat o' nine tails: whip for floggin' mutineers
* Corsair: a pirate who be makin' his berth in the Med-...Medi-...that sea 'tween Spain and Africa, aye!
* Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie
* Doubloons: pieces of gold...
* Fiddlers Green: the private heaven where pirates be goin' when they die.
* Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.
* Gentlemen o' fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!
* Go on the account: to embark on a piratical cruise
* Grog: A pirate's favorite drink.
* Jack: a flag or a sailor
* Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!
* Keelhaul: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be tied to a rope and dragged along the barnacle-encrusted bottom of a ship. They not be survivin' this.
* Landlubber: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.
* Lass: A woman.
* Lily-livered: faint o' heart
* Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels): drunk
* Matey: A shipmate or a friend.
* Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.
* Me: My.
* Pieces o' eight: pieces o' silver which can be cut into eights to be givin' small change.
* Privateer: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power
* Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel.
* Scurvy dog!: a fine insult!
* Shiver me timbers!: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
* Son of a Biscuit Eater: a derogatory term indicating a bastard son of a sailor
* Sprogs: raw, untrained recruits
* Squadron: a group of ten or less warships
* Squiffy: a buffoon
* Swaggy: a scurvy cur's ship what ye be intendin' to loot!
* Swashbucklin': fightin' and carousin' on the high seas!
* Sweet trade: the career of piracy
* Thar: The opposite of "here."
* Walk the plank: this one be bloody obvious.
* Wench: a lady, although ye gents not be wantin' to use this around a lady who be stronger than ye.
* Wi' a wannion: wi' a curse, or wi' a vengeance. Boldly, loudly!
* Yo-ho-ho: Pirate laughter
 
I love this post!! Darn, I missed pirate day! We will have to do it again sometime soon, that is hilarious.

Where is your new diary? Your old one is closed. boo hooo
 
you and me both sistah :D

a bar in my neighborhood had a 6 months til st patricks day bash on the 17th so we could do frequent talk like a pirate day event :D
 
why?

everyone can learn something new... you stop learning and improving yourself -- you might as well put yourself in a pine box six feet under...
 
why?

everyone can learn something new... you stop learning and improving yourself -- you might as well put yourself in a pine box six feet under...


LOL! You are too funny Mal!!

I agree, everyone can learn something new!! When I had a trainer, I learned so much about form and technique. After you learn proper lifting and body position during resistance training, it is really easy to spot those who just wing it and are not even working out the muscles they intend to work out, even worse some injure themselves. Smarter workouts were the result as well as the muscle gain in the right places.

I did learn from a female trainer that "some" (not all) male trainers will have females working out the major muscle groups, actually making them more bulky in stead of longer and leaner looking. So watch out for that.

Trainers rock! I love them!! Plus they keep you motivated too. Makes me want to get another one.

Anyhow, this is a pirate thread!

Here's an oldie but goodie...


What is the only letter in the Pirates alphabet? "RRRRRRR" :rofl:
 
I did learn from a female trainer that "some" (not all) male trainers will have females working out the major muscle groups, actually making them more bulky in stead of longer and leaner looking. So watch out for that

You were speaking with an incompetent trainer.
 
Well, If I were gong off just what you said she said. I would have to assume she was.
That really isn't much of a surprise. Especially given, The majority of trainers are incompetent.
 
Well, If I were gong off just what you said she said. I would have to assume she was.
That really isn't much of a surprise. Especially given, The majority of trainers are incompetent.

Avast!! Ye be deservin a Black Spot you Buccanneer! Leave thou Lily-livered comments about me Lass in Davy Jones' Locker. Scurvy dog!!

Hasty generalization Defined

* An error in reasoning from specific instances, in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.

* a conclusion based on too few examples or examples which aren't typical or representative of a class. A type of fallacious argument.
 
I did learn from a female trainer that "some" (not all) male trainers will have females working out the major muscle groups, actually making them more bulky in stead of longer and leaner looking. So watch out for that.

Not try to fight but because I don't want this continued as a myth I can tell you as a female trainer that this is a myth. I train my female clients with major muscle group movements and for functionality and they look amazing. "Bulky" is majority diet, fat and stretching.

*pimps article*
 
Not try to fight but because I don't want this continued as a myth I can tell you as a female trainer that this is a myth. I train my female clients with major muscle group movements and for functionality and they look amazing. "Bulky" is majority diet, fat and stretching.

Hey Leigh! Thanks for your two cents too. I didn't do the best job quoting my trainer. It was 5 years ago that we discussed the topic, so I wasn't wanting to go on record allowing my trainer to be called "incompetent" because of the words I chose to use. Obviously, I needed more explanation and by being so vague, it warranted myth busters coming after me.

I should have been more clear about what I was trying to say.

My female trainer had me working out major muscle groups too, don't get me wrong. She mentioned that "some" (not all) male trainers were only working out the major muscles groups, and nothing else. She just didn't over-emphasize these areas, versus other areas.

I assume that it is true that by working out your muscles, you gain strength and muscle mass. So, I also assumed that by going nuts on areas like the thighs & arms, you would see more muscle begin to form and could even increase the size of these muscles. I see female body builders whose bodies look like men! These masculine looking women aren't myths like the Lock ness Monster.

I sure the heck didn't want bigger thighs & arms.

Anyhow, I guess I just didn't give enough detail in my post. Hope that helps clear things up.
 
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