Yes, today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, which has little significance but gives me license to post this photo again.
Here’s a thought. Wouldn’t it be cool if the entire US Congress would dress up as pirates? They might be more productive that way. Also, there’s the truth-in-labeling thing.
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Previous Talk Like a Pirate posts:
2006
2005
2004
Introducing Jim the Pirate
Arrr! I think you be meaning to say its speak in the manner of archaic West Country Dialect day.
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE OR THE SLAVE OF DUTY
KING: No, Frederic, it cannot be. I don’t think much of our
profession, but, contrasted with respectability, it is
comparatively honest. No, Frederic, I shall live and
die a Pirate King.
SONG — PIRATE KING
KING: Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates all are well-to-do;
But I’ll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King.
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King!
ALL: You are!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
KING: And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King.
ALL: It is!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
KING: When I sally forth to seek my prey
I help myself in a royal way.
I sink a few more ships, it’s true,
Than a well-bred monarch ought to do;
But many a king on a first-class throne,
If he wants to call his crown his own,
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than e’er I do,
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King!
ALL: You are!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
KING: And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King.
ALL: It is!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
Shannon Love – True! How did the West Country engineer itself into the position of being the default accent of pirates everywhere?