Arrrr! – Talk Like a Pirate Day XXIV


Firm but fair: Rep. Jim the Pirate (D-Bahamas)

 
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
 

3 thoughts on “Arrrr! – Talk Like a Pirate Day XXIV”

  1. 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!

  2. Shannon Love – True! How did the West Country engineer itself into the position of being the default accent of pirates everywhere?

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