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Ahoy, maties! Shiver me timbers! 19 Sept is Talk Like a Pirate Day! (URL) can I say but "Arrr!"?! Kerry (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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(...) Actually, what I can also say is that we need to install a "text-to-pirate-filter" on LUGnet that day that does word substitutions and random exclaimation interjections at punctual points (like those "jive filters" etc): (URL) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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(...) Ahoy and avast! Well blow me down! I'll be a keel-hauled swung from the yardarm and hung in a gibbet cage, me hearties if I can be seein' what effect this'll have. Sounds like some hornswaggling from scurvy dogs intent on parting buccaneers, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Or: "We decided then and there that what the world really needed was a new national holiday...." Hmmmm something doesn't seem quite right there.... ROSCO (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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(...) My daughter went on a school excursion last term to the (URL) National Maritime Museum>, and came home proudly bearing an official 'Certificate of Piracy'. One can only wonder why five year old girls need to know how to conduct acts of piracy. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | RE: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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Since we're on the topic of all things pirate-y, here's something that uproot your mizzenmast faster than a gale: (URL) I do hope that they at least taught your daughter Attila-the-Hun's Maxim of Piracy: Pillage first, THEN burn. Arrr! David Drew. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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(...) Hornswaggling? I think you are discombobulating your Black Sea Barracuda with your Fort Legorado, pardner! Kerry (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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(...) Those scurvy landlubber cowboys may have used it too, but it is authentic pirate talk. (A quick Google of 'hornswaggle pirate' gives a few references). Cheers Richie (2 URLs) Port Brique Somewhere in the South Pacifique (2 URLs) Misérable (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: Talk like a Pirate Day - 19 Sept
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(...) Arrrrr! (21 years ago, 20-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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