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“A poem on the occasion of International Talk Like a Pirate Day”

for E.C. Segar

Though he wasn’t really

a pirate per se, the old

man who panhandled

in front of the Safeway

would let me rub his

hook for pocket change

and a can of creamed

     spinach.*

18 Replies to ““A poem on the occasion of International Talk Like a Pirate Day””

  1. TomB says:

    I guess this is as good a time as any to say goodbye to everybody. I clicked on the blogad for “Say Anything”, purely for the political interest, and I found her.

    Imagine, something good, damn good, keeping-you-up-at-nite-changing-your-sheets good, from FRANCE!

    So I’m off (er, as it were) to stalk, um, no, win her over with my rapier like wit and piles of oil for food vouchers.

    And if that fails, I’m taking a tranquilizer gun.

    Wish me luck!

  2. ahem says:

    Very clever. Argh, argh. What say we try Walk Like an Egyptian Day next month?

  3. BLT in CO says:

    I’m practicing for the “International Talk Left Like a Pirate Day”, myself.

    “Avast ye scurvy dogs of capitalism!  Unhand yer gold that it be distributed fairly to those that ha’nt got none!  Oh, and I’ll just keep 40% fer meself, I will.  Laywers gotta eat too, y’understand.  Har.”

    It works best if you imagine the pirate in a Brooks Brothers suit.  The parrot is optional.

  4. rls says:

    It works best if you imagine the pirate in a Brooks Brothers suit.  The parrot is optional.

    Still gotta have the eyepatch!  You know, evil.

  5. mojo says:

    Pirate Haiku:

    Arrr, ye scurvy scum!

    I’ll keel-haul the lot of ye

    and then I’ll laugh, Arrrr!

    SB: yes

    I will

  6. Mikey says:

    So we wrapped them up in the mainsail tight

    With twice ten turns round the hawser bight

    Then over the side and out of sight

    With a Yo Heave Ho and A Fare Thee Well

    And a sullen splash in the sullen swell

    Five fathoms deep on the road to hell

    Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

    The Derelict

  7. Sean C. says:

    You rubbed his hook and all he gave you was pocket change and a can of creamed spinach? 

    Damn, either you really suck at hook-rubbing big surprise, or the going rate where you’re from is pretty low!

  8. Lloyd says:

    Hey TomB,

    Wait for me; I’ll be there as soon as I find my rapier and peg leg. We can’t be absconding with the Winches with out a woody and a sword.

  9. thirdfinger says:

    That would be a cutlass and wenches me hearty unless your fencing with some foppish Frenchman or hauling your damn truck out of a ditch.  And a woody is …. aw never mind.

  10. Lloyd says:

    Oh well, my bad. My mother always told me I’d die ilightorate.

  11. Matt says:

    Okay, I stupidly clicked on TomB’s link

    JESUS EFFING CHRIST IN A YARMULKE!!!!

    I may have to rethink my obsession with Jeff Gannon’s cock. I’m also pretty sure that a tranquilizer gun is the only way anyone is getting close.

    TW: Standard – “Oh nothing, Honey. Just your standard Info Babe”

    ummm…errrr…great post, Jeff. Arrrrr and all that.

  12. TomB says:

    AVAST THERE YE POACHERS!!

    I SAWS HER FIRST!

  13. AWG says:

    we’re sailing back to Portsmouth

    we’re loaded in Mexican gold

    the breeze is fresh, the skies are clear

    there’s rum to fight the cold

    in about three weeks we’ll be there

    with money in me life

    and then it’s off to Dublin

    to home and me wife

    the boyos, the boyos

    the boyos won the day

    and then they put the rogues in chains

    you know

    the boyos

    and now it is a peaceful day

    to sail in the Spanish Main

    as we rounded Barbados

    and caught the homeward stream

    comin out w’ the morning sun

    a schooner topped which mean

    she’s blowin faster than Hades

    her kindness all a fly

    the watch dropped to the deck

    with terror in his eye

    she’s flyin a jolly roger

    she’s portin forty guns

    she’s wantin to have her way with us

    we’d better turn and run

    but the cap’n said not so quick

    we’re going to fight it out

    he came about and headed right

    down her dirty snout

    the cannons blew the smoke it flew

    her mainmast then went crack

    the rogues they tried to board us

    but the boyos beat them back

    we fought with sword and pistol

    we grappled head to head

    when the air it cleared we took a count

    of wounded and the dead

    the boyos, the boyos

    the boyos won the day

    and then they put the rogues in chains

    you know

    the boyos

    and now it is a peaceful day

    to sail in the Spanish Main

    (with thanks and appreciation to Michael Knott)

    tw: cold.  There’s rum for that, remember.  wink

  14. TerryH says:

    I see the Say Anything babe is back.  (Is babe as offensive as bimbo to the PC thought police?)

    Since yesterday was talk like a pirate day, let me say this about that:

    “Avast, men! Get a telescope full of the doubloons on *that* vessel.”

    Pirate talk

    Arrrgh!

  15. McGehee says:

    Arrrr, Melissa Teary—Theery—arrrr, Melissa T.

    A fine figurehead she’d make on the prow o’ me dinghy!

  16. TomB says:

    She likes it when I call her MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMelissa.

    Unfreakingbelievable. TW: “yes” as in YES! YES!, er I mean OUI!

  17. Kyle says:

    as we rounded Barbados

    and caught the homeward TRADE

    comin out w’ the morning sun

    a schooner TOP WATCH MADE

    she’s blowin faster than Hades

    her CANVAS all a fly

    the watch dropped to the deck

    with terror in his eye

    but hey, bitchin’ song, I love it

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