Ahoy thar, ye band o’ scurvy scallywags! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Feel free ta discuss anything ye’d like in this ‘ere open thread; just make sher ye talk like a pirate, or yer landlubbin’ comment will find itself walkin’ the plank! Aaarrrrgh!
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.)
So grab some grog and pull up an empty chair and start Eastwoodin’!
Did ye blogganeers know that our 44th president got his early start as a pirate?
Barack Obama with his mother in Hawaii.
Mayhap he is secretly Somalian and not Kenyan? Aaarrrrr…..
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?
Most would guess it is RRRRRRRRR.
But they’re wrong.
It’s the C.
Well, the lubberly, bird-witted chowder-head got the plundering part down pat, scupper me hide…
Arrrrh….sumbohdy arsked me who much do ye drink?
I drink till its faare and partly cloudy. Then I take on some ballast. That sets me akeel for a while but, also gives me sumthin’ to heave ovaher to right meself should a sturm cumon.
ARRRrrrrrrr.
Avast ye swabs! Considerin’ who be a doin’ th’ plunderin’ th’ wrong lubber be wearin’ th’ pirate garb! Keelhaulin’s too good fer the like’s o that chum.
Odd. Stanley Ann Dunham looks just like she could be John Kerry’s illegitimate love-child. (the chin).
Longest letter in the pirate alphabet?
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Even the local classical radio station be into the act, with a special edition of their film classics show featuring music from pirate movies.
Almost time for that scurvy dog to walk the electoral plank, as it were