Like others have posted at god-awful hours of this morning. It is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!!!!! I am even dressed for it here at work (I love little portable cameras).
Now, if I can just figure out a way to see Pirates of the Caribbean before going to Friday Night Waltz, then this day will be truly perfect.
This day will always be remembered…
Avast me hearty, and shiver me timbers, but that’s a bold stroke mar’ enough to strike my colours and fly all before the wind, so split, rend and sink me!
Blast me bones, so help me!
Belay that, y’hear? Aye, now there’s a pirate lass what knows a hawk’s bill from a hawse-hole. So ye be sayin’ ’twere Talk Like a Pirate Day, sa-ha, now there’s salt water in me grog and blood flowin’ from the scuppers. Blast me, but ain’t there a fine wench. I’ve a might to be singin’ poesy now, so run aloft and clap on a spyglass for t’ken ya scrap of signal flags:
There onceit were a pirate lass, “The Gina,”
Her salty talk flowed like notes of a concertina.
Tho’ bold she were in pirate talk,
Ne’er did she plank nor gallows walk,
Truly the buccaneerin’est salt sans subpoena!
So there! Gadzooks!*
‘Ello, poppet!
Capt. E. from Saucy-lido town
* Know that gadzooks is proper sea-going fare, a sailor’s oath which meant “by God’s itch,” the itch bein’, well not quite salt-sores that come from weeks of constant immersion in sea water, but the kind that can plague a crew on shore-leave, if ye catch me drift
Steady as she goes, (uhoh a song now:) when Johnny come down to Hilo, poor old man… ha ha (and maniacal laughter fades as the weathered ship with groaning yards floats slowly past the harbor entrance, catches the last of the evening zephyr, heels slightly, and rides the ebbing tide into the sunset over the vast, molten sea…)
*loving* that picture!! woohoo!!!
oh… and heads-up – keep it to yourself – but there’s about a 40% chance we may be moving out to your area in the very near future! I’ll know more by the end of next week… for now, posting anon, just in case anyone else drops in (as this is a waybigmajorhuge secret still…)
so you know who this is – Polton sucked.