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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsToday is National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Break out the puffy shirt and arghh!
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Today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Break out the puffy shirt and arghh! (Original Post)
kairos12
Sep 2016
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malthaussen
(17,202 posts)1. What already again? Okay, here's Dock Ellis:
'We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I'm going to hit these motherfuckers.'"
-- Mal
Initech
(100,080 posts)2. Avast ye scurvy dogs!! Time ye be walking tha plank!
Initech
(100,080 posts)3. I've got 15 torrents running trying to download the leaked Star Trek Beyond!
Oh what kind of pirates again?
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)4. Free Krispy Kreme donut if you talk like a pirate.
A dozen free if you dress like a pirate!
http://www.krispykreme.com/
kairos12
(12,862 posts)5. But I don't want to be a Pirate.
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)6. No donuts for you!!!! nt
IcyPeas
(21,887 posts)7. peg leg
yellowdogintexas
(22,264 posts)8. Avast, ye felines!
T'would happen in my house, ARRRGH!!
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)9. More like Talk like Robert Newton day
A lot of research has been done but it seems like this was where that particular dialect actually came from.