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2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
h2g2 Operations Started conversation Sep 19, 2016
Ahoy, men, women, 'n small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri o' h2g2: Greetin's on Shout Like a Scurvy Pirate Day!
We at h2g2 wish to announce to one 'n all in th' galaxy that we, h2g2, be th' true scourges 'o th' Seven Internets!
We rule cyberspace, 'n have since 1999!
Also, we always be knowin' whar our towels be!
Best wish fer Shout Like a Scurvy Pirate Day, Yo ho ho !
th' h2g2 Core Team
PS : Always be hoopy froods 'n never trust the gorram Vogons!
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Superfrenchie Posted Sep 19, 2016
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Icy North Posted Sep 19, 2016
Why are pirates always on the 'high seas'? I'm no physicist, but the sea's generally the same height everywhere. The phrase 'sea level' is a dead giveaway.
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Baron Grim Posted Sep 19, 2016
More truthfully, it's "Talk Like Robert Newton Day".
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/09/19/pirate_speech_origins_in_west_country_english_via_robert_newton_aka_long.html
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Sep 19, 2016
'ere's more facts:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52766/17-swashbuckling-facts-about-talk-pirate-day
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 19, 2016
Icy, as I understand it, 'high seas' = 'international waters'. (In Old England 'heah' could mean 'deep'.)
The definition of international waters, of course, is sometimes in dispute. (See 'Cod Wars'.)
Paul will now show up and make a bad musical pun (are there any other kind?) involving a soprano...
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 19, 2016
I won't do a pun. I'm going to let Florence Foster Jenkins do it for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Baron Grim Posted Sep 19, 2016
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 19, 2016
The actress who plays Ms. Bucket played a pirate nurserymaid earlier in her career:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4r0N5UlXUI
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 19, 2016
She makes a splendid Ruth.
Michael Praed (Robin of Sherwood) did Frederic in the West End about the same time, I believe.
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Sep 19, 2016
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Sep 19, 2016
I can still feel that dull Spanish steel, that gave me a stump....... So I took the leg of his Queen Ann chair as payment
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Sep 19, 2016
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 19, 2016
In addition to finding the translation engine for piratespeak, I have also located a useful video course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqMu6e5Dgtg
It must be the real thing: it's got the same boring background music as most language instructional videos.
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 20, 2016
Florence Foster Jenkins had some musical gifts. She began as a pianist, and graduated to teaching piano. It wasn't until she injured a hand that she thought about singing instead. As a singer, she knew her material cold. Her pronunciation was fine. I'd say that she was on pitch around two-thirds of the time, and her tempi were correct. Her worst fault was in thinking she could sing music that was out of her voice range. The Queen of the Night aria is one of the most difficult in all of opera, yet she thought she could do justice to it. She came nowhere close to hitting the very highest notes.
I dare say that there must have been some fine songs that were within her capabilities. She didn't try to sing them, though. This points to delusional thinking, sad to say. But as comic relief, she was priceless. Anna Russell and Beatrice Lily followed in her footsteps, making audiences laugh at their poor singing, but *knowing* it was poor. Florence does seem to have realized how awful she sounded, nor how hilarious a spectacle it was to hear her proceeding as if she were great. She was to grand opera as Margaret Dumont was to the Marx brothers' anarchy.
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 20, 2016
Sorry, Florence does *not* seem to have realized how awful she sounded.
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Recumbentman Posted Sep 20, 2016
"What's the pirate's favourite letter, then, me lads?"
"Arrrrr!"
"No, it's the sea I love..."
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 20, 2016
Does a pirate's alphabet contains seven C's then?
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Icy North Posted Sep 21, 2016
And plenty of I's, captain.
2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Sep 21, 2016
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2016-09-19 Announcement: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
- 1: h2g2 Operations (Sep 19, 2016)
- 2: Superfrenchie (Sep 19, 2016)
- 3: Icy North (Sep 19, 2016)
- 4: Baron Grim (Sep 19, 2016)
- 5: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Sep 19, 2016)
- 6: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Sep 19, 2016)
- 7: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 19, 2016)
- 8: Baron Grim (Sep 19, 2016)
- 9: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 19, 2016)
- 10: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Sep 19, 2016)
- 11: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Sep 19, 2016)
- 12: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Sep 19, 2016)
- 13: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Sep 19, 2016)
- 14: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Sep 19, 2016)
- 15: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 20, 2016)
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- 17: Recumbentman (Sep 20, 2016)
- 18: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 20, 2016)
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