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Stealing signs from other newsletters!
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September 19, 2007
~~~ NOTE FROM CHRIS: ~~~
Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
The Top 17 Things to Say at
Home on Talk Like a Pirate Day
- "Avast, ye bilge rats! Smartly remove yourselves off me lawn before I make ya's walk the plank!"
- "Man the deck-swabbin' tools. This vessel's been boarded by baby vomit."
- "Aye, Belinda, yer goldfish be sleepin' in Davey Jones' locker."
- "Me pearl, I've got a mind to board ye and plunder yer many treasures after the youngens are abed."
- "Sail ho, me hearties! I be seeing Mac 'n' Cheese on the horizon."
- "There be starrrrvin' children in Africa with scurrrrvy who would give their right arrrrm for a bite o' asparrrragus."
- "Arrrr, be not shuttin' off me BitTorrent before the new Metallica album be finished downloadin'!"
- "Blast and bedamn it to the four winds! Which of ye scurvy parasites sent 1000 instant ahoys on their handheld semaphore device in the last billing moon?"
- "Great Neptune on a mast! Not Arrrrrrrrrby's again!"
- "Well tickle me with a cap feather! I've told ye many a time I'm not of a mind to be changing my long-distance!"
- "Wench! Be fetching me another Grog Lite from the galley straightaway!"
- "To the scurvy dog which uncorked that stench from Blackbeard's own colon: Announce yerself!"
- "Now, lad, if'n all your young shipmates leapt to certain death from that great steel span at New Amsterdam, would ye feel obliged to follow suit?"
- "Ahoy, ivory chamber pot! Prepare to be boarded and defiled as I drop anchor."
- "Avast, ye scalawag, remove yer hook from my Eggo!"
- "Here be our list for the market shoppin': Yoo-Hoo, Ho-Hos and a bottle of rum."
and the Number 1 Thing to Say Around the House on Talk Like a Pirate Day...
- "Who be the very model of a well-behaved bonny wee housecritter, then? Be it ye? Be it? Be it?"
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Selected from 73 submissions from 30 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Sandra Hull, Arlington, VA -- 1, 5, 10 (54th #1/Hat trick!) Website / Hall of Famer
- Andrew Hackard, Austin, TX -- 2, 11
- Curtis Stoddard, Cedar Hills, UT -- 3, 4
- Lee Oeth, San Diego, CA -- 4, 9
- Stephen A. Segall, Poplar Bluff, MO -- 6
- Douglas Frank, Crosby, TX -- 7, 15
- Jill Gallagher, Seattle, WA -- 8
- Kim Moser, New York, NY -- 12 Hall of Famer
- Dave Goudsward, Lake Worth, FL -- 13, 14
- Jody LaFerriere, Leominster, MA -- 14 Website
- Dave Wesley, Pleasant Hill, CA -- 14 Hall of Famer
- Paul Wiley, Westtown, NY -- 14
- Danny Gallagher, McKinney, TX -- 16 Website
- Mark Zinck, Grand Rapids, MI -- 17
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ -- Topic
- Caryn Kennealy, Glendale, CA -- Banner Tag
- Chris White, Los Angeles, CA -- List owner/editor Hall of Famer
- Jimmy Buffett, Pascagoula, MS -- Ambience (explanation)
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