It bein' Talk Like a Pirate Day, and all, I figured to scour me blogospheric links for the occasion. I found two sites that would be fittin', but I hain't visited either o' them lately... verily, um, 'oops.'
Yarr!
Anyway, first up is Corsair the Rational Pirate, who weighed in yesterday with a piece which properly displays his practiced disdain for irrational morons. Aye, and if only we could get 'im to abandon the good ship Blogspot...
Scott, over at Pirates! Man Your Women! talks of preparin' for hurricane Isabel, which seems right timely to me at the moment. There's something of a blow goin' on out there, even though the closest body o' water suitable for piracy be Lake Ontario. I suppose the Erie Canal might do in a pinch... Yes, that's it-- "I'll send ye to DeWitt Clinton's locker! Arrr!"
As it happens, Talk Like a Pirate Day is my kind of holiday. I rather like speaking in an odd manner, and have a thing for Renaissance Festivals to boot. O' course, bein' encouraged to talk like a pirate by a bonny lass hasn't dampened my enthusiam in the least, but that wasn't necessary. It just helped. Yarr!
If you find that actually talking like a pirate is too much work, and you know what a stereotypical Canadian accent sounds like, then I have discovered a way to cheat. Affect the accent, and then say "arr" whenever you would normally use "eh." As in "This grog is pretty good, arr?" or "Tune it to TVO, arr?" I mean, really-- there were probably some Canadian pirates at some point. If I have any readers North of the border, I hope they'll take that in good fun.
Weigh anchor! We sail fer Lockport, me hearties, n' I figure we can make this a toll canal by nightfall!
Posted by Mitch at September 19, 2003 02:45 AMWell looky heah! A hearty mate in yankee land, arr!
Welcome matey, welcome. Beknownst now to ye, that I uncovered yer waterlog, er,weblog through his royalness, oh wonderous won Misha. Be bringing yer tribbles and yer treasure doon te Texican and enjoy the grog with the minutemen. *?)
ARRR!
Posted by: quark2 at September 20, 2003 09:24 PMYep, I'm a New Yorker-- though I have never been within a hundred miles of The City. It doesn't seem so bad... even if I would like to keelhaul both of our senators.
And to think, I was just plotting highway routes to Texas last night...
Posted by: Mitch at September 21, 2003 12:13 AM