“Ahoy There, Me Hearties!”
September 19, 2006 3:23 pmAs all good seadogs know, September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This is the day each year we set aside to great each other with a growl and give directions in nautical nonsense. You don’t actually have to know much about pirates to talk like one.
Start phrases with a full growl (Arrrr!) and end with, “me hearties!” (my peeps!). That’s a good start. Now throw in some sailing directions, and you’re on your way. Try:
- Ahoy! (Hey you!)
- Aye, Aye! (Okeedokee!)
- Avast heaving there! (Stop pulling on that rope!)
- Lash that scurvy dog to the yardarm! (You’re in trouble!)
- Walk to the plank with ye! (You’re in big trouble!)
- Blimey! (Wow!)
- Sail ho! (Check it out! Another ship!)
- Shiver me timbers! (Not really sure what that one means.)
- Yo, ho, ho! (Yo, ho, ho!)
- Remember that “starboard” equals right and “larboard” (or “port”) equals left.
- If someone won’t talk like a pirate with you, you can call them a lubber.
You also need a good pirate name. It takes a couple of descriptive words to make a good pirate name. Start with something rugged (Iron, Mad, Dread, etc.). Add a color (Red or Black work best), or a description (One-Eyed, Eight-Fingered, Bearded), or a title (Captain, Pirate, Lord, if you’re particularly piratical), and then your name. You can throw in a nautical last name if you like, too.
Today, I am The Dread Pirate Rusty Scupper Steve.
How about you: got a good pirate name?
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8 Responses to ““Ahoy There, Me Hearties!””
Well this isn’t about a pirate name but…from what I know of pirates (which isn’t much) “Shiver me timbers” is kind of something you say when you’re surpised, like “Oh my goodness!”
Arrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i be the not-so dreaded pink bearded 50 fingered parate dan
heyyyyy!!! dan stole my pink bearded thing…darn! all well..
i\’m the dread plank-walkin pirate grog. ;p
“…fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…”
a good old pirate song doesn’t hurt every once in a while.
or maybe the song of doctor Ironbeard would be better…
Oh, I am doctor Ironbeard
Twillie-willie-wit boom boom
I’ll cure your ills with healing art
Twillie-willie-wit boom boom
I can make the dumb to walk
Twillie-willie-wit boom boom boom boom
The lame to see, the blind to talk
Twillie-willie-wit boom boom
Sing torriay, sing torriay, sing torriay
Boom boom boom boom
Sing torriay, sing torriay
Twillie-willie-wit boom boom
my mom taught it to us kids when we were little. It’s a nice song. Maybe I’ll do a vocal presentation sometime…(jk)
that’s funny, winston! it sounds like something we say in my family - “i see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.”
i’d like to hear the tune!
~the savy lady salt spray~
o, btw, “The expression “Shiver me timbers!” comes from the society of pirates, who enjoy using interesting expressions almost as much as jumping aboard other peoples ships and stealing their valubles. It is an expression of extreme amazement, used in circumstances when one feels as if one’s very bones, or timbers are shivering.”
as defined by Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Eleventh, The Grim Grotto
Pretty Pink Princess
…er…um… I mean the Horrible Black Lord
How about Rusty Red Roamer
Acutally, I’m the Terrible Spleen-patched Sea Dog
I love A Series of Unfortunate Events! It’s pretty cool to know that other people read them besides my family.
yeah, they’re cool. i’ve finished up through book the twelfth and i’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of book the thirteenth. it comes out next month.
~savy salty sea spray, the alliterative pirate~
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