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Yetti
09-19-2007, 01:53 AM
I thought I would post this for you guys since you need to loosen up a bit, plus its my brothers song that got named for the day.



Arrr Matie! Wednesday is Talk Like A Pirate Day

Posted by Entertainment Reporter Roger LeLievre (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/about.html) September 18, 2007 10:08AM

Categories: Breaking News (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/breaking_news/)
Avast, me hearties! For those not in the know, Wednesday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day and, believe or not, there's a local connection.
http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/09/small_pirate2.jpg
Ann Arbor resident Tom Smith wrote what's become the event's official theme song, "Talk Like a Pirate Day," back in 2003.
It goes, in part:
"For I dream of the skull and the crossbones,
I dream of the great day to come,
When I dump the mundane for the Old Spanish Main
And trade me computer for rum! ARRR!"
Smith makes his living performing in a genre known as filk, the music of the science fiction and fantasy community, at various sci-fi fan conventions around the country. And he's delighted at the added notoriety the song has brought him, usually around this time of year.
"Every once in a while I get noticed for it," Smith said of the song. "(Radio DJ) Dr. Demento played the thing extensively last year and the year before; I've had people who want me to do private parties on Talk Like a Pirate Day."
Started as an inside joke between friends John Baur and Mark Summers, International Talk Like a Pirate Day gained exposure when the pair sent a letter about their invented "holiday" to humor columnist Dave Barry, who wrote about it in 2002. The idea quickly caught on.
Pirate or no, it seems like the thing to do tomorrow would be to buckle on your inner swash, hoist the skull and crossbones (this can be done figuratively) and set sail to Smith's Web site, www.tomsmithonline.com (http://www.tomsmithonline.com/).
According to Smith, starting Wednesday, "Talk Like a Pirate Day" will be available for free download, thus saving precious pirate booty. ARRR.

3Hummer
09-19-2007, 02:01 AM
good day for talk like a pirate day ill be on a boat most of the day going snorkling!

mikejr
09-19-2007, 02:01 AM
yes I am a pirate....200 years too late...cannons dont thunder, theres nothing to plunder, I'm an over 40 victim of fate.....

Anyone know what song thats from?

Hummer Aficionado_VT
09-19-2007, 02:45 AM
Fo' shizzle! Oh, wait, I mean "Arrr!"

H3slate
09-19-2007, 04:40 AM
yes I am a pirate....200 years too late...cannons dont thunder, theres nothing to plunder, I'm an over 40 victim of fate.....

Anyone know what song thats from?
Jimmy Buffett - A Pirate looks at Forty

Man the internet is great!! :dancingbanana:

A Pirate Looks At Forty

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call,
Wanted to sail upon your waters
since I was three feet tall.
You've seen it all, you've seen it all.

Watch the men who rode you,
Switch from sails to steam.
And in your belly you hold the treasure
that few have ever seen, most of them dreams,
Most of them dreams.

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.
The cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late.

I've done a bit of smugglin'
I've run my share of grass.
I made enough money to buy Miami,
But I pissed it away so fast,
Never meant to last, never meant to last.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks,
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks,
But I've got to stop wishin',
Got to go fishin', I'm down to rock bottom again.
Just a few friends, just a few friends.

Instrumental

I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
And though I ran away, they'll come back one day.
And still could manage a smile
It just takes awhile, just takes awhile.

Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found
My occupational hazard being my occupations
just not around.
I feel like I've drowned,
Gonna head uptown.

DRTYFN
09-19-2007, 04:46 AM
43570

DRTYFN
09-19-2007, 04:48 AM
Uh oh... I know what's coming now.

h2co-pilot
09-19-2007, 10:59 AM
I thought I would post this for you guys since you need to loosen up a bit, plus its my brothers song that got named for the day.





Wait, your brother's name is Tom but they named you Yetti?! Boy, you really got the shaft.;):D


Argh!:)

Agriv8r
09-19-2007, 06:24 PM
good day for talk like a pirate day ill be on a boat most of the day going snorkling!

not sure where you are from, but in Va, we snorkel in the water....

ROX
09-19-2007, 10:19 PM
Arrrrighty then!:dancingbanana:

tower
09-19-2007, 11:03 PM
spoken in a gruff voice: High-Be-Garr-Narr-in-a-Jar.

Yetti
09-20-2007, 12:36 AM
Wait, your brother's name is Tom but they named you Yetti?! Boy, you really got the shaft.;):D


Argh!:)

you funny :twak:

my name is Arnold :dancingbanana:

h2co-pilot
09-20-2007, 01:49 AM
you funny :twak:

my name is Arnold :dancingbanana:


:D:D:D

ROX
09-20-2007, 04:54 AM
you funny :twak:

my name is Arrghnold :dancingbanana::jump: