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Apparently, today is International talk like a pirate day.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

The basics:

Pirate lingo is rich and complicated, sort of like a good stew. There
are several other sites that offer glossaries that are pretty good, and
you can find some of them on our links page.

But if you just want a quick fix, a surface gloss, a "pirate patina," if
you will, here are the five basic words that you cannot live without.
Master them, and you can face Talk Like a Pirate Day with a smile on
your face and a parrot on your shoulder, if that's your thing.

Ahoy! - "Hello!"

Avast! - Stop and give attention. It can be used in a sense of surprise,
"Whoa! Get a load of that!" which today makes it more of a "Check it
out" or "No way!" or "Get off!"

Aye! - "Why yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or
did."

Aye aye! - "I'll get right on that sir, as soon as my break is over."

Arrr! - This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the
sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. "Arrr!" can mean,
variously, "yes," "I agree," "I'm happy," "I'm enjoying this beer," "My
team is going to win it all," "I saw that television show, it sucked!"
and "That was a clever remark you or I just made." And those are just a
few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr!

Advanced pirate lingo; or On beyond "Aarrr!"

Once you've mastered the basics, you're ready to start expanding your
pirate vocabulary. Try these for starters

Beauty - The best possible pirate address for a woman. Always preceded
by "me," as in, "C'mere, me beauty," or even, "me buxom beauty," to one
particularly well endowed. You'll be surprised how effective this

is.

Bilge rat

 - The bilge is the lowest level of the ship. It's loaded with ballast
and slimy, reeking water. A bilge rat, then, is a rat that lives in the
worst place on the ship. On TLAP Day - A lot of guy humor involves
insulting your buddies to prove your friendship. It's important that
everyone understand you are smarter, more powerful and much luckier with
the wenches than they are. Since bilge rat is a pretty dirty thing to
call someone, by all means use it on your friends.

Bung hole - Victuals on a ship were stored in wooden casks. The stopper
in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole.
That's all. It sounds a lot worse, doesn't it? On TLAP Day - When dinner
is served you'll make quite an impression when you say, "Well, me
hearties, let's see what crawled out of the bung hole." That statement
will be instantly followed by the sound of people putting down their
utensils and pushing themselves away from the table. Great! More for
you!

Grog - An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water, but in this
context you could use it to refer to any alcoholic beverage other than
beer, and we aren't prepared to be picky about that, either. Call your
beer grog if you want. We won't stop you! Water aboard ship was sto


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