Avast, me hearties!
It be Talk Like a Pirate Day, and to celebrate, I be offerin' ye this piece o' piratey poetry I composed for yer readin' enjoyment:
There once was a pirate named Blackbeard Whose ship was too crowded, he feared. So his crew, big and small-- Well he keel-hauled them all And he stopped when the deck had been cleared!
Have ye any piratey poetry to contribute?
update: Gott in Himmel, you can even talk like a pirate in German.
update 2: Dang, somebody else beat me to it. That's some really funny stuff.
Comments
Dang you people who give interesting links to divert me from my thesis! Give my love to Michelle.
Posted by: KDC | September 19, 2003 1:14 PM
Pirate Tanka
Morgan versus Drake,
Andrew, Osten, Ryan S.,
Streak to win the race,
Outwit, Outplay, and Outlast,
On Survivor: Pearl Islands
Posted by: jeffm | September 19, 2003 5:12 PM
Ahoy, matey! Permission to come aboard, Cap'n. Here's a pirate poem I've always liked:
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons,
And buccaneers, and buried gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:
-- So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie!"
(Robert Louis Stevenson's address "To the Hesitating Purchaser" in his classic novel Treasure Island)
Posted by: Bill | September 22, 2003 4:04 PM