Shiver Me Timbers... and Sh!t

[rebness]

Yarr and begorrah, mateys!

Yes, International Talk Like a Pirate Day. LJ goes nuts with yarrs and verily and matey, but that's okay, because pirates are the coolest. Yeah, cooler than ninjas.

In other bandwagon-clambering, the nifty pome meme, bringing some bloody good entries, shipmates. Er, yarr. I was going to post Fleur Adcock's The Telephone Call, but I can't find my copy, avast!

Excerpt, Strange Meetings

The stars must make an awful noise
In whirling round the sky;
Yet somehow I can't even hear
Their loudest song or sigh.

So it is wonderful to think
One blackbird can outsing
The voice of all the swarming stars
On any day in Spring.

~ Harold Munro

Comments

[setting-sun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cooler than ninjas.

Now you go too far, madam!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Sacrilege! I'd make you walk the plank, but you'd just backflip then pin me to the mast with those deadly little star things.

[stovetop00.livejournal.com]

It is well known that pirates and ninjas have long been mortal enemies. And though I respoect the stealthy ninja, I know that I am a pirate. Arr!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Yarr! They'll be in more pieces than eight after we're through with 'em!

[mothergoddamn.livejournal.com]

Shiver me timbers and all that jazz. Arrr, arrr!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

We Brits are made for high seas hijinx!

[seeriuscat.livejournal.com]

Dude. Pirates RULE!! Yo ho ho and all that shit. Now back ta work ya lily-livered skallywags!

(me no likey ninja!)

Anchors away!!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Ninjas are too scary, what with all that blending-into-the-background-before-stabbing-thing. Pirates do, indeed, rule. :D

[verastar99.livejournal.com]

ar..

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Avast, shipmate!

*Waves cutlass*

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

When you're a professional pirate...
You'll be strong and brave and free! The soul of decency! You'll be loyal and fair and on the square and most importantly... When you're a professional pirate you're always in the best of companyyyyyyy!


See, it's funny 'cause it's Tim Curry and they're all not... yeah.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Tim Curry looks lovely in fishnets.

What about my pome, Ms. Goodman? What about my poooome? I think it's great, if predictably gushing about nature.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

It's not your poem, now, is it? And it didn't do much for me. Sadly.

The Blackbirds Curse Your Name With Twitterings and Stuff

[rebness.livejournal.com]

My erstwhile comment went walkies. :(

Anyway, what I said was that you would have liked my Fleur Adcock poem. It's witty and modern and I shake my fist at books that also go walkies.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

I got your first comment via email, so clearly you lost it like you LOSE everything.

Don't worry, I lost an important file at work today. I found it again, because I misfiled it, but not before incurring my mother's ire and contributing to stress on her BIRTHDAY.