pirate mode

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pirate mode

September 19, 2017, 10:10:58 am

is there a new pirate lingo translator that is running in the background. DUH just did a web search and sept. 19 is international talk like a pirate day, I missed that memo somewhere.

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Reply #1 – September 19, 2017, 10:13:47 am

Me, too. It gave me a real fright earlier this morning. Wonders what our host can do.

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Reply #2 – September 19, 2017, 10:16:22 am

Brought my wife in to see what was making me laugh. She got a kick out of it too.

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Reply #3 – September 19, 2017, 10:29:09 am

Eye me mateyes, that would be explaining why the first mate was wearing an eye patch with the morning grog. Shiver me timbers, I like um with the eye patch and wooden legs....

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Reply #4 – September 19, 2017, 11:22:13 am

Along about 1957 in the navy on a destroyer , returning to home port , having been gone for nine months a couple of us made a full size pirate flag , black with white skull and cross bones , ran it up the starboard halyard . The ships we were in convoy with saw our flag and made one of their own and ran them up . This got all hands smiling and talking of seeing their family's etc. . All was well till the two star admiral noticed it then we had to take it down as we entered port . Fun while it lasted .

Brad Metzger

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Reply #5 – September 19, 2017, 12:02:22 pm

It looks like someone put some time into this! Pretty fun - thanks!

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Reply #6 – September 19, 2017, 12:31:32 pm

I be like 'What the heck"....Funny mates

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Reply #7 – September 19, 2017, 07:17:14 pm

How funny! How did you make this happen?

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Reply #8 – September 19, 2017, 07:25:24 pm

This is great! Hope there's a drunk Irishman version for St. Patrick's Day

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Reply #9 – September 19, 2017, 09:07:59 pm

What will tomorrow bring? Perhaps talk like a proper lady day?

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Reply #10 – September 19, 2017, 09:11:14 pm

When I read the posts out loud (in pirate mode), it scares our dog, and she barks at me.

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Reply #11 – September 19, 2017, 09:40:48 pm

Funny, no highjinks on April fool's day that I seen this year

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Reply #12 – September 19, 2017, 10:47:27 pm

may be fun but really makes it hard to understand some of the info posted. I wonder how the search function works with all this garb?
JohnH

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Reply #13 – September 19, 2017, 10:51:04 pm

Quote from: John Haygarth – September 19, 2017, 10:47:27 pm

may be fun but really makes it hard to understand some of the info posted. I wonder how the search function works with all this garb?
JohnH

AMEN!

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Reply #14 – September 19, 2017, 10:56:49 pm

Quote from: John Haygarth – September 19, 2017, 10:47:27 pm

may be fun but really makes it hard to understand some of the info posted. I wonder how the search function works with all this garb?
JohnH

The search still works fine, but the links to them don't

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Reply #15 – September 19, 2017, 11:14:57 pm

I just wasted a half hour posting a new topic and finding it with mis spelling and grammar errors. Figured my copy and paste was bad, so after several deletion and reposting saw no changes. Then tried to edit right on the Forum and found in edit mode, there are no mistakes, but when posted, saw them all again. What a waste of time. So I see the underlying text is ok, but the displayed text is reformatted, so I then figured Forum was hacked. Then I gave up and later learned it is a joke. I will wait to post my next item when things are back to normal.

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Reply #16 – September 19, 2017, 11:32:55 pm

Just post as always we can translate the lingo.

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Reply #17 – September 20, 2017, 05:16:53 am

Thought it odd as many times as we have our timbers shivered, I never read shiver me timbers.

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Reply #18 – September 20, 2017, 07:26:28 am

Quote from: John Haygarth – September 19, 2017, 10:47:27 pm

may be fun but really makes it hard to understand some of the info posted. I wonder how the search function works with all this garb?
JohnH

Quote from: wolfe10 – September 19, 2017, 10:51:04 pm

AMEN!

You'll notice it all works fine - nothing was permanently changed, it was just something "fun" to do for the day. The only retained "pirate speak" would be that typed intentionally by the poster, all of the actual original content is there as input by the user.

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Reply #19 – September 20, 2017, 07:55:53 am

I enjoyed it and was using the search function on several issues, it worked fine The only thing that wouldn't work were the links and today they are all back to normal.

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Reply #20 – September 20, 2017, 08:04:47 am

Well, after I found out what was going on, a while, I'm kinda dense, I liked it. Think it was a very clever diversion from the routine and congratulate the originator. Thank you.

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Reply #21 – September 20, 2017, 09:20:58 am

I missed it, do it again!

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Reply #22 – September 20, 2017, 09:45:04 am

Like yoda day we need a speak. Fun that would be. Yes, hmmm.

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Reply #23 – September 20, 2017, 10:41:07 am

Thanks for the fun. I was born to Irish/Scot parents and brought up on the docks in Liverpool. Everyone spoke like that. When we emigrated to Canada, the kids tried to beat the pucky out of me for my "accent". Had to change, but I remember that "water speak" well!

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Reply #24 – September 20, 2017, 11:14:21 am

Mike, I do not know what part of Liverpool you lived in but as my family is all from there and I spent 23 yrs growing up there too I never remember talking like the "pirate mode" was portrayed. Yes we have an accent but so does everyone.
No one took the crap out of us when we came to Canada in the 60s, in fact they liked our accents.
JohnH

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