…So why not celebrate tonight by enjoying a recent Rifftrax release?
…What? There’s water, and stuff.
Oh, I suppose you were thinking all literal-minded, all “inside the box,” weren’t you? WEREN’T YOU?!
Guess that one is a little more on topic (…especially for those of you who simply refuse to do any pushing of envelopes, and just leave all envelopes lying around, willy-nilly, un-pushed).
And if you plan on getting all pirate-y today, it’s worth remembering who really invented the pirate as we know it today. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Robert Newton, a.k.a. the Original Pirate-Gangsta, a.k.a. Long John Silver* (daring to wear red, in this clip):
(* a character who never, so far as I know, served Popcorn Shrimp Combo Basket Platters aboard the Hispaniola)
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[P.S. Joey Pants contest winner will be announced over the weekend.]
23 responses so far ↓
1 Hugh on Sep 19, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I refuse to participate in Talk Like a Pirate Day” on the grounds that it violates my religious beliefs. I am a ninja.
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Reply from Barry on September 19, 2008:
Arrr! But we be havin’ pie here. And if ye don’t like pie, ye can walk the plank!
Reply from Hugh on September 19, 2008:
You’ll have to find me, first.
Reply from Rowsdower on September 19, 2008:
You’d be the one clinging to the ceiling dripping poison down a string onto our pie right?
Reply from Hugh on September 19, 2008:
Precisely.
2 Krud on Sep 19, 2008 at 12:25 pm
But enjoy the RiffTrax release by PAYING for it. This isn’t meant to celebrate the “other” kind of pirate. Arrr!
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Reply from Bill Corbett on September 19, 2008:
Right you ARRRRRR.
And thank you. (Um, thank ye.)
3 Tv Miller on Sep 19, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Two Rifftrax releases that toy with my sea-queasiness?! What cruel fate…
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4 Ninjew on Sep 19, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I refuse to participate in Hugh’s nonparticipation in “Talk Like a Pirate Day” on the grounds that he violates my belief in ninjas.
I…am NINJEW!
(oh, and “arrrrghe me bucko on a dead man’s timbers of eight” … or something like that)
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Reply from Scooter on September 19, 2008:
Ninjew? with throwing Star of Davids?
Reply from Ninjew on September 19, 2008:
And I was trained by Master Mashugana!
5 RemmieBarrow on Sep 19, 2008 at 1:59 pm
One thing I have to say about pirates is that they were not into appearances like so many these days.
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Reply from RemmieBarrow on September 20, 2008:
By the way, I am not a ninja or a pirate. I am a space man.
6 Charlie W on Sep 19, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Arr, too many of ye seadogs be literal minded. It be time for ye to broaden ye minds, arr.
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7 Mary Arline on Sep 19, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Oh, for ten toes!
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8 James Shearhart on Sep 19, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I had my timbers shivered once, but then I got this rash, and I had to stay in bed for awhile, and I didn’t sleep all that well, and I had to stay away from shellfish, and I had to grow my hair out longer to cover the scarring.
Ar.
Oh, and grog? Not as much fun as one would think….
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9 Neb on Sep 19, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Oh, arr, oy loves me some Robert Newton! If Rush ain’t channeling him in the PotC movies, I’ll be hornswaggled and stove in.
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10 Tom Stone on Sep 19, 2008 at 5:54 pm
*speaks an incomprehensible creole of half a dozen Southeast Asian languages*
Ohhh, you meant [i]old[/i] pirates.
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11 Heather on Sep 19, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of parasiticidal soap for ye mangy dogs.
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12 R.A. Roth on Sep 20, 2008 at 2:40 am
A friend of mine from high school, who used to work at a Long John Silver, said, and I quote, “They change the frying medium about once a month. I wouldn’t eat there if I were you.”
Indeed “Arrrgggg!” is, in pirate lingo, code for extreme stomach cramps and bleeding at the rectum.
Randy
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Reply from Doug on September 20, 2008:
“bleeding at the rectum” That sounds like a phenominal name for a punk band.
Or a warning label for a michael bolton cd.
13 Libby on Sep 20, 2008 at 6:55 am
http://www.cakehead.com/archives/2008/04/dear_cakehead_h.html
I think I should win the Joey Pants competition because I am giving you a link for bacon cake.
YOU’RE WELCOME. (http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/73109450/674212)
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14 To_Servo_Man on Sep 20, 2008 at 10:50 am
Any sexy ladies out there want to shiver me timbers…?
Heh heh… Heh…
No, then?
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