Talk Like a Pirate Day!

So, as noted, tomorrow is Rosh Hashanah — and International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Since I won’t be posting tomorrow, then, may I draw your attention to this post I did last year, translating a passage from my 1942 copy of Emily Post into piratespeak.

Do you know how to tell if a pirate has good manners? He’ll ARRRRRRRsvp.

The Rosh Hashanah/TLAP Day thing has sparked a fair amount of comedy among my Facebook friends. Molly rewrote the major prayer of the High Holy Days:

On Rosh Hashaaarrrnah it is written; on Yum Kipper it is sealed:
Who shall live and who shall die
Who shall pillage and who shall be pillaged
Who shall plunder and who shall be plundered
Who shall die by drowning and who by cannon fire
Who by walking the plank and who by keelhauling
Who by scurvy and who by plague
Who by mutiny and who by navy
But rum, rum and rum shall lessen the severity of the decree.

… and also came up with this gem:

What is the most important text in Pirate Kabbalah? The ZohARRR.

This was in response to mine:

What’s a pirate’s favorite part of Shabbat service? The pARRRRRRRsha.

What’s a pirate’s favorite parsha? DevARRRRRRRim.

But you don’t have to be Jewish to play! My friend Jane posted this great YouTube video of a sportscaster calling a horse race … in which one of the horses is actually named “Arrrrrrrrr.” It’s 90 seconds long–watch it all the way to the end–

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, Happy New Year, TGIF, and have a good weekend! (And feel free to post your own pirate jokes in comments!)

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