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September 19, 2002

Yo ho ho and a, never mind In honor of September 19, National Talk Like a Pirate Day, Andrew Northrup documents the correlations between gangstah rap talk and pirate-speak:
Yo = Avast
Word = Arrrr
Homey = Matey
Beat down = Keel haul
Playah = Swashbuckler
And so forth. Adds Andrew:
It has been a life-long dream to start the first Pirate Rap band, which would take advantage of the combined bad-assitude, homocidal mania, and parent-annoyingness of inner city hoodlums and 18th-century privateers.
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Berni Phillips Bratman ::: (view all by) ::: September 19, 2002, 08:56 PM:

In the Mythopoeic Society, there is a group of women who often declare themselves to be pirate queens at Mythcon. They have pirate flags and little hats and eye patches and speak pirate. Sadly, there are no parrots.

Josh ::: (view all by) ::: September 20, 2002, 01:14 AM:

Dave Eggers (of Smart/Smarter Feller, Might, McSweeney's, etc., fame) has opened a pirate supply store in San Francisco: http://www.826valencia.com/store/index.html

Mary Kay Kare ::: (view all by) ::: September 20, 2002, 01:54 AM:

The section immediately after the pirate stuff is much better. I owe you a drink at the very least for turning me on to this guy's blog.

MKK

Tim Kyger ::: (view all by) ::: September 20, 2002, 12:12 PM:

"Yo ho ho and a point of order!"

"Who's *that?*"

"Oh, that's just Greybeard, the Parlimentary Priate..."

--- with his parrot Redactor, no less!

khia ::: (view all by) ::: September 24, 2002, 04:15 PM:


i just hit your blog through a link from another blog. i.e. i knew nothing about you whatsoever. and yet, i am a fairly sure both you and the guy who wrote the comparison are yt.

"gangstah rap talk" ?! "Playah" ?! "inner city hoodlums" !! not to mention, "Wack MC" is "gangstah" ?!

ah, yt. i thought y'all were supposed to be into empiricism &c.