Oneiromancer
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Apparently today is "National Talk Like a Pirate Day". Whatever. But I did get a link to a "What's Your Pirate Name?" website. Mine is:

Red Tom Rackham

(I wish we had color and size code tags on this forum!)

(And by the way, "Rackham" is pronounced like "Rack 'em". According to the quiz, I "have a good pirate name". Do they say that to everyone?)

Just for the hell of it, I invite you to do it yourself and post your name here too.

Game on,

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Hmm. I'm Iron Sam Kidd.

Oh yeah. Um.. Arrrrr!

[Edited by Schik on 09-19-2003 at 06:51 PM GMT: Arrrrr]

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I'm Black Sam Read

arr.

[Edited by eytanz on 09-20-2003 at 12:32 AM]

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Mad Tom Rackham.

ur?

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Hey, Mike, we're brothers in piracy! Double-Arrr!

What does it mean that you are Mad and I am Red...hmmm...

Game on,

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Hmm...variety may be the spice of life, but pirate names apparently are not.

I am also Mad Tom Rackham.

Only one shall live. Moohahaha

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I'm Mad because it said I must be crazy. So...I think you're just a figment of my imagination Or maybe you're just out to get me. I could be paranoid...but am I really paranoid when someone is really out to get me?

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I'm either Captain Sam Cash or Mad Sam Cash depending on how honest I am when I fill out the questionairre. (I seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to lie when asked questions about my mental health...)

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Somehow I pulled "The Cap'n", answering the questions honestly. I did get one before telling me I'm well-liked but I smell quite badly (as I be up on modern piracy of all kinds).

Matt

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Actually it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day, if you've checked the website. I first heard about this when Dave Barry wrote his column about it. Arrrr.

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When I posted this, all I knew was that one of the websites I frequent had all the news in pirate-y speech, and a link to the Pirate Name website. Later I found some articles on the history of the day, found out about Dave Barry's involvement, and the internationality of it. So, my apologies.

In related news, my fiancee's name is Bloody Grace Vane. So if I don't show up one day, alert the authorities.

Game on,

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Mad Harry Cash

I'm not just weird, I'm CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZYYYYY!

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Wow, we must all be related in some way... I'm Mad Jack Cash. How many surnames are there for pirates?

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Lookie here, my name is

Iron John Rackham

Seems like everyone's a Rackham. Pirates must've liked that name.

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krammer wrote:
Wow, we must all be related in some way... I'm Mad Jack Cash. How many surnames are there for pirates?

I don't know, but let's now mourn the loss of our brother, Jonny... or however he spelled his first name

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Arrrr! Ahoy there, me hearties!

I be bringin' this thread back to life, because today be Talk Like A Pirate Day again! I'm sure you all be knowin' this, o' course, so go out and spread the word to all the scurvy landlubbers you meet today.

And as a celebration, I be givin' you all a free bottle of grog to enjoy!

Arrrrrrrrr!

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Yo-ho, Yo-ho, a Pirates life for me.....
Arrrghhh. Me thinks ye after me treasure, says I!

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Mad Dog Bonney
Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

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Yarr.

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Quick ! Look here before it's too late !

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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I think I said about one 'ahoy' yesterday, where TLAPD is already over. Disappointing.

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Oneiromancer wrote:
In related news, my fiancee's name is Bloody Grace Vane. So if I don't show up one day, alert the authorities.

Game on,

fiance
A	noun
	1 	fiance, groom-to-be
 		a man who is engaged to be married

o_O

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Heh. That post will be 2 years old tomorrow. My fiancee and I broke up less than a month after that post, I believe. I have a new girlfriend since then...I haven't found out what her pirate name is yet.

Game on,

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Ooh, breaking up with your fiance...

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Oh. Sorry. I thought second "e" was a typo. Investigation shows it wasn't.
But it was funny anyway.

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b0rsuk wrote:
Oh. Sorry. I thought second "e" was a typo. Investigation shows it wasn't.
But it was funny anyway.

Aah, b0rsuk, I see you're right. 'Fiance/fiancee' depends on gender.

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Black Davy Flint!

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Bloody Tom Cash

-Svante

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Shiver me timbers! It be time for the traditional thread necro again, 'cus today be the day ye've been waitin' fer all yearr! Aye, I do not tell a lie. Today, September 19th 2006, be...

~ International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2006! ~

Now ye all better talk like pirates, or ye'll be walkin' the plank! After being keelhauled! Yarr!

- Cap'n Gerrybeard

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Yay!



I mean: Yar!

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