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"How to Talk Like a Pirate" Film
Posted by
kdawson
on Sat Sep 16, 2006 04:19 PM
from the awash-in-avast dept.
from the awash-in-avast dept.
An arrr-nonymous reader writes, "With International Talk Like a Pirate Day mere days away, it's best to be prepared with this high-school film reel 'for the less nautically inclined among us.'" Dave Barry gave momentum to this international movement. You'll have to decide for yourself which of talklikeapirate.com or talklikeapirateday.com more accurately conveys the genuine holiday spirit.
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Real Holiday? (Score:2, Funny)
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Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:4, Funny)
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Talk Like a Pirate Day VS Garbage Day (Score:2)
yar! (Score:2)
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Does this mean (Score:5, Funny)
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Dave Barry (Score:2)
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I know how to talk like a pirate (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I know how to talk like a pirate (Score:5, Funny)
I was like "arrr, where be the new loot from Soul Asylum, matey?" and nothing relevant would come out in the search results.
So I did "avast, pirate captain, I be looking for The Silver Lining. Might I barter a bottle of rum for your treasure map linking to the torrent file?" Still nothing relevant.
"Look, you scalliwag, you best be giving me the new tracks with David Pirner's voice or I shall organize a mutiny and it be the plank for you, arrrrr!"
Then I found out all you had to do was type "The Silver Lining" and it would show up. This pirate talk thing is overrated.
Re:I know how to talk like a pirate (Score:5, Funny)
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How dumb is this? (Score:1, Flamebait)
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Country_dialect
There's no such thing as "Pirate Speech".
Yo ho ho (Score:3, Funny)
Talk Like a Human Day? (Score:5, Funny)
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"Arg, homey, that bitch could shiver me timber!"
Excuse me, I have to run to the bathroom.
Arrrh, Jim, Lad (Score:3, Funny)
Ye'd best heed the forestay, Jim, or we'll all be overboard. Pass another bottle of Wray and Nephew, if you'd be so kind... and watch the blasted wheel as you go! (billions of blistering blue barnacles)
Arrh. (Score:3, Insightful)
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A Real Pirate (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://tech.groups.y...propulsionstevenson/)
This is great news for the environment!!! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Furthermore, it is clearly the case that the decline in pirates over the years has lead to a huge increase in global warming and other distasters. Only by promoting the pirate and his way of life can we hope to save this beautiful planet of ours!
Well Me Hearties. . . (Score:2, Funny)
It seems as if a mad-pack too many of you land-lubbers tried to board that poor ship at once, and she's capsized!*
Did any man-jack among you manage to capture the precious booty and abscond with it to a sturdier vessel before the original was blown to davy-jones?
Translations:
* You've slashdotted the server.
** Did anyone mirror it to a STABLE host like youtube or google video?
Piiiiratry a'talkin' world wiiide, I say (Score:2)
(http://cream.sourceforge.net/)
You can tell that this prank is becoming part of the cultural when even SlashDot runs a story about it, several days in advance. (BTW, I can't even remember how long ago it has now been since hearing about ITAPD on NPR... and it's been a re-occuring calendar event for me for three or four years now.)
Don't forget the official Theme Song... (Score:1)
Fictional pirate sayings (Score:1)
Well, atleast we know where kids these day got their language from.....
Bugger! (Score:2)
It does in San Francisco...
For Those Willing To Do A Little More Research (Score:3, Interesting)
There is an album out of pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys as indicated below. My favorite rock singer Andrea Corr is on it, dragooned by her friendship with punk rocker Gavin Friday and rocker Bono who are also involved.
Wednesday June 21, 2006
GORE VERBINSKI, JOHNNY DEPP AND HAL WILLNER
JOIN FORCES WITH ANTI RECORDS FOR THE AUGUST 22 RELEASE:
"ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS"
BONO, STING, LOU REED, BRYAN FERRY, JOHN C. REILLY, RICHARD THOMPSON, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, LUCINDA WILLIAMS ARE AMONG THE DIVERSE ARTISTS ON THIS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION
"The ocean. It's all about the vast blue that engulfs two thirds of the planet. The human being cast against that abyss creates an interesting bit of perspective. I think the sailors of the time were dancing with death, and these were their tunes. They resonate with people on some internal level that is not immediately obvious because it's not in our memory, it's in our blood. It operates on a cellular level. It's what makes us feel so alone."
--Gore Verbinski
Film director GORE VERBINSKI, actor JOHNNY DEPP and music producer HAL WILLNER have joined forces with ANTI RECORDS for the truly extraordinary two-CD set ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS. Due out August 22, the collection is filled with contemporary reinterpretations of songs from a genre of music that has all but disappeared. BONO, STING, NICK CAVE, BRYAN FERRY, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, RICHARD THOMPSON, GAVIN FRIDAY, VAN DYKE PARKS, ANDREA CORR and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT are only a few of the distinguished artists who turn in uncompromising and honest performances that illuminate the power of traditional sea songs.
The idea for ROGUE'S GALLERY originated when Verbinski and Depp were working on their second film together, the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. "I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey," explains Verbinski. "I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea."
Verbinski then "described the project in detail to my old friend Brett Gurewitz (owner of Epitaph and Anti) who immediately understood its wondrous and strange potential. I also asked Johnny Depp if it might be something that he would like to be involved with. He has a great musical aesthetic, and as my partner in the films, his opinion is one I value. I've always believed Johnny is a musician first and the actor thing is just his day job. We met with Brett and put together a list of artists that we intended to go after, but were immediately confounded with the question: who would produce? Who would be mad enough to take this on?"
The project took shape when Hal Willner became "the captain of this vessel," says Verbinski. "From that germinating withering pubic hair of an idea, Hal set sail and returned with what you hear today. He did everything." Willner brought his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material to the project, as shown on his best-selling Disney tribute album Stay Awake and his acclaimed tributes to Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus, Nino Rota and others.
"When I was asked to do the album, I went into a world I didn't know--which is what appealed to me," says Willner. Immersing himself in antique bookstores, eBay, old record stores, and the Internet for hours and hours, Willner collected some 600 songs and then went about narrowing the song selection down for the album. In March 2006, the recordings began--and the process was joyously freewheeling.
"We were just crawling around, just seeing who was around," he explains. "The Akron/Family was rehearsing, so we recorded them. And then we found Baby Gramps. And that's kind of how we worked all over. We'd go up to London or Dublin or to New York and L.A., with just a sketch and one or two things planned. And then we got on the phone. Most of the time people just came into the studi
We're doing this... (Score:2, Funny)
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This be a fine piece of film work... (Score:1)
Don't talk about it, do it (Score:1)
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pirate RPGing (Score:3, Interesting)
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3 "arr"s (Score:1)
- RG>
Will Johnny Depp be participating? (Score:2)
Dave Barry and Roger McGuinn sing "John B's Sails" (Score:2)
(http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/)
Many more Seafaring songs on the site for your pleasure. [ibiblio.org]
Why are pirates called "pirates"?... (Score:2, Funny)
Yarr! (Score:1)
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Yarrrrr (Score:1)
pirate day on distributed proofreaders (Score:1)
peace mark
Beware the triumverate (Score:1)