[Sca-cooks] national talk like a pirate day

[Chass Brown]

Aye and is this not a Ren Fairy thing?

Chass of Rundel of Ansteorra aka
Charinthalis Del Sans of the portable Chariot
Honorable Recruiter of the House of the Red Shark (Have you seen my Belaying 
Pin??)
Muddeler of Mead, Ailment of Ale, Whiner of wine.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Gedney" <gedney1 at iconn.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] national talk like a pirate day


> Oh, no not again!!
>
> 98% of that whole "talk like a pirate" thing comes from Robert Newton's 
> (Long John Silver, Treasure Island, Disney, 1951) decision to talk like 
> the dock workers in his native Devonshire did when he was a child...
>
> It's NOT "Talk Like a Pirate Day" it's really "Talk Like A Devonshire Dock 
> Worker Day"
>
> This is one "holiday" that can't possibly die soon enough.
>
> Capt Elias
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather
> wood, divide the work, and give orders.  Instead, teach them
> to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
>  - Antoine de Saint Exupery
>
>
>
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