November 30, 2003

Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates - Q: What's a pirate's favorite aspect of computational linguistics? A: PARRRsing sentences. I know this is too late for Talk Like a Pirate day, but it made me laugh all the same.
posted by Kimberly 20 years ago
  • Losing my mind here: The fouRRRth one. English Bob Left his cake out in the rain? (End of third paragraph) And worse, I know Junior Samples phone number.
  • Ergonomic keyboard. For pirates.
  • Surely that would be Arrrrrgonomic?
  • Pirates are very susceptible to carrrrrrrrrrrpal tunnel syndrome.
  • Actually the timing of this post is near perfect for Tuesday's DVD release of Disney's "Pirates of the Carribean" movie in the U.S.ofA. On that other site, the poster would be immediately dunked head-first into a large vat of Pepsi Blue. But then, Johnny Depp is the "Sexiest Man ARRRRlive"...
  • r
  • *insert muttered rant about how that movie would be nothing without Johnny Depp here*
  • I adored Pirates of the Carribean. I have to admit though, that I wouldn't have liked it nearly as much with out the Deppster. But that's true for just about anything. :D~ And as far as getting bombed in the Site That Shall Not Be Named, I was being a rebel. Yeah! That's the ticket! I think inserting cheese into any project makes it that much tastier. That and Johnny Depp.
  • Johnny Depp was brilliant, but the script and directing was cracking too - all-round brilliance. Best movie based on a theme-park ride ever! (A friend told me that it was actually based on a novel called The Curse of the Black Pearl, but I can't find anything about that anywhere.) You can play at being the captain of the Black Pearl here (after the annoying Flash intro, etc.) - look for "Rogue's Battleship".
  • I had no idea Eric Estrada was a keyboard.
  • Dreadnought keeps telling these to people. His favorite is about "What concept used in both literary studies and Jungian analysis is a favorite with pirates" "Arrrchetypes".
  • Hmm.
  • Hey, it doesn't do any harrrrrm.
  • Hey, when is the next PotC due out?
  • Still a while to go yet, tracicle.
  • Ooooh! Teaser! (Not you, 'nedra.)
  • summerrrrr orrrr winterrrrrr 06 i think is the next PotC. Herrrre's hopin ourrrrr fave main man is still in the cast. r.
  • I fail to see what Potsie has to do with this. Malph, sure, because he's always wenching, and Mr. C too, but not Potsie.
  • Aaayyyyyyy!
  • Well, Potsie was always a-singin' of the sea chanteys, weren't he? Was I alone in wondering if there was a correlation between his nickname and how he got so spacey?
  • It's this summer this summer this summer! I'm going to start wearing an eyepatch now in anticipation.
  • Any movie with Bill Nighy as Davey Jones is OK by me.
  • Lara, I believe you mean in antiss-arrrrrgh-pation.
  • I can't believe you didn't write it L-arr-a.
  • **slaps head** Arrrrggh, Pez, my matey, yer righto!