From fork-admin@xent.com Thu Sep 19 16:26:17 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.spamassassin.taint.org Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B1C16F03 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:26:16 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:26:16 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8JF2nC24198 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:02:49 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67EEA2940FF; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@spamassassin.taint.org Received: from sunserver.permafrost.net (u172n16.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.172.16]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41F129409E for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.123.179] (helo=permafrost.net) by sunserver.permafrost.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17s2m3-0008OH-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:59:23 -0300 Message-Id: <3D89E7DD.6010506@permafrost.net> From: Owen Byrne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fork@spamassassin.taint.org Subject: Re: Avast there matey References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@spamassassin.taint.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:06:05 -0300 Ben Hammersley wrote: > > On Thursday, Sep 19, 2002, at 14:51 Europe/London, Bill Kearney wrote: > >>> From the completely unrelated but funny department... >> >> >> "Talk like a Pirate Day". >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5011-2002Sep11.html >> >> Which is today, of course. >> >> That and 'piratecore' rapping style... >> http://poorman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_poorman_archive.html#81798893 >> >> Anything, just anything, to get us off the geek dating tips topic.... >> >> -Bill Kearney >> > > > Arrr, he be a scurvy dog, that Bill Kearney. Well, shiver me timbers, but my favorite pirate phrase is missing from both of those.Arrr.... and wondering if there's a rap equivalent. Owen http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-shi2.htm *Q AND A SECTION* *SHIVER MY TIMBERS* /From Tad Spencer/: "Please could you tell me where the phrase /shiver my timbers/ originated?" This is one of those supposedly nautical expressions that seem to be better known through a couple of appearances in fiction than by any actual sailors' usage. It's an exclamation that may allude to a ship striking some rock or other obstacle so hard that her timbers shiver, or shake, so implying a calamity has occurred. It is first recorded as being used by Captain Frederick Marryat in /Jacob Faithful/ in 1835: "I won't thrash you Tom. Shiver my timbers if I do". It has gained a firm place in the language because almost fifty years later Robert Louis Stevenson found it to be just the kind of old-salt saying that fitted the character of Long John Silver in /Treasure Island/: "Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before you ... some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board, and all to feed the fishes". Since then, it's mainly been the preserve of second-rate seafaring yarns.