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From fork-admin@xent.com Thu Sep 19 16:26:17 2002
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Subject: Re: Avast there matey
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:06:05 -0300
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Ben Hammersley wrote:
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> On Thursday, Sep 19, 2002, at 14:51 Europe/London, Bill Kearney wrote:
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>>> From the completely unrelated but funny department...
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>>
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>> "Talk like a Pirate Day".
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>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5011-2002Sep11.html
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>>
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>> Which is today, of course.
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>>
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>> That and 'piratecore' rapping style...
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>> http://poorman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_poorman_archive.html#81798893
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>>
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>> Anything, just anything, to get us off the geek dating tips topic....
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>>
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>> -Bill Kearney
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> Arrr, he be a scurvy dog, that Bill Kearney.
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Well, shiver me timbers, but my favorite pirate phrase is missing from
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both of those.Arrr....
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and wondering if there's a rap equivalent.
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Owen
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http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-shi2.htm
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*Q AND A SECTION*
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*SHIVER MY TIMBERS*
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/From Tad Spencer/: "Please could you tell me where the phrase /shiver
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my timbers/ originated?"
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This is one of those supposedly nautical expressions that seem to be
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better known through a couple of appearances in fiction than by any
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actual sailors' usage.
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It's an exclamation that may allude to a ship striking some rock or
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other obstacle so hard that her timbers shiver, or shake, so implying a
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calamity has occurred. It is first recorded as being used by Captain
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Frederick Marryat in /Jacob Faithful/ in 1835: "I won't thrash you Tom.
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Shiver my timbers if I do".
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It has gained a firm place in the language because almost fifty years
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later Robert Louis Stevenson found it to be just the kind of old-salt
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saying that fitted the character of Long John Silver in /Treasure
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Island/: "Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before
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you ... some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board,
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and all to feed the fishes". Since then, it's mainly been the preserve
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of second-rate seafaring yarns.
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