Avast, me hearties!
How big is your booty? It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! It is only appropriate that I introduce you to some of our new friends.
This is Barnacle Brett, the Captain’s daughter and Lady Fayre.
Lady Fayre is Captain Arrrhhdee’s wench. He led me to believe he wanted to purchase some booty for her, but then tried to hornswaggle* me. I declared mutiny* and since he was loaded to the gunwalls*, I was able to grab his gun and demand payment or else I’d send him to Davy Jones’ Locker*. As he was leaving I told him if I saw his kind in my shop again, I’d keelhaul* ‘em! (Sorry, pirate friends. This is also how I sound when I try to talk gangsta…)
Glossary of Pirate terms I am sure I used incorrectly:
*Hornswaggle- To cheat.
*Mutiny- To rise against authority, especially the captain of a ship.
*Loaded to the Gunwalls- To be..um…tipsy.
*Davy Jones’ Locker- A fictional place at the bottom of the ocean. In short, a term meaning death. Davy Jones was said to sink every ship he ever over took, and thus, the watery grave that awaited all who were sunk by him was given his name. To die at sea is to go to Davy Jones’ Locker.
*Keelhaul- To punish someone by dragging them under a ship, across the keel, until near-death or death. Both pirates and the Royal Navy were fond of this practice.
Happy TLAP Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!