Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Ahoy yea scurvy dogs! This is SUCH a better holiday than Columbus day!
Check it out: www.talklikeapirate.com
I like the top ten pick up lines for both men and women. (And the fact they put 2 sets up for men because they are sure the first 10 won’t work.) Though #1 for women would work on a lot of guys if my friends are to be believed.
And I think we all need more silliness in our lives! What is a pirates’ favorite letter? Why “R” of course! P-)
Pirate Movies to check out—
Captain Blood (Errol Flynn) Though remember it was made in 1935 and not very enlightened on some fronts.
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Cutthroat Island (Geena Davis) I know it was a commercial flop and I hear the one really cheesy line in it cited as the reason but given how bad some of the lines male movie stars have spit out I can’t see the reason for it. She kicked ass! We don’t want the guys to have all the fun for themselves…
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Scooby Doo: Pirates Ahoy (for the kids) Word of warning. Anyone over the age of 7 will be bored to tears.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffery Rush)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (same cast)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (same cast)
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Pirates of Penzance
with Kevin Kline, Rex Smith (of Solid Gold fame but he can sing!) and Angela LansburyThey now have a sign up list at Amazon for this on DVD. If enough people sign up then they make the DVD. So please sign up!
I think this is one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best. I tried renting this from Netflix but ended getting the Broadway production instead. It was okay but not as much fun as the movie.
The link below is from the Pirate chorus and had a lot to do with why I liked the idea of pirates as a kid. I just showed this to my child and there was much singing and stomping around the house after! And what is not to like about Kevin Kline in thigh high captain boots and tight pants, dancing and singing?
Definitely check it out!
Gilbert & Sullivan-one of my favorite things…
I have definitely did not have a normal childhood. Oh, it was average in most regards but not in others. Word play was among my family’s favorite things. Not only words, but being clever with them was important. Books, plays, movies, jokes; all play with words was important. Perhaps the fact we were all book nuts also helped.
I didn’t know people didn’t know about Gilbert & Sullivan. But today, I ran across someone who didn’t have a clue who they were. What? I thought. What? How is it you don’t know these musicals?
When I stopped to think about it, of course not! Most people probably wouldn’t. It was just my weird upbringing. Not everyone is going to know about a pair of guys writing biting political satire in musical form in the late 1800s.
But to keep up the tradition I just introduced the Pirates of Penzance to my child this past weekend and there was much giggling, and stomping and singing around the house soon thereafter. See link in either movies to check out or Talk like a Pirate day posts.
