why are pirates funny?

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not saying they ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRnt. but was curious..

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

you should've posted this on my thread, i can't think of anymore songs (yet)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a good question that I've been wondering about myself. I will mull it over.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

becuuuuuuuuz.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/butler/butler01.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

my sides!

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem kill you with pirates ok?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to go see Pirate Jenny for Halloween or not.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

it's how they rock that patch.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

With a name like that, I half expected rocker gals with bandannas and swinging whips (which clearly shows where my mind has been today).

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, ya know, close.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it's how they rock the pegleg.

― Miggie (Miggie), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is rife with euphemism.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Aye, we'll deliver the black spot to the scurvy bilge rat behind this evil misdeed! And after that, I be boardin' yer' hip!

― Miggie (Miggie), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

What other profession has its own accent?

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

We pirates are just like you and I, deep down. All we want is a reasonably normal life, like you and I have, and a little basic respect. We should give us that, at least.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, the parrots, the peglegs, the patches, the lingo, the "avast ye landlubbers, ye'll walk the plank!" and all that... actually, come to think of it, through most of history pirates were considered bloody scary. Why is it they're comical now? Because they're so anachronistic? (Even though there are still pirates now, all they seem to do is bootleg DVDs instead of accumulating bootie.)

Hey, wait, there's reason why pirates are funny number one! BOOTIE!!! It's all about the Analysis of BOOTIE!!!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't the pirate accent just derivative of extreme Cornish?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that why they have A PIRATE as the logo for the Cornish Pastie Company? (Though, from that illustration, I draw the conclusion that pirates must be smaller than we think.)

― kate (kate), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

the Extreme Cornish Wrestling Federation!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway, piracy is wrong, it's a crime, I'm not laughing.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but all the Kool Kids are pirates now! With the interweb, piracy has new cultural cachet!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

From here:

"Historian Marcus Rediker argues that pirates have always been funny: "The pirate's life is so deadly that humor is an essential part of what they do. They tell jokes, they make jests, they perform plays. They're hilarious." People are obsessed with pirates, Rediker says, because, while pirates may be "the common enemy of mankind," they're also "the freest people on earth," which makes pirate humor particularly cutting. Because they stand–or sail–apart from the culture, pirates are well suited to make mockery of it. Pirates may have always been funny, but their contemporaries usually found them more terrible than witty. Either way, they found them fascinating."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I knew how to post pictures.

http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/020411/020411_images/pirate.jpg

haha

― penelope (penelope), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

[someone post it for me?]

― penelope (penelope), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure:

http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/020411/020411_images/pirate.jpg

To penelope -- to post photos, just add an 'i' to the beginning of the URL, without the quotation marks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Lou Albano has turned his back on society!

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 7 November 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ta Ned!

― penelope (penelope), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

[haha look at his thumb]

― penelope (penelope), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

{the pirate's, not Ned's}

― penelope (penelope), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(look at Ned's thumb, too; it makes him cry)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

*weeps anyway*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Because they're from Pittsburgh....

(I've done my best pirate immitation and my daughter says it sounds like a seal....or is it that my seal sounds like a pirate?)

― ed dill (eddill), Monday, 10 November 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/17/oil-tanker-pirates

― the pinefox, Monday, 17 November 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

Snakes on a plane!

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 17 November 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

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