Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Wed 16 Jul 2008 08:06:30p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed 16 Jul 2008 07:31:43p, hahabogus told us...
>>>>
>>>>> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
>>>>> 5.247:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed 16 Jul 2008 07:17:41p, Bob Terwilliger told us...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wayne wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You better get with the program. No telling what day you'll miss
>>>>>>>> tomorrow.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tomorrow's even BETTER: National Peach Ice Cream Day!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, dammit, I *have* corn, but I don't have any peaches!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sept 19 is international talk like a pirate day.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I can hardly wait! I have circled my calendar! <now I have to
>> practice>
>>>
>>> Start with calendarrr.
>>>
>>>
>> Good point! :-)
>
> I only fairly recently - last winter, I guess - noticed that Robert
> Newton, the best-known Long John Silver because of his TV and movie
> roles, did draw out terminal "ar" sounds (and maybe internal ones; I
> don't remember) in words. I was used to the interjection, "arrr". But
> not until my buddy and I watched some of his old stuff on a DVDs we
> rented did I notice the habit with respect to worrrds. He'd definitely
> say "calandarrr.'

From Newton's wiki entry: "His Disney portrayal provided the template for
most screen portrayals of pirates since and he often credited for
inventing the steryotypical 'pirate voice'; Newton has even become the
"patron saint" of the annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day
(September 19)."


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