On 2013-09-19 16:23:21 +0000, jmcquown said:

> On 9/19/2013 11:35 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On 19 Sep 2013 14:05:04 GMT, notbob wrote:
>>
>>> In case you may have forgotten, it's annual Talk Like a Pirate Day!
>>>
>>> There's even an official song, this year:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJUo5...embedded#t=235
>>>
>>> Eat some sea pie. Glug some grog. Sing some sea shanties. Gotta be
>>> more fun than Valentines Day.
>>
>> Anybody who insists on talking to me like a pirate gets punched in the
>> face repeatedly until they stop.

Ah--the EASY response.

> Who the heck knows how pirates talked, anyway? I guess I'd better get
> out my copy of 'Treasure Island' (Robert Lewis Stevenson) and read it
> again.

They talk the way the actors represented them in Treasure Island with
Billy Driscoll and Robert Newton, and the others in the Walt Disney
production(s) from the '50's.