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Ben Hammersley wrote:

>
> On Thursday, Sep 19, 2002, at 14:51 Europe/London, Bill Kearney wrote:
>
>>> From the completely unrelated but funny department...
>>
>>
>> "Talk like a Pirate Day".
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5011-2002Sep11.html
>>
>> Which is today, of course.
>>
>> That and 'piratecore' rapping style...
>> http://poorman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_poorman_archive.html#81798893
>>
>> Anything, just anything, to get us off the geek dating tips topic....
>>
>> -Bill Kearney
>>
>
>
> Arrr, he be a scurvy dog, that Bill Kearney.

Well, shiver me timbers, but my favorite pirate phrase is missing from 
both of those.Arrr....
and wondering if there's a rap equivalent.
Owen

http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-shi2.htm
*Q AND A SECTION*

*SHIVER MY TIMBERS*

/From Tad Spencer/: "Please could you tell me where the phrase /shiver 
my timbers/ originated?"

This is one of those supposedly nautical expressions that seem to be 
better known through a couple of appearances in fiction than by any 
actual sailors' usage.

It's an exclamation that may allude to a ship striking some rock or 
other obstacle so hard that her timbers shiver, or shake, so implying a 
calamity has occurred. It is first recorded as being used by Captain 
Frederick Marryat in /Jacob Faithful/ in 1835: "I won't thrash you Tom. 
Shiver my timbers if I do".

It has gained a firm place in the language because almost fifty years 
later Robert Louis Stevenson found it to be just the kind of old-salt 
saying that fitted the character of Long John Silver in /Treasure 
Island/: "Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before 
you ... some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board, 
and all to feed the fishes". Since then, it's mainly been the preserve 
of second-rate seafaring yarns.



