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Arrgh, happy Talk Like a Pirate Day. This Dilbert cartoon found (as much buried treasure is) at Cap'n Dyke's blog, the long-reigning and much-loved Lesbian Pirate Queen of the Blogosphere.

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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

AVAST YE SWABBIES!

FIRST!


Some stuff you can't make up!

miss_kitty's picture

yer pirate name, matey? miss_kitty Frownin' Eve Dawkins wants to know! Arrrgh!

Alerta_Alerta's picture

you can call me "Hobblin' Broderick Dread" now, Frownin' Eve Dawkins. ;)


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miss_kitty's picture

that peg leg playin you up? Arrrgh!!!

;(

Alerta_Alerta's picture

yeah, sad thing is that i have a woodpecker instead of a parrot. And that little bastard can't get of my leg! :(


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ron's picture

but it's just as hard.

Alerta_Alerta's picture

Too much info, i do not want to know!


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maximus7's picture

I don't know about a good pirate name for the Republicans but you could call them

The GOPranos.

Edwin's picture

How does a pirate get his mast up?

He uses a wench!


far left loon >.<

... but the one I'm gettin' is No-eyes Herb.

Nar, I think I'll just stick with me old moniker: The Pirate Rabbit, Curse of the Spinach Main.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

miss_kitty's picture

Two black patches and a bottle of oregano for you, you scurvy dog...

:D ;(

fiver's picture

... more grog, please.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Edwin's picture

3.14% of Sailors are PiRates.


far left loon >.<

calgarylady's picture

Ahoy, ye scurvy dawgs!

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

bilge water, eh matey?


Some stuff you can't make up!

calgarylady's picture

me bilge water doesn't taste that great. Wanna trade swill?

;)

Alerta_Alerta's picture

remember, when drinking water keep your teeth together so you don't get the maggots in your mouth.


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CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

older maggots add a tasty crunch.


Some stuff you can't make up!

calgarylady's picture

I forgot about that!

Alerta_Alerta's picture

True, but but it's known that the maggots are saved for the fishing. Pirates like to fish and waste there time staring into the sea and drink rum and sing shanties.

I know about that, i'm a descendant of a made up pirate lord that didn't do jack shit beside making crap up! True story!


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... where Russell Crowe's character is in the dining room with his on-ship scientist, and he asks the scientist to choose between two weevils on the table. The scientist notes that one of the weevils seems larger and more active - generally more healthy. So the scientist chooses that weevil. Russell Crowe then corrects him stating: "In the Royal Navy, we must choose the lesser of two weevils."


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calgarylady's picture

A hearty "Aaarrrrggghhhh!" for that, mate!

Alerta_Alerta's picture

i <3 that movie! especially when they went to the Galapagos Islands. :)


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CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

cap'n jack schitt. aaaaargh! be ye spawn of the loin of the spawn of his loin?


Some stuff you can't make up!

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

surely it just needs a bit more seasonin` in it. Just wipe ye brow on yer sleeve and wring it in the mug. It helps if it be the sleeve ye sneeze into.


Some stuff you can't make up!

Abbybwood's picture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrRIjW_6xo4

"What does that Sebelius wench know about joims anyways....? Arrrgggghhh........."


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

fiver's picture

... as beautiful a wench who ever sailed the scurvy seas. She kept an unfriendly parrot on her right shoulder mostly because she had a peg leg on her left side. Her name was Eileen.

Another noggin of grog, matey?

Google in Pirate style.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture
aye

WE be callin` her "Leggy Peggy"!


Some stuff you can't make up!

skippy's picture

i dated peggy too, avast!

but i couldn't abide with her peg leg!

so i broke it off! aarrrrgghh!!

calgarylady's picture

and aaarrrgggghhh, skippy!

:)

numfar's picture

Honey... you're wearing a bathrobe

Alerta_Alerta's picture

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8264516.stm

"The mood was angry and defiant at the annual "Values Voters Summit", which kicked off with a rousing call to arms from Republican Congressman Mike Pence, from Indiana, a man some see as a future presidential candidate.

He spoke of a "great American awakening", while another Congressman, Tom Price of Georgia, spoke of lighting "brushfires of freedom", to roars of excited approval from the floor. "

"From the podium, Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor stoked the audience's fears with a joke about a man who goes to sleep in America and wakes up, after a year of Obama, to find himself living in Sweden."

You wish, twat!


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ron's picture

100% broadcast time with Cspan? I thought it was supposed to be independent.

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

not been replaced.


Some stuff you can't make up!

Voters summit on the same day?

P.S. President Pence??? Never gonna happen. Regardless of his politics. There's just no ring to it. Makes me want to continue on in pirate-ese, "If Peter Pence had a peck of pickled peppers would Mike Pence ever be President Pence?"

Pfffftttt!


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

Voters summit on the same day?

P.S. President Pence??? Never gonna happen. Regardless of his politics. There's just no ring to it. Makes me want to continue on in pirate-ese, "If Peter Pence had a peck of pickled peppers would Mike Pence ever be President Pence?"

Pfffftttt!


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

Alerta_Alerta's picture

"lighting "brushfires of freedom""

What the fuck does that means? Is that some KKK code or something?


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CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

CROSSES!!


Some stuff you can't make up!

miss_kitty's picture

(pirate name: Fineglin' Gus Cooke) and couldn't change the channel fast enough. Arrrgh (That is not a piratey 'Arrrgh,' either).

Alerta_Alerta's picture

His pirate name is "Auto de fé". It's another name for lynching, mob rule, insanity! Just like all those "morans" shows. Nuts!
Go march Christian soldiers! Go on your fucked up crusade!

Bah humbug! :s


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CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

is out of the question, aaaaarrrrrgggghh!!!!!!!!


Some stuff you can't make up!

woodrowfan's picture

I went to college with Pence. He was a dim-witted, self-righteous dweeb then; he still is now.

skippy's picture

i luvs me some cap'n ****!!

Alerta_Alerta's picture

You want a four star cap'n? Sorry, i only have three stars mon!


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Alerta_Alerta's picture

Bite my shiny metal ass.
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fiver's picture

... almost linked a Barney video in return. :)

Instead: How to Talk Like a Pirate


Corruption favors the wealthy.

calgarylady's picture

Ye salty sea dog, ye!

Alas, I must avast for the eve, my sleeping quarters await.

Nighty-night, all you naughty, knotty pirates!

fiver's picture

GN


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Edwin's picture

What does a pirate call his friends in the military?

"Arrrrrrrr me" maties!!!


far left loon >.<

Paul's picture

Why, I oughtta.....

Tequila's picture

FOX's ad gets even more of a backlash from the mainstream media. Still, I don't think Sanchez should entirely get a free pass, since he indirectly admits favoritism for the tea-baggers when he says "just like when thousands marched on Washington to protest the war in Iraq, we covered it as well, probably less than we covered this event." From Hollywood Elsewhere, an old Onion spoof of Max Baucus which ironically ended up being timely. Ex-CIA chiefs try to stop accountability, for some reason. Chrysler exec is doing a heckuva job with personal finances. Neo-conservatism's god is dead. Is scent identification ineffective? A guy on Death Row survives a second execution attempt, because a judge is uncertain that poking him when they can't find working veins is humane. Another Iran scare. The EPA doesn't care about Cali's tainted water. One billion people around the world are hungry. Britain's Queen was more brave during the Blitz than Cheney was on 9/11. If he's been working that long there, how about giving him a retirement plan? At least net worth is up. VW's new car to last for 62 miles? What were Barry's goals on Afghanistan and Pakistan, again? The Newlywed Game goes gay-themed. Fuckus is as delusional about his bill as the neo-cons were about Iraq. Birth control can help with global warming. One-in-seven Germans don't think tearing down the wall was a good idea. This must be how the Hitler Youth got started. In only a month, 13 new states lost jobs, for a total of 42. You tell, em, Michelle! You're my generation's Rosa Parks. Fuck you very much, John Edwards.

Abbybwood's picture

I think it's interesting that the Ohio Prison System cannot find a SURGEON to come in and do a simple CUT DOWN on the prisoner.

I could do it myself and I'm just a nurse.

All you do is take a scalpel, cut through the flesh into the biggest (and deepest vein the idiot prison guards cannot find), thread it with a catheter the size of a small garden hose, suture it in a few places and ta-da! There's their vein. With a cooperative patient prisoner, it would take 15 minutes tops.

But I doubt there is any surgeon who would want to be caught DEAD doing that procedure.

It's probably not on the prison medical systems "pay schedule".

Oh, well.


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

Paul's picture

to all ye bilge rats, deck apes and scurvey dawgs!

This is one pirate that feels like raiding the Congressional Keep and keel hauling the entire lot of scum. hang 'em up on sky hooks and let the sea gulls have at 'em.

Just a thought.

woodrowfan's picture

Medium Large has a more realistic "Talk Like a Pirate" cartoon. 8-)

http://www.medium-large.com/

fastfeat's picture

I just stopped by a bar in Tampa, where kids are allowed with their parents, to try out my new darts. I just loaded the jukebox--Social Distortion, Zappa, Mott the Hoople, Johnny Cash--when an adult (couldn't tell if man or woman...) came in with two youngsters. I told the kids that they could play the credits left in the jukebox. They did, without any graciousness; whatever. When Johnny Cash's "Cocaine Blues" came up, mom/dad grabbed the youngins, kicking and screaming, and headed for the door. "But we didn't get to hear OUR songs!!" WAAAAA....

LMFAO...


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---Southwest Airlines

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