JUST THOUGHT I'D LEAVE YOU WITH THIS:
anonymous
March 22 2002, 21:16:47 UTC
"IT IS, IT IS A GLORIOUS THING
TO BE A PIRATE KING."
-SIR WILLIAM GILBERT OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN
THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE MUCH OVERLOOKED "PIRATES OF PENZANCE." I HIGHLY RECOMMEND SEEING A PERFORMANCE OF IT OR RENTING A COPY OF IT FROM YOUR LOCAL VIDEO STORE. ACTUALLY, TRY YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, FOR THEY APPRECTIATE HIGH CULTURE.
TO FELLOW ANON:
YOU DO NOT LIKE MY POEM--FINE. I AM GROWN UP ENOUGH TO ACCEPT, AND EVEN RESPECT, CRITICISM FROM OTHERS. HAVING SAID THAT, I AM CURIOUS TO KNOW OF THE STANDARDS WHICH YOU BASE YOUR CRITIQUE. GRANTED, MY POEM DOES NOT LIE IN THE SAME REALM OF LITERATURE WITH THE BELOVED WORKS OF STEVENSON, SCOTT, AND DUMAS, NOR WERE MY SIGHTS SET AS SUCH; RATHER, WHEN YOU READ MY POEM, IF NOT BUT FOR A MOMENT DID YOU REGAIN THE DREAMY MINDSET YOU HAD AS A CHILD? THIS WAS MY SOLE INTENT. I, FOR ONE, FIND EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAD IN FACT TRAVELED THERE. TAKE NOTICE: IN ONE OF YOUR RESPONSES YOU SAID SUCH THINGS AS "MATEY" AND "SPLINTER THE PEG." MUCH LIKE THE TRAVELER, WHO AFTER HAVING RETURNED FROM A TRIP OVERSEAS ACCUSTOMS THE LANGUAGE OF THOSE HE/SHE VISTED, SO TOO HAVE YOU UNDERGONE A SIMILAR PROCESS: YOUR "MATEY," AN "ALOHA;" YOUR "SPLINTER THE PEG," A "BON APPETIT." YES, YOUR TRIP WAS SHORTER, BUT IT WAS NO LESS MEANINGFUL.
I'M A PIRATE--TOWERING AND FEARLESS;
NOT A CLERK--SHORT, PLAIN-LOOKING, AND BEARDLESS.
HEY THERE, WOMAN: MY BOSS, ALWAYS BOSSING ME.
LET ME RAISE YOUR CHECKERED-SKIRT LIKE A SAIL.
THEN I PLUNGE MY BLUNT SABER INTO YOUR TAIL.
I WILL RIDE YOU LIKE A BOAT ACROSS THE ROUGH SEA.
AND YOU WILL SEE MANY SUNSETS.
DO YOU SEE THE SUNSETS?
This is a poem I wrote to help me get over some sexual frustrations at the office. Needless to say, it has helped greatly. I now can look my boss in the eye. I have been thinking about your idea on a book collaboration. Perhaps if "Peter Panning the Mind for Gold" finds a publisher, then we can pursue your idea further, for it has merit.
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TO BE A PIRATE KING."
-SIR WILLIAM GILBERT OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN
THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE MUCH OVERLOOKED "PIRATES OF PENZANCE." I HIGHLY RECOMMEND SEEING A PERFORMANCE OF IT OR RENTING A COPY OF IT FROM YOUR LOCAL VIDEO STORE. ACTUALLY, TRY YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, FOR THEY APPRECTIATE HIGH CULTURE.
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YOU DO NOT LIKE MY POEM--FINE. I AM GROWN UP ENOUGH TO ACCEPT, AND EVEN RESPECT, CRITICISM FROM OTHERS. HAVING SAID THAT, I AM CURIOUS TO KNOW OF THE STANDARDS WHICH YOU BASE YOUR CRITIQUE. GRANTED, MY POEM DOES NOT LIE IN THE SAME REALM OF LITERATURE WITH THE BELOVED WORKS OF STEVENSON, SCOTT, AND DUMAS, NOR WERE MY SIGHTS SET AS SUCH; RATHER, WHEN YOU READ MY POEM, IF NOT BUT FOR A MOMENT DID YOU REGAIN THE DREAMY MINDSET YOU HAD AS A CHILD? THIS WAS MY SOLE INTENT. I, FOR ONE, FIND EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAD IN FACT TRAVELED THERE. TAKE NOTICE: IN ONE OF YOUR RESPONSES YOU SAID SUCH THINGS AS "MATEY" AND "SPLINTER THE PEG." MUCH LIKE THE TRAVELER, WHO AFTER HAVING RETURNED FROM A TRIP OVERSEAS ACCUSTOMS THE LANGUAGE OF THOSE HE/SHE VISTED, SO TOO HAVE YOU UNDERGONE A SIMILAR PROCESS: YOUR "MATEY," AN "ALOHA;" YOUR "SPLINTER THE PEG," A "BON APPETIT." YES, YOUR TRIP WAS SHORTER, BUT IT WAS NO LESS MEANINGFUL.
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to the pirating vernacular...I learned it from my own brain.
you like? perhaps we can come up with a photo book other such frazings... call it ANONYMOUS GUIDE TO MODERNIZED PIRATE COLLOQUIALISMS...
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NOT A CLERK--SHORT, PLAIN-LOOKING, AND BEARDLESS.
HEY THERE, WOMAN: MY BOSS, ALWAYS BOSSING ME.
LET ME RAISE YOUR CHECKERED-SKIRT LIKE A SAIL.
THEN I PLUNGE MY BLUNT SABER INTO YOUR TAIL.
I WILL RIDE YOU LIKE A BOAT ACROSS THE ROUGH SEA.
AND YOU WILL SEE MANY SUNSETS.
DO YOU SEE THE SUNSETS?
This is a poem I wrote to help me get over some sexual frustrations at the office. Needless to say, it has helped greatly. I now can look my boss in the eye. I have been thinking about your idea on a book collaboration. Perhaps if "Peter Panning the Mind for Gold" finds a publisher, then we can pursue your idea further, for it has merit.
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isn't that one of the best things about the open sea? no zero-tolerance zones, our bearded, patched, bandana wearing ids reign supreme...
http://www.fun1st.com/pages/pegleg.jpg
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