Showing posts with label Talk Like a Pirate Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Talk Like a Pirate Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!

 This is our annual post in observance of Talk Like a Pirate Day. This year is a special one, because it's the tenth anniversary of NUELOW Games NOT getting its long-planned follow up to ROLF: Pirates vs. Fairies. To mark the occasion, here's the character who may some day star in something. Maybe. We hope...

Meet Captain Kidd (Kandy Kidd), as given form by artist North Stuart.

Captain Kandy KIdd, by North Stuart


Monday, September 19, 2022

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day...

... and the Queen of Pirates is here to say:

Aileen Haley be piratin' in high heels and a bathing suit
"Ye may lead yer scurvy scallywags while wearin' 
a hat and high heels and lookin' great!"


"Ye may even learn 'em how to dance ballet!"

Frances Drake looking like a pirate
"But ye'll never have a more perfect piratin' moniker than the lady Frances Drake!"


Meanwhile, Joan Blondell is just here to hang out and look fabulous!
Joan Blondell as a pirate
Joan Blondell looking in the mirror

 

Sunday, September 19, 2021

In observation of Talk Like a Pirate Day

 Yarr... here be pictures of pretty pirate lasses!

Alice White as a pirate
Pirate Girl by Richard Sala

Pirate Girl by Richard Sala

Maxine Cantwell as a Pirate

Bones Coffee's Coconut Rum

It's time for another of my coffee reviews. It's  Talk Like a Pirate Day so there was only one appropriate choice to write about.

Pirates relaxing outside Scooter's Coffee Shop

BONES COFFEE COMPANY: COCONUT RUM
This is another one of the flavored medium-roast blends from this great Florida-based company; so far, I have not been disappointed by any of their flavors, including a couple I've yet gotten around to posting reviews about. Their streak continued with the Coconut Rum blend.

When I opened the package, I could smell the coconut. As the coffee brewed, the aroma wasn't strong enough to reach my office, as has been the case with some of the other Bones blends, nor did I notice any particularly strong smell when I returned to the kitchen.

Is sweet enough that I could drink it black--and, as I've said before, I hardly ever drink coffee black. The dominant flavor here is rum, but the coconut is also detectable and very nice. When I added unsweetened almond milk, the coconut flavor retreated a bit, but the taste of rum remained as strong as before, perhaps even enhanced. This is a strongly flavored blend, and as you drink it, the taste of rum remains in your mouth.

When consumed over ice, the rum taste in this blend remains strong, even if the coconut taste is virtually undetectable. Still, the blend is sweet enough that it can can be consumed without any milk or cream added; in fact, it might be best if you just drink it straight when iced.

Bones' Coconut Rum is another excellent blend. It's probably not going to make into my personal Top Ten Bones Faves, but if you like rum and you like coffee, I'm sure you'll like this!



Saturday, September 19, 2020

Yarr! Here be comely pirate lasses!

Here at Shades of Gray we observe Speak Like a Pirate Day by looking like a pirate!

Bebe Daniels

Tahliah Debrett Barnett (FKA Twigs)
Joan Crawford


Joan Blondell
Gloria Blondell



Colleen Moore





Thursday, September 19, 2019

In Observance of Talk Like a Pirate Day...

...here are some artists' representations of lads and lassies with their swashes buckled!


By Mike Hoffman


By Norm Breyfogle
By Larry Elmore
By Mitch Foust

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Get ready with 'Captain Kidd's Kids'...

Today seems like the perfect day to review a silent pirate movie, and to embed it in the post so you can watch it right here. Why is that, do you ask? Well,. because it's Talk Like a Pirate Day tomorrow!

 (Oh wait... maybe there's a slight flaw in this plan. Oh well... it's too late now!)


Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Harry Pollard, Bebe Daniels, and Helen Gilmore
Director: Hal Roach
Rating: Five of Ten Stars

After falling overboard from a cruise ship, an obnoxious young man (Lloyd) discovers his fiancee (Daniels) and her shrewish mother (Gilmore) are operating a pirate ship crewed entirely by sexy women.


"Captain Kidd's Kids" is a short film that takes too long to get to the pirates promised in the title. It spends half of its running time hammering home how unlikable and dumb Harold Lloyd's character with a series of gags where he's abusive to his servants and other hired help. What's perhaps worse is that the gags are only mildly funny and every one of them outstays its welcome because the routines are too long.

Things get a better once we get to the ship full of sexy pirates, but even here the gags are weak. While none drag on the way the ones in the first half of the film did, they are mostly so predictable that they must have be old back in 1919. There is a very funny and surprising bit involving dinner time on the ship, it's satisfying to see Lloyd's servant throw in with the pirates and pay is boss back for all the abuse early in the film, and Lloyd's ukulele strumming inspiring an impromptu pirate chick dance party inspires a chuckle, but otherwise this is a rather disappointing affair... especially since the idea of Lloyd's dorky trickster character going up against a ship of sexy lady pirates is a concept that held so much promise.

"Captain Kidd's Kids" isn't a terrible move... it's just disappointing, because it falls short of what it could be. But why don't you watch it for yourself and tell me if you agree or disagree with my take on it? It's embedded for your convenience below.






Wednesday, September 19, 2018

In celebration of Speak Like a Pirate Day

Yarr, me maties... here be pittures o' lady pirates and even some pirate booty shorts!
Maureen O'Hara
Kay English

Dorothy Sebastian
Wynn Gibson
Gwen Lee
Claudia Dell
Frances Drake (the most suitable lady pirate of all)

For more Talk Like a Pirate Day inspiration and goodies, be sure to check out this treasure chest full of novellas by Robert E. Howard, comics, roleplaying game scenarios, and some fiction vignettes from the host of Shades of Gray, Steve Miller! Click here for more!






Friday, September 19, 2014

'Tis Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties!

NUELOW Games is celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day with the release of an anthology featuring two comics adventures of Lila the Corsair Queen, and Robert E. Howard's classic pirate tale "Isle of Pirate's Doom."

Click here to see previews or to download your own copy of the book, which also includes a handy guide to pirate vocabulary.

 By way of further preview, here are a couple sample pages...