On Thursday, Sep 19, 2002, at 14:51 Europe/London, Bill Kearney wrote:
>> From the completely unrelated but funny department...
> That and 'piratecore' rapping style...
> Anything, just anything, to get us off the geek dating tips topic....
Arrr, he be a scurvy dog, that Bill Kearney.

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> On Thursday, Sep 19, 2002, at 14:51 Europe/London, Bill Kearney wrote:
>>> From the completely unrelated but funny department...
>> That and 'piratecore' rapping style...
>> Anything, just anything, to get us off the geek dating tips topic....
> Arrr, he be a scurvy dog, that Bill Kearney.
Well, shiver me timbers, but my favorite pirate phrase is missing from
and wondering if there's a rap equivalent.
/From Tad Spencer/: "Please could you tell me where the phrase /shiver
This is one of those supposedly nautical expressions that seem to be
better known through a couple of appearances in fiction than by any
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.
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