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Steve H

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Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« on: September 19, 2020, 10:36:12 AM »
It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Shiver me timbers! Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2020, 10:41:38 AM »
Quote from: Blokey McBlokeface on September 19, 2020, 10:36:12 AM
It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Shiver me timbers! Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Then I shall attempt to channel the spirit of Robert Newton: for my money the best Long John Silver ever (tradition requires that I add "Jim lad").
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2020, 10:58:17 AM »
Quote from: Gordon on September 19, 2020, 10:41:38 AM
Then I shall attempt to channel the spirit of Robert Newton: for my money the best Long John Silver ever (tradition requires that I add "Jim lad").

How many others can you name?
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2020, 11:10:33 AM »
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on September 19, 2020, 10:58:17 AM
How many others can you name?

Tbh I can only think of Charlton Heston.
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2020, 11:13:04 AM »
Quote from: Gordon on September 19, 2020, 11:10:33 AM
Tbh I can only think of Charlton Heston.
Alfred Burke, Tim Curry, Orson Welles
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2020, 11:25:48 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 19, 2020, 11:13:04 AM
Alfred Burke, Tim Curry, Orson Welles

I remember now, Tim Curry was in the Muppets film I think. Didn't know about the other two.

 
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Steve H

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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2020, 11:37:32 AM »
Hugh Bonneville played a 17th-Century pirate captain in a 2011 episode of Dr Who, with Matt Smith's Doctor, and Karen Gillan and Arthur Darville, The Curse of the Black Spot, though he didn't do the "Avast there, matey!" accent.
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2020, 11:47:41 AM »
Quote from: Blokey McBlokeface on September 19, 2020, 11:37:32 AM
Hugh Bonneville played a 17th-Century pirate captain in a 2011 episode of Dr Who, with Matt Smith's Doctor, and Karen Gillan and Arthur Darville, The Curse of the Black Spot, though he didn't do the "Avast there, matey!" accent.
I think HH was specifically talking about Long John Silvers.
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2020, 02:00:17 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 19, 2020, 11:47:41 AM
I think HH was specifically talking about Long John Silvers.

Yes, indeed. I know that I could do a search myself, but Gordon's statement made me wonder just how many other screen versions of Treasure Island exist, and how much competition Robert Newton would actually face. I don't actually of any other version than the Disney film, which appeared sometime in the 1950s.
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2020, 03:28:51 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 19, 2020, 11:47:41 AM
I think HH was specifically talking about Long John Silvers.
Yes, I know he was. I just mentioned HB as an aside.
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2020, 11:09:53 AM »
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.

The Pirate King from the Pirates of Penzance
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2020, 11:20:45 AM »
Reminds me of when I was about 10 years old. The ship, Hispaniola, from the film, 'Treasure Island' was moored as a tourist attraction in Scarborough Harbour. I still have an old photograph of me on its top deck. I loved 'Treasure Island' and later my mates and I had a gang, called the Black Spot gang, I believe the Hispaniola was later used in the film, 'Moby Dick' so it's possible that Gregory Peck walked the same planks as I did. If only he had known, he'd have been well impressed!
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Re: Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2020, 05:27:26 PM »
I've just had to consult Proff Google to get the name Robert Shaw, it wouldn't matter what film I see him in I could only think of him as 'Captain Dan Tempest'.

I'm certain that if I see him in another one of his films sometime I still won't be able to say his name without looking it up somewhere, probably Proff G, good job I can remember Proff G.

Arr Jim Lad!
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