Talk Like A Pirate, # 1!... [Quotes from some classic pirate novels and movies] ...

     "See here, my bright lads, learn this, --- when you come aboard my ship and I say to one o' ye do this or do that, he does it, d'ye see, or --- up to the yardarm he swings by his thumbs or his neck as occasion warrants." --- Adam Penfeather, in "Black Bartlemy's Treasure", by Jeffery Farnol.

     "Why sink and drown'd me!  I say drown'd me and sink me, if it ain't the little, crowing captain, the game-cock whiffler..." --- Roger Tressady, in "Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer", by Jeffery Farnol.

     "D'you mean they've roused themselves at home and kicked out that pimple James?" --- Said by Captain Peter Blood [played by Errol Flynn] on learning of the ascension of William Of Orange to the throne of England, in the movie, "Captain Blood".

     "Here's to ourselves, and hold your luff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff." --- Long John Silver, in "Treasure Island", by Robert Louis Stevenson.

     "Arrgh, she ain't near so cheap to keep as she were to take." --- Blackbeard, in the movie, "Blackbeard's Ghost".

     "Curse ya for breathing, you slack-jawed idiot!" --- Joshamee Gibbs, in the movie, "Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of the Black Pearl".

     "You're a diamond, Mate!", Jack Sparrow to Davy Jones, in the movie "P.O.T.C.: Deadman's Chest".

     "Here's to a good, hot fight... and the best dog on top!", --- Blackbeard, in "The Book Of Pirates", [and I think in other books, as well] by Howard Pyle.

     "Villain!  Doubly damned villain!", Cain, in "The Pirate", by Captain Frederick Marryat.