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International Talk Like a Pirate Day ( ITLAPD ) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September...
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What does shiver me timbers mean and how did it originate? Arghhhhhhhhhh Matey! I found 3 sources for this, none are particularly definitive. Here goes anyhow :)... ... "Shiver me timbers" does not refer to sails or comedy. The word "shiver" has a definition of splitting or splintering things (Thus the prison term of "shivs"
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I was wondering why pirates say "Shiver me timbers" all the time. Thanks. Answer; ... The "Phrase Finder" folk at Sheffield Hallam University -- the leading authority of phrase history -- and the standard reference book "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" do not have a specific origin for the phrase.
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Why do pirates say shiver me timbers and what is the meaning of the saying. Answer; John: ... The "Phrase Finder" folk at Sheffield Hallam University -- the leading authority of phrase history -- and the standard reference book "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" do not have a specific origin for the phrase.
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In Reply to: Re: Shiver me timbers posted by sara on April 22, 2004 ... Shiver My Timbers! ... (expletive denoting surprise or disbelief) ; Presumably, this expression alludes to a ship's striking a rock or shoal so hard that her timbers shiver. The expression was first seen in 1834 in the novel _Jacob Faithfully_ by...
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Shiver me timbers - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... Robert Louis Stevenson used shiver my timbers several times in the original 1883 book, for example:
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I heard a different explanation of the origin of our country name "Canada" which is that in 1867 Queen Victoria visited the Ottawa Valley and met a local farmer. ... What on earth does "shiver my timbers" mean? I know to shiver the sails is to set them so they are barely moving in the breeze, to slow the ship (at least that...
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the only Weekly Word-origin Webzine ... Shiver my timbers if I do" from Frederick Marryat's Jacob Faithful. Apparently Mr. Marryat invented the phrase with an eye toward avoiding his readers taking offense at stronger words. It's also possible that my timbers was invented, for it first appears in a song: "My timbers!
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13 articles on Shiver me timbers: Popular boating sayings and their origins ... Shiver me timbers you son of a gun stop swinging the lead and get everything above board for a clean bill of health! ... Many boating sayings are hundreds of years old, with some tracing their origin to dates well before the twelfth century.
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