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Yarr, matey!  Methinks “Surprise Forte” be a good name for a band


Avast, ye scurvy sea dogs.  Jeremy be celebratin' Talk Like A Pirate Day while discussin' something what's got nothin' to do with piracy.  It be a right strange juxtaposition.  Yarr...even pirates be usin' the word juxtaposition.  


So, as ye may know, I be a bit of a musician in some of me spare time.  It be a most relaxin' thing for be to be doin'.  

I'm going to stop the whole pirate thing now...it's a little difficult to write and talk like a pirate at the same time, and you get the idea.  

Anyway, while discussing a particular piece of music not long ago, there is a part where everything is quiet and then very suddenly, everything gets very loud.  The technical musical term for this is sforzando, which basically means, "suddenly loud."  The way it was described at the time was "Surprise Forte," with "Forte" being the musical term for loud.  This description sounded very amusing at the time, and it was decided that a good name for a band would be "Surprise Forte."  It's classy, musical, and brash all at the same time.  So, if my other spectacular band names such as "Cow Vibrato" and "The Dave Phlegm Project" don't work out (Just for the record, these really are actual band names that have been discussed at various points in my life), at least I'll have "Surprise Forte" to land on.

Enjoy the rest of Talk Like A Pirate Day, mateys!  

Theme Week, Part Shiver me Timbers

Jeremy's Sametime Status Proudly Presents: If they were Pirates week! "Aye, e'erythin' be funny as long as it be happenin' t' someone else."


Okay...one more shot at this. Captain Michael Fabian?


So close...but not quite. Alas, "If They Were Pirates Week" has come to a close. Hopefully, you had fun with the week's quiz-ish thing. We'll be back next week with more Sametimey Goodness. I've been saving up all week!


Oh goodie.


No, really...there's some good stuff coming up. I promise!

Anyway, yesterday's quote was courtesy of Captain Oliver Hazard Perry talking about the Battle of Lake Erie. See you monday!

Theme Week, Part Avast

Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents: If they were Pirates week! "Aye, we be meetin' the enemy and they be our'n"


Ooo! I know this one! It's totally Jack Sparrow.


Yeah, no. The special nature of today's quote is that it was spoken by an actual sailor after a naval battle.

Yesterday's quote was of course originally spoken by Thomas Paine, before it was turned into a Bob Marley song. One more left...see you tomorrow!

Theme Week, Part Ahoy

Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents: If they were Pirates week! "The harder th' battle be, th' more glorious th' triumph."


That was Guybrush Threepwood, right?


Yeah, not quite. We'll see who else knows it. There are actually a couple other variations of this same quote floating out there, so it's either more or less difficult.

Yesterday's quote was, of course, the famous phrase originally spoken by René Descartes. See you tomorrow!

Theme Week, Part Gar

Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents: If they were Pirates week! "Methinks, tharfore me be, gar"


Awfully introspective for a Pirate. I'm impressed.


Today continues our piratey Theme Week for fun and no prizes. Yesterday's quote was, of course, Alexander Graham Bell's famous first words over a telephone...as spoken if he were a pirate.

Theme Week, Part Arrrr

Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents: If they were Pirates week! "Arrr, Mr. Watson, come har, I be needin ya, gar!"


In celebration of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, held yesterday, Jeremy's Sametime Status, in association with Miracle Posting, Inc. is proud to present an entire Theme Week of famous quotes, slightly modified as if they were spoken by pirates. It's gonna be a thing!


It's a game of sorts, too. You get to guess what the original quote really was, in addition to the person who originally said it. No need to respond or send me emails or anything, since it's not a contest, and there are no prizes. If you get it right, you get the satisfaction of knowing you did your best. Today's starts off pretty easy, but in true Theme Week fashion, they get harder as the week goes on. So raise your grog mug, and have some fun with us as we set sail through the slightly modified annals of historical quotes.

They ran a Creperie

In a bit of Revisionist History, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern pulled a MacGyver-like escape and happily lived out their lives in Saint Malo


Fascinating. We were always led to believe they died. There was even a movie about it.


That's very true, and the movie sucked mightily. I was forced to pretend to like it at one point, but that's hardly worth mentioning. What's important to know is that Rosencrantz was a Kung Fu master and Guildenstern was an expert engineer. Between the two of them, they were basically a cross between MacGyver and The A-Team, without the cool theme music. Their unique skill set is why they were chosen by Claudius for the Hamlet Mission in the first place.

Little did Hamlet know that upon sending them to their supposed deaths in England, he was merely setting the stage for a 16th century version of "Kill Bill" with mayhem and bloodshed all over the countryside.

The two later captured a pirate ship and sailed to France where they chose to let the crew live and gave command back to The Dread Pirate Frank, and lived in relative exclusion, catering to the tourists in the tiny walled town of Saint Malo. It really is a heart-warming story.