Now, your moment of abusing Tom Jones
Jul. 21st, 2004 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleFrom Book of Ratings' entry on Aspects of Pirates (Part I)
Accents
Pirate accents are fun and all, but the weird thing is that they appear to be exclusive to the piratical lifestyle. It's as if they all grew up speaking Buccannese and learned English late in life. I've read that it stems from Robert Newton doing a Welsh accent in Treasure Island, but Tom Jones is Welsh and you'd have to get him competely drunk, scrape the back of his throat with a shrimp fork, then hit him on the back of the head with a cricket bat to get him to talk like that. If you do, though, make sure to get a recording of him singing "It's Not Unusual" afterwards. That would be great. A-
Accents
Pirate accents are fun and all, but the weird thing is that they appear to be exclusive to the piratical lifestyle. It's as if they all grew up speaking Buccannese and learned English late in life. I've read that it stems from Robert Newton doing a Welsh accent in Treasure Island, but Tom Jones is Welsh and you'd have to get him competely drunk, scrape the back of his throat with a shrimp fork, then hit him on the back of the head with a cricket bat to get him to talk like that. If you do, though, make sure to get a recording of him singing "It's Not Unusual" afterwards. That would be great. A-
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Date: 2004-07-21 07:49 pm (UTC)