Bowl Like A Pirate Day

[eub]

A strike is referred to as a galleon, and a spare as a merchantman.

Pins left standing at the end of a frame are scurvy dogs and may be ordered to avast.

Any ball which hits no pins is said to have walked the plank.

A pirate who leaves a split is marooned. Walking the plank straight through a split is still, for lack of any suitably piratical alternative, a field goal.

Other pirates in the alley, if they carouse in excess of the customs used at sea, may be addressed as whoreson grog-soused foremast dogs.

Comments

[geekosaur]

How about "widdershins"? :)

Arrrr.

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

Is Bowl Like A Pirate Day only today or can it be anytime one finds oneself bowling?

*squeak!*

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Dude, I would go bowling for this.

Signed,
scurvy terminology slut

Re: *squeak!*

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I've gone bowling with you without the terminology slut!

(wait, where does the comma go?)

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I would show up for this outing...well,if I lived anywhere that could be termed "a reasonable distance," at least :-)

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i can't bowl while laughing. this means no pirate bowling for me.

[eub.livejournal.com]

By the way, I would welcome terms more bloodthirsty than galleon and merchantman. Verbs, even.

[coyotegirl.livejournal.com]

"keelhauling"

(yes, i'm replying to a VERY old post. don't ask.)