Comments on: Oats and Barley Grow http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/01/14/oats-and-barley-grow/ The life and education of two growing beans - our 10th year of blogging Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: Alison http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/01/14/oats-and-barley-grow/#comment-6615 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:14:57 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2845#comment-6615 LOL! I liked that :) The kids were rather more disturbed by him hooking his eye out P-) (My pirate smiley!)

]]> By: Nic http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/01/14/oats-and-barley-grow/#comment-6614 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:34:41 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2845#comment-6614 Lol- I’ll be singing that all day long now Alison!
When looking for some debunking of my BobFact online I found a great joke about pirates:
A man meets a pirate in bar. The has peg leg hookand an eye patch.

“How did you get the peg-leg?” the man asks.

“We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. A shark bit my leg off,” replies the pirate.

“Wow! What about your hook?” the man asks.

“We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of them cut off my hand,” replies the pirate.

“Incredible! What happened to your eye?” asks the man.

“A seagull pooped in it,” replies the pirate.

“You lost your eye because a seagull pooped in it?” the man asks, incredulously.

The pirate shrugged. “Yeah, it was my first day with the hook.”

]]> By: Daddybean http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/01/14/oats-and-barley-grow/#comment-6613 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:11:05 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2845#comment-6613 I think Treasure Island has a lot to do with it Alison, and supposedly the style of speech we associate with pirates comes from Robert Newtons portrayal of Long John Silver in the 1950′s version of the film.

As for Nic’s Bob Fact, much though I like it, I reckon it’s Bob Myth :-)

]]> By: Alison http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/01/14/oats-and-barley-grow/#comment-6612 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:53:06 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2845#comment-6612 So why do they all have a hook for a hand and only 1 1/2 legs? And a parrot? ;-)

Oats always make me think of
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe?

]]> By: Nic http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/01/14/oats-and-barley-grow/#comment-6611 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:57:19 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2845#comment-6611 Bob Fact for you… although it might be a myth.
I heard somewhere that the reason pirates wore a patch over one eye was so that when they jumped aboard ships to carry out their pirate-y crimes they could whip off the patch onto the other eye leaving one already aclimatised to the dark to go below decks. So actually they didn’t have any problem with the covered eye, just kept it ready for different levels of light.
If that’s true I reckon it’s pretty clever :).

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