I have this one tacked up on my cubicle wall.
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Hand made Scorn
If one’s accent is non-rhotic, that would be pronounced “skawn” with the same vowel sound as “dog” or “god” which is perfectly cromulent.
It was only very recently pointed out to me that pirates did not actually say “Arrrrr” with that extended hard-r at the end. In non-rhotic accents, “ar” is equivalent to “ah”. Think of southern English (UK) pronunciation of “star”. So pirates are actually going “AAAH!” And “Yaaah!!”, not “Arrr” amd “yarr”
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I’ll keep that in mind for my next convo with pirates 
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Except given the currency symbol, it looks like the pic was taken in Japan.
Huh. It was my impression that English pirates came out of the West Country, where speakers have a deeply rhotic accent. A Google search (on pirate rhotic) partially confirms that.
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True, but the particular “pirate accent” is almost certainly entirely due to Robert Newton’s Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In Captain Blood and other older pirate films, they talk like, well, Errol Flynn.
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Well, shiver my timbers!
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Beethoven was told that as he was deaf he could not become a musician……but he didn’t listen!
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Funny, but true story…
A few years back, I used to get Rumba Beef Liver on clearance every week. I knew when the butcher would mark it down for clearance and I would grab it for a GREAT price.
After a few months, I stopped seeing it – so I asked. The butcher told me I was the only one buying it and only after it reached the clearance price, so corporate wouldn’t let him order it for the store anymore.
I will say I did get some GREAT deals on that beef liver and made quite a few very inexpensive and delicious meals with it.
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I wish the chain stores I deal with were as efficient. I’d settle for their being in stock on sizes other than XXS and XXL!
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. . . one of the OMG!! SuperBenefit-Capabilities of installing front-end scanners to read the UPC bar codes . . . . since every transaction is date-time stamped, the store could “measure” how fast/frequently/i.e. ‘item velocity’ each and every individual item was sold, and adjust ordering/inventory to “meet customer demand.”
neat theory. here’s the analogy, from personal experience . . . .
wrote software so a pharmacy could “see” how frequently each drug was dispensed.
and “price shopped” two/three vendors for all of the package sizes and generics available to meet their “ideal” situation…
and recommend inventory levels based on their own proclivity for being “out of stock,” come back tomorrow . . .
the software produce a one page report of suggestions to make things better.
the client canceled the contract. reason: in-charge pharmacists did not have time to review the monthly (one page) recommendations…
exactly what is now is SOP in supermarkets. no one runs the “velocity” report nor pays any attention to ‘what is selling so fast we need to stock more’
they really don’t care.
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I hate when that happens…
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Spam cookies? (video, watch the sound level)
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