Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates

Posted on May 12, 2002 in Random Silliness | 3 comments

Q: What’s a pirate’s favorite aspect of computational linguistics?
A: PARRRsing sentences.
Q: Of which concept shared by Jungian psychology and Northrop Frye’s literary theory are pirates especially fond?
A: ARRRchetype.

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3 Comments

  1. 12-05-2002
    AKMA says:

    I’m going to recycle your first riddle in my Greek class next week: Why do pirates love taking Greek from AKMA? All the pARRRsing. . . .

  2. 12-05-2002
    stavrosthewonderchicken says:

    I made a new one :
    Q : What does a pirate call someone who says everything he has in mind, who doesn’t hide anything, but opens his heart and mind completely to other people through his discourse?
    A: A pARRhesiastes.
    (http://foucault.info/documents/parrhesia/Lecture-01/03.parrhesiatruth.html)

  3. 15-05-2003
    stavrosthewonderchicken says:

    OK, that one sucked.