Subject: Re: Avast there matey
From: [email-masked] Fri Sep 20 11:32:42 2002
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:51:59 -0700
List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare <fork.xent.com>

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From: "Kragen Sitaker" <[email-masked]>

> > It's an exclamation that may allude to a ship striking some rock or
> > other obstacle so hard that her timbers shiver, or shake, so implying a
> > calamity has occurred. It is first recorded as being used by Captain
> > Frederick Marryat in /Jacob Faithful/ in 1835: "I won't thrash you Tom.
> > Shiver my timbers if I do".
I think it went like this: "I won't thrash you Tom, if you shiver my
timber..."
Or maybe that was just the butt pirates...