#1196 Yare Forget

The other day I was contemplating how far we’ve come since the economy under the last administration got sucked down the drain at the bottom of a crater of unbelievable proportions, and I heard some commercial where this pirate guy was saying, “Give the scurvy dog a break, yarr...” and it got me wondering.
So I went to the dictionary and actually found the word y-a-r-e- sometimes pronounced yarr. That’s right, yarr. Like the pirates say. And here’s the interesting thing we seem to have forgot. (Our culture can be so forgetful.) Yare actually has a nautical origin.
It means, “responding easily, said of a sailing vessel, bright and lively.”
She’s a yare vessel, nimble and quick, yarr..
What a lovely and usable word. Yet now we only hear some distorted version of it when someone does a lame pirate imitation.
Such is the way of it. What’s bright and nimble often gets ignored. It’s over so quickly, and the people who do it make it look so easy, you never know how hard it is.
It’s like the personal trainer at the health club who reaches out and quickly grabs a 25 pound weight that’s about to bounce on your head. He’s able to do so because he’s trained for years to be good at what he does. He’s quick, he’s in shape, and he knows how things can go wrong at a health club.
Was the weight really going to hit your head and crush you? You’ll never know. You can’t prove a negative. But thanks to his quick thinking you never have to worry about it.
Did our last president save us from more terrorists? We’ll never know. Did our current president save us from an even more enormous economic apocalypse? We’ll never know that for sure either.
But it’s fair to say you can’t blame a guy too much for not getting fully out of a hole in one year that took the eight previous years to develop.
I don’t care what kind of vessel you have or whether it leans to the left or right, it’s damn hard sailing out of a whirlpool.
No matter how easy it looks, yarr.
America, ya gotta love it.