Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. As Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Man never feels more alive than when he is talking like a pirate.” I’m going to celebrate by playing Monkey Island Special Edition. What are you doing to commemorate the day?

Oh, and “Arrrrrrrrr!”

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  1. Shiver me timbers, isn’t it time to hoist the Pirate in Chief with his own petard? Mayhaps we could commit him to 30 years before the mast, of course as a seaman 3 class. Give him a mop and a bucket………..wait………… never mind that’s an accident looking for a place to happen. Maybe he could just scrape off barnacles, after dealing with Acorn he should be good at that.

  2. I’m reading ‘Nick of Time’ by Ted Bell. It’s got pirates in it. Does that count?
    I heard a reference to “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” on a radio commercial this week. A HR director tells an employee that their company doesn’t recognise ITLPD as a paid holiday. He mutters, “Arrr! Me plans be scuttled!” It’s catching on!

  3. Will ye get far with that face paint, I wonders, matey….

    Arrr, ye swabs! I got me pirate name of Iron Mary Flint at http://www.piratequiz.com/ (thanks to a link at Dave Barry’s blog here: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2009/09/countdown-to-talk-like-a-pirate-day.html ), and then I wrote something about movie pirates (The Crimson Pirate and Curse of the Black Pearl, specifically), called it “Madness or Brilliance in the Caribbean” (from a quote in Pearl), and published it at scribd.com, but I can’t link to it here because it requires Adobe Flash and that’s not on this work computer.

    Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
    We’re beggars and blighters, ne’er-do-well cads,
    Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.
    Aye, but we’re loved by our mommies and dads,
    Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.

  4. Arrrrrr mates……I’ll be celebrating ‘Happy Intentional Talk Like a Pirate Day’ by watching my favorite pirate porno. I speak of course of the movie ‘Captain Lust’ staring Jamie Gillis, Sharon Mitchell and a cast of unknown but erstwhile actors. This 1977 porno is a classic, it’s even got a genuine pirate ship, got lots of great pirate type songs, and lots of sword play and pirate type dialog (in English not Somali). I highly recommend it to improve a dull day.

  5. Talking like a pirate is fine, but what’s with dressing like a pirate? Saw a group of youngsters at the doughnut shop and had to explain them to my companion.
    They didn’t talk like pirates, though. Which was a bit disappointing.

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