Arilaftia 0 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Ah You have to love it! Looky what I found in the news this morning! Here is the original posting of it Tomorrow you'll pay a buccaneer for corn? By Paul Majendie Tue Sep 18, 11:09 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Put a parrot on your shoulder, strap on a peg leg, hit the rum and start bellowing "Shiver me Timbers" -- Wednesday is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp is not the only over-the-top buccaneer allowed to have fun. September 19 is your once-a-year chance to don an eye patch, sport a ridiculously large hat and keep on saying "Arrrrr. It all started back in the 1990s as a cult joke between two American friends -- John "Ol Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Capn Slappy" Summers -- but really took off when syndicated columnist Dave Barry got to hear about their surreal festival. "We tap into that need for whimsy in people's lives," Summers says of the 24-hour celebration of quirkiness when they urge all self-respecting swashbucklers to show "pirattitude." International Talk Like a Pirate Day (TLAPD), which adopted Treasure Island star Robert Newton as its patron saint, now attracts fans from as far afield as Britain and Australia and even boasts a special Wikipedia site on the Internet. The day even has its own unofficial anthem -- American Tom Smith has written and recorded "Talk Like a Pirate Day" -- and Canadian sketch comedy troupe Loading Ready Run produced an educational video on how to swashbuckle with the best of them. Ol Chumbucket and Capn Slappy are bombarded with requests for TLAPD interviews and proudly boast on their own website that they are even now being immortalized in computer games. "That's fairly cool and geeky," Ol Chumbucket decided. Pirate fans around the world have rallied round, showing that surreal silliness is alive and well. An American soldier stationed in Iraq promised that "to celebrate, myself and others will wear an eye patch all day." Sydney, Australia is staging a harbor cruise with "flagons of grog at pub prices and prizes to treasure for the dandiest of outfits." A bar in Venice, Italy is holding an olive stone-spitting contest for would-be buccaneers. A Brazilian fan even sent a letter of support in a bottle while one overjoyed Argentinian whose birthday falls on the same day said "It will be difficult to talk in Spanish like pirates but we will try." Link to comment
Genenut 8 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 that just means that tonight will be drink like a pirate day -- while hunting on the pirate isle in sacred *g* Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Arrr! Shiver me timbers and blow me down! A fine day t'celebrate it be indeed. Throw me a grog and let there merriment! Oh an' I tookst th' liberty o' translatin' what ye spake usin' this translator Genenut: Pirate Speak that jus' means that tonight be drink like a buccanneer tide -- while huntin' on th' buccanneer isle in sacred *g* That thar be a fine idear me hearty. Me thinks I be Go'in on the account and dispatch me some Scallywags right smartly! Link to comment
Lucalain 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I like TLAPD. I wanted to wear an eyepatch to school but I couldn't find it, and I never had a chance to speak in class. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I made sure to say my favorite letter all day. arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... gogo Link to comment
Arilaftia 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 Woot a whole year has passed! Time to break out your peg legs and eye patches! Its come around again! Link to comment
jibjab 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Grrrrr matey, walk the plank or taste the old sword Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Well blow me down!? lol. Yo ho ho and pass me a bottle of rum! Link to comment
Arilaftia 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 RUM!! Where rum? Link to comment
jibjab 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Grrrrrr RUM, where be rum:) Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Blimey! What's this:) Some lubber stole t' rum! T' Johnny's locker I says with'im! Oh and don't be fergett'in to take yee Pirate Personality Test. Arr! Link to comment
Arilaftia 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 You are ... The Quartermaster! oh and dont forget your Pirate name from the pirate name generator! Arilaftia Veldwin, your pirate name is Mary Cricket the Orange! Link to comment
jibjab 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 (edited) You are ... The Pirate :) :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: Jibjab, your pirate name is Thomas the Short Edited September 19, 2008 by jibjab Link to comment
Arilaftia 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 damn .. that makes me.... even shorter! Link to comment
jibjab 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 ROFL Come on, your not short Link to comment
Arilaftia 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 omg neither are you! but I guess Ill always be shorter argggg Link to comment
jibjab 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Well only 40 cm shorter hihi Link to comment
Arilaftia 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 good thing Ive got my pirate boots and a step stool! Link to comment
jibjab 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 You can just stand 2 steps up the stairs Link to comment
Borg 0 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Pirates? Your talking to me about pirates? I live on an island that was made famous by pirates. And just a few years ago they found one ship worth $400 million in gold and silver just off shore HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Link to comment
Genenut 8 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 so how is that assimulation going? or is thier resistance a bit less than futile? ;-) Link to comment
Arilaftia 0 Posted September 20, 2008 Author Share Posted September 20, 2008 hmm so how do assimilated borg speak pirate? now that would be great to hear! Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Pirates? Your talking to me about pirates? I live on an island that was made famous by pirates. And just a few years ago they found one ship worth $400 million in gold and silver just off shore HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR That's interesting. Do the peeps who found it get to keep the treasure? Or a part of it? Lemme guess... Gov takes all? gogo Link to comment
gial 2 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Well, I got my name and took the profile and I am . . . James Drunken Beard -- The Cap'n hehehe Link to comment
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