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"How to Talk Like a Pirate" Film
An arrr-nonymous reader writes, "With International Talk Like a Pirate Day mere days away, it's best to be prepared with this high-school film reel 'for the less nautically inclined among us.'" Dave Barry gave momentum to this international movement. You'll have to decide for yourself which of talklikeapirate.com or talklikeapirateday.com more accurately conveys the genuine holiday spirit.
I thought not. But then I saw it in wikipedia, and realized it must be true!
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
...arrr!
Circumcision is child abuse.
Talk Like a Pirate Day mashed up with Garbage Day! from Silent Night Deadly Night 2
For me it has to be http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ just for the comedy of the picture and the idea of "wench swap". classic.
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
I get to wear an eye patch and call myself an internet pirate? It's the RIAA's dream! Think of all the lawsuit revenue!
Barry's contribution mentioned up top was to write a book called Pirattitude . The book was pretty funny, but as this meme moves farther from an in-joke among Internet cognoscenti, to something larger where you'll even hear people in the street talking about it, there's a decreasing amount of joy in it. Maybe the matter has come and gone already.
So anyway, I pwned some warez, but new games are teh sux. I used emule to rip some complete albums for a friend, and while I was at it: I grabbed some gameboy advanced roms. And I did it all at Panera's Bread so the RIAA can't trace me.
God spoke to me.
This shoud be "Talk like someone from the West Country of England Day.s
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Country_dialect
There's no such thing as "Pirate Speech".
This be not news! Why arrr we talking about it?
But I know how to plunder the bootaaayyy! Arrr!
"Arg, homey, that bitch could shiver me timber!"
Excuse me, I have to run to the bathroom.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
I'd be a talking like a pirate, but I have had a nogging to much o' rum, and taking ain't what I'm best at.
Ye'd best heed the forestay, Jim, or we'll all be overboard. Pass another bottle of Wray and Nephew, if you'd be so kind... and watch the blasted wheel as you go! (billions of blistering blue barnacles)
Sent from my ASR33 using ASCII
I think the modern version of "arrh" is "dude."
I sailed the waters of the Bahamas, and swam with sharks, and the closest to pirate talk was "Yah Mon You know You got that right MON" in Jamaica. The pirates all were hijacking cigarette boats and floating square groupers when the Coast Guard narrowed in on the blood thirsty thieves. There are still real pirates today in traditional pirate waters, But I hear they now fly a red flag. Reality.
MYSTERY
As every loyal Pastafarian knows, the Flying Spaghetti Monster considers all things piratical blessed and holy.
Furthermore, it is clearly the case that the decline in pirates over the years has lead to a huge increase in global warming and other distasters. Only by promoting the pirate and his way of life can we hope to save this beautiful planet of ours!
"Whether or not you believe me, I'm right" -RWF
It seems as if a mad-pack too many of you land-lubbers tried to board that poor ship at once, and she's capsized!*
Did any man-jack among you manage to capture the precious booty and abscond with it to a sturdier vessel before the original was blown to davy-jones?
Translations:
* You've slashdotted the server.
** Did anyone mirror it to a STABLE host like youtube or google video?
You can tell that this prank is becoming part of the cultural when even SlashDot runs a story about it, several days in advance. (BTW, I can't even remember how long ago it has now been since hearing about ITAPD on NPR... and it's been a re-occuring calendar event for me for three or four years now.)
There is no need to use a SlashDot sig for SEO...
Written and performed by Tom Smith, the official Talk Like a Pirate Day Theme Song... in mp3 format, with lyrics.
Nothing matters but knowing you are the coolest person around, and that everybody else is lame.
I now invent fake bands and screen print my own fan t-shirts...that way nobody will steal my cool by liking the band more than me---or even worse, claiming that they heard of them before I did, and sneering that they're "over".
In fact now I just sneer at absolutely everything that isn't a flattering airbrush picture of myself.
Love,
The original EMO kid. All those others are just lame copydroids.
TALK like a pirate day??? I thought it was RAPE like a pirate day!
"Yo ho, yo ho"
Well, atleast we know where kids these day got their language from.....
Want to see where piracy occurs? Try http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php Most piracy is taking place in SE Asia and off the Somali coast - not that it doesn't happen elsewhere (like, say, Brazil for instance).
... but I swear we picked out the name "Jack"[1] long before he was born, and it had nothing to do with pirates.
No, I'm not making this up.
How cool would it be to be a little boy named Jack who's encouraged to talk like a pirate on his birthday? Arrrr!
[1] Or "Catherine" if it was a girl -- we didn't know ahead of time, which I highly recommend. How many true surprises do you get in your life?
Does that work?
It does in San Francisco...
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
There is an album out of pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys as indicated below. My favorite rock singer Andrea Corr is on it, dragooned by her friendship with punk rocker Gavin Friday and rocker Bono who are also involved.
Wednesday June 21, 2006
GORE VERBINSKI, JOHNNY DEPP AND HAL WILLNER
JOIN FORCES WITH ANTI RECORDS FOR THE AUGUST 22 RELEASE:
"ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS"
BONO, STING, LOU REED, BRYAN FERRY, JOHN C. REILLY, RICHARD THOMPSON, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, LUCINDA WILLIAMS ARE AMONG THE DIVERSE ARTISTS ON THIS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION
"The ocean. It's all about the vast blue that engulfs two thirds of the planet. The human being cast against that abyss creates an interesting bit of perspective. I think the sailors of the time were dancing with death, and these were their tunes. They resonate with people on some internal level that is not immediately obvious because it's not in our memory, it's in our blood. It operates on a cellular level. It's what makes us feel so alone."
--Gore Verbinski
Film director GORE VERBINSKI, actor JOHNNY DEPP and music producer HAL WILLNER have joined forces with ANTI RECORDS for the truly extraordinary two-CD set ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS. Due out August 22, the collection is filled with contemporary reinterpretations of songs from a genre of music that has all but disappeared. BONO, STING, NICK CAVE, BRYAN FERRY, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, RICHARD THOMPSON, GAVIN FRIDAY, VAN DYKE PARKS, ANDREA CORR and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT are only a few of the distinguished artists who turn in uncompromising and honest performances that illuminate the power of traditional sea songs.
The idea for ROGUE'S GALLERY originated when Verbinski and Depp were working on their second film together, the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. "I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey," explains Verbinski. "I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea."
Verbinski then "described the project in detail to my old friend Brett Gurewitz (owner of Epitaph and Anti) who immediately understood its wondrous and strange potential. I also asked Johnny Depp if it might be something that he would like to be involved with. He has a great musical aesthetic, and as my partner in the films, his opinion is one I value. I've always believed Johnny is a musician first and the actor thing is just his day job. We met with Brett and put together a list of artists that we intended to go after, but were immediately confounded with the question: who would produce? Who would be mad enough to take this on?"
The project took shape when Hal Willner became "the captain of this vessel," says Verbinski. "From that germinating withering pubic hair of an idea, Hal set sail and returned with what you hear today. He did everything." Willner brought his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material to the project, as shown on his best-selling Disney tribute album Stay Awake and his acclaimed tributes to Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus, Nino Rota and others.
"When I was asked to do the album, I went into a world I didn't know--which is what appealed to me," says Willner. Immersing himself in antique bookstores, eBay, old record stores, and the Internet for hours and hours, Willner collected some 600 songs and then went about narrowing the song selection down for the album. In March 2006, the recordings began--and the process was joyously freewheeling.
"We were just crawling around, just seeing who was around," he explains. "The Akron/Family was rehearsing, so we recorded them. And then we found Baby Gramps. And that's kind of how we worked all over. We'd go up to London or Dublin or to New York and L.A., with just a sketch and one or two things planned. And then we got on the phone. Most of the time people just came into the studi
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My school is having a whole Talk Like a Pirate day for some charity or other. Guess what I'm going as... "Yarr me hearties, MP3's off the port bow!"
Matches are only dangerous when used correctly- MurderDeathKill
Yarr, an informative film that be!
And don't forget Pirate Laws: The canonical list of rules for pirate behavior.
Pirate Law #11: "No pirate shall ever wear a "fanny pack."
Push Button, Receive Bacon
I really found this video to be original and funny, the first time I saw it...
when it was called "LOOK AROUND YOU, SERIES 1".
And this joke was funnier the first time you heard it, when it was told by David Spade.
Instead of just reporting it, I suggest that every story on slashdot be posted in pirate language on the day.
The best resource for genuine pirate-style gaming I've found is GURPS Swashbucklers. It's full of interesting historical information about real pirates (for instance, did you know that "walking the plank" is fictional?). A glossary of genuine pirate-speak is included on one of the ubiquitous GURPS sidebars. I made good use of it and I play D&D, so most of it works with all games.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
My friends from Victoria BC, Graham and Paul, who run this site put up an new short movie every Friday. Some other movies that Slashdot readers might be interested in:
Video Game fans should enjoy 64k Loading Ready Rap and PSA for Ewe Boll
Those that like the absurd might like Quantum Documentary
Film Noir lovers should enjoy 30 Minutes or Less
And for Canadian readers Canadaman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZVaFAEtVec
As an environmentalist and Pastafarian concerned about global warming, I appreciated the section on the three "arr"s.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
They could get some serious publicity if they had Captain Jack himself on board.
Many more Seafaring songs on the site for your pleasure.
Certified Black Helicopter Pilot *** Unwitting Dupe of One World Gov'ment
Harr!! That be a lazy eye-ball.
( o) ( o )
Because they arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!.............
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;-)
Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west
Spin: thar be large pipes o'bandwith near ye'ol univarsety.
Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Pirate: Avast!
Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!
Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.
Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound.
I cant think of a more appropriate thread to post this quote. Avast!
Peace, Love, Unity, Respect
The symbol seen at the end of product names sometimes that looks like this: ®
Or sometimes this: (R)
was actually placed there as a "tip-of-the-hat" to pirates? It's a fact! So when you see a product name like this:
Apple® iPod® with SoundCheck®
You should pronounce it:
Apple-ARRRRR! iPod-ARRRRR! with SoundCheck.. ARR!!!
This message brought to you by the Talk Like A Pirate Day Historical Society ®.
Correct, I have a lazy eye! Good catch :).
There are Pirate Parties cropping up across the world, working together through the internet and having the same goals. I believe this is a step in the right direction: politics need to be globalized, because economies are globalized already - no big corporations gives a crap about national borders.
If you look at the forums (e.g. the Swedish one) it is inspiring to see people disregarding national boundaries and helping each other out as equals. Added to that the sentiment that 'You can use anything I create and vice versa it'll be interesting to see what will become of it.
And when you gaze long enough into the code, the code will also gaze into you.
Aharrgh! These scrolls do be precious learnin' lore for all scurvy pirates in the oarless oceans of Eve Online. It takes more than just saying "yarrr" once a week lads!
I found it ta be a bits of the funny, when upon clicking on yar links in that thar newspost and saw that each page was sellin pirate stuffs. Can't we be havin a bit of the no-booty holidays a bit more?
It is a big deal on Distributed Proofreaders also. Go ahead, check them out. I discovered them due to slash dot
peace mark
Avast, if ye be in the Atlanta area next time this day rolls around next year, ye can come to the time honored tradition of Piratepalooza (or start one in yer area).
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Yarr... Ninjas, monkeys, and robots, oh my!