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Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, Me Hearties
nmb3000 writes "Avast, me maties! Today be th' International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Fer today only, ye lubbers no worthy 'nough t' enjoy th' noble vocation o' Pirate can join th' ranks! Firs' ye'll need t' lern t' talk like a pirate, then find yer pirate name, doonload yer ringtones, an' finally sling back some grog. Be smart aboot it, fer today's th' day ninjas fear...ever'one's a pirate! Arrrr!"
Arr! Ye'd best not ferget about yer pirate software!
'Course, ye might navigate around that maelstrom if ye rely on open-seas, such as FyreFawkes.
Fixed the banner.
My work here is dung.
This should have been posted 12 hours ago... arrrrrrrrrrrr
Registered Linux user #421033
Now all the Slashdot Stories & Comments for the rest of the day are going to be filled with Pirate talk. Arrrr
. . . 'cuz a pirate is free!!!!
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
(So i had a bit of time on my hands..... ) Arrr, oh, say, argh! can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleamin'; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched war so gallantly streamin'? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs burstin' in air, Ga'e proo' through the eve that our flag was still thar: Oh, say, argh! does that star-spangled banner yet wa'e O'er the land o' the free and the home o' the bra'e? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists o' the deep, Whar the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towerin' steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam o' the mornin''s first beam, In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner, argh! Oh, long may it wa'e O'er the land o' the free and the home o' the bra'e! And whar is that band who so 'auntin'ly swore That the ha'oc o' war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should lea'e us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution! No refuge could sa'e the hirelin' and sla'e From the terror o' flight or the gloom o' the gra'e: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wa'e O'er the land o' the free and the home o' the bra'e. Oh, thus be it e'er, when freemen shall stand Between their lo'ed home and the war's desolation! Blest with 'ictory and peace, may the hea''n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preser'ed us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust": And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wa'e O'er the land o' the free and the home o' the bra'e.
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."- Friedrich Nietzsche
Yarrr, let's crash some servers! Yarrr!!!!!
I'm going to get out of this place alive, even if it kills me!
My favorite letters are "R" and "I" today. I need to start harassing my coworkers by answering all questions with them.
~S
when is talk like a mirror day??yad a rorrim ekil klat si nehw
i support the right to offend.
http://img308.imageshack.us/img308/560/1151543979a mbexpirate4qh.swf
Arr!
I see dead pixels!
Your pirate name is:
Dirty William Rackham
You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
Com'on admins, you should have stayed up late to approve this one... it's ITLAPD, there is nothing else important.
/. didn't have this on their front page this morning when arrived at work.
I'm so ashamed
Sigh...
This was mentioned last night, Monday, on the debut of the third season of Wife Swap. Funny, how many of us are married and we watch other people's wives? I can't believe they live their lives this way (but I'm not judging). The couple last night on the show made it seem fairly ridiculous with their 'pie-ratittudes'. Is this new trend of the wanting to sail the seven seas and take bounty by force all due to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies?
"Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity." - David Gelernter
(let the flame war ensue)
"The Pirates That Don't Do Anything"
we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything
well I've never been to Greenland
and I've never been to Denver
and I've never buried treasure in ST Louie or ST Paul
and I've never been to Moscow
and I've never been to Tampa
and I've never been to Boston in the fall
we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything
and I've never hoist the main sail
and I've never swabbed the poop deck
and I've never veered starboard, cause I've never sailed at all
and I've never walked the gang plank
and I've never owned a parrot.
and I've never been to Boston in the fall
we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything
I've never plucked a rooster
and I am not too good at ping-pong
and I've never thrown my mashed potatoes up against the wall
and I've never kissed a chipmunk,
and I've never gotten head lice
and I have never been to Boston in the fall
(pirate captains log 2002
who be this band relient k
and why they be so full of contradictions)
we don't know what he did
but we're down with captain kidd
we don't wake up before lunch
but we all eat captain crunch
we don't smoke, we don't chew
we watch captain kangaroo
and I've never licked a spark-plug
and I've never sniffed a stink bug
and I've never painted Daisies on a big red rubber ball
and I've never bathed in yogurt
and I don't look good in leggings
and I've never been to Boston in the fall
we are the pirates who don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything
we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything
written and performed by Relient K
With all the Pirates running about, the Earth is beginning to ice over Pluto!
--Chag
News for Pirates. Treasure that Matters
...Global warming found to be in recess.
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.
You dare dishonor me by speaking like a pirate in my presence? The ways of my ninja clan compel me to strike at you with the sword of my ancestors!
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
T'o' M'a'n'y a'p'o's't'r'o'p'h'i'e's I'n T'h'a't P'o's't.
Or at least it would have been if it hadn't been for those meddling Ninjas!
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Honestly, Keira Knightley. I want you to shiver me timbers.
I'll show you why my Roger is so jolly.
How'd you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?
You better be prepared to be boarded, cuz I'd love to drop anchor in your lagoon!
That's some treasure chest you've got there.
That's the finest pirate booty I've ever laid eyes on.
Okay, I'm done with the Pirate Pick Up Lines
Future ruler of a small Asian-Pacific island
I heard there's a new pirate movie out today. I don't know the name of it, but I hear is rated 'Arrrr'
Can I borrow a few CDs/DVDs? I'll bring them back tomorrow.
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
Ye scurvy servers! Now how will I know me pirate name? Arrr.
I dressed up for the occasion. Me boss just keeps looking at me and shaking his head.
Yar, for those who be looking for good grog, music, and meriment, There is an Official "Talk Like a Pirate Day" Party in New York City at Otto's Featuring The Scurvy Pirates Here be a message from the Captain:
Haul on the Bow Line!
Belay the jib-sheet!
Man The Capstan!
Make me an Omlette!
TODAY be talk like a Pirate day, and The Scurvy Pirates DEMAND you come on out to Otto's Shrunken Head to get good and rat-arsed with yer Pirate chums, The Scurvy Pirates! WHO said drinking on a Tuesday leads to a watery grave?! Arg, that's just superstitious talk, like leavin' yer shoes out as Elf latrines, or that Boiled Sea-Horse makes a good aphrodesiac. YOU CALLIN' ME a glue-sniffin' LIAR! ARG!! Look, the point is:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
The Scurvy Pirates host an evening of Drinking, Talking like a Pirate and MUSIC, With Supporting act:
BRINE & BASTARDS
@ 10:pm, TODAY Sept 19th!, FREE, Otto's Shrunken Head, 538 E. 14th between A&B.
There'll be costume contests, trivia contests and more grab-ass then is reasonably reasonable. 100% Grade-A Fun to be had by all brave enough and of loose enough moral standing to seek it out! Don't be a Sea-Putz! ROCK OUT Scurvy Pirates Style on TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, ARG!!
Talking like a pirate is so, er, 17th century. Try Type like a Pirate day
Argh, how ye do yerz ninja's talk?
...I'd imagine something like CHUCK NORRIS!!!
If this is talk like a pirate day, why is the summary written in bad Scots?
pirate > ninja
I mean, seriously, "Ninjas of the Caribbean?" I don't think so!
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Connection too slow for X forwarding? Try "ssh -CX user@host"
actually Ninjas don't talk, they just kill.
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
Captain Morgan, Black Bart Roberts - Welshmen. Not Bristolians. Forget that showman Blackbeard, if you respect either sheer quantity of ships taken (Roberts) or getting away with it and drinking yourself to death and having a brand of rum named after you (Morgan), it's got to be the Welsh pirates.
if you are serious... you are my hero, Matey!
I for one welcome our new pirate-speaking overlords... Yarr!
ninja > pirate
I mean, seriously, "Teenage Mutant Pirate Turtles"? "Pirate Gaiden"? I don't think so!
if your gay do you need to talk like a butt pirate?
We be posting when we get around to it. Last night been Pirate's Day Eve, gotta be sleeping that off this mornin...
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
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.
http://www.bash.org/?9081
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Or talk like a pirate's parrot day?
Sqaaaawk! Walk the plank! Walk the plank! Wanna Cracker?
"Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." -Jesus Christ The Lord's Prayer
1. Pirate walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. The bartender says, "hey, that's really cool: where did you get it?" The parrot says, "from a pirate ship, of course."
2. Pirate walks into a bar with a hook hand and an eyepatch. Bartender says "that's rough, man: what happened?" Pirate holds up his arm and says "arrr, swordfight." The bartender nods and asks about the eyepatch. Pirate says, "a gull shat in it." The bartender blinks and says "you wouldn't lose an eye from that, would you?" The pirate sighs and says "you would if it's your first day with a hook hand."
3. Pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his shorts, and says, "arr, bartender, bring me a flagion of rum!" The bartender says, "sure, pal, but what's with the steering wheel?" The pirate growls, "I don't know, but it's driving me nuts."
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Sorry, my key got stuck. So what's today?
Arrr, ye olde server hostin' yon quiz has been sent to Davey Joneses Locker. Any of ye scurvy dogs have a 'patch' te keep it afloat until we're done plunderin' her? Arrrr
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
But what if pirate == ninja?
Think about it: Teenage Mutant Ninja Pirates!
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
Neutron Bomb. Ninjas and Pirates don't stand a chance against me!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Tis not the end of your torment laddie,
the next dawn brings the salty sting of an ITLAPD dupe.
I think I saw the guy who invented this on Wife Swap last night. There were so many fleas in his house that his swapped wife refused to sleep there. His actual wife is total tool. It's an odd show.
This
Make a hook with a finger on each hand and use them to stretch your mouth. You'll sound like a scurvy pirate!
how to talk like a pirate
http://www.puzzlepirates.com/ It be the best pirate related game ye can play for free upon the vast untamed seas of the internet.
PirateSpeak Addon: http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-4504-1-p iratespeak.html
Should be called Irritating Nerds Day
But this begs the question, how do you know if you're a pirate? I guess you just ARRRRRRe
[a repost of mine from "Another Golden Age of Gaming? I thought it applicable] (Off-topic fer just two shakes of a Parots' Tail....Sept 19 -ITLAPD!!
.00001-bit seas! Sailin on, who can ferget (yarrr! who can remember?) the death dealin Captain... errr... Commander Keeeeeeeeen?
Arrr! I must get me plug in fer the day o' days before me comments. I hope no scallawag keel-hauls (-1 Mod) me fer me ferver -Yar Har!)
Ye' must be three sheets to the wind, if ye' were to tell me 'twer not an age ye' call "GOLDEN" (Yarrr! GOLD!)
Aye, I can recall back to day I was but a gamin' lubber - Me Atari and me spent many a countless watch ravenging the
Let me take ye' forward a stormy watch or two, and remind ye' of where the ship lies -
Weee've got us photorealism, Multiiii-thread Cooores,
Swashbucklin and Adventurin
An' Lo' Killin. Aye, Killin Galoooore!
An' Now in 5.1 audio, needn't bother with letter's yer Eyes
Have ye seen ye Oblivion?
Have ye seen ye F.E.A.R. - W.O.W. - Ye Console P-Cube-X?
Even now yer belov'd Dungeon-o-Dragons?
Ye scurvey dog, could ye live now without PCI-Express?
Yarr - I fear thar be some dissen't among the ranks,
the ol' buccaneers tend much t' thar ways
Those dogs who worship thar good ol' days, aye, they should walk the plank!
Aye! 'ts ne'r been be'er
te see games as a treasure
Ye'd have te be plum-gone rum insane,
te think the past be'er 'an than a world with
Massive Multiplayer Online Raidin' Pirate Games! YARRR HARRR!!!
Advertising is a poor, failing, ghost of an attempt at the power of honest word of mouth. -Locution Commando
well written and on topic... wtf are you doing on /.?
Today meebo can translate your conversations into buccaneer-speak automatically. I've seen some really funny ones + it'll freak yer crew out with th' buccaneer-speak all o' a sudden! To do it, just log on and type (pirateon)
I wrote a few years ago but it never worked as well as I'd hoped: Pirate Translator. Didn't keep any of the "frills" on it, just a simple word/phrase/letter translation table.
Problem was most of the look-up terms I had were nautical. So if you refer to things like anchor, paymaster or first mate, it will find stuff but too often it comes up empty. There are a number of others floating around there, but never really been happy with any of them. If anyone knows of a good one please share..
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
What was the recipe for grog given by the three pirates in Monkey Island?
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZVaFAEtVec
Ye copied those direct from tha site, matey! Time to walk tha plank!
Prepare to be boarded, and hand over yer gold! Or your small change!
For every action there is a completely absurd lawsuit.
Does this mean we'll finally defeat global warming today?? (see http://www.venganza.org/)
I went to send off a quick greeting to a fFriend, cellphone wise...
T9 text does not know how to deal with pirate-speak
"avast" and "land-lubbers" are not in the dictionary.
Bleh.
(13:50 late. but you know what they say: "better late than..." no, wait, that's not it.)
I really like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, but that family on wife swap is insane! I'd like to know what software company that guy worked for prior to developing his "Pirattitude"!
Jeff for President
If ye be needin' help typin' like a pirate, try out the pirate keyboard. Arrr!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
It be rum we pirates fancy!
Oh darn, I thought it was pie-rate day. I was all set with my list too:
Apple - 0
Blueberry - 5
Olallieberry - 10
Guess I'll have to hang onto this list for later. (sad yarrrr.)
But what if teenage == mutant?
Oh wait, it is.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Blasphemer!!
Hosers.
http://static.flickr.com/29/44753311_a9270c41ac_o. jpg
I need to find me Pirate Convention in this port... perhaps Peter Sarsgaard will attend?
Fear Me Lads!
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wait... were you guys talking about the other kind of pirate???
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
Haggis McMutton: Me given name is 'Heart-Liver-And-Kidneys-Boiled-In-The-Stomach-Of- The-Animal McMutton.'
Guybrush Threepwood: Oh, so your parents were expecting a girl, then.
Haggis McMutton: Aye.
I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine,
I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
But times were hard and though I tried, the money wasn't there
And bankers came and took my land and told me "fair is fair"
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no
"Hire you now?" they'd always laugh, "we just let twenty go!"
The government, the promised me a measly little sum
But I've got too much pride to end up just another bum.
Then I thought, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?
I'm gonna be a PIRATE on the river Saskatchewan!!!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Well, you'd think the local farmers would know that I'm at large
But just the other day I found an unsuspecting barge
I snuck up right behind them and they were none the wiser,
I rammed their ship and sank it and I stole their fertilizer!
A bridge outside of Moosejaw spans a mighty river
Farmers cross in so much fear their stomachs are a'quiver
Cause they know that TRACTOR JACK is waitin' in the bay
I'll jump the bridge and knock them cold and sail off with their hay!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Well, Mountie Bob he chased me, he was always at my throat
He'd follow on the shoreline cause he didn't own a boat
But cutbacks were a'coming and the Mountie lost his job
And now he's sailing with us, and we call him Salty Bob!
A swingin' sword, a skull and bones and pleasant company
I never pay my income tax and screw the GST (SCREW IT!!)
Prince Albert down to Saskatoon, the terror of the seas
If you wanna reach the co-op, boy, you gotta get by me!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
(*spoken* Arrrr! Ya salty dog!)
(*spoken* Arrrr! Ya salty gopher!)
(*spoken* Arr.. ya.. salty bale of hay!)
Well, Pirate life's appealing but you just don't find it here,
I've heard that in Alberta there's a band of buccaneers
They roam the Athabaska from Smith to Fort McKay
And you're sure to loose your stetson if you have to pass their way!
Well, winter is a'comin' and a chill is in the breeze
My Pirate days are over once the river starts to freeze
I'll be back in springtime but now I have to go
I hear there's lots of plunderin' down in New Mexico!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores...
Wow, another internet fad makes it to Slashdot. I'm stunned.
Don't forgot Sept 21st is talk like Samuel Jackson Day.
And Sept 23rd is talk like A Homosexual Coming-Out to His Parents Day!!!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html
and
http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl
and
http://nifty.stanford.edu/2004/TalkLikeAPirate/pir ate2.html
and
http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/translate/
It be better t' be a troll than t' be a bad human.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
Arrrrhhhh! /.ed down to Davey Joneses locker....
Insert funny smart-ass comment here.
in piratin' school, I never got past the three Arrrs!
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
The Japanese are celebrating International Talk Like A Ninja day.
A pirate walks into a jewelry store.
"Arr, matey! How much to get me lobes pierced?" he asks the shop keeper.
"Buccaneer, of course!"
(Ducks.)
Can you all grow the fuck up? This fad is more ridiculous than MySpace.
in the mood for pirate hip hop?
Until next year, we'll be celebrating Download Like a Pirate Day. Arrr.
-516
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).
Support the FairTax
But this reply shows they have the day at hearrrrrrrrrrrrrt, matey.
4 476:
from http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=3
From: help@google.com
Subject: Re: [#73859603]
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:44:27 -0700
Ahoy mate,
Thank'ee fer th' logo ye be suggestin'. We enjoy celebratin' horlidays at Google.
As ye may imagine, it be terrible difficult fer us t' choose which events t' be celebratin' on our site. We be hav'in a long list o' horlidays that we'd be liken' ter celebrate in th' future. We be hav'in ter balance this rotatin' calendar with th' need te be maintainin' the likeness o' the Google homepage.
Some horlidays that we no' been celebratin' in the past will be rotatin' into our horliday doodles fer future years.
Please remember ye can be visitin' any o' our doodles at http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
Arrrrrrr,
The Google Team
...what is the letter between Q and S?
"When I wake up in the morning I piss cryptographic excellence." - Bruce Schneier
Arrrg so say i, that there be once a priest, (arrrg) a rabbi (arrrg) and a pirate (arrrrg) with a gnarly eye patch (double arrrg) who all be sauntering in yonder to a tavern ......... for drinking the beastly brew, (arrrrg) that be the stuff er causer me accent and surly disposition ,,, (arrrrrg) Then it be that these three, all 3 legs and 3 trusty wooden legs (arrrrg) amongst them, to the bar they did go to ask for poison of choice, (arrrrg) and a rin tin tin an a bucket blood, (arrrrrg). The bar keep (arrr no good landlubber arrrg) notices that all three of the companions have wooden legs and asks how they got them ..... (arrrrggg splinters arrrrg) . Then be the Priest says that he lost his leg while saving a child (arrrg good eats arrrrg) from a fire (arrrrg awwww how so nice arrrrrg), then the Rabbi say that he lost his leg in a attack of viscous ruffians (arrrrg, me landcousins........arrrrgggg) and finally the Pirate says that he lost his leg during a munity of a crew long ago (arrrr treators be them all arrrrrrrg taking me lucky charms arrrrrgggg). Then the bar keep asked the pirate if yhe also lost his eye in the same fight? (arrrg inquisitive little scroundle arrrrrg) and the pirate responds, arrrg no this here bum eye (arrrrg cant see the booty that well arrrrrg and me treasure too arrrrrg) becuase a damned seagull crapped in my eye..... (arrrg arrrrg arrrrg) Then everyone laughed and the bartender said, Hahahahaha (arrrg you be regrettin that laugh arrrrg) So how did the bird shit hurt your eye? and the pirate responded, ARRRRRRRGGGGG be it was the first day with me hook ARRRRRG (arrrrg har har har arrrrg)
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2m ail/mail381.html#tractatus
Another year gone by, and a million Slashdotters still haven't "buried their treasure"...
It should be held in Arrrrrrrrgust.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
What is the /. obsession with this 'speak like a pirate' crap.
It's not funny - but so what, so's a lot that I read here
It's not nerdy, but ditto
Honestly, why is this always here?
Dude. Ninjas/Pirates of the Caribbean.
It's poetry with a beat behind it! And guns! They're like beatniks with automatic weapons.
"I would like to download some Metallica on Kazaa."
"My iPod is full of music which I did not purchase."
"I enjoy watching movies I got off Limewire." (yeah right, like I could actually get something decent off Limewire!)
"This latest hit single from Beyonce, which you hear playing in the background, has been obtained in ways not approved by the RIAA. So sue me."
"My entire mp3/ogg/wma collection is available on a peer-to-peer network for any virtual passers-by to peruse and download at will."
I don't know, "Talk Like a Pirate Day" sounds like more fun than it actually is, I guess.
To reign is to serve.
Some salty lubbers have yet to be Touched by His Noodly Appendage. Tis right up there with grog, lootin' and pillagin' in my books.
Yar!
My coworkers and I have been celebrating this for three or four years now. Every September 19th, the cubes are plastered with posters from the website, and every in-house email starts with Arrrrrgh!, Ahoy!, or Ye lily livered land lubber!
It makes for an interesting day. It is sad when it falls on a weekend.
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawnzer lee light," sang Miss Binney
Yarr Harties be spelled wrong! Yo har! Who not a pirate give a karr bout spellings
It's not -1 Flamebait! It's +5 Funny. You just didn't get the joke...
Argghh! Ye be them Canadian pirates? What be wit' ye "aboot" in thar pirate talkin'?
Yar!
Bloody Tom Flint
Upon boardin' the IT department, I was shocked to find that nought of those scallywags was speaking the tongue. Ought to be keelhauled, I say. Runnin' a department o marauders and forgetting the day of days? Shiver me timbers!
... and then they built the supercollider.
With Asterix
They have a pirate guy on the front page with a special you can find by locating the pirate treasure chest icon on the site.
We may experience some slight turbulence and then...explode. -Capt. Mal Reynolds
Space Pirate: Avast, mateys! Electronically transfer your space doubloons, afore I send thee to Davey Jarg's locker!
(Of course, mere text doesn't do justice to the fact that he has four shoulders, three of which have parrots on them, three out of four peg-legs, and three eyes with two eyepatches.)
lol.
Arr matey! Being a pirate is alright with me!
http://dm.senixee.net/youareapirate.swf
ganked from lazytowns you are a pirate! arrgh!
http://dm.senixee.net/youareapirate.swf
I read about this on the weekend and wanted to get all prepared and talk all piratey at work. Now I'm home from work, relaxing after supper reading /. and what do I read ....damn! Avast! We missed her agin bye. Shiver me timbers and blow me down! Arrrrr! Nows I have to jig the main and set the sail to when I says me piratey ways in another year! I'll run up me Jolly Rodger with a flag to say "Don't miss ye next years Pirate Day!!!" ARRRRRRRR
Pirates were, and are, some of the worst criminals ever known. Talking like a pirate makes a mockery of them, which keeps them human enough that we can talk about their actual history without some kind of taboo against comparing them to other, lesser criminals.
So we should also have "Talk Like a Nazi Day". Because Nazis were so bad, though so human, that we are losing the ability to learn from their awful history how possible it is to repeat it. Fallacies like the misapplication of "Godwin's Law" prevent us from comparing fascists, genociders, invaders and others to the archetypical Nazis, even prevent us from talking rationally about how those comparisons are often wrong and baseless.
We beat the Nazis in the 1940s partly by mocking them as cartoon evil. We keep piracy from having any legitimacy partly by mocking pirates into harmless cartoons. If we talked like Nazis in mockery more often, maybe we'd avoid acting like them as much as we still occasionally do in seriousness.
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make install -not war
They wear AAARRRRgile!!!
I mean, if you're going to take all the innocent fun out of this day you may as well go the whole hog.
Throwing elections, starting wars without probable cause, ignoring international agreements and Geneva convention, there's quite a lot to play with..