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September 19, 2006 at 11:00 am #24987PolarBearNPRParticipant
Some of you know that I have a thing for pirates (think “of the Caribbean”) so I was amused to find this in today’s paper. 😀 So before I go off t’ work, I thought I`d post this here, in case we be havin’ any seafarin’ heartys or seafarin’ hearty-wanta-bes on this BBB.
A day to count your booty, not shake it
On Talk Like a Pirate Day, it’s OK to pepper your language with a dose of sea salt.
By Amelia Robinson
Staff Writer
September 19, 2006Ahoy, me hearties! Praise be to the wench of the sea. Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Arrgh.
It be the only day ye can call ye boss a scurvy dog and git away with it. Arrrrrr.
(Don’t be lily-livered, but ye might be wantin’ to rethink that. Wouldn’t wantin’ to be sent to Davy Jones’ locker for insubordination. Dead men tell no tales and git no raises).
Now don’t git ye’self excited, ye scallywags still have to swab the deck or feel the cold steel of ye cap’n’s hook. Talk like a Pirate Day is not an official government holiday, and it ain’t fer ev’ry salty sea dog.
Accordin’ to the day’s founders, Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers and John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur, the day is celebrated by millions around the world. Harr and Yo-ho-ho! The Oregon buccaneers came up with it in 1995 durin’ a game of racquetball. Last year they released the book Pirattitude! So You Want to Be a Pirate? Here’s How (New American Library, $12.95). It be includin’ an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry.
Besides the vocabulary, ye landlubber will need some swaggy, and plenty of it, to make this a successful International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Smartly, hop to it dogs! Git ye’selfs a fool-mouth parrot at the pet shop next to Starbucks. I named me wee bucko Morgan Freeman. Do what ye like wit ye’rs. Just don’t let um nip ye sprogs. To arms lads and lassies, ye be needin’ a spyglass for spottin’ Jolly Rogers and when the copyin’ machine is jammed with meatpie. Argh! And ye will need an eye patch — me not sure if they be sellin’ em at Macy’s. Ye might be wantin’ to takes ye pieces of eight down to ye local Halloween store. The closest location be dependin’ on what sea ye be sailin’ next. Yarr! No matter where ye be shoppin’, leave ye six pounders on ya bilge rat or face the cat o’ nine tails.
As for ye office cap’n, hopefully he be loaded to the gunwales and won’t notice if ye be 15 minutes late. Arrgh.
Already at work? Blimey! Don’t hang the jib. Raid the supply closet for booty ye can use to enhance ye look.
Speak pirate like a pro
So me matey, ye got a bite of the background, but not so fast. Ye need a bite ole practice before ye can count ye’self in the ranks of Cap’n Long John Silver or Cap’n Jack Sparrow.
Check out the links below to before searching for Treasure Island or that cursed Black Pearl. Arrrrrr.
Talk Like a Pirate Day official Web site: Talk Like A Pirate Day – September 19
Talk Like a Pirate Personality Inventory (TOTLAPPI): talklikeapirate.com/ppi.html
English to Buccaneer translator: Pirate Speak
Pirate vocabulary: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates: A Pirate’s Vocabulary or
Pirate Speak – Talk Like A Pirate Day UK HeadquartersAnother useful Web site: Talklikeapirateday.com
September 19, 2006 at 11:05 am #152469MrEggsaladParticipantYES! Now I just wonder how acceptable this is at school….I don’t think we are allowed to have parrots :p
September 19, 2006 at 1:37 pm #152467Jeff HesterKeymasterArrghhh, matey.
I liked that pirate speak link. You can even send it a URL and it “translates” the web page. Here’s an example of what it did with the BigBlueBall home page (from the AIM PBE story):
“….Swabbieally, I dasn’t be seein’ this goin’ far. AIM has nay foothold in th’ corporate door, an’ faces stiff competition from both Microsoft an’ IBM, th’ corporate mainstays. True, ’tis cheap. Aye, ‘t lets ye chat wi’ cargo holds o’ AIM users. I jus’ dasn’t be seein’ a compellin’ business case t’ jump on board…”
Maybe we should do all our news in pirate-speak. :p
EDIT: Skype is also celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day with a special language pack that converts the Skype menus and interface into pirate-speak. You can sneak a peek here, and read more here.
September 19, 2006 at 3:21 pm #152468TigerbladeParticipantGarrrr. We be needin a day fer this? Sum’us be true swashbucklers o’ the sea and shan’t be needin’ a special tide.
September 19, 2006 at 9:30 pm #152471PolarBearNPRParticipantHeh – gotta love Skype gettin’ on the bandwagon. And BBB in pirate-ese, sounds interesting, but a little rough around the edges 😀
Tiger – glad to see a real swashbuckler representin’ BBB. 😉
And Jeff – dude, your avatar is sort of intense; and yet somehow sort of cool. 😎
September 20, 2006 at 12:04 am #152470dvelez1985Member*omit*
September 21, 2006 at 6:52 pm #152472PolarBearNPRParticipantNahh, dvelez. But fer them who need an outlet fer the’r gentleman o’ fortune-ness, this be th’ perfect tide t’ cut loose. 😉
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