Ho Hey! September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

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hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

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Wiki.com said:

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur ("Ol' Chumbucket") and Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy"), of the United States, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.[1] For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello", but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" The date was selected because it was the birthday of Summers's ex-wife and consequently would be easy for him to remember.

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http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Aye aye, captain (?) -pirate

It was kind of funny, since I didn't know about this whole "talk like a pirate day" business until a week or so ago. When I was at the TIFF screenings, there are those warnings clips before the films right? All of a sudden, whenever the word "pirate" or "piracy" is mentioned, people started making random pirate-y noise... That caught my attention... -sweat

#1 hiake, Sep 18, 2007
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lol i talk like a pirate every day.

'yaaarrr' is my catchphrase lol

#2 fearless_fx, Sep 18, 2007
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hahaha. some people i know would probably dress like one too.

#3 chickenutbread, Sep 18, 2007
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that tomorrow...and I have day off! Awww...

#4 Flames, Sep 18, 2007
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-ohmy there is such a day?? -huh?
ive never heard of it....

#5 brown_bear, Sep 18, 2007
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^same here harr harr arr....

#6 ah_wong201, Sep 18, 2007
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this reminds me of a pillow fight that was set-up on the net, and happened in Birmingham city centre, was crazy.

#7 master_g, Sep 18, 2007
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pirate day...interesting...i'll have to remember that

#8 tonkachi, Sep 18, 2007
Knoctur_nal |Force 10 from Navarone|

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oh man..another one of these insane special days..

#9 Knoctur_nal, Sep 18, 2007
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Knoctur_nal said: ↑

oh man..another one of these insane special days..
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Indeed it is, but sometimes we all need something to count our days by -devil

#10 hiake, Sep 18, 2007
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what next it becomes a huge day for them card shops soon??

#11 brown_bear, Sep 18, 2007
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we need a day for aniking and bigspringroll.

#12 Knoctur_nal, Sep 18, 2007
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Knoctur_nal said: ↑

we need a day for aniking and bigspringroll.
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And/or internet forum trolls in general?

#13 hiake, Sep 18, 2007
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The only good thing about this is holiday is that my friend doesn't know about. I'm pretty sure he would just be bothering me the whole day -_-2

#14 khaotic, Sep 18, 2007
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khaotic said: ↑

The only good thing about this is holiday is that my friend doesn't know about. I'm pretty sure he would just be bothering me the whole day -_-2
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Oh, I am sure people will be annoying (and annoyed) to no end tomorrow, and that's the fun of it. -devil

#15 hiake, Sep 18, 2007
hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

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Even Reuters cover the "news" of this International Talk like a Pirate Day...

Tomorrow you'll pay a buccaneer for corn? By Paul Majendie

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."

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#16 hiake, Sep 18, 2007
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Knoctur_nal said: ↑

we need a day for aniking and bigspringroll.
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Aniking is busy with garlic.

#17 BabyRain, Sep 18, 2007
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BabyRain said: ↑

Aniking is busy with garlic.
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And September 19 is taken already. Perhaps we can dedicate a minute some day for their collective contribution to PA... Call it undying annoyance minute or something. And you can introduce a new undying villain in your story -devil

Flame on -cool

#18 hiake, Sep 18, 2007
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Bigspringroll.. that's another potential candidate. But so far he's quite entertaining.

#19 BabyRain, Sep 18, 2007
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BabyRain said: ↑

Bigspringroll.. that's another potential candidate.
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A proliferating springroll investation in the quite village of... somewhere... -devil Making every villager greasy and obese, then turn them into another one of their kind... -rolleyes

#20 hiake, Sep 18, 2007

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