Arrr! Every September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day! You can get up to speed by visiting the official site for holiday resources. See the pictures at Flickr. Read up on the history of the holiday. See how they celebrate in Australia, Britain, and around the world. Join the pirate discussion at Fark. See some music videos on piracy. Or look at pirate kittens. If you don't know how to talk like a pirate, try this handy translator. Arrrr! Uodate: There's even a commemoration on Mars!
Slurs against lifestyles/sexual preferences aside, 'talking like a pirate' is an invention of hollywood.
Look it up.
You might as well have talk like an Ewok day.
Yub yub!
Talk Like a Pirate Day comes from Dave Barry's book a few years back... wiki it, scallywags.
Check it out at www.teefury.com
(And for those that would dismiss it as a lame fad, I grew up in California, but this was hardly Hollywood's doing. For a long while this was an underground geek thing to do, not exactly "cool", then the Pirates of the Caribbean movies came out, and pirates were suddenly in. Go figure. Mostly though, then, as now, it's just good, somewhat crusty fun if you have some suitably goofy and creative friends. Linguistic inventiveness and a overflow of rrrrrr's is a must.)
- I am Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate.
- Look! A three-headed monkey!
- You fight like a dairy Neatorama author!
Stupid Darwinists. Go crawl back in your monkey cave
Instant Yarrrrr!
(And guybrush- 'I can see a diorama of of all the children in the world, all happy and living in peace. No, wait')
On that belated note, I am off to make ye a Neatorama diorama.
YAAARRRRR!
Is it stupid? Yes. But who cares? It's fun!
(says a total ninja supporter)
YE SCURVY DOGS!
(Techincally, it's no lnger TLaP Day, but I celebrate all 24 hours, and I wake up real late.)