ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Tomorrow, as you surely know if you follow world events, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a day on which all of humanity, except we hope airline pilots, joins together in the vitally important yet all-too-often-neglected task of talking like a pirate for a day. You should also know that Mad Sally Baur, the wife of one of the lunatics visionaries responsible for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, is featured tonight on the TV show Wife Swap. This blog has no doubt that this event will some day be considered the high-water mark of Western civilization.
Meanwhile the pirate movement (thanks to Nightingale) is gaining momentum everywhere, including in the field of ladies' fashion accessories (thanks to Amy).
UPDATE: In case you do not know how to talk like a pirate, here is a useful training film (thanks to Clean Hands).
Ahoy, maties!
Posted by: Suzy Q | September 18, 2006 at 11:37 AM
hmmm...choices, choices, Pirate Lady or Prison Break?
Posted by: 24 | September 18, 2006 at 11:39 AM
Yarr! Here be another few fun links...tis a fine couple of pages at that. Hope ye enjoy them:
http://gangstaname.com/pirate_name.php
http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate/
Yo ho ho,
Captain Jack Flint
Posted by: Mark | September 18, 2006 at 11:41 AM
Mad Sally Baur - hey! Does Jack approve of this swap?
Posted by: 24 | September 18, 2006 at 11:42 AM
Woo-hoo! Thanks for the cite, Dave!
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 11:46 AM
Ahem. I meant, of course, "Arrrrrr! I'll be thankin' ye fer the kind recognition, me matey Dave!"
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 11:47 AM
"Pirates are like the new cowboys."
Wyo, they're takin' over yer booty!
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 11:50 AM
LOL great training video, CH!!!
I mean...ARRRRRR ARRRR ARRRRR, CH!!!
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 11:52 AM
Girls, you be the judge:
Cowboys or Pirates ?
Posted by: 24 | September 18, 2006 at 11:55 AM
24, can't I have both???
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 11:56 AM
Hmmmmmmmm
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | September 18, 2006 at 11:57 AM
24, I'll guarantee you that Stetson guy ain't a real cowboy. He's still got all his fingers, for one thing.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | September 18, 2006 at 11:58 AM
wyo - you don't think Matthew McConaughey (sp?) is a real cowboy? Dang, I've been deceived :)
Posted by: 24 | September 18, 2006 at 12:03 PM
ARRRGH- I'm with ye all mateys.
Posted by: queensbee | September 18, 2006 at 12:03 PM
sure is...a Texas cowboy! and gorgeous one at that!
but I can't pick him over Johnny Depp...maybe alternating days?
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 12:05 PM
Living in France, Talk Like a Pirate Day will be a little tricky, but I'll give it my best shot.
Posted by: Marie in Kourou | September 18, 2006 at 12:06 PM
Le ARRRRRRRR???
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 12:07 PM
siouxie, let's put them on rotation, you can have matthew tuesday/thurs/sat and i'll take johnny on monday/wednesday/friday AND sunday!
Posted by: crossgirl | September 18, 2006 at 12:08 PM
Living in France, talkin' pirate lingo should be easy. The only word be ARRRR and that sound's bein' the mainstay o' the French tongue as well.
Posted by: Dr Acula | September 18, 2006 at 12:11 PM
Et maintenant, sheevair ma timbairs.
Posted by: Dr Acula | September 18, 2006 at 12:12 PM
Marie in Kourou - you have Johnny Depp there in France - get him to teach you how to talk like a pirate...
Posted by: Kathybear | September 18, 2006 at 12:13 PM
crossgirl, DEAL!!
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 12:16 PM
Anyways, Kourou may be part o' France but it is still in the Caribbean so it must be infested wi' bucko mateys , scurvey swabs and whoreson forepeak scum.
Posted by: Dr Acula | September 18, 2006 at 12:19 PM
Given my nickname's history, I feel a little like this is Christmas Eve. Can we just cut open the gifts now, daddy?
I remember it so well, the games we used to play! My sister and I would beg mom for weeks to be able to play "Boil the Mayor" before TLAPD Sadly, she never allowed us to. The mayor, meanwhile, had little comment. (And no comment afterwards, if ye catch me drift...)
And the food! The best meals we's could steal! Imagine going into the best markets, and asking the serving wench for the finest meats, ale, grog and wine. Then, when the sacks were all stuffed, tellling her that "Naturally, this is all on the house". Usually, this resulted in a terribly ugly scene, often involving law enforcement. However, the cutlass must prevail ('tis in the Pirate Code) and we always had more than enough bounty to share with our pirate brothers and sisters.
May you and yours have a wonderfully swashbuckley (?) day!
Remember: Just say Arrrrrr!
Posted by: PirateBoy | September 18, 2006 at 12:34 PM
It is not, technically, in the Caribbean. We're a little too far east, so what I see from the beach here is the (Amazonian) Atlantic: brown and muddy. It's not exactly St Bart's.
But the beaches are clean and nearly empty, so come on down! We always have the rainforest when you get tired of acquiring new, exciting melanomas while lying on the sand.
The problem is that my SO is French, and I don't know how to speak like a pirate in Molière's fine language. I could sprinkle my sentences with AAAAARRRRRs and YAAAAAARRRRRs, but how do I get "Avast, ye dirty scallawag, ye're home late agin!" across?
Posted by: Marie in Kourou | September 18, 2006 at 12:36 PM
the training film was
harrrrryarrrr! and gave me cause to have a goodyarrrharrrr! (sigh think i'm gonna be in big trouble tomarrrrr-ow)Posted by: puppytoes | September 18, 2006 at 12:39 PM
Oh, I almost forgot... Sorry, Kathybear, but Johnny Depp's not my kinda lad. I tend to go for guys like Noah Wyle, or France's very own Mathieu Kassovitz, Romain Duris...
Posted by: Marie in Kourou | September 18, 2006 at 12:44 PM
Avast me hearty buxom wenches!
Pass the grog bowl!
Posted by: Punkin O' The Heaving Seas | September 18, 2006 at 12:52 PM
CH, me hearty! 'Twas a fine bit o' video findin' there. Me timbers were so loudly shivered, me neighbor came asking as to me well being.
(Translation: he was returning a borrowed tool and wondered why he could hear me laughing like a lunatic from the sidewalk.)
Posted by: WriterDude | September 18, 2006 at 12:52 PM
**off topic alert**
Just want to say thanks again who wished me luck on the GRE. It went great--720 on both verbal and math.
Despite this, it took me three tries to spell "alert" just now.
Posted by: Betsi | September 18, 2006 at 12:54 PM
Pirate-simul w/ Punkin? Me timbers are really shivered now!
Posted by: WriterDude | September 18, 2006 at 12:54 PM
I told the Mrs about tomorrow and she went all out. She bought patches, fake beards and moustaches and pirate bandanas for her office, She printed out little phrase books and as of right now sent all of her co-workers a time delay email of the how to talk pirate video (thank you CH).
Posted by: Juggler of Geese | September 18, 2006 at 12:55 PM
Congrats, betsi!!
And to all who have benefited from the video: Aw, shucks, it were nothin'.
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 12:58 PM
Bonus simul with Betsi, too. Think I'll buy a Powerball ticket today.
Congrats on the test, Betsi!
Posted by: WriterDude | September 18, 2006 at 12:59 PM
heh heh writer said "bonus"
Posted by: Betsi | September 18, 2006 at 01:00 PM
YAY Betsi!! ye smart wench!!
ARRRRRRR to ya!
also, Punkin?? I be heavin' after looking at that grog!
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:01 PM
arrrrr! betsi be a well-rounded wench!
Posted by: insomniac | September 18, 2006 at 01:05 PM
What's a mattah Siouxie-gurrell? You be a lilly-livered, yellow-bellied coward? Arrrrrrrgh!
Posted by: Punkin Poo | September 18, 2006 at 01:05 PM
To get your pirate name.
accck..I'm Filthy Jan Drake
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:05 PM
WD - An yer buckles be swashed quite vig'russly, too! Arrrrrrgh!
Posted by: Punkin Poo | September 18, 2006 at 01:06 PM
And I'm "Fubar" Amy Hornigold.
Posted by: Betsi | September 18, 2006 at 01:07 PM
Marie, something like this, maybe?
"Zut, alorrrr, tu canaillllllle sale, tu est en retarrrrr à la maison encorrrrrr."
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 01:08 PM
I be "Burnin' Laura Morgan" - my boss is "Pirate Glynnis the Malformed"
Posted by: Punkin Poo | September 18, 2006 at 01:10 PM
Hehehe. I'm "Pirate Harley the Staggering Drunk."
Hey... I resemble that moniker.
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 01:10 PM
Tee-hee, betsi said "horny."
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 01:11 PM
Ok - I say we all remember our monikers, and use them as our blog names tomorrow....then we can see if we remember ourselves. (?)
Posted by: Punkin Poo | September 18, 2006 at 01:14 PM
Punkin, my thoughts exactly. :-)
Posted by: Betsi | September 18, 2006 at 01:17 PM
Punkin, that pic looks as though someone fell victim to both the saran-wrapped toilet and the Ex-Lax brownie stunts. It definitely crosses over from the "icky" to the "gross" column.
Thanks for sharing. Sorta.
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 01:17 PM
although "Fubar" sounds a little too twentieth century to me...
Posted by: Betsi | September 18, 2006 at 01:18 PM
So we be pirates tomorrow ey???
ARRRRRRRRR
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:19 PM
Arrrr, Punkin, ye personification of buxom wench, don't be forgettin' that ye swashed the buckles of none other than... Frownin' Skyler Scabb?
Skyler?? Every Skyler I've ever met was either a preppy or one of my kids' classmates. I may have to try again.
Posted by: WriterDude | September 18, 2006 at 01:19 PM
We had a Skylar running around the island yesterday, I wanted to hang him from the flagpole. I cannot stand annoying kids or the parents that seem to sense annoyed adults and send said annoying kids to play near us.
Posted by: Cap'n Randal Chumbucket (JoG) | September 18, 2006 at 01:23 PM
Yarrrrrrr and I'm Blind Angie - Avast and blimey ye scurvy barstids yarrrrr.....
Posted by: Foxhunter-Sippi | September 18, 2006 at 01:30 PM
I do not like my pirate name:
"Cirrhosis" Aurora Cutty
Posted by: 24 | September 18, 2006 at 01:31 PM
24, try a combination of names...I did my daughters names and mine and came up with
Lazy Eye Shannon!!
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:32 PM
So I'm Norm the Fashionably Late.
and to Cap'n Randal, formerly known as Juggler, amen on the other people's kids. We really did hang one from the fence when I was workin as a wrangler on a dude ranch. We thought it was terribly funny, but his mom became kinda bitchy. Oh well.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | September 18, 2006 at 01:32 PM
There is a great 'pirate' video at:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_IAUZ-0zXzI
The song is by Reliant K, and I think it describes most pirates on "Talk like a pirate day" (keep listening to the third verse; it is funny).
Posted by: Charles | September 18, 2006 at 01:35 PM
Linky thing for those (like me) who don't want to go hunt up a free browser, cut/copy/paste and all that jazzzz.
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 01:37 PM
is it the veggie tales one? the pirates who don't do anything?
Posted by: Betsi | September 18, 2006 at 01:38 PM
SO i am "cap'n casey what's his name" ...
I like it.
Posted by: Letch | September 18, 2006 at 01:38 PM
CH, you're a good man.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | September 18, 2006 at 01:38 PM
Arrr, I be astounded that none of ye salty dogs has noticed that "Scurvy Barstids" WBAGNFAPirateB.
Posted by: WriterDude | September 18, 2006 at 01:38 PM
Arr.. y'all be calling me Cap'n Rupert Roughnite if ye namin' gods be worth their salt.
TLAPD has it's traditions, like all holidays. One of me favorites is to get sick of the whole blasted thing 'fore the day ever arrives.
Arr, I need some grog and a couple of Tylenol.
Posted by: mudstuffin | September 18, 2006 at 01:39 PM
Oh, yeah, Siouxie, this is much better:
Pirate Laura the Dagger
aarrghghgh
Posted by: 24 | September 18, 2006 at 01:39 PM
I sorry ia have not been in teh spirit of things... I be "Cap'n Casey what's his name" and me name demands respect. Wench bring me an ale!
Posted by: Letch | September 18, 2006 at 01:42 PM
LOL I did my sister's (lorena) and forgot to click on female:
Cannon-Balls Dick
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:42 PM
female form - Cannon-Balls Xena
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:44 PM
Dave - Cap'n Skyler Greasepalms
judi - Nervous Marcy Teach
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:45 PM
And just who is Dyspeptic Carlos Jones?
Oh.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | September 18, 2006 at 01:45 PM
I LOVE The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything!!
Posted by: Val | September 18, 2006 at 01:49 PM
Val - kung pow?
Posted by: Burnin' Laura Morgan | September 18, 2006 at 01:53 PM
ok..ya'll know how it takes me FOREVER to find THE perfect name...this is IT!
susy - Cap'n Helga Beerbong
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 01:56 PM
a thick cloud caught a piper clubs tail
The match struck blue on a railroad rail
The old puff horse was just pullin' thru
and a man wore a peg leg forever
I'm on the bum where the hoboes run
The air breaks with filthy chatter
Oh I don't care there's no place there
I don't think it matters
My skin's blazin' thru
and my clothes in tatters
and the railroad looked
Like a "Y" up the hill of ladders
Ohe shoe fell on the gravel
One stick poked down
Gray of age fell down on a pair of ears
An eagle shined thru my hole watch pocket
a gingham girl baby girl
Passed me by in tears
a jack rabbit raised his folded ears
a beautiful sagebrush jack rabbit
an oriole sang like an orange
His breast full of worms
and his tail clawed the evenin' like a hammer
His wings took to air like a bomber
my rain can caught me a cup of water
When I got into town
"Odd jobs mam, ah yer horse I'll fodder
I'm the round house man, I once was yer father"
a little up the road a wooden
Candy stripe barber pole
and above it read a sign "Painless Parker"
licorice twisted around under a fly
and a youngster cocked her eye
God before me if I'm not crazy
Is my daughter
Come little one with yer little dimpled fingers
Gimme one and I'll buy you a cherry phosphate
Take you down to the foamin' brine and water
and show you the wooden tits
On the Goddess with the pole out full sail
That tempted away yer peg legged father
I was shanghaied by a high hat beaver moustache man
and his pirate friend
I woke up in vomit and beer in a banana bin
in a soft lass with brown skin
Bore me seven babies with snappin' black eyes
and beautiful ebony skin
and here it is I'm with you my daughter
Thirty years away can make a seaman's eyes
a round house man's eyes flow out water
Salt water
- Captain Beefheart
Posted by: mudstuffin | September 18, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Siouxie - it's so YOU!
And, Judi - If I worked with Cap'n Greasepalms, I'd be nervous too...
Posted by: Burnin' Laura Morgan (engaged to Cannon-Balls Dick) | September 18, 2006 at 01:59 PM
I think I do resemble that one, Punkin! LOL
Posted by: Siouxie | September 18, 2006 at 02:04 PM
"Arrr, I be astounded that none of ye salty dogs has noticed that "Scurvy Barstids" WBAGNFAPirateB."
Aye and yarrrrrr, WD laddie; don't ye fret. old blind Angie be ignored, she is - harrrr harrrr - 'tis no matter, no, so don't ye be a-frettin' son. Yarrrrrr. and blimey.
Posted by: Foxhunter-Sippi | September 18, 2006 at 02:07 PM
Pirate Carmen the Periwinkle
Hmmmmmm
Posted by: sthnbelle | September 18, 2006 at 02:09 PM
trainging video is great
Posted by: Chaz | September 18, 2006 at 02:14 PM
I be Apathetic Gwyn Straw. Can somebody give me that link again on how to actually talk like a pirate? I need to bone up, er, I mean practice.
Posted by: ubetcha | September 18, 2006 at 02:15 PM
Talk like a pirate day always has a special significance to me as it is my birthday and our wedding anniversary.
Arrrrrrr
Posted by: Unrealious | September 18, 2006 at 02:15 PM
ISIANMTU: Cap'n Dan buttwipe
Posted by: Art Vandelay | September 18, 2006 at 02:26 PM
Were your vows in Pirate speak??
"Do you take...?"
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I be doin'!
Posted by: Burnin' Laura Morgan | September 18, 2006 at 02:28 PM
Arr, me hearties!
Posted by: Blogchik | September 18, 2006 at 02:29 PM
Pantin' Doloros Straw, here.
Yarrrr, we be needin' some grog, aye?
Posted by: KDF | September 18, 2006 at 02:29 PM
Art.....I fear ya won't be bein' a Cap'n fer too much longer...arrrrrr.....
Posted by: BLM | September 18, 2006 at 02:30 PM
Well done, Art, ye be the Cap'n now! We canna beat that fer all the world.
(Irish Pirate, maybe)
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | September 18, 2006 at 02:30 PM
KDF - did you say GROG????
Posted by: Punkin Poop | September 18, 2006 at 02:32 PM
LOL that pirate name site is pretty fun!!
See signature.
Posted by: Cap'n Izzy Jailbait (DavetheRed) | September 18, 2006 at 02:34 PM
No, Punkin, no! Bleargh.
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 02:36 PM
Arrrrr- Pirate Eve the Infected be talkin' to ya, and I just be tellin' Clean Hands HAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!
Maybe I'll try for another one. Doesn't seem to suit me...
Posted by: diverdowndoc | September 18, 2006 at 02:37 PM
I just blurked a little.
Posted by: diverdowndoc | September 18, 2006 at 02:38 PM
I dunno, 3D, it seems kinda medical an' all.
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 02:38 PM
At Punkin's link, that is... That's not my new pirate name or anything.
Posted by: diverdowndoc | September 18, 2006 at 02:39 PM
Ah, ye went an' clicked on th' evil Burnin' Laura Morgan's link, dinna ye?
Posted by: Clean Hands | September 18, 2006 at 02:39 PM
Yeah, CH you're right- after med school, I developed a healthy respect for sh1t!
Posted by: diverdowndoc | September 18, 2006 at 02:40 PM
I be too smart of a cap'n to fall fer that ol' grog link!
oh and ARRRRR
Posted by: Cap'n Helga Beerbong | September 18, 2006 at 02:44 PM
after several tries with the pirate name generator, I came up with one that I can live with, and also fits:
Almost-Crazy Dora Bligh.
I like it.
Posted by: OkieDokie | September 18, 2006 at 02:47 PM
I took that photo yesterday at this fun store in Downtown Portsmouth, NH - Macro Polo. They are SO cool, they didn't even ASK why I was taking a photo of a toilet full of, um, grog.
Posted by: Punkin Poo | September 18, 2006 at 02:52 PM
LTTG, but then Cap'n Brett Roughknuckles was busy amassing booty.
Posted by: CJrun | September 18, 2006 at 03:19 PM
Avast 100th Arrrrr.
Posted by: Juggler of Geese | September 18, 2006 at 03:30 PM