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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).

Comments

[Esther]

I am Pirate Angelina the Periwinkle. I wanted to sound a little tougher - anybody wanna trade?!?

[ShyJan]

I am Puffy Shirt Sandy. Will join you swashbucklers tomorrow. ARRRRRR

[CJrun]

PAngelina: a periwinkle sounds less tough than it is; it's a snail in a tough shell living in the rocky intertidal. Here's a family portrait:

http://www.pelicannetwork.net/fg/periwinkle/large_periwinkle.jpg

[Art Vandelay]

My Mafia name is Autistic Guido Moretti?

[Dennis Michelsen]

See what you started?? Tomorrow on our site we even have a NASCAR commentary article in FULL Pirate!!

I hope you are happy with yourself!!

Dennis

[Nightingale]

Hi guys! Think my kid's teacher will notice at the field trip if I come dressed as a Pirate? Maybe I could just talk like one instead. I bet they will act like scurvy knaves. I saw a great t-shirt the other day that said "Kiss Me, I'm Pirish..."

[Just Ducky]

Gee, thanks, Siouxie. My pirate name is Tripod Lindsey Scarrrrrr.

[Siouxie]

Sorry, Ducky :)

You can use difference combinations of your name to get a 'better' one. I did several before sticking with Cap'n Helga Beerbong!~

[Siouxie]

differeNT

must.preview.at.all.times.you.lazy.@ss.

[Just Ducky]

Strangely, one incarnation was Eve the Infected, like ddd. Coincidence??? Will keep trying...

[CJrun]

Nah, Helga, just anxious, huh? Had fun generating Cap'n Brett Roughknuckles and directing the link to the office so everyone will be prepared for tomorrow. I will have trouble with the phones, tomorrow, as most of my business calls come in over trunk lines, so caller ID just displays 'Unknown Caller.' I can't very well answer 'Avast there, ye scallwag,' to Unknown Caller....

[Just Ducky]

OK, when I used "Just Ducky," I received Cap'n Abigail Birdbrain!!!!

[Siouxie]

LOL that's a good one! very appropriate

[Just Ducky]

Well, I hope not TOO appropriate! :-)

[Just Ducky]

Siouxie became Pirate Flora the Infected. Think I'd keep Cap'n Helga Beerbong, personally.

[Liana Lloyd]

Awww....I e-mailed that video in on, I think, SATURDAY!!!! I guess someone got it in ahead of me, alas.
All I have to say is YAAAAARRRRRR.

[Cheryl Howard (Blood-Letter Rackham)]

Arrrgh, that silly video has me conjugating verbs. I hate conjugating anything. Walk the plank!

[chesbn]

ARRR, I be "Machete" Yvette Hacke, this pleases me...the families on Wife Swap, however, make me tremble

[Chris]

I find it particularly amusing that you mentioned airline pilots. I actually work at a major flight school and we've been trying to think up ways to talk like pirates to air traffic control tomorrow.

Maybe people should stay on the ground. :-p

cl

[Cat R.]

I tried a few, and then with my maiden name, I came up with

"Poop Deck Sophie".

Me likes it!

AAAARRRGGHHH!!

[Siouxie]

GREAT one Cat!

ARRRRRRRRrr back at ya!

[Jan Sparrow]

*popping up on the poop deck*
yo scalleywags....AAAARRRRrrgg...
nothin' more...

[Clean Hands]

Sorry, Liana; didn't mean to steal your thunder. I told Dave when I sent it in that I expected a million other people to submit it, too.

:-D

[Siouxie]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRR Happy TLAPD ye's all!!

[Jessica R.]

ARRRGGHHH! I be "Black Death Laura! Ought to be a fun day.

[PirateBoy]

The daily Woot Podcast has a funny TLAPD theme for this Grest Day. Woot Link

The podcast is a link on the right side.

Arrrrr!

[Cap'n Randal Chumbucket (JoG)]

Cap n Randal Chumbucket

Arrrrrrrrrrr. Avast Me Fellow bloggers, This be Me at me place of business.

[NefariousWheel]

Arrrh! The Flying Spaghetti Monster has touched ye with his great Noodly Appendage. Don't let 'em make us walk the plank~

[AlanBoss]

A belated ARRRRRR to all!

[Dll]

They are very cool, they didn't even ASK why I was taking a photo of a toilet full of, um, grog.