It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day September 19, 2008 ~ 2:31 pm
Posted by Julie in : Random Insanity , trackbackAnd in honor of ITLAPD, I ask ye to wave yer cutlasses in the air and shout “Arrrrrrr!” or it be the cat o’nine for the likes of ye scurvy dogs. And no rum, neither.
ITLAPD is more popular than a hangin’ this year. On Plurk, me mateys be changin’ their user names to *pirate* names for the day. Me pirate name be Bootstrap Julz, because the damnable system wouldn’t let me use “Dread Pirate Evil Julie.” Too many characters or suchlike nonsense.
On Ravelry, our undead-codemonkey Casey made it so if you posted in a thread with “pirate” in the title, yer words would be instantly translated into pirate-speak. By Davy Jones’s locker, a good idea. And if ye had a Ravatar with “pirate” in the filename, ye got a parrot for it. Here be mine:
Parrots don’t taste like rum, mates. But when the rum is gone, ye get desperate.
I leave ye with the best responses I’ve gotten to ITLAPD via text:
Rick: “Arrr, gimme yer booty.”
Jordana: “The wee one and I are in Maryland, lookin’ ta storm the Kennedy Center.”
Mom: “Are you f’in kidding me?”
(I come by me ability to talk like a sailor naturally, if not me ability to talk like a pirate.) Drink up, me hearties, and to celebrate ITLAPD, might ye consider stoppin’ by Savvy Brooklyn and pickin’ up a bauble fer yerself or yer second-in-command?
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Aye, tis as good an excuse as any to let the wee ones view Pirates of the Carribean again. We’ll raise our flasks and curse any scurvy knave that gets in our way!
I’m liking Rick’s comment as well!