Interesting Pirate Holidays

[Capt. Westyn Elizabeth Roberts]

This could cause confusion or great joy. I just read an old newspaper post on the Net that made me smile. It was an older story (link below), and it stated that two men were trying to make September 19th "Talk Like A Pirate Day."

Methinks that sounds like it could just work.

You have to check it out.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/ent...ent/4029728.htm

Could be an oddity, but I think I'll start celebrating early. I know all my drama club geeks...er, friends, enjoy hollering arrgh in college! Some of them even made a movie, unfortunately before I started.

Example #1:

When the teacher gives us a good grade, "Arrgh!"

Example #2:

When we answer role call, "Arrgh!"

Example #3:

When some scurvy dog thought he owned the road...er, sea, and steered out in front of me Mustang...er, sailing vessel kinda sudden-like, I say "Arrgh!" Of course, that may be cause me mum told me to hold me tongue and not use swear words. (Think flying colors would be a good enough warning that I would be willing to push his quarterdeck even with his bowsprit if it happened again in the future?)

Anyway, why not a whole "normal" day dedicated to the beautiful language, syntax and symmetry of ye olde tongue?

After all, life is sometimes about working hard and getting ahead, but it's also about having fun. You only live once! May the wind be forever at yer backs, maties!

Aaarrrggghhh! Who's with me?

Capt. WE Roberts

[capnwilliam]

I wonder if there'd be any potential to have a National Pirate Day as such, rather than just a day for talking like a silly pirate?

Capt. William

[Jamaica Rose]

This could cause confusion or great joy. I just read an old newspaper post on the Net that made me smile. It was an older story (link below), and it stated that two men were trying to make September 19th "Talk Like A Pirate Day."

Yes -- Talk Like A Pirate Day was proposed by Dave Barry last September. We reported on it in No Quarter Given. Sounded like some people had fun with it. We even heard tales of traffic reporters on that day speaking like pirates.

I wonder if it will be resurrected again this year.

--Jamaica Rose

"What

Would

Blackbeard

Do?"

[Captain Luigi]

Imagine if we had a "National Pirate Day. Halmark would jump on that wouldn't you think? Would you plunder gifts instead of giving them? Everyone would celebrate by drinking rum, keelhauling your friends, and chassing wenches around town.

[redhand]

Yeah, sort of an "Anti-Birthday", plunderin' presants

instead of givin' 'em! Hall Mark'd have a field day.

Today is brought to ya by the letter RRRRRRRRRRR!!

Redhand

[Guest Angus MacVox]

The guys who came up w/ the idea & whom Dave Barry wrote about have a website now - The Talk Like a Pirate Day website links to us as "people who (unlike us) take their piracy seriously"

http://talklikeapirate.com/links.html

:-)

[redhand]

ROTFLMAO!!

Now THAT was some funny stuff!

I particularly enjoyed the Pirate quiz and

"Ask Cap'n Slappy"

Thanks for the link.

Redhand

[Captain Luigi]

What day of the year should we have pirate day? Maybe we should steal another holliday and replace it with one for us.

[Capt. Westyn Elizabeth Roberts]

No! Captain Luigi, I have the best idea fer the piratin' holliday...

Why don't we just take over Thanksgivin' and part of December...The Pirates in Paradise festival in Key West would surely give the "holiday commissioners" enough of an idea to make it stick.

An' just flippin' through channels on the movin' pictures box (tv) the other day, an' I found a VH1 special on Christina Aguilera(sp?). Anyhow, she an' her family celebrate "Pirate Day". Hmmph! And all along, I thought I wouldn't like her...

I do like some of her songs...now I like her better! Arrgh! Arrgh!

Pirate Day--No, Pirate Week--No! Pirate 10 Days! Thanksgivin' to December 7/8! Pirates in Paradise Festival! That's a good a time as any! Anyway, in my household, October 31 is ALWAYS Pirate Day.

Capt. WE Roberts

[Jamaica Rose]

Why don't we just take over Thanksgivin' and part of December...The Pirates in Paradise festival in Key West would surely give the "holiday commissioners" enough of an idea to make it stick.  

Actually Pirates in Paradise has done this already. On the fourth Thursday in November they celebrate Thankstakin'!

Scurrilously yrs,

--Jamaica Rose

"Frankly Scallop, ... I don't give a clam."

[Captain Luigi]

We reconise Washington's birthday,Lincon's birthday, Martin Luther King's etc....why don't we petition celebrating a famous pirate birthday.

[the Royaliste]

yeah, Like the prez or somethin'

[crow]

Mr MacVox I has gots ta tell ye that that talk like a Pyrate site is as sick and twisted a site as ever spied. And I loved every single page , it brought tears to me eye and I almost didn't make it to the scuppers i were guffawing so hard . I thank thee fer the soundings on the site.. I particularly liked the section " Asks capt'n Slappy.."

[Captain Cronus]

ahoy mateys, I can't wait to be tryin' to talk like a pirate on the 19th.

Not only shall I speak it I shall also dress up for it.

this should be fun.

[Mad Maudlin McCrumb]

I think I'll get it going in Portland... this place loves an excuse to party, and if one bunch of weirdos starts something up on the waterfront and looks like they're having fun, then the others, not to be outdone, all have to join in!

I asked Captain Slappy, and loved the answers I got

Arrr... should I be keelhauling my mutinous crew for all leaving at once

like a bunch of scurvy landlubbers just when I needed them?

Captain Mad Maudlin McCrumb

Ahoy Captain McCrumb!

Belay that order, if ye please! Let's think about this like two rational

pirates. Keelhauling is hard work! Ye have to tie the scurvy dogs up,

bound hands and feet. Set yer pulleys (unless they're pre-set as they are

on The Festering Boil) and then, thar be the "haulin'" part! That's hard

work for five or six men, but if yer entire crew have mutinied on

ye...who's left to do the pullin'?

Aye, that's right. Ye alone.

That's why Cap'n Slappy invented "The Keelhaul-o-matic!" At first, it is

powered by the wind. Ye just clap the whole crew in irons, lock 'em in on

a single chain*, hook the chain to Cap'n Slappy's patented "Keelhaul-o-

matic" and the wind-powered contraption takes the first five dogs into the

sea and under the ship. That's all ye need. Then, let Mother Nature and

desperation do the rest.

Ye see, the "reverse-lock" wheel prevents them from comin' back the way

they came, so they have to "complete the journey" under their own

strength." As they do, they pull the next batch of neer-do-wells into the

frothy near-death experience with them! Pretty soon, the blighters at the

end, are pullin' hard to bring them up so they will have someone on board

to pull them through!

It's so simple, and yet, so beautiful! And, boy, are their faces red when

they realize they are voluntarily keel hauling themselves!

The Keelhaul-o-matic comes with patented reverse-lock wheel, this easy-to-

read four-hundred page owners manual, VHS tape and a T-Shirt that

reads, "Sit down and SHUT IT! Or I'll use the Keelhaul-o-matic on the Lot

o' ye!" All fer just $599.97! If ye act now, we'll throw in this "Keelhaul-

o-matic Juice-Buddy." Sure, we know it has nothing to do with the Keelhaul-

o-matic," but you could use it with your "Orange Boy!*" (*sold separately).

Hurry, this item is going fast!

(* Chains Not Included)

Cap'n Slappy

[MadMaryFlint]

Hmm.. Me roommate and I be havin' a party for "talk Like a Pyrate Day" in our dorm. We will be watchin' pyrate movies and such. Me thinks I might be dressin' as one, too...

[the Royaliste]

Talk lke a pirate day was fun here in San Francisco last year.... Everybody seemed to be doin' it downtown. Dunno 'bout the suberbs.