Tue 19 Sep 2006
Today, Tuesday September 19th 2006, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Yeah, I know, it’s awesome. Here’s the official Talk Like Pirate Day Website.
There’s something magical about a deep guttural arrrggghhhh that transports us back to the carefree days of plundering and pillaging. Alas! But maybe, in your dreamy musings, you find yourself at loss for the right pirate words? Don’t be alarmed. Now there is an instructional video designed precisely for you!
- How to talk like a pirate video clip (watch)
- How to talk like a pirate video clip (download)
Oh, and you’ll need a pirate name. Find out what it is with this Pirate Name Generator. The name “Ryan Byrd” produces “Snifflin’ Herb Sparrow”. Who am I to argue?
Podcast (Today’s podcast available solely in Pirate English).
My new name: Cap’n Conroy Knifenose
Arrrrgh!
Smarmy Guideon Straw
Yarrr!
Avast ye survy dogs. The lot of you be doomed, for I be Pirate Sam the Dagger.
Ryan: it is not very pirate-like to order a salad at a barbeque pit.
[...] I got so excited with preparations for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, that I forgot to shave. It makes sense, of course, because pirates didn’t shave. Now, days later, when I walk into work this morning a coworker said, “Ryan, your facial hair is ugly.” I responded, “William, when I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it.” [...]
[...] September: Two goats and a car, Machine guns, Mongolians and Logical Fallacies, Talk Like A Pirate Day, Critical Defects win a soccer game!, Paintball Adventures, Remembering 9/11, Gangrene Film Festival, Death of the Crocodile Hunter, and the beginning of Podcasting [...]
[...] Yesterday was National Talk Like A Pirate Day. [...]
Was wondering if you could help me with a list of Pirate Words A thru Z. Right now I am stuck in a game having to come up with a Pirate word beginning with I. Can you help me. I will be truly happy with any help you can give me. Thank you for your time and inconvienience.
infamous, injury, instigate, insubordinate, insurrection, islands
http://www.vocabulary.com/pirates.html