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).
September 19th, 2006 at 8:20 am
My new name: Cap’n Conroy Knifenose
September 19th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Arrrrgh!
Smarmy Guideon Straw
September 19th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Yarrr!
September 19th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Avast ye survy dogs. The lot of you be doomed, for I be Pirate Sam the Dagger.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Ryan: it is not very pirate-like to order a salad at a barbeque pit.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:43 pm
[…] 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.” […]
December 25th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
[…] 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 […]
September 20th, 2007 at 2:12 am
[…] Yesterday was National Talk Like A Pirate Day. […]