Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, Me Hearties

nmb3000 writes "Avast, me maties! Today be th' International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Fer today only, ye lubbers no worthy 'nough t' enjoy th' noble vocation o' Pirate can join th' ranks! Firs' ye'll need t' lern t' talk like a pirate, then find yer pirate name, doonload yer ringtones, an' finally sling back some grog. Be smart aboot it, fer today's th' day ninjas fear...ever'one's a pirate! Arrrr!"

Pirate Property!

[Kelson]

Arr! Ye'd best not ferget about yer pirate software!

'Course, ye might navigate around that maelstrom if ye rely on open-seas, such as FyreFawkes [hyperborea.org].

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Re:Wrong Pirates

[buswolley]

I read t' posts and slashdotters do not know how t' speak like a pirate. So here be a pirate translators for all you slashdotters."

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html [talklikeapirate.com]

and

http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl [syddware.com]

and

http://nifty.stanford.edu/2004/TalkLikeAPirate/pir ate2.html [stanford.edu]

and

http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/translate/ [talklikeapirateday.com]

It be better t' be a troll than t' be a bad human.

Re:Pirate Property!

[LiquidEdge]

Yar! Sail the seven ISP's!

Re:

[AgentUSA]

Yarrr, nothing in the Far East but spices, peasants and English prisoners anyway.

Hey Taco!

[eldavojohn]

Fixed the banner [photobucket.com].

Arrrrrrrrrr

[remembertomorrow]

This should have been posted 12 hours ago... arrrrrrrrrrrr

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[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, It will be posted again in 12 hours.

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[neonprimetime]

Arrrr Maties, every day is talk like a pirate day here on /.

Like pirates have alaaaaarrrrrm clocks

[aapold]

We be posting when we get around to it. Last night been Pirate's Day Eve, gotta be sleeping that off this mornin...

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[Androclese]

Yarr, they woud've but thar's too much Rum in their bellies ta hit the postin' button... Arrrr.. Hangover's are a bitch.. yarrr

Re:Arrrrrrrrrr

[buswolley]

Hangover's BE a bitch.. yarrr

Re:Arrrrrrrrrr

[morcego]

Hangovers BE a NASTY WENCH! Yarrrrrrrrr!

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[patio11]

Hangovers be something that happen to landlubbers! Pass me the rum!

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[iggymanz]

Hangovers be that which only men who sober themselves get, keep passin the rum, yaarrrrrrrrrrr!

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[patio11]

I'll drink to that! 'course, I'll drink to anything! Yarr, another bottle of rum!

Oh Grrrrreat

[neonprimetime]

Now all the Slashdot Stories & Comments for the rest of the day are going to be filled with Pirate talk. Arrrr

Re:

[rblancarte]

Shiver me timbers! Not pirate speak!

Re:Oh Grrrrreat

[Ignignot]

Yarr, but tis better than all those other days [uncyclopedia.org]!

Re:

[Kelson]

Now all the Slashdot Stories & Comments for the rest of the day are going to be filled with Pirate talk.

Either that or Tony the Tiger [wikipedia.org].

Do what you want . . .

[OverlordQ]

. . . 'cuz a pirate is free [youtube.com]!!!!

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[buswolley]

'cuz a pirate BE free.

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[svunt]

Shiver me timbers, you should be keel-hauled. I had that same link copied to clipboard, it's the perfect anthem! But as it's been posted already, here's my contribution, ye scurvy dogs

You are a pirate [i-am-bored.com]

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[Mercano]

Ah, but ye have seen me.

plundering bandwidth?

[Dash_Rantic]

Yarrr, let's crash some servers! Yarrr!!!!!

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[paranode]

Avast, ye admins! Ya best start believing in melted server stories, because yer in one!!

Yarrr!!!

My favorite

[Soporific]

My favorite letters are "R" and "I" today. I need to start harassing my coworkers by answering all questions with them.

~S

Re:My favorite

[rblancarte]

Avast ye! Clearly your favorite letter should be the C! All pirates love the sea!

Good quiz in the links

[fudgefactor7]

Your pirate name is:

Dirty William Rackham

You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

11 hours and 47 minutes late... ye scurvey slacker

[binaryspiral]

Com'on admins, you should have stayed up late to approve this one... it's ITLAPD, there is nothing else important.

I'm so ashamed /. didn't have this on their front page this morning when arrived at work.

Sigh...

Re:11 hours and 47 minutes late... ye scurvey slac

[Sponge Bath]

Tis not the end of your torment laddie,
the next dawn brings the salty sting of an ITLAPD dupe.

Re:

[binaryspiral]

well written and on topic... wtf are you doing on /.?

We are the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything!

[neonprimetime]

"The Pirates That Don't Do Anything"

we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything

well I've never been to Greenland
and I've never been to Denver
and I've never buried treasure in ST Louie or ST Paul
and I've never been to Moscow
and I've never been to Tampa
and I've never been to Boston in the fall

we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything

and I've never hoist the main sail
and I've never swabbed the poop deck
and I've never veered starboard, cause I've never sailed at all
and I've never walked the gang plank
and I've never owned a parrot.
and I've never been to Boston in the fall

we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything

I've never plucked a rooster
and I am not too good at ping-pong
and I've never thrown my mashed potatoes up against the wall
and I've never kissed a chipmunk,
and I've never gotten head lice
and I have never been to Boston in the fall

(pirate captains log 2002
who be this band relient k
and why they be so full of contradictions)

we don't know what he did
but we're down with captain kidd
we don't wake up before lunch
but we all eat captain crunch
we don't smoke, we don't chew
we watch captain kangaroo

and I've never licked a spark-plug
and I've never sniffed a stink bug
and I've never painted Daisies on a big red rubber ball
and I've never bathed in yogurt
and I don't look good in leggings
and I've never been to Boston in the fall

we are the pirates who don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything

we are the pirates we don't do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we'll just tell you, we don't do anything

written and performed by Relient K

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[IckySplat]

Sex Pistols 4TW!

Oi Scurvies,listen to this then
It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, you should've seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, was a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty f**ker
He wasn't fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
Chorus:
Friggin' in the rigging
Friggin' in the rigging
Friggin' in the rigging
There was f*** all else to do
The captain's name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day sweet tunes he'd play on his f***ing organ
The first mate's nam

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[milgr]

What's that got to do with being a Pirate?

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[buswolley]

I love V tales.

Ninjas Unite!

[Chagatai]

Do not worry, my shadowy brethren. We have less than three months to wait for our day, The International Day of The Ninja! [wikipedia.org] Personally speaking, that day is my wife's birthday, so I combine the two and surprise her with presents falling from rafters, cakes adorned with shurikens, and freak out a lot.

Re:Ninjas Unite!

[agent dero]

Arrrr, ye be modded flamebait fer speakin' of ninja's on ye olde day of ye pirate.

scrub ye the decks yo' black mask wearin' scallywag!

Re:

[Krishna Dagli]

Well, Disgruntled Ninja Silently Kills 12 Co-Workers [theonion.com]

Re:

[MrShaggy]

Yep, its seems that the mods have gone mad at sea! Maybe a touch of the scurvy>

In unrelated news....

[frakir]

...Global warming found to be in recess.

bash

[dweezil-n0xad]

Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west
Spin: thar be large pipes o'bandwith near ye'ol univarsety.
Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Pirate: Avast!
Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!
Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.
Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound.

Avast!!!

[Shadow Wrought]

First Arrrrgh!

Or at least it would have been if it hadn't been for those meddling Ninjas!

Yarrr!

[The_Pariah]

Shiver me timbers!

Honestly, Keira Knightley. I want you to shiver me timbers.

I'll show you why my Roger is so jolly.

How'd you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?

You better be prepared to be boarded, cuz I'd love to drop anchor in your lagoon!

That's some treasure chest you've got there.

That's the finest pirate booty I've ever laid eyes on.

Okay, I'm done with the Pirate Pick Up Lines

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[benbean]

That's no treasure chest Ms. Knightley has... it's just a couple of small gold plates.

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[kin_korn_karn]

aye, dead man's chest indeed, arrr

Ye plagiarist

[paranode]

Ye copied those direct from tha site, matey! Time to walk tha plank!

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[muellerr1]

Back to garroting your parrot.

New Pirate Movie

[AcidTag]

I heard there's a new pirate movie out today. I don't know the name of it, but I hear is rated 'Arrrr'

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[Geoffreyerffoeg]

Did you hear about the pirate navigator who couldn't find his position in rectangular coordinates?

He decided to change dx dy into ARRR dARRR d theta!

The RIAA/MPAA dielect....

[coldmist]

Can I borrow a few CDs/DVDs? I'll bring them back tomorrow.

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[nizo]

A real pirate would never ask! A quick cut with your cutlass and they are yours forever! Or until you meet someone with a quicker cutting cutlass.

YARRR!!!!

[BIZKeT]

I dressed up for the occasion. Me boss just keeps looking at me and shaking his head.

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[rsadelle]

Arr, matey, our whole crew dressed up for the occasion. The Cap'n of Cap'ns (our Executive Director) served as judge to award special pirate booty for the best o' six categories: Best Pirate, Best Wench, Best Arrr!, Best Pirate Joke, Best Sea Chantey, and Best Eyepatch.

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[aug24]

Showing a fine lack of understanding of the phrase "talk like" there, I see ;-)

(Not talking like a pirate cos it's tomorrow now).

J.

Ninjas fear it...

[jimstapleton]

fer today's th' day ninjas fear...ever'one's a pirate! Arrrr!

Only because it removes *all* challange from our jobs! Sheesh, pirates are the easiest pushovers.

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[Khuffie]

Crap... ...so you got a paypal account or something? *points to sig*

Avast, me boyos

[Hittite Creosote]

Captain Morgan, Black Bart Roberts - Welshmen. Not Bristolians. Forget that showman Blackbeard, if you respect either sheer quantity of ships taken (Roberts) or getting away with it and drinking yourself to death and having a brand of rum named after you (Morgan), it's got to be the Welsh pirates.

Talk like a pirate day?!?!

[the_REAL_sam]

Or talk like a pirate's parrot day?

Sqaaaawk! Walk the plank! Walk the plank! Wanna Cracker?

Today brought to you by pirate jokes:

[smellsofbikes]

1. Pirate walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. The bartender says, "hey, that's really cool: where did you get it?" The parrot says, "from a pirate ship, of course."

2. Pirate walks into a bar with a hook hand and an eyepatch. Bartender says "that's rough, man: what happened?" Pirate holds up his arm and says "arrr, swordfight." The bartender nods and asks about the eyepatch. Pirate says, "a gull shat in it." The bartender blinks and says "you wouldn't lose an eye from that, would you?" The pirate sighs and says "you would if it's your first day with a hook hand."

3. Pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his shorts, and says, "arr, bartender, bring me a flagion of rum!" The bartender says, "sure, pal, but what's with the steering wheel?" The pirate growls, "I don't know, but it's driving me nuts."

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[bastardknight]

A little kid dresses up as a pirate and goes trick or treating. he knocks on the door of a house and a man answers. "oh, i can see you're dressed up as a pirate." the man says. "but where are your buccaneers?" the kid gets really mad, and says "on the sides of my
buckin' head!"

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[smellsofbikes]

That's *funny*. I'd heard that one as "how much can you rent pirates for?" "Two dollars: one buck an ear." Yours adds in the child-saying-bad-words thing, which makes it much better. Hee hee: I'm going to remember that.

Even More!

[StefanJ]

A pirate walks into a jewelry store.

"Arr, matey! How much to get me lobes pierced?" he asks the shop keeper.

"Buccaneer, of course!"

(Ducks.)

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[smellsofbikes]

There's a whole CLASS of those, and they make me laugh and laugh.

What does a pirate study in college? ARRRRchitecture!
What's a pirate's favorite country? ARRRRgentina!
What do pirates get locked up for? ARRRRRson!

it's funniest if you end with:

What sort of socks do pirates wear? Wool. It's better for use on ships.

(meta-joke there...)

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[smellsofbikes]

The whooshing sound you just heard was the meta-joke flying over your head, but thanks anyway.

Avast, ye swabs - I need me Pirate name

[Soko]

Arrr, ye olde server hostin' yon quiz has been sent to Davey Joneses Locker. Any of ye scurvy dogs have a 'patch' te keep it afloat until we're done plunderin' her? Arrrr

Soko

Bad Article Summary

[Aqua_boy17]

ever'one's a pirate! Arrrr!

Even a sprog of a cabin boy knows it's "Yarr". Blast ye, ya bloody scurvy scum.

HOWTO: Talk like a pirate

[bartyboy]

Make a hook with a finger on each hand and use them to stretch your mouth. You'll sound like a scurvy pirate!

pirate translators?

[aapold]

I wrote a few years ago but it never worked as well as I'd hoped: Pirate Translator [agh2o.org]. Didn't keep any of the "frills" on it, just a simple word/phrase/letter translation table.

Problem was most of the look-up terms I had were nautical. So if you refer to things like anchor, paymaster or first mate, it will find stuff but too often it comes up empty. There are a number of others floating around there, but never really been happy with any of them. If anyone knows of a good one please share..

Monkey Island?

[Vo0k]

What was the recipe for grog given by the three pirates in Monkey Island?

Re:

[Vo0k]

never mind, found it.
kerosene, propylene glycol, sulphuric acid, artificial sweeteners, red dye no2, rum, acetone, battery acid, scumm, axle grease and/or pepperoni.

T9 greetings

[skotte]

I went to send off a quick greeting to a fFriend, cellphone wise...
T9 text does not know how to deal with pirate-speak
"avast" and "land-lubbers" are not in the dictionary.
Bleh.

Grog? Yarr!!!

[Dracos]

It be rum we pirates fancy!

I Be Known As "Gateway Timeout"

[DumbSwede]

Fear Me Lads!

in piratin' school...

[TheGratefulNet]

in piratin' school, I never got past the three Arrrs!

In other news...

[TechnoGuyRob]

The Japanese are celebrating International Talk Like A Ninja day.

Just not a good enough holiday at Google, quite...

[coleopterana]

But this reply shows they have the day at hearrrrrrrrrrrrrt, matey.

from http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34 476 [theinquirer.net]:

From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [#73859603]
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:44:27 -0700

Ahoy mate,

Thank'ee fer th' logo ye be suggestin'. We enjoy celebratin' horlidays at Google.

As ye may imagine, it be terrible difficult fer us t' choose which events t' be celebratin' on our site. We be hav'in a long list o' horlidays that we'd be liken' ter celebrate in th' future. We be hav'in ter balance this rotatin' calendar with th' need te be maintainin' the likeness o' the Google homepage.

Some horlidays that we no' been celebratin' in the past will be rotatin' into our horliday doodles fer future years.

Please remember ye can be visitin' any o' our doodles at http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html [google.com]

Arrrrrrr,
The Google Team

Buried Treasure

[6Yankee]

Another year gone by, and a million Slashdotters still haven't "buried their treasure"...

Re:

[Beardo the Bearded]

Ahr matey.

Thar be less than a million o' us.

And som' o' us be havin' wives and children back aport.

If ye be havin' trouble findin' a lass te walk yer plank, don't assume we're all adrift.

Wrong month

[plopez]

It should be held in Arrrrrrrrgust.

Talk like a pirate, you say, hmm?

[scottblascocomposer]

"I would like to download some Metallica on Kazaa."
"My iPod is full of music which I did not purchase."
"I enjoy watching movies I got off Limewire." (yeah right, like I could actually get something decent off Limewire!)
"This latest hit single from Beyonce, which you hear playing in the background, has been obtained in ways not approved by the RIAA. So sue me."
"My entire mp3/ogg/wma collection is available on a peer-to-peer network for any virtual passers-by to peruse and download at will."

I don't kn

Aboot?

[TimTheFoolMan]

Argghh! Ye be them Canadian pirates? What be wit' ye "aboot" in thar pirate talkin'?

Yar!

Bloody Tom Flint

'twas a fine day o plunderin'

[dangitman]

I turned my office into a den of pyratical intrigue. 'Twas so much fun, that I be extendin' the occassion into Talk Like a Pyrate Week. One day be not enough.

Upon boardin' the IT department, I was shocked to find that nought of those scallywags was speaking the tongue. Ought to be keelhauled, I say. Runnin' a department o marauders and forgetting the day of days? Shiver me timbers!

Crucial.com getting into the act

[silicon not in the v]

They have a pirate guy on the front page with a special you can find by locating the pirate treasure chest icon on the site.

Obligatory Futurama

[Dachannien]

Space Pirate: Avast, mateys! Electronically transfer your space doubloons, afore I send thee to Davey Jarg's locker!

(Of course, mere text doesn't do justice to the fact that he has four shoulders, three of which have parrots on them, three out of four peg-legs, and three eyes with two eyepatches.)

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[Z1NG]

?yad a rorrim ekil klat si nehw I don't know, but you are all set when it comes to talk like a broken mirror day. ?yad rorrim a ekil klat si nehW

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[szembek]

I was watching that last night, I mistakenly thought I was watching http://www.fox.com/tradingspouses/ [fox.com] though. I've never heard of wife swap, but they seem to be exactly the same.

Re:

[Knara]

That's because it's widely speculated that FOX's programming plan is "watch what ABC does and then copy it."

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[zippthorne]

I thought it came from the Chapelle show...

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[jweller]

I was all set to sign up for that show, but then I found out it had NOTHING at all to do with what I thought it did.

now that would have been entertaining.

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[iamjoltman]

Do you realize that the dad in that pirate family last night was one of the two guys that started Talk Like a Pirate Day? They even mentioned it quickly on the show.

ninja !> pirate

[Kelson]

pirate > ninja

I mean, seriously, "Ninjas of the Caribbean?" I don't think so!

Re:pirate ! ninja

[khendron]

But what if pirate == ninja?

Think about it: Teenage Mutant Ninja Pirates!

Re:

[Stormwatch]

But what if teenage == mutant?

Oh wait, it is.

Re:ninja pirate

[Khyber]

Neutron Bomb. Ninjas and Pirates don't stand a chance against me!

Re:

[AcidLacedPenguiN]

actually Ninjas don't talk, they just kill.

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[Ceriel Nosforit]

You're no ninja! Ninja talk like this:

[Insert long silence here.]

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[stefanlasiewski]

Yarrg. Thee be correct. This be a good marke'ing scheme for Pirates, but it be bad for global warming [venganza.org].

http://www.keeptothecode.com/12features.html [keeptothecode.com]

Re:Internet Fad

[jonfelder]

And Sept 23rd is talk like A Homosexual Coming-Out to His Parents Day!!!

Ah yes, talk like a butt pirate day. Can't we just lump that in with talk like a pirate day?

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[Richard Steiner]

Arrr, in Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration o' the thirteen united States o' America A pence for an old man o'de sea?

Ahoy, when in the Course o' human e'ents it becomes necessary for one people t' dissol'e the political bands which have connected them with another and t' assume among the powers o' the earth, the separate and equal station t' which the Laws o' Nature and o' Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect t' the opinions o' mankind requires that they should declare the causes which i