Pirates are Ruining Everything?
Posted on 09 September 2009 by k. a. gardner
AVAST ME HEARTIES!!
AVAST ME HEARTIES!!
THE PIRATES.-DRAWN BY M. BIARD. HARPER'S WEEKLY 1861
SAVE THE DATE!! SAVE THE DATE!!
September 19, 2009 is The Original INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!
Apparently, seven years ago Dave Barry [you know, the extremely boring columnist from the Miami Herald] mentioned an amatuer pirate crew who talked like pirates one day a year in one of his columns and then wrote an introduction for the book:
Pirattitude!: So you Wanna Be a Pirate?: Here’s How!
Authors John “Chumbucket” Baur and Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers CLAIM they have become an “international PHENOMENEM that shows no sign of letting up”
So if you too want to talk like a pirate on a designated international holiday, you have nine days to practice.
How do know this USELESS bit of trivia?
I BLAME TWITTER:
RT @FromCarl Pirates? You have 13 days to prepare: http://bit.ly/pirate13 (via @black_von Pirates are all the rage: http://bit.ly/TZEEI )
AND STILL MORE TWITTER PIRACY!!
@ecocomics Economics of Pirates http://bit.ly/Czkzq
UPDATE: Link reference – The Atlantic/DailyDish/TheHiddenEconomicsofPirates
WILL IT NOT END? A link within another link … !
Steamboats are ruining everything. X MARKS THE SPOT
courtesy Caleb Crain www.steamthing.com
RT @thecapnslappy This is the best I can do to remind people that September 19, 2009 is The Original TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!
The “international phenomenon that shows no sign of letting up” is only nine days away!
Where there is sea there is pirates
Tags | City of Jacksonville, State of Florida
I like the title of the steamboat blog. Um, and arrrrgh.
Where there is links there is pirates.
Avast there, me lovely lubberly wench. If ye be bonny, no need for talk, and if ye be rich, just send the ransom. Arrrrgh!!
You are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of.
Aye, aye, matey!
Better stay clear of Pittsburgh that day lest you have to listen to Pirates fans of a different stripe.
Sauerkraut has stepped through the looking glass only to become a Pirate Ghost Cow.
Thank ye kindly, lass. We pirates crave a little recognition now and then.
Karen,
Thanks you for the compliment regarding my blog left on Hobbes site.
As for pirates, well, swash my buckles and brace the spanker, the top gallant needs reefing. (No, I have no idea what I am saying simply using a lot of Patrick O’Brian stuff!)
CJ
I’ll raise your O’Brian with a Stevenson. I have no idea what this means either:
“Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!”