September 19th (every year)is International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Talklikeapirate.com ^ | September 19, 2007

[OC_Steve]

Arrgh, eye be bumpin’ to ye

[ejonesie22]

You just had too...

Now I want to head to my boat...

Which unfortunately is in the backyard right now...

[ejonesie22]

Aye matey! Captian Ron Paul would be pleased...

[Petronski]

Awwww.

Don’t be hatin’ on Mother Angelica now.

[Petronski]

I woke up this morning and said to the wife:

AARGH!! SURRENDER THE BOOTY!!!!

Cyborg and I are LOL!

[Petronski]

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (”Ol’ Chumbucket”) and Mark Summers (”Cap’n Slappy”), of the United States, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with “Hello”, but with “Ahoy, me hearty!” The date was selected because it was the birthday of Summers’s ex-wife and consequently would be easy for him to remember.

At first an inside joke between two friends, the holiday gained exposure when Baur and Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002. Barry liked the idea and promoted the day. Growing media coverage of the holiday after Dave Barry’s column has ensured that this event is now celebrated internationally.

Baur and Summers found new fame in the 2006 season premiere episode of ABC’s Wife Swap, first aired September 18, 2006. They starred in the role of “a family of pirates” along with John’s wife, Tori.

Actor Robert Newton, who portrayed Long John Silver in the 1950 Disney film Treasure Island, is the patron saint of Talk Like A Pirate Day. Newton was a native of Dorset, and it was his native West Country dialect, which he used in his portrayal of Long John Silver and Blackbeard, that has become the standard “pirate accent”. As the association of pirates with peg legs, parrots and treasure maps was popularized in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island (1883), the influence of Stevenson’s book on parody pirate culture cannot be overstated.

[Guenevere]

Will ARRRRRRGH! get me Johnny Depp?....please

[BJClinton]

Arr, ye be a scurvy dog! (Translation: thanks for posting that)

[RockinRight]

Cyborg and you are LOLing...or surrendering the booty? Inquiring minds want to know...

[1rudeboy]

Pirates of Penzance
ACT I (excerpt)

FRED. Well, then, it is my duty, as a pirate, to tell you that you are too tender- hearted. For instance, you make a point of never attacking a weaker party than yourselves, and when you attack a stronger party you invariably get thrashed.
KING. There is some truth in that.
FRED. Then, again, you make a point of never molesting an orphan!
SAM. Of course: we are orphans ourselves, and know what it is.
FRED. Yes, but it has got about, and what is the consequence? Every one we capture says he's an orphan. The last three ships we took proved to be manned entirely by orphans, and so we had to let them go. One would think that Great Britain's mercantile navy was recruited solely from her orphan asylums ? which we know is not the case.
SAM. But, hang it all! you wouldn't have us absolutely merciless?

[cyborg]

He’ll be saying that till I run screaming from the house! :D

[Clint N. Suhks]

[socal_parrot]

Shiver me timbers! It be that time of year again?

Now where did I put me blasted eye patch?

[Hoffer Rand]

Narrator: "Joining Larry are Pa Grape and Mr. Lunt, who together make up the infamous gang of scalliwags, the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything!"

Larry, Pa, Mr. Lunt: "We are the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything! We just stay home and lie around. And if you ask us to do anything, we'll just tell you ..."

Larry: "We don't do anything!"

Pa: "Well, I've never been Greenland and I've never been to Denver, and I've never buried treasure in St. Louis 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."

All: "'Cuz we're the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything! We just stay home and lie around. And if you ask us to do anything, we'll just tell you ..."

Mr. Lunt: "We don't do anything. And I never hoist the mainstay and I never swab the poop deck, and I never veer to starboard 'cuz I never sail 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."

All: "'Cuz we're 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!"

Larry: "Well, I've never plucked a rooster and I'm 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've never been to Boston in the fall!"

Pa: "Huh? What are you talking about? What's a rooster and mashed potatoes have to do with being a pirate??"

Mr. Lunt: "Hey, that's right! We're supposed to sing about pirate-y things!"

Larry: "Oh ..."

Pa: "And who ever kissed a chipmunk? That's just nonsense! Why even bring it up? Am I right? What do you think?"

Mr. Lunt: "I think you look like Cap'n Crunch!" Pa: "Huh? No I don't!"

Mr. Lunt: "Do too."

Pa: "Do not!"

Mr. Lunt: "You're making me hungry."

Pa: "That's it, you're walkin' the plank!"

Mr. Lunt: "Says who?"

Pa: "Says the captain, that's who!"

Mr. Lunt: "Oh, yeah? Aye aye, Cap'n Crunch!"

Larry: "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 ..."

Pa: "You just don't get it!"

All: "And we've never been to Boston in the fall!"

Pa: "Pass the chips!

[Clint N. Suhks]

Jon Bruning on Laura Ingrahm now.

[Bacon Man]

[EarthBound]

stolen!

[BJClinton]

Arr, ye’d have more luck as a cabin boy!

[Lurker]

Iron Jack Roberts bump.

L

[Current Occupant]

Thanks for the heads up, tuned back in again after turning her off several times. Tom Marr is my usual listening but he’s off and his sub sucks.

Darn, over with already, now Laura can talk up her book again.