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September 19th (every year)is International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Talklikeapirate.com ^ | September 19, 2007

Posted on 09/19/2007 4:49:57 AM PDT by saveliberty

September 19th (every year)

is International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Tell us how ye plan t'celebrate!

[All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here]
 

New for Talk Like A Pirate Day 2007:

A Li'l Pirate's ABSeas
by Ol' Chumbucket, Cap'n Slappy
and Jonathan "Pilferin' Pooter" Cooke

A piratical romp through the alphabet - with all that implies

Read more, and order the book!

... and visit our on-line store for new T-shirt designs for 2007!


Got Pirattitude?

Book cover

Order your copy now

From the Pirate Guys and Penguin's New American Library

 



TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: ahoy; arrrr; davebarry; pirate
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To: socal_parrot

Arrgh, eye be bumpin’ to ye


61 posted on 09/19/2007 7:32:57 AM PDT by OC_Steve
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To: mc5cents
You just had too...

Now I want to head to my boat...

Which unfortunately is in the backyard right now...

62 posted on 09/19/2007 7:49:32 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: mnehrling

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


63 posted on 09/19/2007 7:51:03 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Awwww.

Don’t be hatin’ on Mother Angelica now.


64 posted on 09/19/2007 7:58:20 AM PDT by Petronski (Cleveland Indians: AL Central -5)
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To: fredhead; cyborg; dighton; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; jdm; RockinRight
I woke up this morning and said to the wife:

AARGH!! SURRENDER THE BOOTY!!!!

Cyborg and I are LOL!

65 posted on 09/19/2007 8:03:31 AM PDT by Petronski (Cleveland Indians: AL Central -5)
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To: BJClinton

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.


66 posted on 09/19/2007 8:08:46 AM PDT by Petronski (Cleveland Indians: AL Central -5)
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To: saveliberty
Will ARRRRRRGH! get me Johnny Depp?....please
67 posted on 09/19/2007 8:09:51 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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To: Petronski

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


68 posted on 09/19/2007 8:17:42 AM PDT by BJClinton (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Petronski

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


69 posted on 09/19/2007 8:20:37 AM PDT by RockinRight (Can we start calling Fred "44" now, please?)
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To: Red Badger
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?
70 posted on 09/19/2007 8:21:23 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: RockinRight; Petronski

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


71 posted on 09/19/2007 8:22:54 AM PDT by cyborg (Long Island Half Marathon finisher!)
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To: saveliberty

72 posted on 09/19/2007 8:29:16 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks ( BUILD THE WALL, ENFORCE THE LAW!)
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To: OC_Steve

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

Now where did I put me blasted eye patch?


73 posted on 09/19/2007 8:35:47 AM PDT by socal_parrot (Leaner, but not meaner)
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To: saveliberty
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!

74 posted on 09/19/2007 8:37:45 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand
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To: acsrp38; Current Occupant
Jon Bruning on Laura Ingrahm now.
75 posted on 09/19/2007 8:39:57 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks ( BUILD THE WALL, ENFORCE THE LAW!)
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To: Xenalyte
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76 posted on 09/19/2007 8:40:26 AM PDT by Bacon Man (This tag line bite me.)
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To: SlowBoat407

stolen!


77 posted on 09/19/2007 8:42:55 AM PDT by EarthBound (Ex Deo,gratia. Ex astris,scientia (Duncan Hunter in 2008! http://www.gohunter08.com))
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To: Guenevere

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


78 posted on 09/19/2007 8:44:27 AM PDT by BJClinton (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: EarthBound
Iron Jack Roberts bump.

L

79 posted on 09/19/2007 8:44:28 AM PDT by Lurker ( Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing smallpox to ebola.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

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.


80 posted on 09/19/2007 8:49:49 AM PDT by Current Occupant (IF YOU ABANDON CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES, ARE YOU STILL A CONSERVATIVE?!)
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