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Aye maties, 'tis the day we've all been waiting for: International Talk Like a Pirate Day. But avast! Before you grab your grog and parrot, let's get ye educated! The idea for the day was born in 1995 on a YMCA racquetball court in Albany, Oregon. John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and his friend Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers began throwing around insults, just like pirates. They selected Sept. 19, simply because Summers had recently divorced, it was his ex-wife's birthday, and he figured "the date was stuck in my head, and I wasn't going to do anything with it anymore," he...

Ahoy, mateys! Aye...it be that day once more. The day when ye can hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail for adventure (or mystify your co-workers & friends by how you are speaking). September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Given the seriousness of all the crap going on around us, it's nice...even for a little bit...to be silly and have a little fun.

In honour of "Talk like a Pirate!" day, this form will translate any 'real' web page on the internet into 'pirate english' This was done under our company policy of doing 'kindly' deeds for future customers :-). Curiously enough the pirate version of our own website was more interesting to read than the non pirate version!... see: pirate tranlation of http://netwinsite.com but don't tell our marketing people I said that ok! p.s. Not all websites will display perfectly, but most will more or less

VENTURE capitalists in New York and London are pumping millions of dollars into Somalia's booming pirate sector. The sharp-eyed investors say Indian Ocean piracy has replaced Bangladeshi t-shirt factories as the developing world's strongest source of high-growth revenue streams. Julian Cook, head of strategy at Porter, Pinkney and Turner (PPT), said: "The margins are very impressive. These guys can board a Chinese freighter or Saudi oil tanker and turn it around in less than a week. Usually without killing anyone. "The staff are well-trained and they operate a structured bonus system involving the daughters of nomadic tribal chiefs and as...

Avast, me hearties! Welcome to the one and only, official, accept-no-substitutes Talk Like A Pirate Day Web site. You've read about it in Dave Barry's blog. Maybe you caught one of our radio or TV interviews. Or maybe you just stumbled on to our site while googling around for sites your mother probably wouldn't approve of. Perhaps you're one of the millions of people from South Africa to Australia, from New York to the Pacific Northwest, who party like pirates every September 19th. However you got here, stick around an' learn all about September 19 - International Talk Like A...

Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day! Talk Like a Pirate Day only comes once a year (on September 19th), this year it falls on a Monday. On talk like a pirate day, everyone talks as if they were a pirate. For instance, instead of saying something like this: The commitee has decided to reallocate your time to the filing group. We look forward to the exciting new synergies between these departments. You would say this: Aye matey, those scalawags in their fine breeches want ye' to move o'er with the scurvy dogs yonder. If ye' don't come back with...