So today is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Since I’m writing all the time, becoming a shut-in, and hardly get out of the house anymore, I don’t have too many folks to whom I can talk like a pirate. I mean, yarrr, um, my hearties.
And I only know one pirate. I never know what to make of her blog, but it makes me laugh (in a NSFW or school kinda way), so there ye go.
Yarrr.
Of course, my other favorite pirate is Steve.
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September 19th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Phil, would it ease your pain if we call you Sinister Spyglass Tankard (your pirate name according to the founders’ of TLAP Day)?
September 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
That thar be a fine name fer me!
September 19th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Avast ye mangy chumbucket! Ye pirate speak sounds more like’n it be comin from the toothless mouths of hillfolk and not born on the briny!
September 19th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
[...] found someone to participate in the festivities with. Phil Plait, of course, mentioned it on the Bad Astronomy Blog, as well. YARR! Today be a fine [...]
September 19th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Ahoy! As cap’n, I hearby dub Phil ‘Sinister Sypglass Tankard’ Plait as the Offical Astronomer of we Skepitcal Pirates!
September 19th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Hey… hey.. over here.. hey, Cap’n, sir… hey… can I be a skeptical pirate too, sir?
September 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
It actually be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Let’s make it intergalactic!
Avast and prepared to be boarded, ya scurvy knaves of Epsilon Carinae IV!! Bring us grog and wenches!!
September 19th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Batten yer hatches landlubbers, Sinister Spyglass Tankard is busy scribbling his secrets on a map called “Death From the Skies” that will show us the way to the treasure of true science YARRR! (it’s definitely three R’s, just say it out loud).
September 19th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
In the movie Scooby-Doo: Pirates Ahoy, the pirates actually needed help from an astronomer, as the only clue to where the treasure was hidden was a painting showing constellations visible from the spot.
Now send all those blige rats who be callin’ themselves CTs to walk the plank!
(Yes, I know that real pirates never actually walked the plank)
September 19th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Arrr me hearties, all I can say is aye, I’m a pirate, but I’m a good man.
September 19th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Aye, Kevin! The mangy sea-dogs of Gliese 581C are next. They had best have th’ spyglass f’r radio tunen right, f’r we be comin’ t’ take their wenches and their rum!
September 19th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
YARR! Bring me my wenches and rum, and make that scally wag sibrel walk plank! Yarrr
September 19th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Iffin this lesbian Pirate Queen has made ye crack a grin, then Her Foul Work Be Done…thank ye for th’perk, Me Sweet Lad.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Ahoy there, ye olde starbucket! Workin’ at home is no excuse! I managed to post a starrrrry piratey blog entry for TLAPD! Tis all in good fun… yarrrrr!!!!!
The SpacePirateyWriter!!
September 19th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
arr-dee-arr
September 20th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Q: Why does a pirate wear a black eyepatch?
A: So he can see better in the dark.
It works too and it’s a really weird sensation. :-O
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September 20th, 2007 at 9:01 am
>>> lesbian Pirate Queen
You win the thread.
If there’s a Yarrr, can we have a Yars’ revenge?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yars‘_Revenge
September 20th, 2007 at 9:48 am
How could you forget Maddox?
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September 20th, 2007 at 10:34 am
>>> How could you forget Maddox?
It’s easy when he only updates his page once a year, and they tend to just be warmed over anti-Apple screeds, these days.
The Loose Change parody was good, though. I really despise 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
scally wag sibrel walk plank! Yarrr
Since it’s not pirate day anymore, I concur.
(It’s talk like you’re British day!)