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15/11/2006 | Filed under Discover > Threaded
The swashbuckler’s favourite holiday is on the horizon. Oliver Lindberg shows you how to celebrate in style.
Ahoy, me hearties! The great, grand day be just around the corner. On 19 September it be Talk Like A Pirate Day again. Aye, e’eryone on the whole wide world be encouraged to talk like a pirate for 24 hours because that be what two Yankee mateys, Ol’ Chumbucket an’ Cap’n Slappy decided in 1995. See www.talklikeapirate.com an’ its UK matey site www.yarr.org.uk if ye don’t know how to be speak on that glorious day, ye fool, arrr.
Souls all around the globe enjoy talkin’ like pirates, yarrr. Just head to their Flickr group (www.flickr.com/photos/talklikeapirateday) to see hundreds o’ pictures o’ grown men an’ lasses as well as, shiver me timbers, pets in full pirate regalia. One swashbuckler, Pirate Rubber Duckie, left an office in Palm Springs to be travellin’ across the seven seas (www.flickr.com/groups/piraterubberduckie). An’ ye can be sure that the Austin’s premier band o’ scallywags, The Jolly Garogers, be kickin’ out the jams in celebration, too (www.jollygarogers.com).
A nice bit o’ Depp
Thanks to the big, bad buccaneer Cap’n Jack Sparrow thar be a bit o’ a pirate craze on the web. Ye can find all kinds o’ fine ol’ booty at www.piratemerch.com an’ an ergonomic keyboard fer pirates at www.arrrrrr.com, but the best place fer some good ol’ pirate plunder must be Billy Bone’s Pirate Locker, wi’ more than 2,000 items (www.deadmentellnotales.com). Any self-respectin’ gentleman o’ fortune be needin’ some decent gear fer their slop bucket an’ Billy Bones be givin’ ye a mighty skull toilet brush an’ holder (tinyurl.com/rcant) an’ some Jolly Roger Pirate Wipes™ to keep ‘yer nethers high an’ dry. Thar be also a mighty, fine store far, far away in that thar San Francisco (826valencia.org/store) that prides itself wi’ a stamp o’ approval from the cap’n o’ the Talkin’ Heads hisself, David Byrne. It be the home of porcupine pufferfish Karl an’ alon’ the usual treasure trove of swag thar be a store log chroniclin’ events that occur in the shop (“A boy came in with a stone decorated with two googly eyes. It was named Roxy.”) an’ a gallery o’ signs (fer example, the code o’ the store: “No feather shall be taller or more delightful than the captain’s”). Times are a’changin’, an’ some poor sea dogs have to be workin’ in an office these days (www.pirates-life.com/video.html). By the powers, I’d rather be keelhauled!
It be a common theory that any movie can be more entertainin’ if it features either ninjas, pirates or Nazis (be sure to be checkin’ out the documentary on the NPN Theory at www.deeplexuniverse.plus.com/NPNtheory.wmv), which be bringin’ me round to the eternal online debate: who would be winnin’ a fight, pirates or ninjas, arrrr (those scurvy dogs we looked at in .net’s great, grand issue 150, by the way)? Many a matey has troubled hisself by listin’ both pros an’ cons (lanceandeskimo.com/journal/ninjaspirates.shtml) o’ both parties or to even act out the argy (tinyurl.com/gljmn). Some sprogs take monkeys an’ robots (aeforge.livejournal.com/26346.html) or elves an’ dwarves (tinyurl.com/ysuxf), too.
Of course, ye all know that us corsairs would be winnin’ an’ ye can see what our world would look like at Worth1000’s photoshop contests (tinyurl.com/3qg49 an’ tinyurl.com/ zfu3f). Get you ready. It be the dawn of a new age, an’ ye’ll be speakin’ like me! Now, bring me that horizon...
