Aarrr! Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day

Posted on September 19, 2006

Yarrrrrrrrr. Ahoy! It's Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrrrr! Smartly, be makin' ye pirate post ye bilge rat bloggers!

Visit the official site or read the Wikipedia entry if you are clueless about ITLPD or TLPD. Here are some of today's pirate happenings:

• An instructional video is available on YouTube.com.
• Dave Barry's blog just says Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr with a similar update.
• Cinematical blogged about their favorite pirate: Kevin Kline in The Pirates of Penzance.
• NPR says that more pirates equals less global warming.
• Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch celebrated but then issued a cowardly caveat: "Note: Entertainment Weekly does not condone drinking at work, running people through with cutlasses, or making your coworkers walk the plank. Please keep it in check."
• The Blog Herald points to a war going on between Pirates and Ninjas. The pirates are winning.
• Yarn Harlot shared a list of knitting like pirates resources. Yarn Harlot says, "A knittin needle be not so very different from a sword, and a stitch or two may be dispatched as swiftly as scurvy dogs on the poop deck."
• Take time to remember some pirates that are no longer with us.
• Talk Like a Pirate Day has been Slashdotted.
• Tech Pirates: MacUser remembers the Pirates of Silicon Valley film.