Put a parrot on your shoulder, strap on a peg leg, hit the rum and start bellowing “Shiver me Timbers” — Wednesday is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

September 19 is your once-a-year chance to don an eye patch, sport a ridiculously large hat and keep on saying “Arrrrr.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which adopted Treasure Island star Robert Newton as its patron saint, now attracts fans from as far afield as Britain and Australia and even boasts a special Wikipedia site on the Internet.

Cranks are automatic honorary pirates.



  1. Angel H. Wong says:

    Here’s my pirate lingo:

    “Hey, I have some multiregion DVD players for sale.”

    “I use my iPod as a portable HDD.”

    “I play my Nintendo DS games on my computer.”

    “M$ banned me for life from their XBOX live services.”

  2. Mark Derail says:

    My pirate lingo:

    “I’ll be hijacking future posts trying to mobilize a CrankyGeeks Folding @ Home team !!!”
    (pirate blackmail)

    Angel – read the Ctrl+Alt+Delete cartoon post about getting XBanned for life.
    http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070831

  3. NappyHeadedHo says:

    Bite me crank, Matey!

  4. iGlobalWarmer says:

    I posted this here a couple of weeks ago ye scurvy dog. Arghhhhhhhh……

  5. iGlobalWarmer says:

    Don’t forget that the Church of the FSM has linked a decrease in pirates to global warming:
    http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

    Tomorrow is the chance for ye to directly battle global warming.

    ARghhhh.

  6. BubbaRay says:

    Aye, matey. Perhaps ye missed this tale two days ago. ‘Tis the fearsome tale o’ Bubba the Pirate.

    Ye be warned!

    http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=13664#comment-790391

  7. John Paradox says:

    So I get to spend tonight trying to find the Pirate Edition of The Screen Savers on my DVDs?

    Aaaarhhh..

    J/P=?

  8. zn2336 says:

    Visit Piratepalooza, for blarney. Pirate Captain Drew is gifted in the idiomatic vernacular. ‘Tis true.

  9. OhForTheLoveOf says:

    May I point out that I recently bought a copy of Sid Meier’s Pirates for the PC on clearance at Target, and shiver me timbers, but it’s a reasonably fun little game of pillage and plunder upon the high seas…

    http://www.2kgames.com/pirates/pirates/home.php

    Yarrrrr!

  10. Sinn Fein says:

    ARRRRR!!!

  11. tallwookie says:

    YARRRR BITCHES!!!!

  12. zn2336 says:

    #11. GARRRR!!!

  13. KVolk says:

    Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me…..bring me a bottle of rum and get ready to board!!!

  14. Lauren the Ghoti says:

    wØØt piratez!

  15. denacron says:

    I expect tomorrows ‘Cranky Geeks’ episode to be entirely in pirate talk. 😉

  16. Glenn E says:

    Isn’t this the way we imagine that John always dresses while doing his Tech5 bits? BTW, 3 minutes and 5 seconds into this flash clip, tell me if these guys aren’t speaking in “pirate”. I dares ye.

  17. Glenn E says:

    Isn’t this the way we imagine that John always dresses while doing his Tech5 bits? BTW, 3 minutes and 5 seconds into this flash clip, tell me if these guys aren’t speaking in “pirate”. I dares ye.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OagR_6EA2j8
    (oops, forgot the link the 1st time)


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