Talk Like A Pirate Early Warning
Don’t forget, September the 19th is officially Talk Like A Pirate Day. Please do consider blogging your pirate talk and there are a number of resources available to ensure that your talking like a pirate goes smoothly.
If you don’t know your belayin’ from yer Avast, me hearties, you can head over to the Pirate Glossary where you can learn all of the terms properly, so you don’t embarrass yourself and end up getting a taste of the cat or kissing the gunner’s daughter.
If you’re not sure what sort of a pirate you be, you can take the Pirate Personality Quiz, determine the name of your pirate ship using the ship name generator and there are a couple of different methods you can use to determine what your pirate name is.
Remember to get all of this up and running so that when the time comes and it’s September the 19th, you can show your pirat-i-tude.
And, if you want to also consider something serious for a moment (me hearties), there’s the UK Pirate Party which is a properly registered UK political party wanting to reform copyright law and end a lot of surveillance. These are all very noble goals, so it might be worth taking a look and seeing if it grabs your fancy (aar!) but it does have to be admitted that they don’t say “yo ho ho” very much, and there is a distinct lack of policies on two of the main pirate areas: grog rations, and exactly how many men should you ideally have on a dead man’s chest.
JackP says:
August 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Quick note for the spammers… just because I temporarily have limited internet access does not mean I have none.
Your comments will not be surviving for particularly long. Thank you, that is all
To everyone else, sorry for not responding to your comments in more detail — although you seem quite happy discussing things amongst yourselves — the reason for my relative ‘hands-offness’ at the moment should become clear by Friday 28th.
Catch up with y’all soon…
Karl says:
August 19th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Deadliest Warrior (airs Tuesdays on Bravo) really missed a trick with the first episode last week, choosing to pit a ninja against a spartan when clearly it should have been pirate v ninja.
Daft show anyway tbh.
gavlp (Gavin Lloyd Payne) says:
August 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Was catching up on my blog subs and @ThePickards reminded me of this – Talk Like A pirate Day (here: http://tinyurl.com/lm9jzk). Arrrr.
Parkman says:
August 25th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Hey Jack,
Was wondering if I could borrow your pirate file(pirate with the parrot on his shoulder) and use it for some marketing material. Have a small bakery in California and would love to use it for marketing my pirate cookies. Just curious if you have it in an EPS file and love your blog. Will talk to you soon.
Jack Pickard says:
August 26th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Parkman, it’s not my pirate image. It’s a public domain one. You can find the original over at Wikipedia – Piratey, where there are a couple of different versions. It was created by J J Mcullough who released it into the public domain. So help yourself. All I would ask is that you take your own copy and don’t hotlink to this one…
Anonymous says:
October 28th, 2009 at 7:06 am
thats reely good beter off what i drew