# Avast! It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207 "2013-09-19T04:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/21 "2013-09-19T17:52:32Z")
Yarr, hope ye all have a good day, ye scurvy dogs! [http://www.arrrrrr.com/corsair.jpg](http://www.arrrrrr.com/corsair.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/22 "2013-09-19T17:58:57Z")
Yarr, or maybe it’s [Talk Like Robert Newton Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ni6QILslus). The gent’s Michael Longcor; we call 'im Moonwulf. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/23 "2013-09-19T18:22:55Z")
“Thursday, September 19, any buccaneer to enter a participating **Krispy Kreme** and talk like a pirate gets one FREE Original Glazed® doughnut,” according to [KrispyKreme.com](http://KrispyKreme.com). “To the landlubber who dares to wear full pirate attire goes a bounty of one FREE dozen Original Glazed doughnuts.” “Full pirate attire” should include at least three of the following (and zero weapons): “eye patch, pirate hat, bandana, peg leg, parrot on shoulder, pirate shirt / loose white shirt, knickers, leather belt, silver and gold necklaces and earrings, pirate hook, pointy black boots, or ragged brown sandal.” The **Long John Silver’s** fast-food chain is offering a free piece of “classic whitefish” to anyone who says, “Arrr,” and asks for it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/24 "2013-09-19T18:24:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Yarr, or maybe it’s [Talk Like Robert Newton Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ni6QILslus). > > The gent’s Michael Longcor; we call 'im Moonwulf. Love the guy! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/25 "2013-09-19T20:03:51Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > The **Long John Silver’s** fast-food chain is offering a free piece of “classic whitefish” to anyone who says, “Arrr,” and asks for it. Arrrr, you poxed landlubber! Give me the popcorn shrimp you whoreson dog! This be a real parrot, an’ he’ll soil your poxed table cloth if you don’t! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/26 "2013-09-19T20:35:14Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > … > “Full pirate attire” should include …pirate shirt / loose white shirt… Does it have to be a _puffy_ shirt? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/27 "2013-09-19T21:47:07Z")
Individually, I love you all with affection unspeakable, but, collectively, I look upon you with disgust that amounts to absolute detestation. Oh ! pity me, my beloved friends, for such is my sense of duty that, once out of my indentures, I shall feel myself bound to devote myself heart and soul to your extermination ! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/28 "2013-09-19T22:05:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Does it have to be a _puffy_ shirt? I tried to find a pic of Conan the Barbarian with a puffy shirt in his [pirate role](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_Tranicos_%28collection%29) in\* The Treasure of Tranicos\*, but was not successful. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/29 "2013-09-20T01:17:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I tried to find a pic of Conan the Barbarian with a puffy shirt in his [pirate role](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_Tranicos_%28collection%29) in\* The Treasure of Tranicos\*, but was not successful. > :rolleyes: The next best thing?: [http://www.tobeapirate.com/Seinfeld\_Shirt/JerryPirat.jpg](http://www.tobeapirate.com/Seinfeld_Shirt/JerryPirat.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/30 "2013-09-20T01:40:19Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > I have a Board meeting this morning. This should be fun. Under the circumstances, you should have been calling it a Plank meeting… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/31 "2013-09-20T01:50:47Z")
[quote=“Elendil\_s\_Heir, post:29, topic:669207”] The next best thing? No. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/32 "2013-09-22T21:37:51Z")
From the Baker’s Dozen thread that day: \*\*Courses at Pirate U. \*\* 1. Keelhauling: A Critical Reappraisal 2. Advanced Deckswabbing: Today You Get To Use A Mop 3. Woodshop 101: Lathe techniques for wooden legs 4. Cooking With Rum: One for the kettle and two for the cook 5. Ornithology 201: The Care and Feeding of Shoulder Parrots 6. Walking the Planck: Quantum Physicks and the Informed Privateer 7. Music 101: The Chanties of Yo-ho Ono 8. Intro to Law: Letters of Marque and Reprisal and You 9. Freebooter Ethics: Codes, Guidelines, and Theoretical Overlaps 10. Rebuilding Your Boat: How to Shiver Your Timbers 11. “Blowing the Man Down”: The Gay Subcontext of _Treasure Island_ (English Dept.) 12: Remedial Skills for Pirates: Rediscovering the Three “Arrrs” 12. Buccaneer Cartography: The Art of Drawing Treasure Maps ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/33 "2018-09-19T04:18:01Z")
Shiver me timbers, ye scurvy dogs, but 'tis that day once more! [![](http://craziestgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pirate-computer-keyboard.jpg) ](http://craziestgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pirate-computer-keyboard.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/34 "2018-09-19T04:52:44Z")
I’m guessing this day sounds different in East Africa than it does here. Also guessing that there may be persons in the south & east of England whose accents preclude their full parrrrrrticipation. 🙂 And some in the north and west of said country who just call it “Thursday” because they always talk like this. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/35 "2018-09-19T05:06:31Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > I’m guessing this day sounds different in East Africa than it does here. > > Also guessing that there may be persons in the south & east of England whose accents preclude their full parrrrrrticipation. 🙂 > > And some in the north and west of said country who just call it “Thursday” because they always talk like this. 😃 Is that you, DavidwithanARRRGGG? ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/36 "2018-09-19T05:12:49Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Is that you, DavidwithanARRRGGG? Can’t talk now… Cutlass stuck between my teeth. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/37 "2018-09-19T05:20:48Z")
You shouldn’t have opened your mouth for the car show.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/38 "2018-09-19T08:10:15Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > I’m guessing this day sounds different in East Africa than it does here. > > Also guessing that there may be persons in the south & east of England whose accents preclude their full parrrrrrticipation. 🙂 > > And some in the north and west of said country who just call it “Thursday” because they always talk like this. 😃 Actually, it’s people in Bristol, specifically. Where I sit right now, moi luver ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/39 "2018-09-19T12:58:05Z")
Yar, what kind of Frenchy-fied talk is that, ye lubber? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avast-its-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/669207/40 "2018-09-19T13:49:01Z")
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