# Friday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172 "2008-09-18T17:57:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/21 "2008-09-19T09:56:56Z")
Arrr, the press gang done volunteered me t’be helpin with yonder community and family day! I bin seekin’ a way t’not have to do that, but shiver me timbers, the scalawags asked me boss first if I could leave work early, cuttin’ off me only means o’ escape! There’ll be much rum in me belly tonight! ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/22 "2008-09-19T10:03:44Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Arrr, the press gang done volunteered me t’be helpin with yonder community and family day! I bin seekin’ a way t’not have to do that, but shiver me timbers, the scalawags asked me boss first if I could leave work early, cuttin’ off me only means o’ escape! > > There’ll be much rum in me belly tonight! Best thread title/user-name response yet!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/23 "2008-09-19T12:04:26Z")
Guild Wars just added an drink, a bottle of Grog, to the game yesterday in an update. Some of the things you say while under its influence include: -It’s all good fun, 'til somebody loses an…arghhhh! -Where there be grog, there be pirates -The more we drink, the better we sing -Me pants are full of starfish. I think I would have been a good pirate. I like booty. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/24 "2008-09-19T12:24:17Z")
Arrr! Ye Scurvy Dogs. Ye been beaten to it, and now that treasure’s been filched: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484045](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484045) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/25 "2008-09-19T12:28:43Z")
If y’all are goin’ wenchin’, I’m available. Just so’s ya know. (right after work, that is). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/26 "2008-09-19T12:41:39Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Arrr! Ye Scurvy Dogs. Ye been beaten to it, and now that treasure’s been filched: > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484045](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484045) Yer threads ha’ been [del]merged[/del] boarded, har. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/27 "2008-09-19T13:21:03Z")
I know you’ve all heard this joke, but it’s kind of like “The Night Before Christmas” – it just ain’t a holiday without it. A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel down the front of his pants. The bartender says, “Ahoy, matey, what’s that steering wheel doing down the front of your pants?” The pirate says, “Arrr! it’s driving me nuts!” ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/28 "2008-09-19T13:30:21Z")
Arrrr …ye don’t be a’posting insults to other moderartorrrrrrs, or y’ill be facing the plank! ---
**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, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/29 "2008-09-19T13:31:08Z")
Yarrr! I laughed so hard at that my pegleg fell off, damn ye for a lubber! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/30 "2008-09-19T13:34:38Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Arrrr …ye don’t be a’posting insults to other moderartorrrrrrs, or y’ill be facing the plank! Today, we won’t just be bannin’ the spammers, we’ll be keelhauling them and then hanging them from the nearest yardarm! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/31 "2008-09-19T13:38:38Z")
hey d00dz do any of you have working serialz or crakz for adobe photoshop cs for windoze don’t worry i’m kewl and 1337 … sorry about that, Wrong pirate. ---
**Author:** ![D.Fenestrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@D.Fenestrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.Fenestrator)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/32 "2008-09-19T13:54:03Z")
The best I can do today is wear my arrrgh-yle socks… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/33 "2008-09-19T14:07:56Z")
A few more groanerrrrrs: How do pirates know that they are pirates? They think, therefore they ARRRR! Why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet? Because they can spend years at C! A pirate walks into a bar wearing a paper towel on his head. He sits down at the bar and orders some dirty rum. The bartender asks, “Why are you wearing a paper towel?” The pirate replies “Arrrrr! I’ve got a bounty on me head!” Thank you. I’ll be herrrrre all week. Don’t forget to tip your serverrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/34 "2008-09-19T14:14:21Z")
I encountered [this](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Random#5247734995786301554) upon logging on to my school’s online course website today. Oh dear. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/35 "2008-09-19T14:29:08Z")
Come show me how ye bury yer treasure, lad! _(wink wink)_ ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/36 "2008-09-19T14:42:20Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > A pirate walks into a bar wearing a paper towel on his head. He sits down at the bar and orders some dirty rum. > The bartender asks, “Why are you wearing a paper towel?” > The pirate replies “Arrrrr! I’ve got a bounty on me head!” Arrrr,ye hits me with a broadside wit’ that 'un, y’old salt! Good 'un, matey! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/37 "2008-09-19T15:54:14Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Ye don’t understand what Pirates arrrrrrrr? > Ye must be as thick as a (walk the) plank. I arrrrrrrrrrrt to feed you to the sharrrrrrks. Any pirate worth his grog ought to know when he’s been whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/38 "2008-09-19T16:20:20Z")
:: clears throat :: > [@Shakespeare](#): > > Pool! Sir Pool! lord! > Ay, kennel, puddle, sink; whose filth and dirt > Troubles the silver spring where England drinks. > Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth > For swallowing the treasure of the realm: > Thy lips that kiss’d the queen shall sweep the ground; > And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey’s death, > Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain, > Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again: > And wedded be thou to the hags of hell, > For daring to affy a mighty lord > Unto the daughter of a worthless king, > Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem. > By devilish policy art thou grown great, > And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged > With gobbets of thy mother’s bleeding heart. > By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France, > The false revolting Normans thorough thee > Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy > Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts, > And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home. > The princely Warwick, and the Nevils all, > Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain, > As hating thee, are rising up in arms: > And now the house of York, thrust from the crown > By shameful murder of a guiltless king > And lofty proud encroaching tyranny, > Burns with revenging fire; whose hopeful colours > Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine, > Under the which is writ ‘Invitis nubibus.’ > The commons here in Kent are up in arms: > And, to conclude, reproach and beggary > Is crept into the palace of our king. > And all by thee. Away! convey him hence. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/39 "2008-09-19T17:41:23Z")
Oh Crap. Mods please delete my Pirate Day thread(s). ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172/40 "2008-09-19T18:51:16Z")
> [@nashiitashii](#): > > I encountered [this](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Random#5247734995786301554) upon logging on to my school’s online course website today. Oh dear. Haha, me too! Thanks for sharing; I wouldn’t have checked today otherwise… [Mine](http://img393.imageshack.us/my.php?image=44033633ml7.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-is-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/464172.md?page=3)