Nifty News from North Carolina–the “Pirate Captain” has won the election for student body president at North Carolina State University! 
He made his victory speech surrounded by supporters wearing pirate hats (from Long John Silvers).
According to the News and Observer, his opponents thought his campaign lacked substance. Alissa Tompkins said “All his quotes in the paper were in pirate language that doesn’t make any sense.”
You mean they don’t teach pirate language at State? What kind of education is that?
Yarr! They bae teachin’ pirate speak in mechanical engineerin’, matey!
I voted for him. I’ve been at NC State for five years, and this is the first time I’ve ever voted in the student government elections. I was most impressed by his campaign promise to rid the campus of “scurvy dogs.”
And someone should ask Miss Tompkins just how much sense our own student government has been making lately. Did news of the basketball ticket voucher scandal make its way over to Chapel Hill, MagicEyes?
Is that one of the official mechanical engineering courses? Did all of the mechanical engineering students already have pirate hats?
I hope the Pirate Captain is a good president!
I didn’t hear anything about the basketball ticket voucher scandal, but over here, it’s all about Carolina. And if it’s not about Carolina, it’s about how much we hate Dook.
In the news today, women are being abducted all over the place. University Mall in Chapel Hill and different places in Durham. :eek: I guess I shouldn’t go to the mall at night by myself until they catch the bastard (sounds like it’s all the same person).
I never got a hat, but I have picked up “pirate speak” (along with “lab speak” and “shop speak”) over the past few semesters, though not in any official course 
. They’re all very useful; for example, if you’re using a hacksaw to remove a piece of drywall, and suddenly discover that there is a very large water pipe behind the wall, but you can’t do anything to immediately fix it because your hacksaw is now stuck in the pipe – you at least have a variety of words to use to describe your situation.
Here is the scandal. A few finally admitted their part, the Technician decided to speak up, and hearings were conducted. This is the last I heard of it, though the whole issue always gets mentioned whenever student government is being discussed.