from the oh-arr-me-maties,-make-it-ship-shape-and-Bristol-fashion dept.
Friday 19th September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. From Wikipedia:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD, September 19) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.
Further:
According to Summers, the day is the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. He has stated that during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them reacted to the pain with an outburst of "Aaarrr!", and the idea was born. That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out of respect for the observance of D-Day, they chose Summers' ex-wife's birthday, as it would be easy for him to remember.
At first an inside joke between two friends, the holiday gained exposure when John Baur and Mark Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002. Barry liked the idea and promoted the day.
They even have their own official web site complete with an English-to-Pirate Translator.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @11:56PM
This was only kind of amusing when it first became big in 2002 and 2003. It's not funny any longer. These days, it's stupid, bordering on idiotic.
It's like April Fools Day is now. Everything about it is old, and any "prank" that's attempted these days ends up just being dumb. Things are better when people just ignore the day and don't even try.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @11:58PM
Arrrr!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @12:05AM
Did you just injure your groin playing racquetball?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday September 19 2014, @12:17AM
That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out o' respect for t' observance o' D-Day, they chose Summers' ex-buxom beauty's birthday, as it would be easy for him t' remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @12:24AM
Other dialect filters, for anyone that hasn't seen these before (??)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jbc/home/chef.html [utexas.edu]
Choices are: Swedish Chef, Jive, Valley Girl, Pig Latin
(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Friday September 19 2014, @12:39AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Friday September 19 2014, @08:44AM
You know, like, totally, I mean gag me with a spoon
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday September 19 2014, @12:23AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @12:31AM
Did you also injure your groin while playing racquetball? Maybe you should put some ice on your gonads if they have been damaged in some way.
(Score: 2) by EvilJim on Friday September 19 2014, @05:04AM
oh look, it's the punchline to the joke about the pirate with the ships wheel for a cock.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @05:11AM
(Score: 2) by EvilJim on Friday September 19 2014, @05:20AM
who me? it was the other AC who didn't realise this was the punchline to a joke. I have more of a sense of humor than a sense of seriousness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @01:06AM
Yeah, it was passably funny back in 2005. Now it's fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DECbot on Friday September 19 2014, @05:32AM
I'm not sure about all that other stuff, but if this holiday is an excuse to drink a bottle of rum, I'm all for it.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @01:58AM
It was never funny.
The only holiday worth a damn is Steak and Blowjob Day.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Friday September 19 2014, @01:54PM
If ye bein' the type of ladd that thinks ye so, lackin yer funny bones an all, then yer likely bein' the anti-social type that be not joinin' tha festivities, 'cept fer a right proper keel haul.
If'n that be tha case then by the time yer choice of holiday comes 'round it'll be just steak fer ye.
Cabin fever has taken hold of yer bilge rat soul. Ye can be cursed ta drink yer grog forever alone. Arrrrrrrrr, that be right.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday September 19 2014, @02:43AM
Last year I did my stand-up meeting in 'pirate'. This year I'm going to see the Arrogant Worms, who perform of of the best pirate songs ever [youtube.com].
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Friday September 19 2014, @04:50AM
It's not funny any longer
Speak for y'arrr self yarrr scurvy dog! Don't yarr hornswaggle us out of our fun or we'll have yarr walk the plank!
I know a disheveled looking programmer that only got his missing tooth fixed because he was sick of random people walking up to him in pubs and saying Arrrr!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @11:58AM
Huh?
(Score: 3) by wonkey_monkey on Friday September 19 2014, @07:48AM
This was only kind of amusing to me when it first became big in 2002 and 2003. It's not funny to me any longer. These days, in my own personal subjective opinion, it's stupid, bordering on idiotic.
FTFY. Matey.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday September 19 2014, @12:36AM
This must be the day that you download like a real pirate using torrent index and magnet links. Bytes for kewlz!
(Score: 3, Informative) by LaminatorX on Friday September 19 2014, @02:41AM
—A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates (1724)
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Friday September 19 2014, @01:47PM
It doesn't float my boat.
Happy Friday!
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zafiro17 on Friday September 19 2014, @02:22PM
I submitted this over at Pipedot: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-09-19/friday-distro-trisquel-gnu-linux [pipedot.org] just for laughs. Some got the joke; others got their knickers in a twist about it.
Lighten up people, it's just the Internet. This is why nerds don't get invited to the fun parties. And probably never will.
"Friday Distro" is a regular feature. Search on the word "Distro" in the title for a half dozen others.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 20 2014, @12:35PM
People didn't like it because what you did was dumb. No offense meant, but you intentionally made the summary harder to read. That's just not helpful.
Nerds don't get invited to fun parties because they often do stuff like you did. Normal people and most intelligent nerds just don't find stuff like pirate talk and ninjas and fedoras to be funny or cool. They think such things are childish and stupid, which they are. They don't want to be subjected to crap like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @07:03PM
If you play Sid Meier's Pirates (the re-release with the dancing in it) today the interface talks like a pirate.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday September 19 2014, @07:43PM
It's there a tie in between the Flying Spaghetti Monster and "Talk Like a Pirate Day"?
O, by the way, Yarrr!
OTOH, wouldn't Henry Morgan have had a Scots accent?
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