TLAP Day 2009

[kpenguin]

This Saturday be Talk Like a Pirate Day. What ye scallawags be doing on that most momentous of days?

[Innis Cabal]

Be a ninja.

[kpenguin]

Be a ninja.

Then what are you doing December 5th?

[Ichneumon]

Then what are you doing December 5th?

Are you saying there is a TLAN day and I never knew about it?:smalleek:

[kpenguin]

Well, its more like Stalk Like a Ninja Day, but yeah. Heck, I made an avatar thread last year for it in the A&C board (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96608).

[Innis Cabal]

Then what are you doing December 5th?

Being a Pirate. Of course.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Do what you want, because a pirate is free!

[EmeraldRose]

Arr! What silly scalawag be waitin fer Saturday? Me mateys! Join me now an we'll abolish tha ninja threat ferevarrrrrrr!!

:smallwink:

[V'icternus]

I... I get to talk like a Pirate?

...

Hooray! I finally get to use my pirate accent!

Is there anything about this day that is not completely evident in the name?

[Anuan]

Nope. Also, on the topic; best. schoolday. ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdSkDXs00xg)

[Moff Chumley]

Damn... if only it could be one day earlier. My current history teacher, last year, dressed in full pirate regalia and had his classes raid all the freshman history classes... :smallfrown:

[Jesse Drake]

I... I get to talk like a Pirate?

...

Hooray! I finally get to use my pirate accent!

Is there anything about this day that is not completely evident in the name?

Gar, V'ic, Gar.

[V'icternus]

Damn... if only it could be one day earlier. My current history teacher, last year, dressed in full pirate regalia and had his classes raid all the freshman history classes... :smallfrown:

That must have been...

THE BEST DAY EVER!!!

Or, you know... top 10.

[RandomNPC]

this will be the third consecutive year this is posted, 2nd for me posting it, but i don't want to wait and see if anyone else remembers it.

Yes I'm a pirate, 200 years to late,
The cannons don't thunder,
There's nothing to plunder,
I'm a 20 something victim of fate.

So everyone have a good yar, and i'll see ye on the other side of it all.

[Miss Nobody]

Damn... if only it could be one day earlier. My current history teacher, last year, dressed in full pirate regalia and had his classes raid all the freshman history classes... :smallfrown:

Best. Teacher. EVER!

[Grim ranger]

Best. Teacher. EVER!

Ye speak true, matey! ARRRRR!

[The Neoclassic]

I appreciate the reminder of this day. I really ought to participate this year!

[Castaras]

Damn... if only it could be one day earlier. My current history teacher, last year, dressed in full pirate regalia and had his classes raid all the freshman history classes... :smallfrown:

That....is....WIN.

[kpenguin]

Damn... if only it could be one day earlier. My current history teacher, last year, dressed in full pirate regalia and had his classes raid all the freshman history classes... :smallfrown:

WIN!:smallbiggrin:

[smellie_hippie]

I'll be hostin' me second Annual Talk Like a Pirate Party!

Pirate garb is a requirement, or ye walk tha plank! (photos will be linked later)

[Uncle Festy]

Yaaar, mateys!
Still have my pirate avatarrr from last yearrr!
>.>

[littlebottom]

arrr, this be good news! t'is the day of me gaming club that it is! yarr! even me RPG character will be par-ti-ci-pate-in' oh aye!

[EmeraldRose]

I'll be hostin' me second Annual Talk Like a Pirate Party!

Pirate garb is a requirement, or ye walk tha plank! (photos will be linked later)

Arr, ye scurvy dog! Ye live too far away fer us ta come! :smalltongue:

[Thanatos 51-50]

Shutting myself off from all the jeriks who want to take TLAP day seriously.
Pirates are boring and un-awesome.

[Zeb The Troll]

this will be the third consecutive year this is posted, 2nd for me posting it, but i don't want to wait and see if anyone else remembers it.

Yes I'm a pirate, 200 years to late,
The cannons don't thunder,
There's nothing to plunder,
I'm a 20 something victim of fate.

So everyone have a good yar, and i'll see ye on the other side of it all.*psssst - it's "I'm an over 40 victim of fate". Just sayin'. :smallcool:*

Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found
My occupational hazard being
My occupation's just not around

[V'icternus]

Shutting myself off from all the jeriks who want to take TLAP day seriously.
Pirates are boring and un-awesome.

Hey, 'as anyone got a plank I could borrah?

[kpenguin]

Shutting myself off from all the jeriks who want to take TLAP day seriously.
Pirates are boring and un-awesome.

Wait, why are we jerks? Simply because we decide to celebrate a day you don't want to? Simply because we have a different idea about what's awesome than you?

[V'icternus]

Yeah, that's not being a jerk. Being a jerk is calling other people jerks for liking something that you don't. That's being a jerk.

[Thanatos 51-50]

Wait, why are we jerks? Simply because we decide to celebrate a day you don't want to? Simply because we have a different idea about what's awesome than you?

Oh, not you, just the people who are invasive about the thing.

[kpenguin]

Oh, not you, just the people who are invasive about the thing.

Invasive how? They break into your boat and take your things?

[Thanatos 51-50]

An example:
"Yarrrr, Matey, it be Talk like a pirate day! Ye needsta be talkin in Piratical today! I not be understandin' all yer fancy words ye be usin'."

In a mildly ironic note, I have my facebook language set to "Pirate"

[kpenguin]

Are they meaning it in a joking manner or are they threatening you with a cutlass?

[V'icternus]

Either way seems fine to me...

I mean, if you don't want to talk to them, just don't. If you ignore them, they'll lose interest and go plunder some stuff or something.

[Anuan]

I think he means people that won't listen to you unless you talk like a pirate.
That **** is -irritating.-

[Kobold-Bard]

It's also my birthday, so I will most likely spend the day with my girlfriend, then put on a pirate outfit and spend the night drinking rum and singing sea shantys in the pubs of York with half the student population (gotta love Fresher's Week :smallbiggrin:)

Edit: Damn. Elder Tsofu made me an awesome Kobold-Pirate avatar last year and I've lost the link again (my computer keeps deleting stuff at random, it's lost my avatar links twice now).

[V'icternus]

Well, they should just call you land-lubbers and get on with it.

[Elder Tsofu]

Edit:...I've lost the link again...

Luckily me can supply it for yer if ye wante to use it again, otherwise just showe your piraty side to the landlubbers in yer town. :smallsmile:
http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv173/Tsofu/Piratekobold2.png
103x120

[Kobold-Bard]

Luckily me can supply it for yer if ye wante to use it again, otherwise just showe your piraty side to the landlubbers in yer town. :smallsmile:
http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv173/Tsofu/Piratekobold2.png
103x120

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Thanks again, I'm saving it in 4 seperate files just to be safe (no way this mutinous dog o' a machine can be rid o'em all).

[Dallas-Dakota]

This Saturday be Talk Like a Pirate Day. What ye scallawags be doing on that most momentous of days?
Prolly going to a Fantasy Fair.

With drinking mead, eating foods and fighting stuffs like undead and such.
Also be a hobbit. But then again, I'm always a hobbit. >.>

Though there is this german Fellowship coming.....>.> And I did say I'd come over and say hi.(And demonstrate my hobbit fighting style, unique to hobbitkind)

Maybe I should repair my huge ass shield and bring it...But then again, shields aren't very piratey....

And my sword needs to be repaired too...Meh, lazy. >.>

[The Dark Fiddler]

I will be angry on TLAP Day because it isn't a school day, and I can't talk like a pirate at school this year.

*sigh* I was so looking forward to telling the school they couldn't make me stop because it was a religious holiday.

But of course, me mateys, I still be talkin' like a pirate! Nothin' can be ruinin' the spirit o' the day!

[The Extinguisher]

Sweet. I work on Pirate day. I need to work on my pirate speech.

[Lorn]

Gr, didn't notice the thread... acronyms are the work of the devil.

Newcastle on the night/during the day, dressed as a pirate, with other people in similar regalia.

It's someone's 21st a few days after as well; the two dates are being combined.

Added bonus, it's freshers so there should be a bunch more piratey people out there :)

Should be pretty epic.

[Kobold-Bard]

In a mildly ironic note, I have my facebook language set to "Pirate"

As will everyone on the 19th. Prepare for the explosion of pirate speak.

[Blue Ghost]

What am I doing on this momentous day? I shall be Captain Jacques le Bleu, grand and noble privateer in the service of Lord Tyrinar. None of the filthy pirate slang for me. I am above you crude illiterate sea scum. Now, surrender to His Majesty Lord Tyrinar, or perish at the hands of Captain Jacques le Bleu!

I would request an avatar for this occasion, but it's only going to be one day, so it would probably not be worth it.

[SoD]

Shutting myself off from all the jeriks who want to take TLAP day seriously.
Pirates are boring and un-awesome.

How dare you, I say. Insulting the most noble profession on the planet (hey! I said it with a straight face!)! I challenge you to a duel, prepare to meet your doom at the hands of a part time pirate!


Damn... if only it could be one day earlier. My current history teacher, last year, dressed in full pirate regalia and had his classes raid all the freshman history classes... :smallfrown:

That's nothing. I've got a mate who dresses like a pirate every day, has sea shanties on his iPod, and drinks nothing but rum.

[Raz_Fox]

Of course I can be a Pirate on this most zetta high of days, m'mate. Not one of those grounded blokes, though, with their poor wooden birds sailin' on the wet. No, I'm sailin' in the zetta Great Blue. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPH1OoTobtk&feature=related) Have a fair wind down in you's waves, blokes.

[Cobra_Ikari]

This Saturday be Talk Like a Pirate Day. What ye scallawags be doing on that most momentous of days?

This Saturday? But...I was planning on going to an anime convention this Saturday...

...I'd need some backup, surrounded by so many ninjas...

[Dragonrider]

...I just dusted off my 2007 TLAPD avatar. :smalleek: Old art, too-thick lines...but I still like it. :smallbiggrin:

...Arr?

[Cobra_Ikari]

...I just dusted off my 2007 TLAPD avatar. :smalleek: Old art, too-thick lines...but I still like it. :smallbiggrin:

...Arr?

YARR! *snuggles*

Avast, ye matey! Lookin' scurvy, ye arrr!

[Renegade Paladin]

No she's not; she doesn't have great big sores and bleeding gums. :smalltongue:

[Dragonrider]

No she's not; she doesn't have great big sores and bleeding gums. :smalltongue:

<-- I do have a gold tooth, though. A big one.

[Jacklu]

Busted out mah old pirate avi.

[Em Blackleaf]

Awesome. I'm going to my friend's birthday party on Saturday, and I don't think she or her parents know it's TLAP day. I'm just going to talk like a pirate without explaining myself, and she how she reacts. :smalltongue:

[V'icternus]

Aww, you make an adorably cute pirate, Em.

...And also, somehow, scarier than the ones with intestines draped around their necks...

[Cobra_Ikari]

Awesome. I'm going to my friend's birthday party on Saturday, and I don't think she or her parents know it's TLAP day. I'm just going to talk like a pirate without explaining myself, and she how she reacts. :smalltongue:

Your new avvie reminds me of a broken baby doll. That terrifies me. =\

*snuggles carefully*

[Em Blackleaf]

I always saw it as a little kid, dressed up as a pirate, and sad because she can't suck her thumb with the fake hook on over her real hand.

But now that you mention it, it kinda does look like a broken baby doll. It's not supposed to. :smallfrown:

[V'icternus]

See, now that I know the reason she's sad, it makes more sense.

...And makes my heroic Pirate side want to help her in some way...

That's why some Avatars need explainations... if there was a way that everyone who saw your Avatar could get an explaination of it, it'd be perfect.

EDIT: Also, if she really needs to, she could suck on the top of the hook. (She'd likely still look sad, though, it being a hook and all). Just make sure the pointy bit isn't in her mouth... unless she's not a fan of tongues, cheeks, flesh or teeth.

[Zeb The Troll]

Interesting note on my plans for the day...

It's my son-in-law's birthday so we're taking him out to dinner...

At Cheeseburger in Paradise! :smallcool:

As it happens, I'll also be donating blood to the Red Cross. I wonder what they'll think when Alarra and I swagger in wearing pirate garb and offering to "spill some o' me own blood".

[V'icternus]

Zeb? You rock. A lot.

Giving blood is awesome, (I totally would, but untill recently I was too young, and I have this thing where I'm deathly afraid of needles...) and doing it as a pirate would just rock. Also, if you could talk Alarra into it, that's even more awesome.

And congrats on your Son-in-law surviving another year since his last birthday!

[Zeb The Troll]

Zeb? You rock. A lot.

Giving blood is awesome, (I totally would, but untill recently I was too young, and I have this thing where I'm deathly afraid of needles...) and doing it as a pirate would just rock. Also, if you could talk Alarra into it, that's even more awesome.

And congrats on your Son-in-law surviving another year since his last birthday!She's already signed up to go with me. It's not much more of a stretch to go in character.

As for son-in-law, he makes life difficult for himself. How can someone be BORN on TLAP Day, and side with the ninjas, I ask you?!? :smallmad: :smallcool:

[KataraAltinaII]

Damn... if only it could be one day earlier. My current history teacher, last year, dressed in full pirate regalia and had his classes raid all the freshman history classes... :smallfrown:

wow... you made me wish I was there... :smalleek:

[V'icternus]

As for son-in-law, he makes life difficult for himself. How can someone be BORN on TLAP Day, and side with the ninjas, I ask you?!? :smallmad: :smallcool:

Oh dear... the poor fool. You should string him up by the yardarm.

Whatever that means...

(And pirate pics are a must. :smalltongue: )

[Weimann]

While Talk Like A Pirate Day is theoretically awesome, I have trouble putting any real conviction into it. I just get reminded that this wasn't how pirates talked at all.

Ít could also be due to my Piratian sounding like some strange kind of scottish.

[V'icternus]

Gar, I be three quaters Sco'ish! So I therefore be a Scottish Pirate, an' can ge' away with talkin' like this!

[Kobold-Bard]

While Talk Like A Pirate Day is theoretically awesome, I have trouble putting any real conviction into it. I just get reminded that this wasn't how pirates talked at all.

Ít could also be due to my Piratian sounding like some strange kind of scottish.

Yes it was!!!!! Stop talking crazy!!! How dare you say such a thing!! To the brig with ye!! :smalltongue:

[Last_resort_33]

I just get reminded that this wasn't how pirates talked at all.

Essentially, the 'Pirate' accent is an exagerated West Country accent. Considering that Bristol was one of the largest, and certianly most significant ports in the world around that point in history, the proportion pirates from the lower classes in the west of England would be reasonably high.

[Archonic Energy]

does this mean we all have to talk like Somilians? :smalltongue:
or Limewire users? :smalltongue:

YARRRR.

[Dr. Bath]

While Talk Like A Pirate Day is theoretically awesome, I have trouble putting any real conviction into it. I just get reminded that this wasn't how pirates talked at all.

Ít could also be due to my Piratian sounding like some strange kind of scottish.

Some pirates sounded like that. Pirates from Somerset. Talk Like You Are From Somerset Day doesn't roll off the tongue in quite the same way.

[Last_resort_33]

Some pirates sounded like that. Pirates from Somerset. Talk Like You Are From Somerset Day doesn't roll off the tongue in quite the same way.

But it does sound like a great idea!

[V'icternus]

Yar! 'Appy Talk Like a Pirate Day, ye' Scallywags and Wenches, Captains and Cabin Boys, Landlubbers and Sea Dogs!

(Caution: Large spoilered image)

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2558/youareapirate.png

[B-Man]

Arr... again TLAPD is upon us. I shall be entertaining a few people by talking like a pirate tomorrow.

Also, here's a brusher upper: How to Talk Like a Pirate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzkQC0e91Nc&fmt=18)

[V'icternus]

Bah! I don' need yer fancy too-tor-E-al! I already be perfectly fluent in me chosen lingo!

[EleventhHour]

Yarr, I not be needing yer 'books' or 'edycashun', I'm Eleventh, tha cap'n of d'high sea! Der only b' one Captain greater than me, and that b' thar Crimson Binome.

[Fredthefighter]

Frederick Theodore Fighter, Captain of tha Drunken Scallywag! Ready ta plunder tha seas of all thar riches, ale and wenches! Not one of ya can match tha temper of a half-drunk dwarf in a bad mood!
YARGH!

:smallbiggrin:

This is going to be fun.

[UncleWolf]

How do ye like me Pirate avvietar?

*shoots Fred*

[EleventhHour]

How do ye like me Pirate avvietar?

*shoots Fred*

I be taking a liking to it, matey. Ought hand yerself over now, and save yerself tha trouble 'f bein' taken elswise.

*click*

The 'ard way issn' seh nice, y'know.

[Cobra_Ikari]

*bites EleventhHour*

Unhand me matey, or face yer death at me hands!

[UncleWolf]

I be taking a liking to it, matey. Ought hand yerself over now, and save yerself tha trouble 'f bein' taken elswise.

*click*

The 'ard way issn' seh nice, y'know.

*grabs, spins, and holds her over the chest o' gold, gems, and other treasures*

We could al'ays do it my way. :smallwink:

[EleventhHour]

*bites EleventhHour*

Unhand me matey, or face yer death at me hands!

But, lad... ye don't have any hands...

Well, Bane 'f Wolves, ye make an interesting pr'psition.

[Ash08]

It was wonderful, I celebrated a day early(please don't hurt me) so I could do it at school. I rode to school on my bike in full pirate garb and proceeded to fill the day with... piratical talk. It was awesome. Nothing like walking around and waving with a cherry grin at people driving cars and walking around :D

[Cobra_Ikari]

But, lad... ye don't have any hands...

Well, Bane 'f Wolves, ye make an interesting pr'psition.

Avast! Me fangs be more than a match for any arms ye be plannin' ta bear 'gainst me hearties!

Wolfbane! Can ye handle yerself with this here scurvy wench?

[Nerocite]

Best International Holiday Ever!

[UncleWolf]

But, lad... ye don't have any hands...

Well, Bane 'f Wolves, ye make an interesting pr'psition.

I cer'ainly 'ope so, curvy lass.

[EleventhHour]

I cer'ainly 'ope so, curvy lass.

But, I'm not rightly certain 'f ye have quite enough for that, laddie.

[Reinholdt]

*throws ninjas smoke pellets everywhere*
*then throws ninjas everywhere*

[KataraAltinaII]

*eats the ninjas*

for I be a pirate!

:smalleek: and wow... there's even a website about it...
only 2 1/2 more hours till it's here in the states. [where it matters]

[UncleWolf]

But, I'm not rightly certain 'f ye have quite enough for that, laddie.

*pulls out a bottle of rum*

Mayb' but its a start. :smallwink:

[Myatar_Panwar]

To celebrate talk like a pirate day, telltale is letting people download and play the first episode in their Tales of Monkey Island series. Its only for a day though, so download!

I've been playing it for about 30 minutes, and ARRRR et be funny!

Also obligatory Alestorm link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBW7MZhhLc4).

[Lappy9000]

Yo ho, yo ho me mateys! Today be the induction of 2009 Talk Like A Pirate Day! Har har!

Bring out yer pirate spirits lest we be sendin' ye o'er to Davey Jones!

(At least here, I be aware of differin' timezones)

[Amiel]

To the tune of Monty Python's 'I'm a Lumberjack and That's Okay"

"I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
Yo ho, my friends I have a tale.
Of treasure, plunder, sea and sail.
My story's bigger than a whale.
It gets so deep, ye'll have to bail.
I've got no hand but that's me hook!
I pillage stuff but I'm no crook.
Me booty's in this chest that I took.
They'll write about me in a book!
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!"

[Archonic Energy]

YO HO
Haul together
Hoist the colours High
HEAVE HO
Theives & Beggars
Never shall we die

[Kobold-Bard]

You Are A Pirate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbq_1Wy70rE)

A warnin to ye mateys. It be a true shanty, but spy the pictures as well and ye'll be addled fer the rest o yer days.

Ye Be Warned Arrr.

[Fredthefighter]

How do ye like me Pirate avvietar?

*shoots Fred*

Harr harr!
If ye think a bullet be enough t' kill me then ye be havin' another thin' comin'! Now come on ye old dog, let us share some rum by a warm fire an' tell tales o' our deeds.

Yo ho, yo ho, tha dwarven life far me!
With ale and fightin',
With thund'r and lightnin'!
With spann'rs and wrenches,
And lot'sa wenches!
We'll plunder all tha seas!

[Trog]

Yarr! It be the day all sea dogs dread. It be the day what sees land lubbers put out on the high seas and commandeer our rum. Lucky for ye I have the rum hold under me watchful eye. None but Davey Jones 'imself be geting a sip o' this our most fine cache o' beverages.

*hums "Daydream Believer" under his breath and heads off to the rum hold for some serious "guardin'."*

[V'icternus]

Oh, are ye' goin' rum-guardin'? I be just the man for the job!

[smellie_hippie]

Do what ye like cause a pirate is free
You are a pirate!!!

[V'icternus]

Yar-har-fiddle-di-dee! Being a Pirate is alright to be! Do what you want 'cos a Pirate is Free!
You are a Pirate!

[grungar3x7]

Yaaarrrrrrgh!!! Avast! Me plans fer this day included throwin' t'gether a meme (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2809110/) fer this special day. Also, seein' as I hav'ta serve on deck in under two hours, the rum'll hav'ta await me return te port methinks.

May the wind be at yer back, yer wenches curvy(or sea-dogs salty, fer our better halves), the plunder bountiful, and the rum a'flowin'!!!:smallwink:

[Jacklu]

Yarr! Ye scurvy dogs, I be ready to plunder some booty! Got a game of Munchin Booty planned for the late hours of tha night. Drink up me harties, Yo-ho!

[Fredthefighter]

Yarr! Ye scurvy dogs, I be ready to plunder some booty! Got a game of Munchin Booty planned for the late hours of tha night. Drink up me harties, Yo-ho!

Yarrr lad! Ye be thinkin' like a true seafarin' scallywag!

[Archonic Energy]

Do what ye like cause a pirate is free
You are a pirate!!!
in honour of the day a pressie...
Stab with Raiper :smalltongue:

where's Cptn Jack?

[smellie_hippie]

in honour of the day a pressie...
Stab with Raiper :smalltongue:

where's Cptn Jack?

Stab with a rapier? Stab with a Rapier!? :smallmad:

Flintlock pistol to the face

:smallwink:

[KataraAltinaII]

thos' who live by tha sword ge' shot by those wh'don't.

[Zeb The Troll]

Pictures of the Pudding Troll, the Pirate...

Someone took my RUM!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/Alarra/Jared/100_0170.jpg

Ahhhh, that's better...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/Alarra/Jared/100_0168.jpg

Too much rum... where'd this anchor come from?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/Alarra/Jared/100_0171.jpg

[Lorn]

Arr. That were a good night.

And I be mostly recovered now.

(And, because I really can't be bothered with pirate speak atm..)

Ran into several hen nights, a few other people dressed as pirates. Got one photo on my phone. Many other people also have photos; whether I ever see these again I have no idea. Walking down high street of Newcastle singing Nancy the Tavern Wench by Alestorm? Win.

Pretty amazing night, in all.

[Trog]

Yay for Pudding Troll pics! :smallbiggrin:

It was a good TLAPD but I like it better when it falls on a weekday so coworkers can share in the fun. :smallwink:

[Quincunx]

We spent part of Talk Like a Pirate Day swaggering around the exceptional Pirate's Adventure mini-golf course (Kissimmee, outlying lands of the Kingdom of the Mouse, Florida). Photos will be forthcoming but there's hundreds of 'em to sort through.

[Jesse Drake]

Heh, I have a friend who hates imagination, and as it goes, forums, and he bought a Captain Morgan signal flash light. And he had me sit on the porch and talk like a pirate to all those who walked by. He actually said "Talk like a pirate!", and it was I believe saturday. We also drank down a big ol bottle of the Captain too, but this being a pirate story, that should be a given.

[Groundhog]

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqMu6e5Dgtg