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Today be “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” matey. In honor of that, we actually watched “Survivor: Pearl Island,” ye scaborous dogs. We be liking Rupert, because he’s big and bearded and named “Rupert” and he’s piratical by nature, ye bilge rats.

Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!

PAD

47 comments on “ARRRRRR”

  3. Well, I see the wussies finally have to deal with a Chicago boy – Andrew. Welcome to the one person who expects the fix to be in, and plans accordingly. If he’s doesn’t make the final five, I’ll be really surprised.

    Hëll, let’s run down the hilariously scary manipulation line:

    Attorney.

    Chicago.

    Hëll, his tribemates will be lucky if they don’t end up trading their food to him for a bedtime story.

  4. yah it’ll be my luck for it to have been there for months but I just noticed the peter david logo at the top of the page is different.

    it looks nice.

  5. You know I am actually coordinating Talk Like a Pirate Day tomorrow at the Elem School I teach at. The kids are going to have alot of fun!!!!

  6. Arrrr! I know not what this Survivor ye talk about be… I say find the scurvy son-of-a-biscuit who came up with Talk Like Ye Be A Pirate Day and make the scurvy knave walk the plank!

  7. Ahoy!I’s wish ye all a hardy and fun “Talk Like A Pirate Day”!I be off to change me outgoing message….

    Michael Norton

  8. In honour of Talk like a Pirate day, i will drink a bottle of Rum and sing ‘friggin in the riggin’ at full volume in the streets and presumably end up sleeping it off in a police cell somewhere.

    Have fun all. 🙂

  10. …I refuse to talk like a pirate on general principle. I will, however, enjoy some Captain Mutiny and Divatox action on my Ranger tapes…

  12. I was predisposed to liking Rupert since he’s from my neighborhood (don’t know him, but he lives within 6 blocks of me).

    But last night sealed it. The moment he stole the shoes, I was sold.

    ARRRR!

  13. First episode of “Survivor” I’ve watched since the first season opener–what– seven years ago? Doesn’t seem I’ve been missing much, but it was a good enough way to pass the time while I was too dámņ tired to do anything else.

    Kudos to the guy who stole the shoes, yeah. And I suppose I’d have taken the shorts off, too, if it was a choice between that and constantly having to take your hands off the rope to keep pulling them up. (Not that it seems to have really helped them, anyway.)

    As to Pirate-Talk: I’m lousy at it. I’ll just go see Pirates of the Carribbean again–and gladly.

  14. Since my pirate-speak is minimal at best (laughable at worst), I’ll settle for acknowledging the day by listening to both the songs that share the name “Pirate Radio”

    (by John Hiatt and Mojo Nixon/Skid Roper respectively).

    …ayyyyye, ye scurrrrrvy dogs.

  15. Shouldn’t they have made them walk the plank just to complete the illusion? Or maybe have a group of rogue pirates kidnap a couple of the women, making the rest of the team vote on whether to rescue them or earn ten pizzas instead.

    Seriously though, the first episode was good fun, but I can’t watch Survivor without that nagging voice in the back of my head that keeps reminding me I’m being hufely manipulated every step of the way. I usually just watch the first episode to see who the contestents are, and the hugely-padded final episode, which pretty much features the highlights of the entire season. And I can usually see the weekly Friday morning interviews with the latest contestent to get booted off when I’n at the gym, and they show enough clips to recap each episode. That way, I can see all the interesting stuff without the mind-numbingly dull and staged interviews, as well as endless shots of sunrises, sunsets, lizards, snakes, and arty shooting-through-the spider-web establishers.

    And my money is on scout master lady as the next one from her tribe to get booted off.

  16. Setting: remote island festooned with remote-controlled, night-vision capable cameras.

    Take ‘x’ number of contestants and drop them off at equidistant points around the island in pitch darkness. They have the clothes on their back and a knife.

    Come back a month later and whomever’s left is crowed TRUE “Survivor”.

    Anything else is a glorified game show/sopa opera with cheaper sets than THE PRICE IS RIGHT.

  20. The idea of a “talk like a pirate day” is fun and all…but the pervasiveness of it over blogdom is as annoying as a pirates singing. Just saying.

  23. The local morning DJs were doing nothing but pirate jokes. Like:

    What’s a pirates favorite Star Wars Character?

    AHHHRRRRRR-two-dee-two

    Where does a Pirate live?

    AHHHHRRRRRgentina

    What’s his favorite Peter David title?

    Captain MAAARRRRRRRville

    What’s a pirates favorite mode of transportation?

    A ship. Like, duh.

  24. Starwolf:

    Pretty much what I thought “Survivor” should be from the first moment I heard about it.

    Except I wouldn’t give them knives.

  25. Jag,

    Nope you weren’t. From the moment I saw the group picture in TV Guide, I thought, “Cool, Hagrid’s on the show!” And last night, when he saw the salt water catfish and got so excited over a new type of creature, it only reinforced this. I can’t help but like him because of that!

  26. A) First thing my wife said was “When did Robbie Coltrane get on Survivor?”

    B) Springer’s lawyer? This gets better and better.

  28. Can someone tell me who got voted off? I only set my VCR for one hour. I didn’t know it was an hour and a half long.

  29. I really think we’re going to take the Cubs tonight in both games of the double header especially with the year Fogg has been having.

  30. Luigi,

    It was Nicole, the annoying one in the blue dress who thought it would be a smashing idea to confront people who were supposedly allying against her. One of the better meltdowns in somebody’s chances on the show.

    You can also see who got voted of each week at http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor7/

    Regards,

    Joseph

  32. Yarrr! Ahoy, ye blasted scallywag dunces! Band yer cutlasses together and force the scury-ridden land-lubbers to walk the plank, else face the wrath of our dreaded breath! And toast yer grog tonight to the Dread Pirate Roberts!

    Chris

  33. I’ll tell you the only thing that disappointed me was that the girl whose clothes obviously couldn’t withstand another three days got voted off….

  35. Love the “pirate name” site.

    Survivor? I haven’t even killed ‘er!

    “Dirty Tom” Rackham

  36. At my company’s weekly tech talk today, the speaker started out with a slide of a happy face with an eyepatch and explained it was Talk Like A Pirate Day. He went on to say that, since the talk was being recorded, whenever he failed to repeat a question from the audicence, we should all yell out “Avast ye!”.

    Happened about four times, and I picked just the right moment to give a hearty “Aaaarrrrgh!” from the audience in response to a comment (the right moment as in “the entire room cracked up”).

    Regretfully, for those who know where I’m working these days, I didn’t manage to get a really obvious big thing to happen in celebration of the day, but I at least suggested it.

  37. Captain Anne Rackham

    I wonder if that means I am now related in some way to that ‘Dirty Tom’ up there? Arrrgh matey…swab the decks!!

    I am too busy trying to fix my computer after the *cringe* crash to watch Survivor, but my mom felt the need to fill me in on it all today (even though I have never watched a single episode….ever). Sounded like the guy that stole the shoes is the public favorite..in general. Make him swab the decks!!! Arrrrrgh.

  38. Hey, anyone know the origins of Talk Like a Pirate Day? I’ve seen this on several websites, but I’m kinda wondering how, where, and when it started.

    Elie

  39. Go to http://www.talklikeapirate.com for full details and history. Short version; these two guys came up with the idea in the mid-90s, and did it each year as a joke thing. Last year, they enlisted (shanghaied?) Dave Barry, who wrote a column about it, and the whole thing went global, matey.

  40. Hagrid! Of course! You know all night long I kept thinking that I had seen that guy somewhere before and he looked familiar.

    BTW, we all fared better in North Carolina than we thought. I’m not knocking the storm mind you, but as hurricanes go, I’ve been through worse.

    But I’m sitting here watching the reporters down on the Outer Banks and there’s this one woman that had me cracking up. Mind you now, the wind was blowing around big men and this one woman was so small , one of the camera crew had to hold onto her legs to anchor her while she did her live report to keep her from blowing away.

  42. The one thing I’m wondering is if anyone went around on “Talk Like a Pirate Day” talking like Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. That would have been something to see.

  44. EClark,

    Which one? There were several (real names lsited so as to avoid confusion): Westley, Felix Raymond Ryan, Cummerbund, Clooney, and of course the Original Roberts. It’s scary that I can list that, but it’s such a great book / movie.

    Chris

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