Talk Like a Pirate Day 2013

To quote Tim on past TLPDs:
"It's Talk Like A Pirate Day, a fake holiday internet meme well known enough to get space on most major news outlets today (eg., CNN, USA today, ABC News, etc.) The feature is easily turned off, and it lasts 24 hours. If that's not enough of an argument, the number of people on LT, Twitter and elsewhere who got a kick out it far exceeds the people who didn't.

So, bear up and ignore it for a day. We'll be out of your ship soon enough."

So, please, please if it is 'easy' to turn off -- how?

Top of the page. It says Turn OFF pirate-speak.
Next to your member name.

Oh my god, this is hilarious! Thank you LT for making my day. I just fell off my chair laughing :-)

The funny thing is that when the words change, I actually read them more (not that I always understand what the heck they mean....but I'll be looking again when it gets back to normal). That is, stuff like the options in the Talk module - what's Good Gossip? And what's the difference between "all d' blatherin'" and "all the chattering"?

On a different note - the "Record number of LT members" thread discovered an odd problem. Links can't be swiped and copied any more - any text that's a link doesn't copy. I can't copy a user's name off a post header, or the number of books at the bottom of the page, or anything from the left-hand nav...rather annoying. Hmmm -

Dracula

Nope. Can't copy touchstones either. I'm hoping this is a temporary oddity relating to piratespeak - it appeared just about the time that started.

Oh, I just noticed - I _love_ the logo! That's great. It wasn't like that last time, was it? If so, I never noticed.

I just think it's a shame I've already catalogued most of my pirate books. I should have saved them up for today.

Oh well. There's still The Dictionary of Pirates and The Pirate Primer. I'll line them up for tonight, if the weevil filled biscuits don't finish me off first.

Arrrrr.

Hahahaha! It's great! Confusing, but great! :-D

Aaaarrrrrr! Splice the main brace! Thanks for the signal: I be off to confusticate all me mates on Facetome....

Thanks, Tim, and well done. Mind you, when I first saw it and before I cottoned on that it was pirate speak (an internet fad which I for one had never heard of) I was wondering whether it was West Country Accent day. Maybe you can do Geordie next?

Problem: I've got the parrot, but when I try hopping round on one leg with the sweeping brush under one arm, she grips rather tightly to my shoulder and her claws dig in.

'tis my favourite day of the year. LT does pirate-speak so well. Thanks!

Arrr! I Bloomin luv it. Keelhaul any swabs who don't! They be scurvy landlubbers.

> 11: Use a Norwegian Blue.

I luuuuvvveee that pirate day! Yo Ho all scurvy dogs :)

#14 a'nailn it ta it's perch be one thing, me thinks it'd be a might painful ta be a nailin it ta yer shoulder

#14, #16, #17

Laughin' so much, almost fell o'er the gunn'ls.

3 I don't see it.

n we be a need'n a bit o a shanty to go alon wi th day :)

http://youtu.be/MCdNRPmCv9s

19: MarthaJeanne - it is next to your username on the top (dark) head border on the right (at the top of the home page).
It is quite obvious...
Hope you see it.

add: Just above "A finger to the wind"

No, it is not there. I'll be back tomorrow.

maybe it is only on the new version.

I have to say that seeing works like

Beautiful Joe's Paradise, or The Island of Brotherly Love by the dread pirate Marshall Saunders

is a little unnerving.

Makes me think of an entirely different book than I would be thinking of if it said "author".

n it be a llokn like HTML dun be workn ta well either. Usin the IMG SRC HTML tag won't show anythin when I be a tryn ta put the pic in tha message, so it be a lookn as I be jus havin ta put in tha link

http://www.librarything.com/pic/4062013

>4 Vonini: Ditto. Great start to the day.

>6 jjmcgaffey: Same. I especially like "A finger to the wind" for Zeitgeist.

>20 rastaphrog: Ha; good fun. (If you like sea chanteys, I recommend the compilation, Rogue's Gallery, which features Nick Cave singing "Fire Down Below.")

The stack o' pirate books on the log screen looks like fantastic reading. More for the endless "To Raid" list.

How did I miss this in years past?

Great job, me hearties. The logo be worth a shiny doubloon. Pity this crew has some landlubbers. We'll give 'em shore leave for the day, as long as they raid us a few pints o' rum.

Edited: Well the bloody touchstone didn't stick. Let's try this again, me hearties.

Ah. The old version. Yes, that's probably it. CH is adding it to that.

As me matey Robert Louis Stevenson used to say,

♪♫Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!♫♪

Yaharr, me hearties!

25> There's a special stack o' tomes on the logon page?

*walks plank, checks, reboards *

Yep, looks like more loot for the sea chest. And I want access to the secret scrolls of Tortuga now. Where's the treasure map that shows where they're buried?

Be ye recallin' Dread Pirate Tim's old first mate, Dread Pirate Felius? He be recallin' ye this very day.

Can't help feeling that anyone who clicks on the Legacy Libraries link expecting to see Dead Wenches' Chests is in for a bit of a disappointment!

It's just over two years since I left, but I think this is still one of the things I enjoyed most about LT ;)

:)

Yer solely missed. We'll keelhaul a server in yer 'oner today.

Many thanks for making my day.
:o)

>31 emmaliminal: Yaharrr! Now with extra (small) crew!

>35 justjim: And done in a libarrrrghy! Explainin' why they left off the bit about the 'wotsit,' I 'spect.

>36 emmaliminal: Arrr, yer prolly correkt. Ye can't be scarin' the small fry.

Love it! And the logo too :)

I appreciate Pirate Day a lot more this year since I'm in the middle of listening to the tales of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, Lily of the West, and the sometimes piratical "la Belle Jeune Fille Sans Merci."

Yaharrr! It may be that it be unrelated, yaharrr, but I had to be resetting me {Top bar: Always visible} settin'. Ye scurvy dogs, ye!

Gosh, when you do something like this could you please make clear that this isn't a virus but something wanted? I was really worried that there was a virus on my computer having no idea that a Pirate Day exists and people have so much pleasure writing like pirates (as they used to do?)

To the plank, wi' @jolijtje! ;)

Thanks for the info justjim. Greetings from Penzance in Cornwall, we be the real thingies 'ear. Yaharrrrr.. .. .. !!

#43 Yaharr! I not be sure which piece of scuttlebutt ye be a'thankin' me for, but ye be welcome, even if ye be only five years old!

This is just too funny; I haven’t laughed this much in a long time! Although I was at first puzzled and somewhat taken aback to find out that favorite book of mine was written “by the scurvy dog …”

Three cheers for Captain Spaldin' and his band o' jolly privateers for maintainin' t' corsair spirit, where even those land lubbers at google failed for once - Hurrah!

Oh, and our about me today is "pirates and landlubbers alike, pressed into service for a lifetime o' raidin!" Or, at least mine is, because I don't have anything in that profile point.

Sigh. Would that it were true.

"Wind is my courage
The moon my guide
And sea is my home
This vessel my pride"

>28 jules_l: I be a needin' a quartermaster for my lady, The Rakish Seagull. If ye be a findin' that map, I'll take ye on and give you an extra share of any of that treasure we kin haul.

Hip Hip Hurrah, Hip Hip Hurrah, Hip, Hip Hurrah! Fer ye Capain Spaldin an his merry crew of scalleywags! Let's be raisin our glasses o rum to em fer a toast!

>47 LibraryPerilous: Rakish

Time to sing The Fireship (lyrics)? Vdieo here or audio here.

She'd a dark and a rovin' eye,
And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets.
She was a fine girl, a dacint girl,
But one of the rakish kind.

A pirate song to liven your day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_L9tXEwmc

NB: Song written by the Arrogant Worms, who also do an awesome version, but this video is better :)

Abandon ship!

The Russians are coming!

Thank you. Now I can finally enter the books I was given yesterday.

It is, it is, it is… a glorious thing, to be a Pirate King. Yaharrrrrr! And we might just slip another shrimp on the plank! A magnificently camped-up*, over-acted* Pirates of Penrith, er, sorry of Penzance!

*as it should be.

Arrrgh, the day be finally here. Maties, I be waitin' for it t'whole year. The drinks are on the house, I presume.

>54 justjim: Last time I watched it was at Minack open air theatre overlooking the sea and cliffs at Porthcurno while I was hiking on the Cornish coastal path. Superb.

> 17: That be scurvy sea dog. Capt'n Scurvy Sea Dog to ye.

Ha, I love how the editor is listed as "Fixed tha writin'"!

>57 John5918: Sublime, even. Perfect.

>50 John5918: Hee!

>52 shj2be: Avast, matey. Stop your squallin' or it's deck a-swabbin' duty for ye. We not be abandonin' this ship for naught.* We'll keelhaul those scurvy knave programmers yet.

*The double negative just about broke me, even in character.

>58 Nicole_VanK: Yaharrr. Also Grrrrr. Woof!

Can tomorrow be Walk Like an Egyptian day?

A landlubber be walkin about my decks with a handsome parrot on his arm.

"Where ya steal that from?" the scurvy cook asked.

"There be loads of 'em lazin about yon Council offices" Said the parrot.

Arrrhrrr, Jim lad, pass the grog.. .. ..

I like. In honour of this important holiday I recommend the wondrous The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson.

I'd like to do an English English translation some day. That would be subtle fun.

Can we eat scones with clotted cream all day at work then?

>57 John5918: I love Minack. I saw The Tempest there as a child and fell in love (with Shakespeare and the venue). Must go back some time.

>65 timspalding:

And very meta, which opens up a lot of doors (and fourth walls).

Made me smile.

>65 timspalding: Yes, please. Perhaps unveiling it on the anniversary of the Stamp Act or similar? Or would that be too mean-spirited and not subtle enough?

>66 ablachly: Real scones, not the silly, triangular, hard-as-rocks American iteration, I would hope.

I love Pirate Day! Thank you so much :)

I'm off to read Exquemelin's Histoire de la flibuste et des aventuriers flibustiers et boucaniers qui se sont signalés dans les Indes thanks to LT.

Glance to the starboard me harrrties

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfOA1s9-kc

>70 LibraryPerilous: What's the Stamp Act?

It's wotcha do when yer decks on fire..

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

this is freaking amazing. thanks for making my day!

The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.

~ Casabianca Felicia Hemans

>66 ablachly:

Avast! I be agreein' wit' ye on yer point. Hardtack all around!

Can we add suggestions additional pirate speak?

Recently Added could be:
- Recent Booty
- Recent Loot or Recently Looted
- Recent Plundered

>73 John5918: I thought the Tea Act would be too obvious, so I went for another straw on the camel's back.

Too soon? ;)

Because I'm not sure all of our members know this:

Like all of our international translations on the site, Pirate Speak can be modified by the members. Every single bit of UI text that you see on the site can be customized in each of the various "internationalizations." Pirate is just one of them.

You won't be able to edit Pirate today, but any other day just go to http://pir.librarything.com/ and sign in. Once signed in you will have an option to Translate on every page. It will be up there next to Sign Out and Help in the top bar.

If you are fluent in other languages feel free to make those sites better too. You can see all the available languages in the language Zeitgeist—with links to their top-level domains.

If you help update the Pirate translation, you get a cool little Piratical badge on your profile. :D

This is my Corsair Commendation:

Isn't it lovely.

>70 LibraryPerilous: What's the Stamp Act?

This reminds me of our British friend who asked what the Great Famine was in an Irish bar. He'd never heard of it. :)

I have never heard of talk like a pirate day before earlier today. How long has this been going on? I wonder what else I have missed.

>84 timspalding: I once met an English woman, in a restaurant in Egypt, who didn't know there had been a war between the US colonies and the British Empire. She wasn't taking the piss out of me.

I once met an English bookseller, in London, who apologized to me for the War of 1812: "I'm so sorry we burnt your capital. We should not have done that." I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure he was taking the piss out of me.

Edited: grammatical error on an article. Arrrgh.

84>
Ouch! Was he munching on potato chips at the time?

>84 timspalding: If I had been in the Irish bar I would have never have heard of it either... ... ...

That is the great potato famine you're talking about? Thank the mermaids we were all safe at sea with Capn Flint an plenty of ships biscuits at the time. ARRRRHRRR..

>86 LibraryPerilous: Aye Aye Mrs, I thinks I knows the woman yer atalkin of .. .. Nanny Ogg?

If you decide to do an English English translation you can count me in. Will there be tea and crumpets?

I'm not convinced that with an English English translation that you would actually come up with many different terms for the two versions, but if your talking a Monty Python version then maybe you have something there.

Of course, I should note that Pirate Lingo actually is English English, being based on the regional dialect of the southwest of England.

'Tain't 'r Majesty's English though.

>90 jjwilson61: I feel like the Monty Python concept is something LT could run with, and they could add a pop-up that would just burst upon the page at random moments.

had a good giggle - thanks.

I like "Talk like a pirate day". It's a bit of fun that gives me a laugh.

Made my editing much more fun today :)
Though seeing Gandhi and Saint Hildegard of Bingen referred to as "the dread pirate" or "that scurvy dog" was a bit unsettling.
And at one point I forgot that we were in pirate speak and saw a book in Arabic listed as "arabic lingo" and thought someone was making fun of Arabic . . . then did palm-to-face when I remembered that it were pirates.

Can we add more of these fun days throughout the year? . . .

Thankee fer all yer laughs this watch my lively lads. Off to yer hammocks now ye slithy tothes.

>74 Novak:, 77 Yes, we had to learn that one off by heart at school, but we preferred the various parodies of it.

>81 LibraryPerilous:, 84 Obviously historical events are seen differently, and given different degrees of importance, in different countries. Most people in the world are aware that the USA became an independent state a couple of hundred years ago, but would be unlikely to know all the detailed grievances which led to it, just as they are not aware of many other details of the era of Empire. I would suspect though that most Britons have heard of the Irish potato famine, which was much closer to home.

>91 MyopicBookworm: Yes! See my >10 John5918:. Proper job, young'n. Get some o' that there Zomerzet zider down 'ee.

>77 Sylak:
Or perhaps this one:

The boy stood on the burning deck
His feet were full of blisters
He tore his pants upon a nail
So now he wears his sister's

Arrr!

Hey. It's no longer TLAPD but CH's gone missing.

I guess I need to find his code…

>98 staffordcastle: Oh well, in that case...

The boy stood on the burning deck,
his pocket full of crackers.
A spark flew up his trouser leg
and blew off both his knackers.

The boy stood on the burning deck,
his lips were all a-quiver.
He gave a cough, his leg fell off
and floated down the river.

The boy stood on the burning deck
picking his nose like mad.
He rolled it into little balls
and flicked them at his dad.

#82 CD...There's been a few times I've thought about doing some more translating on the Pirate site, but I don't see a way to do it. The pic below is what I see to the top right when I'm on the pirate site. No link for translating.

http://pir.librarything.com/pic/4063045

(And I STILL can't get a pic to appear when using the IMG SRC HTML tag!)

#100 Lovely! I hope you can remember some of the sensible things you learned at school too :)

101: Are you sure you're doing the image thing correctly? Let me try:
Hm. Seemed to work for me.
<img src="http://www.librarything.com/pics/LT-litebrown-16.gif"/>

As for translating Piratical, I'll check on that. Tomorrow. I'm getting some sleep now.

99: Tim, sorry about that. Was watching a movie in between coding stints. I see that you found the code.

>98 staffordcastle:, 100

"The boy stood on the burning deck
Eating peanuts by the peck
His father called, he would not go
Because he loved the peanuts so."

But I've always kind of liked Elizabeth Bishop's serious take on it:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/casabianca/

re: link for translating Piratical

I don't see it either.

Haven't been able to find it either.

Now that it's not TLAPD any more, is there a way to see the book pile on the log-in page? I missed it, but saw someone's comment that it was a nice book pile, and I'd like to see it!

There you go: http://pir.librarything.com/

That's a handy link to know!

My laughing out loud at this TLAPD thread disturbed my better half, she came to the laptop to see what was causing all the mirth. “Never heard of it” she said as she went back to start her latest paperback – You're Next by Greg Hurwitz.

Five minutes later she is back showing me the first sentence on page 19 of the paperback, “It is talk like a pirate day. What a country.”

Are these things really coincidental.. .. ?

>112 Novak: And, not two hours ago I was typing this comment referencing Lord Cardigan, whose immediate superior at the battle of Balaclava was… Lord Lucan. Cue Twilight Zone music!

>113 justjim:. It gets worse.. .. Flashman, if I remember correctly was exploited in print by George M Fraser (who died only recently). Didn't he also write.. .. .. Pyrates.. ..?