{"id":3679,"date":"2006-09-19T22:03:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/09\/19\/3679.html"},"modified":"2006-09-19T22:03:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T05:03:26","slug":"pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/09\/19\/pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arr, me hearties! Today was, of course, Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a>, as I'm sure you all knew.<\/p>\n

One of the creators of TLaPD is John \"Ol' Chumbucket\" Baur. His family participated in ABC's show \"Wife Swap\" (in which the woman in a family switches households for a couple weeks with the woman in another very different family); Tori \"Mad Sally\" Baur describes the experience in an article on Keep to the Code, the official Pirates of the Caribbean<\/cite> fan site: \"Pirates Invade ABC Television's 'Wife Swap' In Season Opener<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the video everyone is linking to is How to Talk Like a Pirate<\/a>. You can tell the narrator is Canadian by the way he says \"been.\"<\/p>\n

That's not to be confused with Talk Like a Pirate Day: The Five A's<\/a>, a slightly less silly video by The Pirate Guys.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, A.Word.A.Day is doing a series of pirate-related words. Today's word: Jolly Roger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For some more piracy, see The Editing Room's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: The Abridged Script<\/a>, by Rod Hilton. Most notable for the actor name \"Stellan Skarrrrsgarrrrd.\"<\/p>\n

Oh, and if you want your very own pirate sword<\/a>, Southwest Blades appears to be the place to go.<\/p>\n

Language Log got into the action a year ago with an entry on R!?<\/a>, featuring the ubiquitous Corsair Ergonomic Keyboard For Pirates photo, plus a bunch of linguistic discussion of pirate language, historical and apocryphal.<\/p>\n

Here's some Howard Pyle pirate art<\/a>, plus odd MP3 files of a computer-generated voice reading Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p> \n

Finally, I'm pleased to see that Google customer support enjoys celebratin' horlidays<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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