Friday, September 19, 2008

Yarrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!...

Today is the 13th annual "Talk Like a Pirate Day"! Fun for all--nothing quite like trying to sell lasers and other electro-optical components to a Russian Ph.D. from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a goofy pirate accent. (Okay, I chickened out and didn't do it with him.) I did do it in the drivethru one year when I was still with Starbucks, and that was definitely a hoot.

Want to have some piratical fun? Go figure out what your pirate name might have been. Here's mine:

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Want to have even more fun? Try translating any phrase into piratespeak. This page not only piratizes phrases you enter into the magic box, it will also translate entire web pages, a la AltaVista's old Babel Fish service. Do it with a page from your local newspaper--pretty awesome reading the sports page with pirate accent (even though they didn't have the score from the last Pittsburgh baseball game).

3 comments:

Jonathan E Johns said...

You goof. The Link is broken!

I think it should be this...

http://www.piratequiz.com/

Anonymous said...

Dirty William Kidd
You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate

David said...

Nice! Apparently one shower a day is enough to qualify one as "dirty". Hm.

Also, thanks for the heads-up. I have fixed the link.