Arrr, Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009 is Here
Written by Ernesto on September 19, 2009Every single day millions of ‘pirates’ all around the world gather on BitTorrent, but one day in September is extra special. Avast mateys, today is Talk Like a Pirate Day so wear your eye patches and Arrr like you’ve never Arrred before.
Talk Like a Pirate Day has been celebrated for more than a decade, both off- and online. Every year on the 19th of September, pirates grab their bottles of rum and start rambling in pirate speak.
TorrentFreak previously had the honor to have a chat with one of the inventors of the International Pirate holiday, Mark Summers, better known as “Cap’n Slappy.” He and his friend John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) first celebrated the holiday back in 1995 and many others have followed their example ever since.
We asked Cap’n Slappy about his political views and to put the MPAA and RIAA witch-hunt against BitTorrent users and sites in a historical perspective.
TorrentFreak: Do you support the aims of the various pirate parties around the world, or not?
Cap’n Slappy: So long as these pirate parties of which ye speak center around the two pillars o’ pirattitude; Rum and Roistering – they have me full support!
TorrentFreak: Any views on historical parallels between letters of marque and recent RIAA/MPAA actions, such as those regarding the Pirate Bay?
Cap’n Slappy: Ye have to understand, I’m an old pirate who has naught but a weak-ass computer-box what can barely download a picture o’ me nephew balancin’ a banana on his nose! So RIAA/MPAA be just letters to me – but a letter o’marque be a nice reminder o’ the ol’ sayin’ “The enemy o’ me enemy be me friend – at least till a better offer comes around.”
For those who are interested in getting involved in the TLAPD events, there is a list of things to do listed on the official website and Mashable has published a ‘how to‘ that may come in handy.
Enjoy your Talk Like a Pirate day, and please celebrate this wonderful holiday in the comment section below.
Previously: Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software
Next: Updated: Anti-Piracy Outfit and Lawyers May Operate Illegally
77 Responses
1st
y’aaar andrey is a waste of time
Keel haul the blighter who is keeping demonoid offline for so long
Yarr!
Why’s the rum gone?
*looks in rum bottle*
*looks for more rum*
+1 to the ol’ barnacle known as Reasoned Pirate.
An’ if not in use shove ye old peg leg up da MAFIAAs poopin’hole
Cap’n Slappy – LoL
Strange Name :P
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TD – Your Gateway To The Scene.
http://www.RorrendDay.com
Arr, mateys. Ye have to give this ol’ pirate all o’ yer ol’ rum! Yarr!
Yeah i get to do some yarrrr d work
then tonight we barrrrr b-q
Arrrrrr matey lets get fucked up
Must be a slow news day.
Arrr ya serious? Avast!
(gets on plank, stomps around, dancing, singing…)
Come coco, come bobo with me– can’t ya see?! Come coco, come bobo with meee! Do so! …Aahh ha ha haa!…
I think me cask o’ grog is gettin’ a wee bit t’ me head. Or maybe it’s th’ ocean toss on me ship… shiver me t… (throws up overboard)
Here fishie fishies, here fish-*hic* …hahahahaha…
It be me pleasure as allways te do de pirate talk.
Get back to swabbing yer decks me young lads!
Arrrg mates! Terday i will go ter’ google and change me language t’ pirate( http://www.google.com/intl/xx-pirate/ ) Me be going and downloading some movin’ pictures terday. I be wonderin’ who be this Cap’n Slappy? For all me minuets being a pirate I’v never heard of a man by this name on the high seas.
lol!
*visits demonoid and sees the offline page*
Why is the rum always gone ?!
Ahoy me hearties…may the wind ever fill your sails, the light guide your path and sweet Victory guide your sword, we shall overcome.
I be lovin’ this holiday…YARRR!!!!
Arrr! Time to got loot some enemy ships! ARRR!!!
ATTAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!
“Inventors of international pirate day” LMAO what a couple of retards!
I love Captain Morgans Spiced Rum. I use to drink it often. But I haven’t had any for about 2 years. Damn economy! make me broke so I can’t buy me rum! ARRRR! if me hads a parrot, me’d skin it alive and eat it!
what about the good people of devon, cornwall and somerset who already talk like pirates?
The Pirate Song
Sing it to the tune of Flogging Molly – Salty Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1n3oXBR9Zg
I’ll fight them all till I turn blue
There’s nothin’ more a man can do
Don’t get your cables in a twist
Upload, download as we see fit
Judge dealt with demons straight form Hell
They almost nearly won as well
You will never have victory
Keep crying ’bout your lost money
Getting sick of our flying sail
Trying to put us all in jail
So you crawled aboard onto our boat
The Pirate Bay, just so you know
The right time came, you tried to sue
Burned to ashes charred and blue
Pwned like the n00bs you truly are
In comedy you would go far
MP3, the scourge of the industry
Shared music upon our rigs
You call us cutthroat thieves
The ship went down we all near drowned
Ya stood there on the deck
The Bay came back and flogged yer arse
And then you tried to buy our wreck
We’ll throw a rope around yer neck
And watch you dance the jig of death
We’ll leave ya for the starvin’ crows
Hoverin’ like hungry whores
One flew down plucked out yer eye
The other he had in his sights
Ya yelled at him, said please help me
Or I’ll sue you for tons of money
See here : HPD seeks help finding killer of popular bootleg CD vendor :http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6622626.html
People who saw Frank Roberts hawking his bootleg copies of movies or music outside local beauty shops and nightclubs often called him “The CD Man.“
Although the one-man business was not strictly legal, and recently earned him a short stretch in the Harris County Jail, family members said it was a major improvement over the narcotics that Roberts, 33, had sold in the past.
“He was having problems getting a job,“ said his half-brother, Gerald Dickey. “He had been frustrated.“
Roberts was fatally shot about 3:30 a.m. Aug. 30 in a darkened parking lot across the street from an after-hours nightclub in the 1700 block of Webster.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6622626.html
“Mark Summers, better known as “Cap’n Slappy.” He and his boyfriend John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) first celebrated the holiday back in 1995 and many others have followed their example ever since.”
Could this be any more GAY?
@24 – Homophobic twat, piss off.
arrrr you serious?
jolly ol story me matey
arr?
lol,arrrrr it be soundin like meh takes it up the poop deck!
Yarrr the RIAA will always remember this as the day they almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!
@29 – Congratulations genius, you have stumbled upon the truth – all people who disapprove of homophobia are in fact gay themselves.[/sarcasm]
@24
The article says “friend” not “boyfriend”. Nice try…
Rofl at #29
People who disapprove of homophobia are in fact intolerant themselves.
What type of pirate?.
The real pirate: Arrg me maties set sail for the seven sea’s
The Real Real Pirate: *Somalian”
the online pirate: Seed Please!.
http://www.Adult-Facebook.com
I like you MEH,wanna date?lol.[/sarcasm]
Freud you hittin that crack again?
Sorry no pun intended!
yarrr!
Me think is time to go eat something LoL
ACS-LAW you be the true pirates for the rest of you drink up have a great day Arrrr!!
Pirates of old stole, indiscriminately killed and had no morals. MPAA/RIAA loves grouping us with them lot. P2P is nothing like that. File-sharer is what I am.
I declare bankruptcy.
Man, now I know whats up with all the people running around in Pirate outfits in World of Warcraft!
If it quacks like a duck, its a duck.
OK. You’re right, I’m gay. But still, you should be nice to me.
Don’t worry, I’m an uphill gardener as well I was only joking earlier.
lol,name thief!
AAahhhrr!
Those scallywag anti p2p must walk the plank.
They will never find our booty NEVER!
Yarr best be torrenting!
I need rum! someone, please seed more rum!
I have just heard that they will not be using johnny depp in the pirates of the carribean 4 I can not believe they would let go of someone so golden to them. ARR Evast MAties we need our Johnny Depp back to make this work what were they thinking.
http://www.rainbowofluv.com
If you have read this far, you are gay.
OK,here, I’m going to talk like a pirate.
“SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ.”
let it be proclaim’d the pirate flag be flow’n ‘t half mast fer the old scurvy dog “thepiratebay” who be sleepin’ in davey jones locker.
a toast to cap’n slappy – rum and wenches all round!
Do pirates even have admirals?
And no swashbuckling for me, I’m a landlubber, thank ye very much.
How I ever got to be an admiral is a mystery.
If you even read past the first sentence of this article, you are gay.
Damn ye pirates! Ye deserves 50 lashes, each one of ye.
Kanye West Interrupts Talk Like a Pirate Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdMDgFJWhwU
Take back the gay, lads!
Don’ let our gay mates have all the fun!
Ya don’ have t’ be gay to like rainbows!
Set sail for rainbows… and… and mermaids!
‘Til next yaarrr!
Arrrrgh! Pirates are so cool. Arrr ya ready kids? Were Ready, Ohhhhhh Who livies in a pineapple under the sea….
RT
http://www.real-privacy.net.tc
“R”
It’s quite a coincidence that this lands exactly on “BE A DAMN DORK” Day.
Good one. Not.
Havvvyy Phaaoaaaa (Translation of Harry Potter )
arrr, tiss time t’end thee merry drinkin an feasting for t’nother year alreadee, the rum barrels are dry.
Stand by to repel corp’rate landlubbers off ye port bows me heartys
-avast ye scury dogs
How puerile.
Talk like a twat day perhaps. As someone said too, it only helps top make torrent users look bad in the eyes of those that hate us…we shouldn’t be calling ourselves pirates and I think maybe anyone over the age of ten might not fancy talking like one.
That isn’t even how they fucking talk anyway…it’s not an actual accent right?
Just saying aarrrr as often as you can makes you talk pirate?
last time i recall Sept. 19th is “talk like a stupid asshole” day
Do what you want, ‘cause a pirate is free,
YOU ARE A PIRATE!
Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want ‘cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
I can’t believe I read every commonet lol that’s some funny shlt aarrrr
Arrr.. me mateys!
How lame can you get! Cmon stop labeling yourselves as pirates. Don’t be a sheep. What people do with their downloads has already been paid for. All services has been rendered.
@1…No one acctually cares, so don’t bother…
I was wondering why there were groups of people acting pirate’ish on the tube!
It was my birthday on talk like a pirate day
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