Avast Ye!
Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and ye would have to be as blind as a barnacle to have missed all the ballyhoo.
Nine years ago two lads from the New World chose the Nineteenth of the Ninth as the day to embrace the salty speech of the seadog. In 2002, syndicated humour columnist Dave Barry jumped on board and it has spread around the internet quicker than pilates on the poop deck.
It also be in 2002, on the Nineteenth of the Ninth, that your humble narrator dropped anchor at kilbot.net to create a safe port where pirates of the Perth persuasion could talk in the parlance of our choosing. Coincidence? Yarr, almost certainly.
In any case… hoist a flag, toast some RotGut, and give thanks to the rise of all things internetty.
fancy dave says:
I notice the meteoric rise of Kilbot.net's popularity is slowing as the 'Bot himself spends more time on his studies.
Shame on you, Kilbot.
If you've got your assignment in, let's celebrate a belated Talk Like a Pirate Day this evening. Seafood, limes, rum, shanties, you know the score.
Big Willie Scotsman says:
Ach, I mean, Arrrr, I be thinking me First Mate, Bigg Daddy, musta be joining round the munth o' March 2004!
Arrgh, Im looking for a seahag to swab me poopdeck…. :weirdo:
killer says:
Alas Fancy, I still be swinging the lead here at the desk… procrastination be a demanding mistress.
I'll call ye as soon as I get these sea-monkeys off my back.
killer says:
Ship's Log (past shouts) shows BD Wallbuxx sailing in during October 2003… interesting also that April 2004 be the month whenst he was abroad in South Africa.
KL says:
Arr now I just need to work out a way to steal yon treasure (that be a code word for internetty-type blaggers and shipmates) for me own good ship The D.J. Kay Ell… Me island is deserted and in need of some well-heeled lasses and nerdy-type blatherskites!
B-Diddy DubSac says:
[size=8]BD Wallbuxx = [Enormous] Hits!![/size]
KL says:
That's some nice coding there, B-Diddy.