Talk Like A Pirate Day is this week.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:28 pm

It's day after tomorrow. Well, depending on where you are and when you are reading this, maybe sooner.

monkey587 · Post by **monkey587** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:16 pm

dumbest fake holiday ever

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:53 pm

Ye be entitled to your opinion matey. Jus' so long as ye recognize it as such.

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:15 pm

Yard arm, anyone? Yard Arm!!

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:22 pm

oye, pirates we got already....

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:09 pm

monkey587 wrote:dumbest fake holiday ever

Dumber than Possum Day?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:42 am

monkey587 wrote:dumbest fake holiday ever

Well, maybe monkey...but it does raise a point:
How many Hallmark cards need to be printed and/or sold before
a holiday becomes real?

(or does it need to be loved by a child, like the Velveteen Rabbit?)

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:52 am

oh, and one more thing...

Here's my 16 yo kid's response to the profile pic on my facebook page* which is the same one as <----- this current avatar:

Gabe wrote: you look really creepy and old in that pic....like all the young hip stuff around you is a serious contrast to you....really just makes you look even older then you are..........*shiver* ..that really is creepy

Who would want to skip a "holiday" which could elicit this type of response?

*yes, facebook. It's been useful for communicating with distant kids and actual adult friends from my past, from Ohio to Oman.
I'm all for pushing demographics anyway, even if it makes me creepy!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:48 am

emmline wrote:oh, and one more thing...

Here's my 16 yo kid's response to the profile pic on my facebook page* which is the same one as <----- this current avatar:
Gabe wrote: you look really creepy and old in that pic....like all the young hip stuff around you is a serious contrast to you....really just makes you look even older then you are..........*shiver* ..that really is creepy
Who would want to skip a "holiday" which could elicit this type of response?

*yes, facebook. It's been useful for communicating with distant kids and actual adult friends from my past, from Ohio to Oman.
I'm all for pushing demographics anyway, even if it makes me creepy!

Ooooooh! Embarassing your kids? What's a Mother for?! Enjoy it, Em, she's just jealous. You're still our pin-up girl!

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:24 pm

Walden wrote:
monkey587 wrote:dumbest fake holiday ever
Dumber than Possum Day?

Let's not insult C&F's mascot.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:39 pm

really

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:54 pm

Shouldn't that be O'Possum here?

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:06 pm

DJM owns this holiday. Ya-harrr, feck, Ya-harrr! Arghhh!

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:18 pm

emmline wrote:Here's my 16 yo kid's response to the profile pic on my facebook page* which is the same one as <----- this current avatar:
Gabe wrote: you look really creepy and old in that pic....like all the young hip stuff around you is a serious contrast to you....really just makes you look even older then you are..........*shiver* ..that really is creepy

OK, well, here's the thing. Those kids wouldn't even have hips (or any other body parts) if it wasn't for us pityable old folks. Feckin' deal with it. Arghhh!

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:57 pm

monkey587 wrote:dumbest fake holiday ever

I agree with monkey.

If anyone speaks to me like a pirate on that day, I will beat them about the head with a military-issue daikon.

It was funny the first time, but now it's like a guy who sits down next to you in a pub and starts quoting the parrot sketch.

I propose having a 'If You Talk Like Pirate on The Talk Like a Pirate Day Passing Strangers can Have One Free Punch Day'

Mukade
Grrmph