| 19 September, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
From the event’s Facebook page:
- “Friday 19th September is International Speak Like a Pirate Day. For all those budding pirates out there, this event is for you.
A treasure hunt to end all treasure hunts! On this greatest of days a collection of pirates will be competing for the treasure.
At 6pm all pirates will meet to collect their treasure maps and treasure hunting gear. Then it will be all on as they compete to be the first one to the treasure chest full of booty (i mean that in the pirate sense of the word – you know, prizes and stuff) Pirates will have to overcome challenges, work out clues, follow the map and use your pirate skills to find the treasure.
Registration for this event costs $15. We encourage you to dress like a pirate. And of course you MUST speak like a pirate. You can work as a team or as a pair, but there will be only one winner in the end!
To attend the Hunt you will need to register and pay – we need definite numbers before the day because certain purchases need to be made, and I need to know how many treasure maps to provide!
So. There are three ways of doing this. To register I actually just need your name, mobile number.
To pay you can either:
1. Direct deposit into my bank account. Ask me for my bank details.
2. Post a cheque to PO Box 1049 Dickson ACT 2602 with your name and details
3. Buy a ticket at either the Hive or Circus Space Showcase (Friday 12th and Sunday 14th Sep, Embroiderers Guild, Gorman House Arts Centre, tix available from 6.00-7.30pm – you don’t have to stay for the shows, but you should!)
See you there on the day! Yar.
It’s TALK Like A Pirate Day! (Since when do pirates say “speak” anyway?)
YARR!!
ye being agreeing with spitfire3!
Where would we meet in the first place, important detail ahoy!
Buy the ticket, get the location!
BUy?!?!! Shiver me timbers! PIRATES DON’T “BUY”!!!!!!
Can’t say as I’ve ever participated in one of these piractical events. And while I laud the creators and marvel at how it’s gathered world-wide recognition, etc. I just fear that it might grow exceedingly tiresome after, say, the first five minutes once all the timbers have been shivered, the planks have been walked and you’ve tried a bit of free-form variation: ‘I were going to learn meself French, but I kept falling down on me RRRRRRRRs!’
‘Avast, just realised I’m doin’ the drive show on radio that day. You’re listening to RRRRRRRRRRtsound. Hmm. I’m thinkin’ I’ll be abstainin’ from the pirate talk.’
I need to know if I can get there easily or not.
Spitfire3 said :
Yar!
Well, as a Cornishman, I don’t know whether to be honoured or consider it ‘extracting the urine” when everyone attempts to talk like me!
To talk like a pirate, use this simple translator:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html
I typed in “This translator isn’t very good. I got back:
The pirate speaks,”This translator isn’t very good.”
I somehow think I could improve on this myself.
; )
*Pisspoor joke alert*
Q) Why is a pirate a pirate
A)Don’t know, they just ARRRRRRRR!
Thanks for the warning Dan, but alas, like car crash, I couldn’t stop myself from looking…
No problem Al
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Is that a dribbling smiley??
Danman said :
I had someone use that joke on me as a pickup line once.
Errr … it wasn’t you was it Danman?
:worried:
L
L, was it me??
Or me. But to lay blame where blame’s due, the parrot on my shoulder was a ventriloquist.
Pesty said :
As a Cornishman you should be honored if anybody talks TO you!
(I’m originally from the East End)
The solution to the treasure hunt will be available for download prior to the event: http://thepiratebay.org/
I’m going as a pirate mermaid.
Granny said :
How do you walk the plank with no flipp(er)ing legs?!
You let your fingers do the walking …
*boom boom*
Is this a charity fundraiser?
I had someone use that joke on me as a pickup line once.
Wasn’t me, generally chicks pick me up – leaving all the hard work and lines to them
And Al yeah it was a Raspberry smiley (Often made with a bodily noise)
Damn all these poms. I was born only a stones throw from these Penzance sort of piratey characters.
(Then later moved to Lincolnshire. Oh aye…)
So are you still fluent in the pirate language, or have you lost most of it would you say?
“generally chicks pick me up”
Dan’s typing in his sleep again…
Lost most of it I would suggest
Thumper said :
You musicians are so careless.
Actually, for someone from Penzance country, your English is coming on a treat!
I left the wilds of Cornwall at a young age
There’s an absolutely cracking song about the diaspora from Cornwall called ‘Cousin Jack’. I think it’s ‘Trad’ by now (don’t quote me) and my favourite version is by Sydney’s bunch of ex-pat poms the ‘Wheeze and Suck Band’, but there’s a slightly less lustrous version by some other mob here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV5JESfaZ1c
Oh, yes! Cornwall isn’t England either …
Celtic actually. Closer cultural ties to Ireland and Normandy than to England.
Is anyone going to tell me where this event is being held? Geez, fair enough question really
As noted above you only get to know the location if you buy the ticket.
Sounds like they know pirates rather well.
^^^ After 27 posts, my bet would be: nobody here knows. Make like a chef and go to the source, young (wo)man. Seek and you shall find. Or if you were going on a treasure hunt in the Punjab, sikh and you shall find.
BTW, that abover comment was @ NH, not @ JB. And given JB’s comments, the point (like the TV with the sound off) was moot.
Actually, pirate mermaids are so last season. I’m going as Overheard’s parrot.
I will go as an eyepatch
Arrrrr, shiver me timbers! I’ve gone and forgotten to be speaking like a scurvy pirate dog!! Hoist me on my own petard, maties, and keel haul my gizzards.
Gungahlin Al said :
aha and i thought you were going to mention this: http://www.ahajokes.com/cartoon/pirate_keyboard.jpg (pirate keyboard)
Granny said :
Avast! Granny ye land lubber! Off down the plank wi’ ye, ye scurvy dog …
L
I be knowin’ I be, ye locquacious wench, ye! I be deservin’ to be fish food, arrrrrr!!
Now that Pirate Day is some kind of fundraiser for cancer or some such garbage, the geeks at my work have joined me in boycotting it.
Whereas my boycott was purely accidental … *chuckle*
I mean, arrrrr!
Avast ye scum. I’m going to splice the mainbrace as soon as the sun gets over the yardarm. Actually that was at the 7 bells, so I’m off to get me a skin-full of rum and ale.
I had lost of meetings today and didn’t have the opportunity to talk much like a pirate (despite being a contractor working on a maritime contract for a fleet of new boats – oh, the irony!) so I hope the above fills my quota for the day.
Ye’ll need to be drinkin’ six kegs fo’ t’ quota, ye rumsucking barnacle, or ye’ll be wearin’ yer yardarm an’ drinkin’ yer ale in Davy Jones’ locker wi’ a belly full o’ tin, avast and ahoy!
Arrrr, I be gettin’ the hangman’s noose of this!
*chuckle*