Something Fishy: Talk Like a Pirate Day

Arrr ... you ready to party? 8

Ahoy there, mateys! 'Tis I, ye saucy wench, and this day be wonderful for Something Fishy.

First, as has been mentioned several times already, there've been some exciting discoveries out in the South Pacific -- including some 52 new species of fish and corals. I be the first one to tell ye that the oceans are a great unexplored frontier. But when I read the news about all these new critters -- flasher fish! mantis shrimp! "walking" sharks! -- I could hardly believe me eyes eye.

And what better timing could those scurvy sea dogs researchers have, what with it being Talk Like a Pirate Day and all. I say we weigh anchor, head for the poop deck, and throw back a noggin o' rum in celebration. Who's with me?

I'll even provide the entertainment: footage from our most recent Pirate Convention and this instructional video on pirate-speak:

Arrr ... you ready to party?

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  1. kmp Posted 7:19 am
    19 Sep 2006

    Avast!Sarah a saucy wench be ye.  But how to swill the rum, swash the buckle and take to the briney deep with a name like "Sarah?"
    Ye must find yer destiny, yer callin', yer one true pirate name.
    Yo ho ho!
    Bloody Bess Kidd

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  2. caniscandida Posted 7:36 am
    19 Sep 2006

    The sea, me love!, how we miss thee!I got "Mad Bartholomew Rackham."  Perhaps that has to do with my admitting to living in a padded room, and "bathing once a week, whether I need it or not."

    Chickens are our cousins!

    So are other sensitive animals!

    Enough is enough!

    No more factory farms!

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    David Roberts Posted 7:54 am
    19 Sep 2006

    "Mad Davy Flint"I can live with that.

    www.grist.org

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  4. Roz Cummins Posted 11:41 am
    19 Sep 2006

    Perfect background music and narration...and camera work. Arr.

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    Biodiversivist Posted 12:47 pm
    19 Sep 2006

    GreatEnvrionmentalists should be distancing themselves from piracy, not embracing it. What has gotten into.. arrr, my hook is stuck under the blasted backspace key.

    In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

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  6. caniscandida Posted 3:08 pm
    19 Sep 2006

    embracing piratesWell, not exactly.  As impressive as were the linguistic skills of our instructors in Piratese -- I particularly liked the use of "salty" -- , I must confess I did not watch it all, having got my hopes up for someone of Johnny Depp's caliber, looks-wise.

    Chickens are our cousins!

    So are other sensitive animals!

    Enough is enough!

    No more factory farms!

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  7. bookerly Posted 5:25 pm
    19 Sep 2006

    Mad Jack Bonney
       But they should have asked me "Pirates of the Carribean" One or Two?

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  8. amazingdrx Posted 9:07 pm
    19 Sep 2006

    Thar be piratin' to do.Get out the cyanide and capture some o' those newly discovered species for aquariums ya scurvy dogs.
    Only one cure for the scourge of humanity on spaceship earth, extinction.
    We are a pirate species, arrrr..

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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