Ahoy, talk Like a Pirate Day is comin!

M.C.Dillinger · Post by **M.C.Dillinger** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:28 pm

Talk Like a Pirate Day is held annually e'ery September
19. You talk as if you war a pirate, gar! That's it really,
tis' recognized as a international holiday.I am not makin' this up, the Official Web site can be found har.

Post by **Delphine** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:17 pm

Old meme.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:35 pm

I remember J-man getting upset about missing it last year.
That's about as interesting as it got.

Arcade · Post by **Arcade** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:25 pm

Well, talking about pirates, how much of Ã¢â‚¬Å“Monkey islandÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾ was ripped off by the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean, the black pearl curseÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾?

M.C.Dillinger · Post by **M.C.Dillinger** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:05 pm

Arcade wrote:well, talkin' about pirates, how much o' Ã¢â‚¬Å“Monkey islandÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾ was ripped off by the mo'ie "Pirates o' the Caribbean, the black pearl curseÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾?

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Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:48 pm

A better question would be "Arrr, can ye land-lubbers tell me 'ow much o' Monkey Island be ripped off by Pirates o' tha Carribean: Dead Man's Chest?", anyway. The first movie might've had some similarities, but the second one was very much more so:

Davy Jones = LeChuck, with some Cthulhu thrown in for good measure.
Voodoo Lady.
Cannibals.
Corrupt officials. (Remember Fester Shinetop? I mean, sure, he was LeChuck in disguise, but still.)

And so on.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:00 pm

A pirate walks into a bar.

The bartender says to the pirate, "Do you know that you have a ship wheel down your pants?"

He says, "Arr, it's driving me crazy."

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:15 pm

Davy Jones = LeChuck, with some Cthulhu thrown in for good measure.
Voodoo Lady.
Cannibals.
Corrupt officials. (Remember Fester Shinetop? I mean, sure, he was LeChuck in disguise, but still.)

How dare Disney rip-off trademark ideas like cannibals, voodoo, and corruption in the government! Someone call the President!

M.C.Dillinger · Post by **M.C.Dillinger** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:37 am

Arrr, how dare Disney rip-off trademark ideas like cannibals, 'oodoo, and corruption in the king's men, argh! Someone call the President, argh!

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CE · Post by CE » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:28 pm

You called the president of the great United States of America? YEAHH!!!!!

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:41 pm

Oh HELL yes. I remember that game. Admittedly I never played it (how could I, I lack a modded or Japanese Xbox, and it only came out in Japan), but any game starring the President of the USA inside a freaking mech is wortha look in my book.

Psxphile · Post by **Psxphile** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:50 pm

A demo of the game was hidden away in an old (now) Xbox Magazine demo disc.

Completely over the top. Touchy controls, but damn satisfying.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:20 pm

Arrr, actually, Monkey Island 2 was pretty much based off da Pirates of the Caribbean ride, so I don't think no one can be blamed.

It's sad that any possibilities of a Monkey Island movie have disappeared like a bottle of rum in a bloody pirate's hand.

jenkins · Post by **jenkins** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:45 pm

Sort of on the topic of unusual holidays, is anyone else aware of or excited for Odin Day?

Post by **Delphine** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:45 pm

jenkins wrote:Odin Day?

Every Wednesday is Odin's day.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:08 pm

Fuck that, I'm up for Thor's Day.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:54 pm

Wait four days.

Post by **Popcorn** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:08 pm

Baba O'Reily wrote:A pirate walks into a bar.

The bartender says to the pirate, "Do you know that you have a ship wheel down your pants?"

He says, "Arr, it's driving me crazy."

I think you'll find the actual punchline is 'driving me nuts'. Or, as I once famously mis-told it, "steering me balls", which didn't have quite the same effect.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:24 pm

For some reason there's a cartoon depicting that joke taped up on the wall of one of the stalls of our bathrooms here in the dorm. Annoyingly, it uses something akin to Popcorn's mistelling as the punchline ("Arr, it's touching my balls"). It fails pretty hard.

Post by Bo » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:50 am

Popcorn, I have been telling your version whenever the situation arises for a couple years now. It's way funnier.

I've seen the <a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/0409 ... toothpaste for dinner comic</a>, too, and wondered if you got the idea from it, but it's funny either way.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:09 pm

That looks EXACTLY like it. I had no idea that it came directly from an online webcomic...

I don't think they chose particularly good ones to put up, though. None seemed very funny. I assume that the comic isn't all as bad as this one?...

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:24 pm

My favourite tpfd involves transistors and a lion. Someone posted it here a while back under the "Things that are always funny" thread.

Post by Bo » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:10 pm

Toothpaste for Dinner is brilliant 90% of the time.

Actually, now that I think about it, that comic is way newer than Popcorn's telling of the steering joke. Why did I ever doubt him?

Post by **Popcorn** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:50 pm

Bo wrote:Popcorn, I have been telling your version whenever the situation arises for a couple years now. It's way funnier.

I've seen the <a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/0409 ... toothpaste for dinner comic</a>, too, and wondered if you got the idea from it, but it's funny either way.

1) Wait, I've told the 'steering me balls' story before?

2) That comic is eerily similar-- astoundingly eerily similar in fact-- but my faux pas originated back when I was in college sometime, which would have been 2004 at the latest. I don't know when that comic came about.

Post by Bo » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:23 pm

1) Yes, you did.

2) Maybe the TFD guy reads this forum? ...maybe not.