All Hope Abandon - Ye who Enter here!

Ahoy!

The Jolly Roger is flying 'neath a strong wind and there be the taste of salt and rum on my lips. Goin' to class, I took me eyepatch and pegleg and threatened misbehavin' students with my cutlass and hook (although not simultaneously.) I shouted "Avaste ye bilge rat!" to a boy who confused his verbs. I measured the gangplank for those landlubbers who hadn't completed their homework. What is the meaning of all this? This hearty wench is celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day today.

So why don't you join in the chantey and encourage a draught? Savvy ?

Each year on September 19th, thousands of buccaneer-wannabes and gentlemen/women of fortune gather together to use the lingo that immortalised literary pirates like Long John Silver and Jack Sparrow. TLAPD is a parody holiday created to celebrate the incomprehensible language of our romanticized and much-maligned sea-thieves. So my lilly-livered lads and lasses had to work smartly today, and much a yo-ho-ho was shared by all, although we were low on grog.

By the powers, my hagwon captain didn't spy me engaging in any mutineering or I might have received the black spot, forfeited my pieces of eight and be
sent directly to Davey Jones locker.

Let me end this TLAPD post with a quote from the immortal Guybrush Threepwood, nerdy, ineffectual pirate who sings:

"You say you're nasty pirates, scheming, thieving bad bushwhackers?

From what I've seen I tell you, you're not pirates - you're just slackers!

A pirate I was meant to be - trim the sails and roam the sea!"