You can read what the telemarketers association has to say about Dave's article here.
They call him malicious. I call him My Hero.
― Sheila, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)
arrrrrrr
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 20 July 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)
Avast ye scurvy dawg.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 20 July 2007 08:12 (eighteen years ago)
dudes isn't it like still two months away ?
― Ste, Friday, 20 July 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)
Snakes on a plane!
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:59 (eighteen years ago)
^^^this
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:58 (eighteen years ago)
arrrrrrrrrrr &c.
― ŒƔƛƺȸɚɮʥᶄⱤstⱥ അുൠᚥ௸௵ⵞৠﬗѬ҈҉Ԋੴߥᚔଫ (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 September 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago)
"i knew this would be a custos thread"
― broken_britan (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 18 September 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)
Avast, me hearties!Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day to ye.Have ye heard the scum thar bilge rat John McCain's been slingin' at me matey Barack? Bad news, 'tis. But a band o' pirates ken surely blow the man down. Come 'n' raise a cup o' grog this Sunday at "MoveOn for Obama" parties and we'll call every MoveOn lubber in t' swing states an' tell 'em how t' help Obama this fortnight. Aye?
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day to ye.
Have ye heard the scum thar bilge rat John McCain's been slingin' at me matey Barack? Bad news, 'tis. But a band o' pirates ken surely blow the man down. Come 'n' raise a cup o' grog this Sunday at "MoveOn for Obama" parties and we'll call every MoveOn lubber in t' swing states an' tell 'em how t' help Obama this fortnight. Aye?
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)
John invited you to join the Facebook group "Pirate Party of the United Kingdom (PPUK)".
To see more details and confirm this group invitation, follow the link below:http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=102577189324&mid=ebfd5eG233349fG2d55c46G6
Thanks,Pirate Party of the United Kingdom (PPUK)
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:06 (sixteen years ago)
defriend
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:06 (sixteen years ago)
otm
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:08 (sixteen years ago)
this thread makes me want to bump the free-floating loathing for the Dave Eggers movie thread.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)
you know my views on this, lj.
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)
i do believe they are fairly similar to mine, e.
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:13 (sixteen years ago)
PPUKe!
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)
i would like a parrot that swears though, but not one that swears in a dumb pirate voice.
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:15 (sixteen years ago)
^^ me too
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:16 (sixteen years ago)
in a coarse antipodean brogue?
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:16 (sixteen years ago)
like the singer from Immortal.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:17 (sixteen years ago)
oh wait this isn't part of the rich 'talk/act like a pirate' lineage at all
The world is changing. The Pirate Party understands that the law needs to change to match the realities of life in the 21st century.We have 3 core policies:• Reform copyright and patent law. We want to legalise non-commercial file sharing and reduce the excessive length of copyright protection, while ensuring that when creative works are sold, it's the artists who benefit, not monopoly rights holders. We want a patent system that doesn't stifle innovation or make life saving drugs so expensive that patients die.• End the excessive surveillance, profiling, tracking and monitoring of innocent people by Government and big businesses.• Ensure that everyone has real freedom of speech and real freedom to enjoy and participate in our shared culture.
We have 3 core policies:
• Reform copyright and patent law. We want to legalise non-commercial file sharing and reduce the excessive length of copyright protection, while ensuring that when creative works are sold, it's the artists who benefit, not monopoly rights holders. We want a patent system that doesn't stifle innovation or make life saving drugs so expensive that patients die.
• End the excessive surveillance, profiling, tracking and monitoring of innocent people by Government and big businesses.
• Ensure that everyone has real freedom of speech and real freedom to enjoy and participate in our shared culture.
yaaaarrrrrrr
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:22 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.geocities.com/localcomedyconnections/youngones2.jpg
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:23 (sixteen years ago)
I already complained about the pirate a cappella group thing in a different thread.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:24 (sixteen years ago)
lol lj, do you read my posts in a coarse antipodean brogue?
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)
only if there is a metaphorical smoking gun and a slain squirrel_police
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:30 (sixteen years ago)
tsk
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:35 (sixteen years ago)
otherwise it's rosy English governess all the way
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:38 (sixteen years ago)
in 'dyson with death' you sound a lot like i thought you would.
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:46 (sixteen years ago)
one must bear in mind that at 17, one is not fully reconciled to one's maturity, and that one's voice may both deepen and fill out over the subsequent 5-year period
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:49 (sixteen years ago)
so, wait, that youtube clip doesn't have anything to do with vacuum cleaners?
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)
i meant accent more than timbre. also i hope you don't think i'm snide about 'dwd' because i'm not, i find it cheerful. xp
didn't you watch it, sarahel? i thought you would like it.
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:58 (sixteen years ago)
beware to bandy with the damese'en though all may seem fun and gamesfor one false step, and how the coven maims...
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:59 (sixteen years ago)
^^ no, I didn't ... I was saving it for a special occasion. But that's because I thought it had to do with vacuum cleaners.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.thenextwave.biz/tnw/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Dyson.jpg
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:01 (sixteen years ago)
indeed, the accent at least persists! i am glad you were cheered by the excesses of an imagination already entranced by the possibilities of embarrassment
sarahel it is partially about vacuum cleaners. i hope you have not lost interest.
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:02 (sixteen years ago)
are the vacuum cleaners as fashionable as the one depicted above?
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:08 (sixteen years ago)
for just over five minutes, the Dyson involved attains heights of chic never before even contemplated by a household appliance
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:09 (sixteen years ago)
does it dance?
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:11 (sixteen years ago)
lady
it plays the blues
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:13 (sixteen years ago)
trying to imagine how one can play a walking bass line with a vacuum cleaner.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:15 (sixteen years ago)
you seem content to perch upon an eternal twig of mildly piqued curiosity
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:19 (sixteen years ago)
this approach has served me well in a lot of things.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:21 (sixteen years ago)
Do you guys need yr own aja/dante board?
― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:23 (sixteen years ago)
I mean, I occasionally wonder what would happen if I were to post potentially embarrassing anecdotes of my formative sexual experiences on ilx ... but I think I'm better off not doing so.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:25 (sixteen years ago)
i always say as little as possible.
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:26 (sixteen years ago)
brevity is the soul of wit, after all.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:27 (sixteen years ago)
they say estela has only posted 50 times to ilx - but each one of those posts has gone off and founded a new messageboard
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:29 (sixteen years ago)
I think The Phantom Tollbooth was my favorite kids book as a kid.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:30 (sixteen years ago)
i keep wanting to ask you how many posts you've made so far but i don't want you to think i'm being pejorative, i like the way you've been posting so much.
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:32 (sixteen years ago)
me? a little over 3000.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:34 (sixteen years ago)
lol
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:36 (sixteen years ago)
i was briefly fearful of the way sarahel was posting so much, but then realised that one must not project one's own guilt onto others, and also that kindred spirits are generally a good thing and should be encouraged
so yeah, keep up the good work!
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:37 (sixteen years ago)
3115.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:37 (sixteen years ago)
the two unluckiest numbers in REVERSE
things just got satanic
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:38 (sixteen years ago)
5092 since nov 2002.
― estela, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:38 (sixteen years ago)
kinda doubt I'm gonna get sb'ed for that post, though.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:40 (sixteen years ago)
no but satan and sarah are kinda similar-looking
anyhow, before estela's exemplary restraint and barely-perceptible austerity reduce me to excoriation, i shall seek a soft pillow.
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, that's exactly what my parents were thinking when they named me.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:50 (sixteen years ago)
Louis - why are you still AWAKE?!
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:52 (sixteen years ago)
fuck ... don't tell me he and I are on the same screwed up sleep schedule?
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:56 (sixteen years ago)
Ian't it like 9 p.m. where you are sarahel? Past yr bedtime?
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:57 (sixteen years ago)
9pm now, but I'm regularly cursed with not being able to get to sleep until 4:30 am.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:58 (sixteen years ago)
Well, this thread got confusing.
― Spy in the Cab Sav (Trayce), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 04:31 (sixteen years ago)
R
― StanM, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 06:23 (sixteen years ago)
i was reminded by email today that this abomination is coming up.
― Suggest Bander-Meinhof Complex (sarahel), Monday, 14 September 2009 09:09 (sixteen years ago)
Aaaaarrrrr!
― dice in my pockets (csa), Monday, 14 September 2009 09:35 (sixteen years ago)
Nooooooo!
― Suggest Bander-Meinhof Complex (sarahel), Monday, 14 September 2009 09:40 (sixteen years ago)
CUSTOS CONGATULATIONS ON POSTING A DAVE BARRY COLUMN! you've brought it to a whole new level of the motherfucking game now!
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 19 September 2003 15:47 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^love this
― Kat V0n D. (DJ Mencap), Monday, 14 September 2009 09:53 (sixteen years ago)
this whole thing is custos in excelsis
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Monday, 14 September 2009 10:57 (sixteen years ago)
Delighted to find out that Dave Barry looks exactly as I would expect
― you used to sleep with somebody who avoided a soap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 14 September 2009 12:36 (sixteen years ago)
R.
― StanM, Sunday, 19 September 2010 10:04 (fifteen years ago)
(yes, same post as last year, but pirates always talk the same, don't they? so there)
― StanM, Sunday, 19 September 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://http.cdnlayer.com/itke/blogs.dir/8/files/2008/01/pirate_keyboard.jpg
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 19 September 2010 10:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://connecticutvacuumrepair.info/assets/images/Dyson.jpg
― sarahel, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:18 (fifteen years ago)
This is happening. People at my work are talking like pirates. I want to die.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 19 September 2011 04:19 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/J31Nt.gif
― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:25 (fourteen years ago)
Someone pulled the "international talk like a pirate day" nonsense on me today, and I said that I'm only interested if they could talk like a Somali pirate. They gave me a dirty look and then I asked them what they had against Somalia.
Great way to kill this stupid meme dead.
(*have to thank Jon Ronson for the original idea though)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:13 (fourteen years ago)
God, I hate this day.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:04 (thirteen years ago)
Aye.
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:06 (thirteen years ago)
Arrrrrrr
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:48 (thirteen years ago)