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camwynIn case you missed this Sunday's column in your newspaper, Dave Barry has proposed something I think this world needs very badly.
Arrrrr! Talk like a pirate -- or prepare to be boarded
... Today I want to tell you about two such people, John Baur and Mark Summers, who have come up with a concept that is going to make you kick yourself for not thinking of it first: Talk Like a Pirate Day. As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea, or what? There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all.
The proposed date is September 19th. Whaddya say? Everything's better with pirates!
Today's pulp survival tip is #74. Unless the item you have been searching for, finally found, and nearly lost grants you the ability to fly, don't bother trying to grab it when it falls to a ledge on the side of a bottomless gorge two or three fingers' widths out of your reach.
Arrrrr! Talk like a pirate -- or prepare to be boarded
... Today I want to tell you about two such people, John Baur and Mark Summers, who have come up with a concept that is going to make you kick yourself for not thinking of it first: Talk Like a Pirate Day. As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea, or what? There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all.
The proposed date is September 19th. Whaddya say? Everything's better with pirates!
Today's pulp survival tip is #74. Unless the item you have been searching for, finally found, and nearly lost grants you the ability to fly, don't bother trying to grab it when it falls to a ledge on the side of a bottomless gorge two or three fingers' widths out of your reach.
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Date: 2002-09-12 05:59 pm (UTC)I like his closing line. It's a good motto for the crowd I run in.
"But not TOO much closer. Some of us will have swords."
So, is there a movement to make the 20th of September National 'Monkeys in Giant Robots' Day? Just to put the week over the top on the coolness scale?
Arr!
-M
Nothin' yet, me hearties,
Date: 2002-09-13 06:36 am (UTC)Only maybe not this year. Sukkot begins at sundown on the 20th and the idea of the Festival of Booths being overrun by Monkeys in Giant Robots is a little bit . . . well, difficult to draw without giggling myself senseless.
Timbers Shivered, Homes Redecorated, PS: We Also Walk Dogs
Date: 2002-09-15 11:27 pm (UTC)"But not TOO much closer. Some of us will have swords."
Were it a Sunday in much of my social circle, they'd have swords as a matter of course -- well, at least shinai, but they could all get to live steel in about thirty seconds, and do various and sundry things.
Okay, so I am the one who thought, "Hey, this hatrack is flanked by paired umbrella stands, and I'm out of umbrellas, but I have all these nifty bamboo New Guinea headhunter spears, so I think I will be surreal and make a spear rack of the other side! Woohoo!"
This is, in the eyes of... well, everyone, me included, a rather unusual decorating statement. But it complemented the umbrellas nicely, and offered a ready-made place for the more Western-looking spear that
Still don't know where to hang the scythe, though.
-- Lorrie