...and you tell us this at 4pm? This article is next to useless.

El Reg has been crap recently. Really bad. Never thought I'd end up missing Otto, but...

"Talk like a pirate" day wasn't funny last year. Shockingly, it's not funny this year either.

How about "stupid sites that are really at home on facebook" day?

Why are pirates from the West Country ?

The answer.....

Because they arrr

Sorry bro, but you're on your own. She'd get it all night long!

Splice the mainbrace!

Yes.

You are the only one.

It be alright Edward. There still be a whole weekend of piracy to enjoy - the article itself sez so.

We haven't even got to the weevil-ridden ship's biscuit and urine drinking stage yet!

Mine's the one with the cutlass in the pocket!

Splice the mainbrace and come about, there's booty to be had, me hearties. Rum for every scallywag and whore on the Spanish Main that joins us, aaaarrgh!

Arrrgh, it's mighty odd, but that damsel Tina Fey be fine, and that Sarah Palin be fowl, aaarrgh! I say into Davey Jones locker with her ..... the plank, the plank, aaarrrgh!

even the R4 Today program managed to mention it was ITLAP day just before the 9am news ... admittedly it was as a result of someone emailing them about it.

So why only tell as at 4pm

either you're all too busy designing cutsey icons etc so that the Reg can be Web 2.0 compliant (i.e. look nice but have no real use)

or 4pm BST == 8am PDT ... so the UK team are too busy mending the dishwasher to report news and leaving it to the US reports

Hey you didn;t give anyone credit for reminding you about it!

FYI.-- it was me!

Baroosk from North Pole

Nope, there's at least one other (and hopefully more). And being a Republican vice-presidential candidate is a pretty big turn-off for me.

Skull and crossbones because... well, it's obligatory today, innit?

Then i guess ye should walk the plank....

That's pretty much a whole day "arrrhhh!!!"ing missed. Surely this sort of stuff is on your calendars, and you prepare the story weeks in advance? Or did someone just remind you in an email? Go on, be honest.

Damn you Reg! This was important!

Yes. You are the only one.

Paris, because she doesn't even come close...

Aye, I be comin' 'ere to say just that m'self.

I say we make 'em walk the plank on the point of me trusty ol' cutlass.

No, you're not.

(Paris, 'cuz she's an empty-headed celeb as well)

These days isn' t talking like a pirate more on the lines of

"D00dz u'll nver stp me gtng my warezz" ??

Thanks to my friend, I was reminded about what day it is pretty early. However, I also got an e-mail reminder from Cravendale Milk, of all places. I am a fan of their milk and happen to be on their mailing list. They have taken to the day's festivities with honourable enthusiasm. Check it out at http://www.milkmatters.co.uk/#/pirateradio. The Pirate Radio is hilarious! Knowing what their TV ads are also like, I am convinced those Cravendale guys are total nutters. So I happened to have some Cravendale with my cereal this morning and this led me to visit the site for my cereal as well, dorsetcereals.co.uk. It just so happened that they had made a mention of this special day as well! Yaaar!!

...and not in a pirate type way..

"We're sure you don't really need reminding,"

Dammit I did need reminding but what use is it when its posted at 4pm, I'm reading this now when I'm at home rather than first thing this morning when I could make good use of it :[

Avast ye scurvy dog!! The cat o'nine tales to you for only reminding everyone at 4pm. We been answering the ringer all day with Yarrr.

"Those are some nice earrings!!" And he says "arrr, me heartie! they were only a buck an ear!"

(to hell with the coat... RUN!!!)

If ye matey don't like thar El Reg, you need but mutiny the ship, and start ye own Swanky Tech ship. For if ye don't, you need not but walk yonder plank!

AAAARGH!

(Ever notice how your throat hurts after talking like a pirate? and Yes, I just read that to myself. Outloud. in a cubicle. People are staring. So much Fun!)

Yes, you are.

← That icon be much better now!

... could have given us what spent the night down in the bilges an ahoy ahead 'o time.

Arr I be misreadin yer bootynote,bein a full pirate oi be thinkin ye be promotin the 'Lick a minge ' day, which us northern pirates fear du to the girth of the cat.

YAAAAR!!!!

With a steering wheel sticking out of his pants. Bartender looks at him and say "How'd that steering wheel get there". Pirate says "I don't know know, but it's driving me nuts" Yaarrrrr

Arrgh, me hearties. We talk like prirates because we know their decline causes global warming, and we need to remember the original Pastafarians

Agree completely! Thank goodness it takes all-sorts though - all the depraved loons slavering over Palin leaves much more wiggle-room for the sane among us to sniff round real politicians like Yulia Tymoshenko.

Paris, because it scans like Palin, but it's closer to Kiev.

...and don't ye knock it all back at once, Jim lad...

One hand for the ship!

...about time ye scurvy lads got up off yer arse t' score a goal against th' Bournemouth Gynaecologists instead o' flappin' yer bung holes!

> *Or lick Sarah Palin's cat, if ye will.

Or hail Confuse-A-Cat Ltd. if it be mopin' which ails her. After all, MILFin' aint pretty innit.

YArrrr!

I find her attractive enough to take home from a bar. After that though, her personality and worldview would make me pretty queasy. So beauty is only skin deep I guess--at least in her case. She's not one I'd pick for a friend, boss, employee, and certainly not for the VP seat.

That said, did you hear the one about the pirate that goes into a bar with a steering wheel mounted on his belt buckle? The barkeep says "What's with the steering wheel?" The pirate replies: "Ahhhr it's drivin' me nuts!"

methinks she a mighty fine lass indeed .. arr .. arrr ! ..ARRR .. ARRRRRRRR !

de skull and crossbones because at least dis yar me lads, we don't have 2 in that club runn' for prez ..

You know, I hadn't thought about Yulia for Oh, maybe ten minutes and then your post brought it all back to me. I just had to take another look www.tymoshenko.com.ua/eng/photo/

Me timbers are shivered.

That's *NOT* a peg-leg, ya scurvy landlubber !! - Long Dong Silver

Lookout in the crows nest, "Land ho !"

Captain, "No ! No ! No ! I want for a sea-going one !! "

Avast, ye scurvy ridden buccaneers!

I found meself swashbuckling landside at a gathering of the family on the Friday of last, and my usually trusty first mate be not informing me of the events of the day!

This be why I continue with the pirate speak on this Monday morn, to make up for lost time. Y'arrr! Hoist the main sail, and yo ho ho and a bottle of grog! Bring me my copy of Monkey Island so i can trade insults.

P.S. Though down here in the darkest Westcountry no one would notice a change in my accent.

If it be fer jist the one night I be givin it to 'er straight over a barrel, all hearty like! After that her politics might be a bit diff'rent!